Wendy Kopp Quotes

You are your greatest asset. Put your time, effort and money into training, grooming, and encouraging your greatest asset.

I was such a tomboy - goofy and, in my eyes, nerdy - and I never thought I would end up in modeling. I mean, you see pictures of these girls in magazines who have this incredible talent, and no one ever really thinks you can make it to that level. At least I didn't!

My motto in life is that nothing is impossible, no target unachievable - one just has to try harder and harder.

I know it's impossible. But I know I'll do it!

I just love it when people say I can't do it, there's nothing that makes me feel better because all my life, people have said that I wasn't going to make it.

Without self belief nothing can be accomplished. With it, nothing is impossible.

Don't waste your life believing you can't.

What more could you ask for in life than to be given an impossible challenge?

The people who put you down don't have to stop you from chasing your dreams. Stand up, and prove them wrong.

As women, we are constantly told that we need to compare ourselves to a girl in school, to our co-­workers, to the images in a magazine. How is the world going to advance if we're always comparing ourselves to others?

These haters can't hold me back.

I knew that I was a good writer in high school and won awards, and I was the editor of my school newspaper. So I knew that I was a good writer and I wanted to somehow capitalize and sort of utilize a talent that I thought I had.

I can imagine no more important contribution to our country's future than a long-term commitment to improving urban K-12 public schools.

I always wanted to be a writer but everyone kept telling me it was impossible to break into the field or make money. I've proven them wrong on both counts.

I have to work very hard to look the way I do. I want the girls out there to know that.

I knew I could compete with most people in high school. It didn't quite give me an attitude, but it made me think I didn't have to try hard sometimes.

90% of what is considered "impossible" is, in fact, possible. The other 10% will become possible with the passage of time & technology.

I said to my teacher, 'I can't be a singer because I'm not pretty enough, and I'm fat.' And she looked at me and said, 'Tell that to Nell Carter, babe.' That changed my life forever!

Somebody asked me if I could go back and start again with a different brain, would I. Years ago I thought yes, I would, and now I know I wouldn't. Because whatever challenges I had in school, I guess they forced me to where I am today. So I now see them as an asset.

Racial and denominational schools impart to the membership of their communities something which the general educational institution is wholly unable to inculcate.

It seems a strange thing, but once I was able to get past that kind of self-image problem, I was able to open up in my comedy work and just go all out, take chances, and have fun with the performance aspect of that.

Getting through high school and college was one of my greatest achievements.

Three things are needed to educate the peasantry: schools, schools, and schools.

We are all interconnected in a web of kindness from which it is impossible to separate ourself.

If I can do it, you can do it. Anybody can.