Reshma Saujani Quotes

#1. It's the easiest thing in the world to be kind to someone, to show love, to forgive. You are born with this instinct - it should be your first reaction. NOT violence, anger and hatred! That is something we are taught, it's a Choice You Make.

Michelle Horst

#2. 'Fail hard, fail fast, fail often. It's the key to success.' This one I learned from experience!

Reshma Saujani

#3. The cup of tea on arrival at a country house is a thing which, as a rule, I particularly enjoy. I like the crackling logs, the shaded lights, the scent of buttered toast, the general atmosphere of leisured cosiness.

P.G. Wodehouse

#4. If you haven't failed yet, you haven't tried anything.

Reshma Saujani

#5. Only greatly insolent people establish a religious law which is to be taken for granted by others, which should be accepted by everyone on faith, without any discussion or doubts. Why must people do this?

Leo Tolstoy

#6. Coding is the language of the future, and every girl should learn it. As I've learned from watching girls grow and learn in our classrooms, coding is fun, collaborative and creative.

Reshma Saujani

#7. I like making people laugh. That's fun for me.

Alyssa Sutherland

#8. Embracing failure is the most important trait I've developed in my career. I have tried to learn from my failures, and I believe it has made me stronger, more confident and more resilient.

Reshma Saujani

#9. Families break up when they get hints you don't intend and miss hints that you do.

Robert Frost

#10. His Holiness Pope John Paul II was a determined and deeply spiritual minded person for whom I had great respect and admiration. His experience in Poland, then a communist country, and my own difficulties with communists, gave us an immediate common ground

Dalai Lama

#11. Teach one girl how to code, she'll teach four. The replication effect is so powerful.

Reshma Saujani

#12. I tend to believe that audiences are relatively well-balanced people.

Clint Eastwood

#13. Fail fast, fail hard, fail often

Reshma Saujani

#14. Look, lady, we're not going to go all HUNGER GAMES on each other. Isn't going to happen.

Rick Riordan

#15. The Tausennigan Ob'enn warlords look like cuddly teddy-bears?"
"Yes, they do, and they'd cheerfully exterminate your entire race for making that observation!"
"I guess that explains their rich military history, then.

Howard Tayler

#16. The only long-term motivation is self motivation. So hire people who are self motivated and get out of their way.

Seth Godin

#17. You really need to be on the edge and you have to keep your eyes open.

Jam Master Jay

#18. The International Health Partnership Plus is addressing the need to harmonize development assistance and reduce the current waste, duplication, and high transaction costs.

Margaret Chan

#19. We can't think of any better way of becoming our best selves, than by finding something we're great at!

Reshma Saujani

#20. I wish Howard Ashman was still alive so I could just meet him and tell him his words are magic. It's so fun to say. He has such great alliteration and paints the most vivid images with his lyrics

Tituss Burgess

#21. Don't be afraid of failure. That's not an easy lesson for teenagers - especially teenage girls - to learn. Our society sends us a lot of messages that imply we're supposed to be ashamed when we fall short. But I think we should be throwing each other failure parties!

Reshma Saujani