Anna Maria Chavez famous quotes

03-26-2025

Simply stated, girls want role models and mentors.
-- Anna Maria Chavez

#Girl #Role Models #Mentor
I live to inspire girls, volunteers, Girl Scout staff and alumni
-- Anna Maria Chavez

#Girl #Volunteer #Inspire
What gets posted online is not short term, and is open for easy misinterpretation. Messages and pictures spread faster through the Internet than they ever could by word of mouth.
-- Anna Maria Chavez

#Mouths #Messages #Internet
Too often, nonprofits are viewed as rigid and bureaucratic - less nimble and capable of adapting in this fluid environment than our corporate counterparts. I don't agree.
-- Anna Maria Chavez

#Nonprofits #Nimble #Environment
Sometimes when I speak to groups or I'm interviewed by a journalist, I ask them to imagine their communities without Girl Scouts - to imagine the thousands of food drives and clothing and toy collections that would never take place if not for Girl Scouts.
-- Anna Maria Chavez

#Girl #Community #Groups
Girl Scouts is such an iconic organization that it's easy to overlook how daring an idea it was for founder Juliette Gordon Low to gather those first 18 girls in that troop in Savannah, Georgia. It was 1912, after all, and women wouldn't earn the right to vote for another eight years.
-- Anna Maria Chavez

#Girl #Eight #Years
Research shows that girls look at leadership differently than boys.
-- Anna Maria Chavez

#Girl #Boys #Looks
Unless and until our society recognizes cyber bullying for what it is, the suffering of thousands of silent victims will continue.
-- Anna Maria Chavez

#Bullying #Suffering #Our Society
Girls who lead turn in to women who thrive.
-- Anna Maria Chavez

#Girl #Thrive #Turns
Girls are twice as likely as boys to avoid leadership roles for fear of being deemed â€˜bossyâ€™ by their peers,
-- Anna Maria Chavez

#Girl #Boys #Roles
Many people don't know, but American Girl Scouts get to travel the world, and that's a very good thing, as the more we can expose our young people to other cultures, the better off we'll be in this increasingly globalized environment.
-- Anna Maria Chavez

#Girl #Other Cultures #People
Girl Scouts is a girl-serving organization, so our members are girls.
-- Anna Maria Chavez

#Girl #Organization #Girl Scout
At Girl Scouts, we are committed to raising awareness about the terrible effects of cyber bullying, and to teaching girls how to recognize the signs of bullying of any sort and extricate themselves or another from a bad situation before it spirals out of control and ends in tragedy.
-- Anna Maria Chavez

#Girl #Bullying #Teaching
At Girl Scouts, we create leaders.
-- Anna Maria Chavez

#Girl #Leader #Girl Scout
Cyber bullies can hide behind a mask of anonymity online, and do not need direct physical access to their victims to do unimaginable harm.
-- Anna Maria Chavez

#Bully #Needs #Mask
Thereâ€™s a tendency for young people to get discouraged and frustrated easily. But donâ€™t be afraid to fail. In many ways, we learn so much more from our failures than our successes. Remind yourself that failure is nothing more than a means to a greater end. Bide your time, learn from your mistakes, and lead by example. If you believe in what youâ€™re doing, it will show.
-- Anna Maria Chavez

#Mistake #Believe #Mean

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