The Millennium Development Goals can be met by 2015, but only if all involved break with business as usual and dramatically accelerate and scale up action now. — Kofi Annan
Join me in the final race to smash poverty and achieve the UN Millennium Development Goals — Carl Lewis
Gender equality is more than a goal in itself. It is a precondition for meeting the challenge of reducing poverty, promoting sustainable development and building good governance. — Kofi Annan
Globalisation makes it clear that social responsibility is required not only of governments, but of companies and individuals. All sources must interact in order to reach the MDGs. — Anna Lindh
In 2005 we have a once in a generation opportunity to deliver a modern Marshall plan for the developing world. — Gordon Brown
Development is about transforming the lives of people, not just transforming economies. — Joseph Stiglitz
Improving the health & productivity of the poorest is one of the best investments you can make in the future of the world — Bill Gates
Of course, aid is only one small part of international development. Some of the greatest benefits to the world's poorest can be achieved through policy changes by developed countries. — Nicola Sturgeon
A safe and nutritionally adequate diet is a basic individual right and an essential condition for sustainable development, especially in developing countries. — Gro Harlem Brundtland
...there is no tool for development more effective than the empowerment of women. — Kofi Annan
The movement is called World Mobile, and we believe that we can connect the unconnected and bank the unbanked before 2030… — Micky Watkins
Microfinance stands as one of the most promising and cost-effective tools in the fight against global poverty. — Jonathan Morduch
This is probably the most difficult task we have ever given ourselves, which is to intentionally transform the economic development model, for the first time in human history. — Christiana Figueres
We shall not defeat any of the infectious diseases that plague the developing world until we have also won the battle for safe drinking water, sanitation, and basic health care. — Kofi Annan
Goal Quotes
Nothing can stop the man with the right mental attitude from achieving his goal; nothing on earth can help the man with the wrong mental attitude. — Thomas Jefferson
The principle goal of education in the schools should be creating men and women who are capable of doing new things, not simply repeating what other generations have done. — Jean Piaget
Our clear goal must be the advancement of the white race and separation of the white and black races. This goal must include freeing of the American media and government from subservient Jewish interests. — David Duke
History teaches us that unity is strength, and cautions us to submerge and overcome our differences in the quest for common goals, to strive, with all our combined strength, for the path to true African brotherhood and unity. — Haile Selassie
Always stay true to yourself and never let what somebody says distract you from your goals. — Michelle Obama
A little progress each day adds up to bg results.
If one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined... — Henry David Thoreau
You can't measure success if you have never failed. My father has taught me that if you really do want to reach your goals, you can't spend any time worrying about whether you're going to win or lose. Focus only on getting better. — Steffi Graf
When obstacles arise, you change your direction to reach your goal; you do not change your decision to get there. — Zig Ziglar
Every girl, no matter where she lives, deserves the opportunity to develop the promise inside of her. — Michelle Obama
Economic growth without investment in human development is unsustainable - and unethical. — Amartya Sen
Illnesses do not come upon us out of the blue. They are developed from small daily sins against Nature. When enough sins have accumulated, illnesses will suddenly appear. — Hippocrates
We believe in peace and peaceful development, not only for ourselves but for people all over the world. — Lal Bahadur Shastri
To assist a child we must provide him with an environment which will enable him to develop freely. — Maria Montessori
The most reliable way to predict the future is to create it. — Abraham Lincoln
Cooperation and conflict are two sides of the same coin; both arise out of man's relationship with his fellows. The larger the group, the greater the possibility of development through cooperation, and the greater the possibility of conflict. — Julius Nyerere
Develop Yourself Quotes
Develop enough courage so that you can stand up for yourself and then stand up for somebody else. — Maya Angelou
We only become what we are by the radical and deep-seated refusal of that which others have made of us. — Jean-Paul Sartre
The greatest crime in the world is not developing your potential. When you do what you do best, you are helping not only yourself, but the world. — Roger Williams
Today is life-the only life you are sure of. Make the most of today. Get interested in something. Shake yourself awake. Develop a hobby. Let the winds of enthusiasm sweep through you. Live today with gusto. — Dale Carnegie
If you don't love yourself, you cannot love others. You will not be able to love others. If you have no compassion for yourself then you are not able of developing compassion for others. — Dalai Lama
You have to develop a style that suits you and pursue it, not just develop a bag of tricks. — James Stewart
Knowing others is intelligence; knowing yourself is true wisdom. Mastering others is strength; mastering yourself is true power. — Lao Tzu
Subjecting yourself to vigourous training is more for the sake of forging a resolute spirit that can vanquish the self than it is for developing a strong body. — Mas Oyama
Happiness is a choice and a skill and you can dedicate yourself to learning that skill and making that choice. — Naval Ravikant
Millennium Quotes
Come the millennium, month 12, In the home of greatest power, The village idiot will come forth To be acclaimed the leader. — Nostradamus
Bitcoiners and shitcoiners are not on the same team. They couldn't be more different. Bitcoiners see a once-in-a-millennium chance for the total eradication of seigniorage & monetary parasites. Shitcoiners just see an opportunity for them to become the monetary parasites. — Saifedean Ammous
We are here because we share a fundamental belief: that poverty, illiteracy, disease and inequality do not belong in the twenty-first century. We share a common purpose: to eradicate these ills for the benefit of all. And we share a common tool to achieve this: the Millennium Development Goals. — Ellen Johnson Sirleaf
Reading in the third millennium B.C. may therefore have been a matter of hearing the cuneiform, that is, hallucinating the speech from looking at its picture symbols, rather than visual reading of syllables in our sense. — Julian Jaynes
Behind it all is surely an idea so simple, so beautiful, that when we grasp it - in a decade, a century, or a millennium - we will all say to each other, how could it have been otherwise? How could we have been so stupid? — John Archibald Wheeler
The Great Work now, as we move into a new millennium, is to carry out the transition from a period of human devastation of the Earth to a period when humans would be present to the planet in a mutually beneficial manner. — Thomas Berry
World military spending has now risen to over $1.2 trillion. This incredible sum represents 2.5 per cent of GDP (global gross domestic product). Even if 1 per cent of it were redirected towards development, the world would be much closer to achieving the Millennium Development Goals. — Ban Ki-moon
Angels in America' - which is composed of two three-hour plays, 'Millennium Approaches' and 'Perestroika' - proved to be a watershed drama, the most lyrical and ambitious augury of an era since Tennessee Williams's 'The Glass Menagerie. — John Lahr
People in millenniums ahead will know what we were like in the 1930's and the thing that, the important major things that shaped our history at that time. This is as important for historic reasons as any other. — Gordon Parks
Boyhood is the longest time in life for a boy. The last term of the school-year is made of decades, not of weeks, and living through them is like waiting for the millennium. — Booth Tarkington
The Millennium Development Goals are owned by the people. — Eveline Herfkens
...if we are to make significant progress on meeting these Goals and stay true to the promise the world made to build a better, fairer world for all, there is no time to lose in putting in place the necessary policies and resources needed to achieve these aims. — Kemal Dervis
My colleagues and I took a stand in our work several years ago that we would not look for the magic bullet, because there is none. These are just basic problems requiring basic work. Nothing magic about it. — Jeffrey Sachs
If world leaders decide to [meet the Millennium Development Goals], I think it can be done by 2015...The question is, is there a political will to make this investment? — Thoraya Obaid
These often unsung heroes understand...that poverty, disease and famine are just as deadly and destructive as earthquakes, hurricanes and tsunamis. Individuals ...are taking on these challenges in their communities, volunteering to make a difference. They remain the true champions of our work towards the Millennium Development Goals. — Kofi Annan
It is not in the United Nations that the Millennium Development Goals will be achieved. They have to be achieved in each of its Member States, by the joint efforts of their governments and people. — Kofi Annan
Hand washing is the first basic step towards achieving any millennium goals for development. It saves lives. — Kajol
Gender equality and empowerment of women is key to the success of the Millennium Development Goals. Not only as a specific target, but for the goals in general. Women bear a heavier burden of the world's poverty than men, because of the discrimination they face in education, health care, employment and control of assets. — Johanna Sigurðardottir
Globilization in its current form cannot deliver the benefits expected of it. Civil society, particularly in developing countries, must ensure that it does. — Martin Khor
Food prices are often kept artificially high. The result is that the Millennium Development Goals set out by the United Nations at the start of the new millennium are not being reached. Fine words have not yet been turned into deeds. — Jonathan Sacks
I'm struck by how very few people outside a rarefied world of true believers understand what you mean when you say human rights - that includes development experts and economists who are very keen to implement the UN Millennium Development Goals. They've told me quite frankly, that they don't know exactly what a human rights approach is. — Mary Robinson
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