Inspirational Quotes
Words to motivate, inspire, and guide you.
Greta Thunberg Quotes
ActivismCivic EngagementPolitical Will Some say we should not engage in activism. Instead we should leave everything to our politicians and just vote for a change instead. But what do we do when there is no political will? What do we do when the politics needed are nowhere in sight?
ActionEnvironmentalismResponsibilityUrgencyYouth People tell me that they are so hopeful when they see me and other children 'school-striking,' and they say, 'Oh the children are going to save us.' But no, we aren't. We are too young to be able to do that. We don't have time to wait for us to grow up and fix this in the future.
AmbitionExcellencePushing Limits To do your best is no longer good enough. We now have to do the seemingly impossible.
Climate ChangeDespairEducationEnvironment When I was maybe eight or nine years old, I first learned about the climate crisis in school. My teachers taught me about it and we saw films and pictures of plastic in the ocean and extreme weather events. Those pictures were just stuck in my head; I thought, there is no point in anything.
Climate ChangeEcologyFuture WellbeingInactionSustainability Nothing is being done to stop the climate and ecological emergency from happening and to secure the future wellbeing for future generations.
ConfidenceEqualityHumilityScienceWisdom I don't care about age. Nor do I care about those who do not accept the science. I don't have as much experience, and therefore I listen more. But I also have the right to express my opinion, no matter my age.
Letting GoSadnessWorry Some people can just let things go, but I can't, especially if there's something that worries me or makes me sad.
Climate ChangeDenialExistential CrisisPriorities At first when I heard about climate change, I was a climate denier. I didn't think it was happening. Because if there really was an existential crisis like that, that would threaten our civilisation, we wouldn't be focusing on anything else. That would be our first priority. So I didn't understand how that added up.
EmpowermentHopeHumanity I'm telling you there is hope. I have seen it, but it does not come from the governments or corporations. It comes from the people.
ForesightFutureResponsibility We can't just continue living as if there was no tomorrow, because there is a tomorrow.
InfluenceLeadershipMediaPlatformResponsibility Many people listen to what I have to say and I appear a lot in media, so therefore I influence a lot of people and therefore I have a bigger responsibility because I have a bigger platform.
IdentityNationalismPerceptionSustainability Many people, especially in the U.S., see countries like Sweden or Norway or Finland as role models - we have such a clean energy sector, and so on. That may be true, but we are not role models.
BiodiversityClimate ChangeEnvironmental CrisisMass ExtinctionSystems Breaking Down We are living in the beginning of a mass extinction and our climate is breaking down.
HonestyIntegrityTruthfulness We can't just choose to tell some facts and not others because we don't want to upset people. We have to tell it like it is.
ChallengeGenerational LegacyResponsibility We have to understand what the older generation has dealt to us, what mess they have created that we have to clean up and live with.
ChangeEmpowermentInfluencePossibilityResponsibility It is our future on the line, and we must at least have a say in it.
IntroversionQuiet StrengthReserveRestraintShyness I am an introvert; privately I am very shy, and I don't speak unless I have to.
DepressionEnvironmental ConcernsIsolationPowerlessnessSadness When I was 11 I became very depressed. It had a lot to do with the climate and ecological crisis. I thought everything was just so wrong and nothing was happening and there's no point in anything.
Climate CrisisEnvironmental AwarenessLeadership Accountability I have been on the road and visited numerous places and met people from all over the globe. I can say that it looks nearly the same everywhere I have been: The climate crisis is ignored by people in charge, despite the science being crystal clear.
Climate CrisisCourageResponsibilitySpeaking Out We are at a time in history where everyone with any insight of the climate crisis that threatens our civilisation - and the entire biosphere - must speak out in clear language, no matter how uncomfortable and unprofitable that may be.
EmotionHumanityStrengthVulnerabilityWeakness I'm very weak in a sense. I'm very tiny and I am very emotional, and that is not something people usually associate with strength.
AutismIndividualitySelf-ExpressionSocial Norms I'm on the autism spectrum. I don't usually follow social coding and so therefore I go my own way.
Corporate ResponsibilityEmissionsGovernment Responsibility Most emissions aren't caused by individuals, they're caused by corporations and states.
AdvocacyClimate ActionFameResponsibility It is hard sometimes to always be at the centre of attention, but when you talk about me you also have to talk about the climate.
ActivismChangeClimate ChangeFutureLeadership For 25 years countless people have come to the U.N. climate conferences begging our world leaders to stop emissions and clearly that has not worked as emissions are continuing to rise. So I will not beg the world leaders to care for our future. I will instead let them know change is coming whether they like it or not.
Collective ActionEnvironmental SustainabilityGreenhouse Gas ReductionInnovation Solving the climate crisis is the greatest and most complex challenge that homo sapiens have ever faced. The main solution, however, is so simple that even a small child can understand it. We have to stop our emissions of greenhouse gases.