Wendy Kopp Quotes

I've never seen myself as a spokesperson. I've always seen myself as a worker and am very grateful for the trust that my own people have given me over the years.

My responsibility will be to unite all the women and men ready to take on the tremendous challenges which are waiting for us, and to act.

It is our job to ensure everyone feels included and empowered. We are living in a world that is increasingly diverse, and part of helping kids develop and be those successful leaders of tomorrow is helping them learn how to embrace multiculturalism and diversity.

Frankly, it can be lonely at the top when it comes to driving diversity.

It is definitely what my aim is to get everyone to do their part and take on that responsibility of being a leader - whether you are playing or on the bench or if you have not made the team.

The leadership of Christine Rampone goes without saying. She is the definition of a what a leader is.

Inclusion and transparency have been mainstays of my leadership. It's about education and reaching out.

Good leaders make people feel that they're at the very heart of things, not at the periphery.

If we prove capable of showing a pioneering commitment, we shall create a commmunity listened to around the world.

Getting to the top is not so easy; staying there is more difficult.

Every team that I've played on, I've either been the captain or co-captain.

There were times I didn't think we would ever make it, even when we were cranking two out a year.

Believing that our greatest need is for the general public to be able to get better information, to have an opportunity to learn better the real issues of the less fortunate, we centered the activities of the Fairness Project on that.

Leadership and learning are indispensable to each other.

I have had so much at heart. Defeated, not conquered; disappointed, not discouraged. I have but to be more energetic and more faithful in the difficult and painful vocation to which my life is devoted.

Motivation is everything. You can do the work of two people, but you can't be two people. Instead, you have to inspire the next guy down the line and get him to inspire his people.

It takes a real soldier to stay in the music industry and live off the things that have been put before me and be able to survive all this time because it has not been easy.

Like leaders in many walks of life, my business has been to serve with, and for, others.

Through the years you, the Delaware State family and your predecessors, have faced many challenges. You worked through them with fierce determination and good will, and you have made great progress.

It took putting one foot in front of the other every single day to get through it to the point where I made it back on the team and won a gold medal in 2008.

Sometimes, it's good to have a tremendous star, because everyone understands he has to get the ball.

My writing is often a way of 'bearing witness' for others who lack the education and the opportunity to tell their own stories, so I hope that my writing won't be affected too much by my personal life.

I appreciate my brother, His Highness Sheikh Mohammad Bin Rashid Al Maktoum, Vice-President and Prime Minister of the U.A.E. and Ruler of Dubai, and the Council of Ministers, who face every morning challenges, but plan and remove all obstacles to score achievements.

I sacrificed for the Dallas Cowboys when most quit. I put in overtime to try to help young players.

Black leadership has to recognize that principles more than speech, character more than a claim, is greater in advancing the cause of our liberation than what has transpired thus far.