Brianna Wu Quotes

I'm fighting hard to make the world a better place, and you can, too. Get involved with your community, be a leader, set an example, be passionate, be your best.

Our learning ought to be our lives' amendment, and the fruits of our private study ought to appear in our public behavior.

It's nice to be a woman, and it's nice to be an Asian. But what's more important is what I can bring back to my district.

One of the duties which devolve upon women in the present interesting crisis, is to prepare themselves for more extensive usefulness, by making use of those religious and literary privileges and advantages that are within their reach, if they will only stretch out their hands and possess them.

Obviously, there are moments that you look back at and cringe - things in the past involving violence or disrespect to women or disrespect to other people that are so far away from what I want to put out there now. But it's actually a privilege to be able to change and be making records that reflect that change.

Teaching university students affords me the opportunity to demonstrate to young adults that they don't have to be perfect to make contributions to their country.

My main goal when I talk to groups is to educate families on the physical and mental health benefits that playing sports provide young girls. It's not just about going out there and having fun. That's a part of playing sports, but a big chunk of it is all the other things that sports give you to help you become a much more whole, better person.

That's my whole motivation in life - to educate people to become better a citizen, better person, better son, and better father.

To me I think leadership is activism. It's giving back to your community, it's investing in oneself, and you know women and children.

NCS - National Citizen Service is a fantastic programme. I want it to be available for every young person in the country.

You get the best out of others when you get the best out of yourself.

'Man In The Mirror' by Michael Jackson - I used to have my very first dance parties with my kids to this song when they were little, even carried them around to it. It just makes you want to be a better person and be inspired.

My Marine experience helped shape who I am now personally and professionally, and I am grateful for that on an almost daily basis.

We started a movement... to build character, citizenship and confidence in young people.

I didn't leave bodybuilding until I felt that I had gone as far as I could go. It will be the same with my film career. When I feel the time is right, I will then consider public service. I feel that the highest honor comes from serving people and your country.

Ethics is the activity of man directed to secure the inner perfection of his own personality.

I see myself as an old man and an unqualified teacher to the nation. I think being a teacher is probably the most important thing you can be in politics.

I'd like to be out in the city every day, listening to what people are saying and asking about what they need. I'd like to inspire others by doing as much as I can to help people who are trying to make a better life for themselves and others.

I always saw politics as an expansion of my role as a mom.

I don't want stuff that's compromising to me as a person, but as long as it has a pathway to redemption and has meaning, there's something solid in that in terms of the way I experience it.

I think that the presidency really brings out the best in a lot of people.

Unless the theatre can ennoble you, make you a better person, you should flee from it.

Personal responsibility is not only recognizing the errors of our ways. Personal responsibility lies in our willingness and ability to correct those errors individually and collectively.

I try to be the best man I can for the day.

I vividly remember a conversation I had many years ago in 1974, which marked a turning point in my leadership journey. I was sitting at a Holiday Inn with my friend, Kurt Campmeyer, when he asked me if I had a personal growth plan. I didn't. In fact, I didn't even know you were supposed to have one.