Sustainability Quotes

GDP tells you nothing about sustainability

This is not about creating a giant. It's about creating the sustainability of the steel industry.

Sustainability has become an ornament.

It is only with local [agriculture] that we can manage the complexity and care that sustainability requires.

The specific danger is us; we are rampant; this earth is our only friend; we are destroying it increment by increment at a horrific rate. We must understand that we can't buy it back.

The first law of sustainability: population growth and/or growth in the rate of consumption of resources cannot be sustained

The unlimited capacity of the plant world to sustain man at his highest is a region as yet unexplored by modern science.

Each of us has a responsibility for the sustainability of our planet and each of us can make a difference if we choose to do so.

The fashion industry is all about storytelling and craftsmanship. Sustainability adds value because it makes that backstory even more impactful.

Premium will increasingly be defined in terms of sustainability and environmental compatibility

Nourishment is a factor which touches on the fundamental right to life.

Japan's experience suggests the importance of assessing the sustainability of price stability over a fairly long period, which many central banks have emphasized in recent years.

Buy less, choose well, make it last. Quality rather than quantity: That is true sustainability. If people only bought beautiful things rather than rubbish, we wouldn't have climate change!

We cannot hope to create a sustainable culture with any but sustainable souls.

Sustainability is about profit...it is the opportunity of the century

We need to see the connection between global warring and global warming, and it's oil. Sustainability is the path to peace.

The two-word definition of sustainability is 'one planet.'

The key to understanding the future is one word: sustainability.

I want Canada to be the country that is the best in the world at combining economic growth, social justice and environmental sustainability.

Love tames the benumbed beast. A man is put to use regarding a woman's physical safety, but a woman is put to use regarding a man's mental safety.

Often I'll go outside and just place my hands on the soil, even if there's no work to do on it. When I am filled with worries, I do that and I can feel the energy of the mountains and of the trees.

Time is what we have in this life, and how we use it determines what our life is.

I think all people want freedom, but they've got this idea inserted into their head about money.

Sometimes just to touch the ground is enough for me, even if not a single thing grows from what I plant.

Why is it that so many people start to value money so much that they trade in most of the hours and years of their life in order to get it?

I thought I should make a place to bring light down into this world. All things that become realities start in that place of someone imagining them.

The only technology that helps to create a plethora of business and employment opportunity while promoting the green environment, is serving good for the society and, therefore, the sustainability.

All too often we fail to ask what we are trying to sustain. Ultimately, sustainability must be measured by the endurance of thriving human communities.

a society driven mainly by selfish individualism has all the potential for sustainability of a collection of angry scorpions in a bottle.

I'm big on reworking vintage. Also, buying one great piece that lasts forever - to me, that is total sustainability.

When a child is starving, a family may not be able to think about long-term sustainability or damage to ecosystems that support endangered species.

Sustainability is growth based on forms and processes of development that do not undermine the integrity of the environment on which they depend

Having a similar outlook on life is the central key for long-term sustainability in any love relationship.

Sustainability is another word for justice, for what is just is sustainable and what is unjust is not.

All the conservation efforts in the world won't be enough to make a dent in the oncoming sustainability crisis our planet faces.

CEOs need to produce continuous growth in sales and profits. Yet they must also invest in sustainability and social responsibility, which then leave them less money for financing their growth.

For me the protection of Planet Earth, the survival of all species and the sustainability of our ecosystems is more than a mission. It is my religion and my dharma.

Climate protection creates sustainability and jobs in the real economy - in construction, in the production of heavy machinery and in systems engineering.

Since most corporate competitors have the same problems with sustainability and social reputation, it's worth trying to solve them together.

To the extent that hiring in high-wage, developed economies continues to lag, the sustainability of any impetus to private consumption can be drawn into serious question.

I used to think success would be sustainability. Not being behind the eight ball.

Ultimately, I think that the growth and sustainability of the e-book movement depends on authors and end-users (readers).

Environmentalists and clean energy champions should stop telling people that we are working for "sustainability," which nobody understands.

Each minute wasted with a shark is a missed opportunity to enjoy being with a Dolphin

I live in one of the best places, bar none, to appreciate the wild natural environment. I also live in one of the most politically difficult places to work on its behalf: Alaska.

We've got to think now, in real terms, for that seventh generation . . . We've got to get back to spiritual law if we are to survive.

Align your activity with your vision. Being consistent and intentional with your daily activities will result in sustainable success.

Only when we start to distinguish reality from fantasy that we can humbly, with eyes wide open, forge loving and sustainable connections with others.

Real Love may run on a lower voltage, but it’s also more grounded & sustainable.

The energy and daring is to resist the noes, until the final yes has been achieved.