Dalai Lama Quotes

Corporate responsibility extends not only to the customers, the resources and the workers of the present, but also to those of the future.

Sustainable development is development that meets the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs.

Too often, our concern for specific individuals today means neglecting crises that will harm countless people in the future.

Bankers cannot afford to be concerned with only the economic aspects of projects. There may be serious implications on the natural environment, the urban environment, on human culture.

As our parents planted for us, so will we plant for our children. When Charlie and I began our philanthropic journey, we wanted to focus our resources on planting seeds that would help perpetuate Jewish values and traditions for future generations and also contribute to repairing our world.

What about our children and grandchildren and their children and grandchildren? Do we not want them to live healthy and happy lives?

Leadership is not about the next election, it's about the next generation.

Real leadership means tackling tough problems ourselves and not leaving them to our children.

Like many dads I know, I've long been motivated in all aspects of my life by my love for my children - and my desire to make the world better a better place for them, my grandchildren and my great-grandchildren.

If you don't focus on the future generation, it means you are destroying your country.

We will be remembered only if we give to our younger generation a prosperous and safe India, resulting out of economic prosperity coupled with civilizational heritage.

The only thing that can save us as a species is seeing how we're not thinking about future generations in the way we live.

In Iroquois society, leaders are encouraged to remember seven generations in the past and consider seven generations in the future when making decisions that affect the people.

In abandoning the understanding that things - services, goods, wars, and houses - have costs, we risk becoming infantilised, incapable of making decisions about government or finance, and perhaps above all about the environment, the wellbeing of the planet upon which we depend and which our children will inherit from us.

History is merciless. History doesn't care if we pound our society down a rat hole. It's up to us to make more intelligent choices about how we live!

We cannot have profits at the expense of our children.

We shall have to fight the politician who remembers only that the unborn have no votes and that since posterity has done nothing for us we need do nothing for posterity.

I beseech you to live not only for this age, but for the next also.

Why we should put ourselves out of our way to do anything for posterity, for what has posterity ever done for us?

Governments, however, must think not only of the present, but of the rights of future generations.

The need to incorporate longer term time scales into our societal choices is very real—and right in the lap of our generation.

We - the current generation - have a moral responsibility to make the world better for future generations.

Just as our forefathers saved and invested to build what we, the current generation, are enjoying today, so, too, we must plant trees so that our sons and daughters, and their sons and daughters, can enjoy the shade.

We must shift our thinking away from short-term gain toward long-term investment and sustainability, and always have the next generations in mind with every decision we make.

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.