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.

— Rosalynn Carter

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 Alexander the Great that we have no more worlds to conquer.

— Rosalynn Carter

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.

— Rosalynn Carter

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.

— 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.

— Rosalynn Carter

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.

— Rosalynn Carter

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.

— Rosalynn Carter

Jimmy and I were always partners.

— Rosalynn Carter

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

— Rosalynn Carter

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

— Rosalynn Carter