Ellen Johnson Sirleaf Quotes

The size of your dreams must always exceed your current capacity to achieve them. If your dreams do not scare you, they are not big enough.

To girls and women everywhere, I issue a simple invitation. My sisters, my daughters, my friends; find your voice

Ethnicity should enrich us; it should make us a unique people in our diversity and not be used to divide us.

Future generations will judge us not by what we say, but what we do.

If your dreams do not scare you, they are not big enough.

I work hard, I work late, I have nothing on my conscience. When I go to bed, I sleep.

Leadership is never given on a silver platter, one has to earn it.

Women work harder. And women are more honest; they have less reasons to be corrupt.

The people of Liberia know what it means to be deprived of clean water. But we also know what it means to see our children begin to smile again, with a restoration of hope and faith in the future.

If your dreams don't scare you, you aren't dreaming big enough.

As more men become more educated and women get educated, the value system has to be more enhanced and the respect for human dignity and human life is made better.

One has to look at my life story to see what I've done. I've paid a heavy price that many people don't realize.

I've been a victor of circumstance.

Ebola is not just a health crisis. Across West Africa, a generation of young people risks being lost to an economic catastrophe.

I don't face any particular problems as a woman president because I have been a professional for a long time. I keep telling people: I am a technocrat who happens to be a woman.

I don't run a woman government. I run a government of people.

There is no easy fix or youth unemployment. Partnership between the public and private sectors can make a big difference.

Liberia can move on and break from the past. That is very important for us to try to achieve our development goals and reconcile our nation.

I beg you I no magician. I can't just wave a magic wand.

We all have a stake in the battle against Ebola.

I think the majority of the Liberian people want peace.

In Liberia, the big challenge that remains for us is job creation. We want young people to work or go to school. That is our main preoccupation right now.

In Liberia, our salary scales are so low that our judicial system has become corrupt over the years. Now, we need to do some things ourselves.

The people of Liberia know what it means to be deprived of clean water, but we also know what it means to see our children to begin to smile again with a restoration of hope and faith in the future.