"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
"You cannot protect the environment unless you empower people, you inform them, and you help them understand that these resources are their own that they must protect."
- Wangari Maathai
Education
"You’ve got to get up every morning with determination if you’re going to go to bed with satisfaction."
- George Lorimer
Determination
"The most difficult thing is the decision to act; the rest is merely tenacity."
- Amelia Earhart
Determination
"When I believe in something, I’m like a dog with a bone."
- Melissa McCarthy
Determination
"Get a good idea and stay with it. Dog it, and work at it until it’s done right."
- Walt Disney
Determination
"Do what you can, with what you have, where you are."
- Theodore Roosevelt
Determination