Leymah Gbowee Quotes

I want to make other people around me smarter and more powerful.

If you ever get in a position to influence and inspire the youth of the country, you should do it.

Football Beyond Borders is about learning, establishing new beliefs in an ability to succeed.

I believe to be a leader is to enable others to embrace a vision, initiative or assignment in a way that they feel a sense of purpose, ownership, personal engagement, and common cause. I was very affected as a child by my father's positive example as a civic leader who inspired others to share his commitment to improving our community.

I look at tennis as a bit of a platform to hopefully touch lives and encourage people.

Jesse Jackson is a leader and a teacher who can open our hearts and open our minds and stir our very souls.

A word of encouragement from a teacher to a child can change a life. A word of encouragement from a spouse can save a marriage. A word of encouragement from a leader can inspire a person to reach her potential.

You have to lead people to get excited and be passionate and be activated by what you do.

Leadership and learning are indispensable to each other.

I've never chased money. It's always been about what I can do to motivate and inspire people.

Basketball is one of those rare opportunities where you can make a difference, not only for yourself, but for other people as well.

Leadership is not about a title or a designation. It's about impact, influence and inspiration. Impact involves getting results, influence is about spreading the passion you have for your work, and you have to inspire team-mates and customers.

What nourishes us at home and in school is what inspires us. When we get awareness and learn about the great potential that we all human beings have, we are able to discover our leadership.

Oprah's got good politics, she's got a good heart, and she'll have us all up Jazzercising at six in the morning. This cannot be a bad thing, and reading a book while we're Jazzercising. So America would be better off if Oprah were president.

The job of president is to motivate, to inspire, to be side by side with people making sure that they develop all their capacities and that I remove all the obstacles they have to grow by themselves.

Great minds are to make others great. Their superiority is to be used, not to break the multitude to intellectual vassalage, not to establish over them a spiritual tyranny, but to rouse them from lethargy, and to aid them to judge for themselves.

What I relish most is when a member of my staff, who has worked with passion and patience towards achieving their dream of owning a restaurant, walks up to me and says, 'Nobu! I have done it!'

The Barefoot College is supposed to be a sparking off process. People are adopting it and owning it, which is really the story behind the college.

I'm thrilled to continue my partnership with U by Kotex for Generation Know while helping to empower girls. I've always been a motivational resource for my younger sisters and hope I can positively impact and inspire other young girls too.

In a battery, I strive to maximize electrical potential. When mentoring, I strive to maximize human potential.

I want to be a good role model for girls and show them they can do whatever they feel passionate about and still live a healthy life.

You can't inspire people if you are going to be uninspiring.

Motivation, passion, and focus have to come from the top.

Average leaders inspire people to punch a time clock. Great leaders inspire industry and passion.

Leadership is the willingness to put oneself at risk…. Leadership is seeing the possibilities in a situation while others are seeing the limitations…. Leadership is evoking in others the capacity to dream.