“Until you dig a hole, you plant a tree, you water it and make it survive, you haven’t done a thing. You are just talking.”
"The environment and the economy are really both two sides of the same coin. If we cannot sustain the environment, we cannot sustain ourselves."
- Wangari Maathai
Balance
"We’re constantly being bombarded by problems that we face and sometimes we can get completely overwhelmed. But we should always feel like a hummingbird. I may feel insignificant, but I don’t want to be like the other animals watching the planet go down the drain. I’ll be a hummingbird, I’ll do the best I can."
- Wangari Maathai
Motivation
"Human rights are not things that are put on the table for people to enjoy. These are things you fight for and then you protect."
- Wangari Maathai
Empowerment
"Until you dig a hole, you plant a tree, you water it and make it survive, you haven’t done a thing."
- Wangari Maathai
Determination
"I will be a hummingbird. I will do the best I can."
- Wangari Maathai
Determination
"You can’t be that kid standing at the top of the waterslide, overthinking it. You have to go down the chute."
- Tina Fey
Taking Risks
"You cannot plow a field by turning it over in your mind. To begin, begin."
- Gordon B. Hinckley
Taking Risks
"Do not wait for the perfect time and place to enter, for you are already onstage."
Taking Risks
"If you don’t risk anything, you risk even more."
- Erica Jong
Taking Risks
"If the highest aim of a captain were to preserve his ship, he would keep it in port forever."
- Thomas Aquinas
Taking Risks