Rosalynn Carter Quotes

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Rosalynn Carter

Profession : First Lady

Birth : August 18, 1927

It's been taboo for so long to admit you had a mental health problem.

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I hope I've contributed something to the mental health field. But I hope people will think - I've had so many wonderful opportunities, I tried to take advantage of them.

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Aside from doing everything possible to provide programs for people who are seriously ill, I want to do everything humanly possible to help create a more caring society so that we can begin to counter the painful loneliness and sense of helplessness which has engulfed too many of our people.

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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.

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

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Being a caregiver requires infinite patience, physical and emotional strength, health care navigation skills, and a sense of humor - which can be hard to come by after sleepless nights and demanding days.

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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.

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You have to have confidence in your ability, and then be tough enough to follow through.

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Do what you can to show you care about other people, and you will make our world a better place.

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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 goals, you don't branch out, you don't try - you don't take the risk.

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Early diagnosis is so important because the earlier a mental illness can be detected, diagnosed and treatment can begin, the better off that person can be for the rest of his or her life.

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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.

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Caregivers are the selfless people who provide unpaid care for loved ones who are ill or have serious medical conditions. This is among the most challenging work there is.

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My philosophy is that you do what you have to do.

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I've never had time for friends. I've always worked too hard.

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My mother made all of our clothes, my friends' mothers made all of their clothes. This was the Depression.

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We know how to treat depression, we know how to treat mental illness, and we have not had the political will in our country to make it happen.

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When I was first lady, I worked to call attention to the plight of refugees fleeing Cambodia for Thailand, I visited Thailand and witnessed firsthand the trauma of parents and children separated by circumstance beyond their control.

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One day, I made a remark that I might work with people with mental illness, and somebody in the press heard it, and it was in the paper. And the more I thought about it and found out about it, the more I thought it was just a terrible situation with no attention. And I've been working on it ever since.

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San Francisco is one of my favorite cities in the world.

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