Top 60 Sustainability Quotes

Words matter. These are the best Sustainability Quotes from famous people such as Shari Arison, Park Won-soon, Lights, Richard Edelman, Deb Haaland, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.

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Shari Arison
The main issue of cities is to tackle climate change and it is the issue of the current and next generations. Sustainability cannot be emphasized too much and I have designated the issue of climate change as the most important to solve.
Park Won-soon
I’m not good at talking politics. I’m probably not well-versed enough to speak out, but I do have my opinions and my feelings and frustrations, especially with regards to the environment and sustainability and our lack of taking care of what we have.
Lights
The problems of the world, from immigration to populism to income inequality to sustainability to peacekeeping, require a well-functioning supranational body.
Richard Edelman
We must shift our thinking away from short-term gain toward long-term investment and sustainability, and always have the next generations in mind with every decision we make.
Deb Haaland
Labor believes in sustainability. We believe in acting on climate change, not just talking about it.
Anthony Albanese
As sustainability becomes more and more of a concern, we’re going to see more plastics.
Greg Lynn
I agree on the need for environmental sustainability. It is no good raising gross national income while at the same time destroying natural assets.
Hilary Benn
Sustainability can’t be like some sort of a moral sacrifice or political dilemma or a philanthropical cause. It has to be a design challenge.
Bjarke Ingels
Sustainability includes how you run your business, and my bottom line includes how you treat your people. Sustainability starts with your staff.
Tom Douglas
The problems of the world, from immigration to populism to income inequality to sustainability to peacekeeping, require a well-functioning supranational body.
Richard Edelman
I want to be really proactive in working with the progressive business community in Australia and also reaching out to rural and regional Australia in order to assist in the sustainability crisis and the food security crisis.
Christine Milne
Design shouldn’t have to take a backseat to sustainability and making things responsibly.
Amber Valletta
As always, it would be important to ensure that any fiscal policy changes did not compromise long-run fiscal sustainability.
Janet Yellen
Investing in resilience and sustainability programs is essential to stretching our limited water resources, ensuring safe drinking water for at-risk communities, and adapting to climate change.
Alex Padilla
Care work contributes enormously to the well-being of our societies and to the sustainability of our economies.
Sharan Burrow
Like all major transitions in human history, the shift from a linear to a circular economy will be a tumultuous one. It will feature heroes and pioneers, naysayers and obstacles, and moments of victory and doubt. If we persevere, however, we will put our economy back on a path of growth and sustainability.
Frans van Houten
We all rely on our infrastructure system even if we don’t own a car or use public transportation. It impacts our economy and our quality of life. It is a key component of addressing inequality as well as creating a level playing field for all Americans and a pathway to sustainability.
Michael Capuano
The planet’s biggest problems have to do with sustainability, environmental decline, global poverty, disease, conflict and so forth. Really, they’re all interconnected – it’s one big problem, which is that the way we’re doing things can’t go on.
Alex Steffen
Transparency, accountability and sustainability have become the slogans of the market leaders. Companies carry out environmental and social audits to court the consumer, and even the bluest chips woo organisations such as Greenpeace and Amnesty.
Noreena Hertz
Since stepping down as laboratory director in 1999, I have devoted an increasing fraction of my time to international issues. I am involved with energy, environment, and sustainability issues, particularly as they involve new energy sources free of greenhouse gases.
Burton Richter
More businesses should be following Apple’s stance in encouraging more investment in sustainability.
Richard Branson
Issues relating to global health and sustainability must stay high on the agenda if we are to cope with an ageing and ever-increasing population, with growing pressure on resources, and with rising global temperatures. The risks and dangers need to be assessed and then confronted.
Martin Rees
Sustainability, ensuring the future of life on Earth, is an infinite game, the endless expression of generosity on behalf of all.
Paul Hawken
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
More and more companies are reaching out to their suppliers and contractors to work jointly on issues of sustainability, environmental responsibility, ethics, and compliance.
Simon Mainwaring
All the conservation efforts in the world won’t be enough to make a dent in the oncoming sustainability crisis our planet faces.
Naveen Jain
I have a tremendous platform and responsibility to talk to people about these issues about sustainability and about health and wellness when it comes to food.
Andrew Zimmern
We have to have a way of dealing with this that engenders confidence, trust, gives us every chance of getting the right outcome and boosts both sustainability and economic return at the same time.
John Anderson
We live in a world where there are a hell of a lot of new inputs that need to be factored in to your business. It used to be just about your employees and your customers. Now there are all the issues about global warming, about sustainability, about ethics and now about gender and the distribution of wealth.
Stuart Rose
If you want creativity, take a zero off your budget. If you want sustainability, take off two zeros.
Jaime Lerner
We should bring in an environmental attitude, and I thi

We should bring in an environmental attitude, and I think luxury should automatically be about sustainability and quality.
Jochen Zeitz
We’re really going after truly creating sustainability of a disease-free state, creating a complete system for managing cancer patients for life, so that you can manage from onset of disease all the way through.
Patrick Soon-Shiong
In the 21st century, I think the heroes will be the people who will improve the quality of life, fight poverty and introduce more sustainability.
Bertrand Piccard
With increasing fervor since the 1980s, sustainability has been the watchword of scientists, environmental activists, and indeed all those concerned about the complex, fragile systems on the sphere we inhabit. It has shaped debates about business, design, and our lifestyles.
Jamais Cascio
All my projects are about sustainability, bioremediation, making things in a cleaner fashion.
Frances Arnold
If you look at the state of our planet, the next generations won’t be around if we consider sustainability as a gimmick.
Jochen Zeitz
Sustainability has to be a way of life to be a way of business.
Anand Mahindra
I don’t like to talk about sustainability, because sometimes I see green buildings that don’t appear any different from those in the past.
Ma Yansong
It is neither feasible or advisable for us to reshore all supply chains; partnerships with our allies that promote more stable access to key inputs while improving environmental sustainability and workers’ rights is essential.
Brian Deese
Everything depends on our ability to sustainably inhabit this earth, and true sustainability will require us all to change our way of thinking on how we take from the earth and how we give back.
Deb Haaland
Sustainability is a part of our ‘rise’ philosophy. You cannot rise if you take more from the community than you put back.
Anand Mahindra
Genomic science, as the newest frontier in scholarly research, is throwing open the door to a revolutionary way of approaching our health, the health and welfare of animals, and the sustainability of our environment.
John Sharp
Sustainability makes good business sense, and we’re all on the same team at the end of the day. That’s the truth about the human condition.
Paul Polman
A hostility to modernity is shared by ideologies that have nothing else in common – a nostalgia for moral clarity, small-town intimacy, family values, primitive communism, ecological sustainability, communitarian solidarity, or harmonies with the rhythms of nature.
Steven Pinker
The future is green energy, sustainability, renewable energy.
Arnold Schwarzenegger
Fiscal policy should balance growth, equity, and sustainability concerns, including protecting society’s most vulnerable.
Gita Gopinath
There are three major issues now that are becoming important, not only for cities, but for all mankind: Mobility, sustainability – which is linked to mobility – and social diversity.
Jaime Lerner
I think there is a general view that sustainability is really important. I do think it is a top priority. I don’t know that it’s the top priority.
Julie Sweet
It’s shocking to think about how little the travel industry cares about sustainability – and it’s the basis of their business!
Jochen Zeitz
Where Republicans encourage popular myths about taxes, spending, and climate change, Democrats tend to stoke our fantasies about the sustainability of entitlement spending as well as about the cost of new programs.
Jacob Weisberg
Japan’s future prospects depend on ensuring fiscal sustainability over the long term.
Jose Angel Gurria
From a sustainability standpoint, look for natural products, but not all chemicals are bad. Learn what works for you.
Jane Lauder
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