SDGS Quotes

 SDGs Quotes

1. “The best way to predict future is to create it.” 
2. “Sustainable development is the development that meets the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs.” 
3. “Sustainability is a political choice, not a technical one. It’s not a question of whether we can be sustainable, but whether we choose to be” 
4. “There must be a better way to make the things we want, a way that doesn’t spoil the sky, or the rain or the land” 
5. “Our biggest challenge in this new century is to take an idea that seems abstract – sustainable development – and turn it into a reality for all the world’s people” 
6. “No matter how complex global problems may seem, it is we ourselves who have given rise to them. They cannot be beyond our power to resolve” 
7. “The principle of common but differentiated responsibilities is the bedrock of our enterprise for a sustainable world” 
8. “How long can men thrive between walls of brick, walking on asphalt pavements, breathing the fumes of coal and of oil, growing, working, dying, with hardly a thought of wind, and sky, and fields of grain, seeing only machine-made beauty, the mineral-like quality of life?” 
9. “The first rule of sustainability is to align with natural forces, or at least not try to defy them.” 
10. “Without environmental sustainability, economic stability and social cohesion cannot be achieved.” 
11. “Nobody made a greater mistake than he who did nothing because he could do only a little.” 
12. “You never change things by fighting the existing reality. To change something, build a new model that makes the existing model obsolete.” 
13. “Our ancestors did great work for humanity. What will we do for the next generations?” 
14. “Real human beings take precedence over partisan interests; however, legitimate the latter may be.” 
15. “We don’t have to engage in grand, heroic actions to participate in change. Small acts, when multiplied by millions of people, can transform the world.” 
16. “Do not wait for extraordinary circumstances to do good action; try to use ordinary situations.” 
17. “Building a world where we meet our own needs without denying future generations a healthy society is not impossible, as some would assert. The question is where societies choose to put their creative efforts.” 
18. “We can chart our future clearly and wisely only when we know the path which has led to the present.” 
19. “Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world. Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has.” 
20. “The activist is not the man who says the river is dirty. The activist is the man who cleans up the river.” 
21. “The sustainability revolution will, hopefully, be the third major social and economic turning point in human history, following the Neolithic Revolution – moving from hunter-gathering to farming – and the Industrial Revolution.” By Prince Charles
22. “Plans to protect air and water, wilderness and wildlife are in fact plans to protect man.” By Stewart Udall
23. “A nation that destroys its soils destroys itself. Forests are the lungs of our land, purifying the air and giving fresh strength to our people.” By Franklin D. Roosevelt
24. “We never know the worth of water till the well is dry.” 
25. “Only when the last tree has died and the last river been poisoned and the last fish been caught will we realize we cannot eat money.”