Summer Sanders Quotes

The OWN network is all about inspiring and enlightening.

I think of myself as a catalyst of action and a messenger of hope, turning people onto themselves and turning people onto their dreams.

People always want to feel better and be inspired. Sometimes we need it. I think the conscious rapper will always be able to live and exist.

Sometimes a book influences me because it winds me up. There'll be something that gets under my skin and makes me think that I can do better.

I wanted to encourage people around me to evaluate their lives and see where they are holding themselves back. I wanted them to dream again.

I try to sprinkle a little gems and jewels in the music that people could use in their own life.

It is just satisfying to think that, somehow, my music and my story could touch someone and make them want to make their own life better.

One of my goals is to inspire everyone I meet to become a better person.

A vision is not just a picture of what could be; it is an appeal to our better selves, a call to become something more.

God be thanked for the thinkers of good and noble thoughts! It wakes up all the best in ourselves, to come into close contact with others greater and better in every way than we are.

I think if there's something one needs to change with oneself, it doesn't have to happen in the New Year. You can do that any time you please - not that it's not a good inspirational tactic for the people that it works for.

People never improve unless they look to some standard or example higher or better than themselves.

It's never too late to go out and get that feeling back.

I want to do stories that inspire people.

When people are around us, they should leave better off than they were previously. Rather than feeling discouraged or defeated, people should feel challenged and inspired after spending any time with you and me.

I try to get people thinking, to consider their pasts and presents, ultimately encouraging them and giving them the tools to embrace the work of reshaping their lives.

'They Don't Care About Us' by Michael Jackson - This song makes me want to dance, and I fell in love with it watching 'This Is It' with my kids.

Giving back, doing motivational speeches and stuff like that, that's always made me feel good. If you repeatedly go out there, and you are the change that you want to see, then that's what you are.

The person I am every single day is the person that's growing and getting better. The more people look up to me, the more important it is to be concise with what message I want to leave. That's where I feel like I'm a role model. Maybe not to everyone, but for a lot of minorities, I am, and I kinda love that - the role model for the underdog.

This CD became something of a personal journey for me. The tone of the whole CD is uplifting and inspirational. It's an upper. We have enough downers in the world.

Only those who are built up can build others up, amen?

When characters change on screen, it makes you feel better about yourself. You think, 'Oh I change too, I'm constantly becoming a better person.'

I want my daughter to be proud of me and look up to me. I think early on in my pregnancy I realized that to be the mom I want to be, I had to change my life, and that's what I'm doing.

For true success ask yourself these four questions: Why? Why not? Why not me? Why not now?

Books have the power to be the light we are seeking at crucial moments in our lives. Reading helps us realize we are not alone, that we can change our circumstances and even achieve the impossible.