Top 272 Sustainable Quotes

I’ve been very passionate about renewable energy for many years, particularly solar energy and its capacity to bring abundant clean, sustainable energy to millions around the globe.
Richard Branson
Addressing the rate at which healthcare costs rise will yield the predictable, sustainable increases that provide across-the-board economic stability for residents, families, businesses, nonprofits, and governments.
Ned Lamont
It is only through developing and maximizing all its natural resources that a sustainable future for Africa and its people can be secured.
Nicky Oppenheimer
The most important thing is the fact we have created this successful and sustainable Ford Motor Co. worldwide. I have no regrets.
Alan Mulally
I don’t see the point of having a favorite sari or a favorite outfit if I know that I won’t repeat it. I’m glad Kate Middleton has been repeating her outfits and talking about sustainable fashion. Celebrities must set an example and repeat their clothes.
Shabana Azmi
My aim is sustainable fat loss and so I’ve opted for carb cycling.
Spencer Matthews
For better or for worse, I just have to be on tour for some portion of the year. But it’s not easy, you know. It’s not easy on the people you love, and I understand when people look at this life and say this isn’t sustainable.
Jack Antonoff
Diversifying our energy sources will create jobs, improve our national security and lay the foundation for a strong, sustainable economy in the future.
Mazie Hirono
It’s super important that people use their significant buying power to pull companies like Ferrari and show them there is a market for sustainable fuel. So many other car companies would take notice if Ferrari made headway on this measure.
Petter Stordalen
We have got to change our ethics and our financial system and our whole way of understanding the world. It has to be a world in which people live rather than die; a sustainable world. It could be great.
Vivienne Westwood
The U.S. can still maintain research institutions, such as Caltech, that are the envy of the world, yet it would be hubristic and naive to think that this position is sustainable without investing in science education and basic research.
Ahmed Zewail
The U.K. government has been clear that it wants to use the opportunity of leaving the E.U. to design a future immigration system that works in the best interests of the country. A key part of this system must be creating an environment that allows us to achieve sustainable levels of net migration.
Amber Rudd
During my nearly five years as director-general of WHO,

During my nearly five years as director-general of WHO, high-level policymakers have increasingly recognized that health is central to sustainable development.
Gro Harlem Brundtland
We need economic growth that is sustainable and job-rich rather than just statistically impressive.
Guy Ryder
We have a moral responsibility to protect the earth and ensure that our children and grandchildren have a healthy and sustainable environment in which to live.
Jim Clyburn
I really hope that we’ll have a sustainable future on this planet, I really do. So I probably geek out mostly about learning more about how potentially we can hopefully make that happen, hopefully we’re not too far lost.
Elliot Page
Runaway climate change would condemn millions to a life of poverty and cause us to fail to meet the Sustainable Development Goal of eradicating extreme poverty by 2030. This is not an acceptable outcome.
Paul Polman
That the word ‘sustainable’ can be a bit intimidating, but it’s just about keeping an eye on your daily decisions.
Miquita Oliver
I think if you don’t enjoy something, it’s not sustainable.
Ella Woodward
I’ve become really interested in permaculture, simplifying my life and doing everything I can to develop more of a sustainable lifestyle.
Elliot Page
We’ve become slaves to words like ‘local,’ ‘fresh,’ and ‘seasonal.’ We all want to be Thomas Jefferson’s agrarian hero, but sustainable food is a difficult beast.
Barton Seaver
We are setting a new standard for coal ash management and implementing smart, sustainable solutions for all of our ash basins.
Lynn Good
We’re all aware of the huge plastic crisis and the effect it’s having on our planet. Fashion has a key role in that, but also there are ways we can deal with it. Stella McCartney is someone to look up to in that sense, she makes the bigger point in her collection that you can be sustainable and stylish.
Lady Amelia Windsor
I don’t think there’s going to be sustainable demand for restaurants that force you to spend hours there.
Danny Meyer
Making sure that mothers are educated means we can lift more people out of poverty and build a more inclusive and sustainable society.
Peng Liyuan
If we eat healthy and live healthy, then that’s sustainable.
Tara Stiles
I will not let anyone tell me we must spend more money. This crisis did not come about because we issued too little money but because we created economic growth with too much money and it was not sustainable growth.
Angela Merkel
Fuel cells create a better automobile that’s 50 percent more energy-efficient overall and sustainable from energy and safety perspectives.
Larry Burns
In Africa, you can make three acres sustainable relatively easily, but 50,000 acres? It’s not about picking up towels or sleeping in a tent.
Jochen Zeitz
Global sustainability is now the only avenue to future inclusive progress that can deliver the Sustainable Development Goals and the Paris climate agreement.
Johan Rockstrom
Full Circle integrates the indigenous and modern practices, bringing individuals, community and organizations together as indispensable collaborators realizing a co-creative, sustainable and fulfilling future.
Andrew Keegan
It’s extremely hard to build a company with a product that everyone loves, is free and has no business model, and then to innovate a business model. I did that with Kazaa, had half a billion downloads but that wasn’t a sustainable business.
Niklas Zennstrom
Our world is evolving without consideration, and the result is a loss of biodiversity, energy issues, congestion in cities. But geography, if used correctly, can be used to redesign sustainable and more livable cities.
Jack Dangermond
Educating the world’s poorest girls can only be done with the firm commitment of many stakeholders – both domestic and international – to plan, fund, and build strong, sustainable, and equitable education systems.
Julia Gillard
For me personally, it is one of my biggest priorities to build a sustainable city that can respond properly to the climate change.
Park Won-soon
I believe in carbon offset initiatives, in eco-villages, in the sustainable regeneration of the tropical rainforest.
Dasha Zhukova
The goal should be to build a sustainable lifestyle business that does good for employees and customers – and that steadily builds wealth.
Vivek Wadhwa
I think the model of the Championship should be reconsidered, because the turnover of owners, keep changing all the time every one, two, three years, is not really healthy system for the fans, for the clubs – this is because it is really not sustainable to stay in the Championship.
Andrea Radrizzani
I try to leave a light footprint. I’m involved with Global Green, which aims to educate people about sustainable building and the greening of schools. I try to be aware about the consumption of unnecessary things in a consumptive culture.
Walton Goggins
Cutting prices or putting things on sale is not sustainable business strategy.
Howard Schultz
Technology is how we create wealth, how we cure diseases, how we’ll build an environment that’s sustainable and also gives people the capacity to pull more out of this world and still leave it better than when they found it.
Dean Kamen
Discovery Channel’s ‘Planet Healers’ will provide a look into how businesses can exist for more than just making profits, how they can help create a better and sustainable future.
Jim Sarbh
Mackerel is sustainable and healthy.
Yotam Ottolenghi
Land is becoming a diminishing resource for agriculture

Land is becoming a diminishing resource for agriculture, in spite of a growing understanding that the future of food security will depend upon the sustainable management of land resources as well as the conservation of prime farmland for agriculture.
M. S. Swaminathan
Climate change is destroying our path to sustainability. Ours is a world of looming challenges and increasingly limited resources. Sustainable development offers the best chance to adjust our course.
Ban Ki-moon
It is essential to ensure that the Fourth Industrial Revolution is a sustainable one for people and planet. It could even drive greater innovation, not only for short-term benefits and solutions for human wealth but also long-term solutions that benefit all and enable planetary stability.
Johan Rockstrom
Japan rose from the ashes of World War II as a ‘trading state,’ the model for export-led growth. It is not clear that the old export model of growth will be sustainable in a more ‘balanced’ global economy that does not rely so heavily on the U.S. consumer.
Robert Zoellick
Improving the outlook for U.S workers isn’t about creating millions of minimum-wage jobs. It is about creating sustainable, skilled employment that allows Americans to earn a fair wage with benefits that allows them to pay for housing and food on the table and sustain a middle-class lifestyle.
James P. Hoffa
My vision for Visy Tumut is not only to keep our position as an example of world’s sustainable manufacturing, but to build on it.
Anthony Pratt
It’s not about the pace, it’s about the direction we’ve set. The pace is of course a function of many factors, including the magnitude of the supply shock. But what’s probably more important is the probability of the supply shock translating into sustainable embedded inflation.
Marek Belka
If we didn’t have a sustainable agriculture industry, who would be paying the then-missing taxes to support our defence, police, roads, airports, elderly, parks, public sporting facilities and much more?
Gina Rinehart
Organic is loaded with a sense of rightness, with a set of rules. I would much rather someone bought food that was local and sustainable but not organic than bought organic food that had to be shipped across the world.
Monty Don