Andrew Shue People Quotations

We started a movement... to build character, citizenship and confidence in young people.

If you can get a teen leader in each sector of a student population, you can pull people in. Everybody wants to get involved, but most are too afraid. When they see a person they think is cool leading it, they're first to join.

People who dream of something bigger and better are good role models.

Unfortunately, there are so many people who live their whole life in a place that is safe and protected and simple and they don't really have that strength inside to fly.

When you decide that you're really going to go out there, if you think about it, it's not that safe. It's not that easy... You have parents, siblings. You've seen people struggle. You've seen what's going on in the world. It's a challenge.

I was lucky, because of Student Council, my classes, sports and social life, there were different people I had friendships with.

There are so many times in life-and I've had them-when I was really afraid. I was kind of a closed-in, self-involved person who was just trying to stay in that safe place and that nest where I had good friends and people who are just like me.

I think the most important element here is getting that young person ... to think about helping somebody else, ... Like my father, I believe in the power of young people to change the world.

We wanted to make it cool and fun and interesting for young people to get involved, and we wanted to figure out what kind of programs would give them the structure to want to get involved,

Young people can be the catalyst for starting the effort to redefine what's important in America.

At some point in their lives, people deal with tragedy. It's just a question of when.

You're going to have to take a chance: you're going to have to reach out to touch people to make things happen. And it's not going to be easy, because there's going to be all kinds of adversity against you and people who are going to say things that make you feel like you aren't capable.

It's important because young people need to be motivated and inspired and then channeled into community building because they are the ones who have the most energy, the most time, the most to lose,

There's do something people and there's do nothing people. We wanted to make sure young people knew the difference.