Famous Quotes & Sayings

Wangari Maathai

The people are learning that you cannot leave decisions only to leaders. Local groups have to create the political will for change, rather than waiting for others to do things for them. That is where positive, and sustainable, change begins.

Will Rogers

If you ever injected truth into politics you would have no politics.

Narendra Modi

For achieving good governance political will is necessary. Good governance is a political process. Though role of civil society is critical, without political will and political process, sustainable good governance cannot be achieved.

Julian Assange

The west has fiscalised its basic power relationships through a web of contracts, loans, shareholdings, bank holdings and so on. In such an environment it is easy for speech to be "free" because a change in political will rarely leads to any change in these basic instruments. Western speech, as something that rarely has any effect on power, is, like badgers and birds, free.

Simon Cameron

An honest politician is one who when he is bought will stay bought.

Queen Rania of Jordan

I really feel that political will is born out of popular will.

Gaylord Nelson

Reaching a general understanding that sustainability is the ultimate issue will finally bring us face-to-face with the political challenge of forging a sustainable society during the next few decades. It is a challenge we can meet if we have the leadership and the political will to do so.

C. Wright Mills

The more we understand what is happening in the world, the more frustrated we often become, for our knowledge leads to feelings of powerlessness. We feel that we are living in a world in which the citizen has become a mere spectator or a forced actor, and that our personal experience is politically useless and our political will a minor illusion.

Al Gore

Political will is a renewable resource, and everyone can have it in abundance if they so choose.

P. J. O'Rourke

Hubris is one of the great renewable resources.

Al Gore

The will to act is a renewable resource.

Madelyn Fernstrom

There is an abundance of animal research that indicates if you eat far below your caloric maintenance, that you are going to live a lot longer.

Wayne Dyer

I always had the thought I could attract abundance.

Andy Kennedy

Play fast, play athletic. You may not always have a 6-10 kid, but there's an abundance of kids, 6-4 to 6-7, that are interchangeable parts.

E. B. White

People who live from abundance feel that there is more than enough of everything in the world to go around. More than enough money, food, work, material things, more than enough love. Why do they feel that way? Because they see that they themselves are enough. They are not dependent on external influences to make them feel more whole and complete.

Jennifer Devine

Relative abundance is an index of what's out there. We know a lot of these species move, but within what we have the data for, we are seeing this decline range.

Paul Russell

Our new natural (renewable) energy commodity could be corn and soybeans, grown in abundance each year. We can't afford to turn away the next potential Ball family.

Neale Donald Walsch

True abundance has nothing to do with what I am having, but everything to do with what I am being.

Stephen R. Covey

The character traits most critical to creating empowerment are: Integrity habitsare congruent with values, words with deeds, expressions with feelings. Maturitycourage balanced with consideration. Abundance mentality there is plenty outthere for everybody. A person with these character traits can be genuinely happyfor the success and accomplishments of others.

Brooks Robinson

The Indians were a disciplined, energetic people, ... Their villages were quite well-constructed, considering they had tools made only of stone, bone and seashells. And they grew an abundance of corn, beans, squash, pumpkins and tobacco.