Quotes by Rosalynn Carter

“If you doubt you can accomplish something, then you can't accomplish it. You have to have confidence in your ability, and then be tough enough to follow through.”

“A leader takes people where they want to go. A great leader takes people where they don't necessarily want to go, but ought to be.”

“You must accept that you might fail; then, if you do your best and still don't win, at least you can be satisfied that you've tried. If you don't accept failure as a possibility, you don't set high...”

“If you don't accept failure as a possibility, you don't set high goals, you don't branch out, you don't try - you don't take the risk.”

“If you look at suicides, most of them are connected to depression. And the mental health system just fails them. It's so sad. We know what to do. We just don't do it.”

“There is nothing more important than a good, safe, secure home.”

“Jimmy and I were always partners.”

“If you don't accept failure as a possibility you don't set high goals you don't branch out you don't try - you don't take the risk.”

“You must accept that you might fail then if you do your best and still don't win at least you can be satisfied that you've tried.”

“I had already learned from more than a decade of political life that I was going to be criticized no matter what I did so I might as well be criticized for something I wanted to do.”

“If we have not achieved our early dreams we must either find new ones or see what we can salvage from the old. If we have accomplished what we set out to do in our youth we need not weep like Ale...”

“There is clearly much left to be done and whatever else we are going to do we had better get on with it.”

“If you don't accept failure as a possibility you don't set high goals you don't branch out you don't try - you don't take the risk.”

“You must accept that you might fail then if you do your best and still don't win at least you can be satisfied that you've tried.”

“If we have not achieved our early dreams we must either find new ones or see what we can salvage from the old. If we have accomplished what we set out to do in our youth we need not weep like Alexa...”

“There is clearly much left to be done and whatever else we are going to do we had better get on with it.”

“And what will that future hold? Perhaps none have a greater right to ask that question than the young people of this country, and none are more qualified to answer. The ten teenage essay winners wh...”

“Maybe a hundred years from now we can say We the People and include all of the people of this great country of ours. If what we heard from each other and from our young people is an example of chan...”

“I want people to know that mental illnesses can be diagnosed, can be treated. The overwhelming majority of people can live full and productive lives in the community. People don’t know that. That’s...”

“Recovery is one prevalence. Mental illness affects all of us. They touch every family in our country. One in four Americans is diagnosed with mental illness every year, one in four. This is one rea...”