Top 297 Sustainability Quotes & Sayings

If we achieve our sustainability targets and no one else follows, we will have failed.

I have refused to buy a car for the reasons of sustainability.

Sustainability is not just about adopting the latest energy-efficient technologies or turning to renewable sources of power. Sustainability is the responsibility of every individual every day. It is about changing our behaviour and mindset to reduce power and water consumption, thereby helping to control emissions and pollution levels.

Sustainability is treating ourselves and our environment as if we are to live on this earth forever.

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

Agricultural sustainability doesn't depend on agritechnology. To believe it does is to put the emphasis on the wrong bit of 'agriculture.' What sustainability depends on isn't agri- so much as culture.

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

If sustainability is going to take hold in the corporate sector in a big way - and we need it to - it will be when it produces big profits and faster growth. It won't happen because of an optional executive commitment to an abstract concept. It will happen because sustainability is a great business strategy. And it is

Japan's future prospects depend on ensuring fiscal sustainability over the long term.

Equity, dignity, happiness, sustainability - these are all fundamental to our lives but absent in the GDP.

What I try to do on my Instagram is provoke discussion and share environmental and sustainability messages.

The idea of sustainability can imply there is one perfect, unchanging future, if only we could work out how to get there. Resilience might be more useful, in that it assumes a dynamic environment and that perfection is impossible. You need to design systems to accommodate failure rather than eliminate it. By trying to be perfect, many visions of sustainability are quite brittle

The thing that I champion is sustainability. My terror is that suddenly we see it as a luxury, not an essential. That's a danger.

Genetic design is something we can use to fight the lack of sustainability we humans are forcing on the earth's environment.

Sustainability is the key to our survival on this planet and will also determine success on all levels.

GDP tells you nothing about sustainability

My main issue is sustainability of the Earth, and protection of those animals and people who dwell here.

Keeping people on side is a precondition of making any progress on sustainability issues

There are many challenges ahead, and one of the most important ones I face is ensuring the future sustainability of our city.

Sustainability is here to stay or we may not be

We cannot choose between [economic] growth and sustainability - we must have both

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

Positive deviance means doing the right thing for sustainability, despite being surrounded by the wrong institutional structures, the wrong processes and stubbornly uncooperative people. That is what sustainability-literate leadership means today. Surrounded by evidence of rampant unsustainability it is not possible to say 'I did not know'

Sustainability is especially ripe for political controversy and opposition because fundamentally it is a new paradigm that represents significant challenges to the status quo. The paradigm of sustainability, with its notions of limitations and carrying capacities confronts dominant paradigms of progress which do not recognize limits to unchecked growth

Sustainability includes how you run your business, and my bottom line includes how you treat your people. Sustainability starts with your staff.

It angers me when sustainability gets used as a buzz word. For 90 percent of the world, sustainability is a matter of survival.

When the forest and the city are functionally indistinguishable, then we know we have reached sustainability.

Education beats at the heart of sustainability.

Sustainability takes forever. And that's the point.

Sustainability, ensuring the future of life on Earth, is an infinite game, the endless expression of generosity on behalf of all.

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

The funny thing about sustainability is you gotta sustain it.

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

If we don't get sustainability right in agriculture first, it won't happen anywhere.

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

Any city has to give some thought to its ambition and brand in order to set sustainability goals.

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

From a sustainability standpoint, look for natural products, but not all chemicals are bad. Learn what works for you.

The first rule of sustainability is to align with natural forces, or at least not try to defy them.

Without environmental sustainability, economic stability and social cohesion cannot be achieved

When sustainability is viewed as being a matter of survival for your business, I believe you can create massive change.

Community leadership is the courage, creativity and capacity to inspire participation, development and sustainability for strong communities.

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

But now sustainability is such a political category that it's getting more and more difficult to think about it in a serious way. Sustainability has become an ornament.

When you gaze long into the Abyss of Sustainability, the Abyss of Sustainability also gazes into you.

Often, sustainability is discussed only in the context of energy. Energy sustainability is essential - but the word has a much broader meaning. It means long-term thinking about how we manage our businesses, invest in social spending, and plan for the future. This requires vision and leadership, and it requires citizen engagement.

All my projects are about sustainability, bioremediation, making things in a cleaner fashion.

I think about sustainability all the time, whether it's with fish or farmers in Eastern Oregon.

If you look at the state of our planet, the next generations won't be around if we consider sustainability as a gimmick.

Sustainability has become an ornament.

Labor believes in sustainability. We believe in acting on climate change, not just talking about it.

The plundering for profit of the world's natural resources has threatened the very sustainability of the planet.

Sustainability is a set of conditions and trends in a given system that can continue indefinitely

Design shouldn't have to take a backseat to sustainability and making things responsibly.

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

Sustainability has become a religion in architecture - not that there's anything wrong with it - but I think it has to work both ways. Everyone thinks architecture has to be subservient to sustainability, but what if we thought in the other direction, like, what can sustainability do to make architecture more exciting?

I think we have reached a stage now where we need to find solutions to economic injustice in the same place and in the same ways that we find solutions to sustainability. Sustainability on environmental grounds and justice in terms of everyone having a place in the production and consumption system - these are two aspects of the same issue. They have been artificially separated and have to be put back again in the Western way of thinking.

I wish my artwork could persuade millions of people to join a global conversation about sustainability.

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

The first rule of sustainability is to align with natural forces, or at least not try to defy them