Louis Armstrong Quotes

I want to inspire people.

I like to motivate and inspire people.

I love inspiring people and helping them to reach their potential.

The goal of my Foundation is to give young people a chance to better themselves and establish a base for a successful future.

Confidence is a crucial building block in a successful career, and embracing it fully will take you places you never thought possible. With proper guidance and hard work, anyone can become more confident. Once you pass a certain point, you'll feel it from the inside.

I love working with kids, talking with them and listening to them. I always encourage kids to reach beyond their dreams. Don't try to be like me. Be better than me.

I always have someone to look up to, and I think it helps me with motivating myself.

Service is an opportunity for young women to really empower themselves.

There are very few things that I love more than being on stage and performing, but more than anything, I want to be a positive role model for teenage girls.

Doing and making positive programming for young people is so important to me, and I will keep doing it.

I appreciate being able to give back to charities I care about such as the American Diabetes Association - my older sister passed away from diabetes - and Figure Skating in Harlem, which teaches young girls about confidence, focus and goal-setting.

It's an honor for me to contribute to Houston's younger generations and show them that 'smart is cool.'

Hopefully, I can be a good role model for kids, and they can grow up to follow their dreams just like I am.

Tell young girls they can be anything, including entrepreneurs and self-made billionaires. Encourage your friends/daughters/female students/yourself to take a shot.

I feel real good because it's about representing the young world and how to uplift each other and how to push us to be greater and make sure we don't fall or get trapped or get in trouble, you know what I mean. Stay focused, you know what I mean.

When I mentor girls, I'll go around the room and ask them what they want to be or do. I've heard so many kids say, 'I don't want to be anything,' which is really shocking, but it's because no one has sat down and asked them.

If I can give that back to one little girl, much less thousands, and if they start on this journey because they saw me do this, then I did a good thing with my career and my life.

I'm really good at bringing out greatness - in anybody. I don't even have to be in the studio. What a gift to be able to help people bring out the best qualities in them.

My goal is to show young women and girls that our voices and ideas matter, and you are never too young to dream big!

I'm trying to be the messenger for the people that pay attention to me. And those people I want to help inspire because a lot of people maybe think it's - they're too cool for school. That's all I can ever do.

If I can, for whatever reason, inspire and motivate people, that's a good thing.

When I was 13, I told Henry Winkler I wanted to act. He said, Do it and don't let anyone stand in your way. His validation just made it all the more true. I haven't stopped thanking him since.

Leadership is one of the things I really strive to excel in in my life.

At Girl Scouts, we create leaders.

It's important to set challenges that you're not sure you're equal to.