“Saving our planet requires you to be ambitious in what you aim, and, equally, in how hard you work to reach your goal.”

Sustainable development is the pathway to the future we want for all. It offers a framework to generate economic growth, achieve social justice, exercise environmental stewardship and strengthen governance.

We hold the future in our hands, together, we must ensure that our grandchildren will not have to ask why we failed to do the right thing, and let them suffer the consequences.

National boundaries these days are not that important because of transformative technological development. Now we are talking about the fourth industrial revolution.

Climate change…is, simply, the greatest collective challenge we face as a human family.

We have all heard of the web of life. The way we live threatens to trap us in a web of death.

You have to take ownership and leadership of tomorrow. For that to be possible, you have to strengthen your capacity and widen your vision as a global citizen.

The future of any leader or political systems is to be determined by the people of the country.

To measure the success of our societies, we should examine how well those with different abilities, including persons with autism, are integrated as full and valued members.

This is the moral challenge of our generation. Not only are the eyes of the world upon us. More important, succeeding generations depend on us. We cannot rob our children of their future.

The current model is global suicide. We need a revolution. Revolutionary thinking. Revolutionary action. Natural resources are becoming more and more scarce.

Since [violence against women] is rooted in discrimination, impunity and complacency, we need to change attitudes and behavior – and we need to change laws and make sure they are enforced just like you are doing in Cuba.

Let us take advantage of the opportunities presented by climate action and lay the foundations for a more prosperous and secure future for all.

Three decades into this crisis, let us set our sights on achieving the “three zeros” zero new HIV infections, zero discrimination and zero AIDS-related deaths.

Today, we have more than 110,000 men and women deployed in conflict zones around the world. They come from nearly 120 countries … Thanks to their efforts, life-saving humanitarian assistance can be delivered and economic development can begin.

I strongly reject threats by any member state to destroy another or outrageous attempts to deny historical facts such as the Holocaust.

Nuclear disarmament is the only sane path to a safer world.

I am a very ambitious girl.

I’m planning my most ambitious tattoo yet. You can never have enough tats.

I’m not very ambitious at all.

Success lulls you. It makes the most ambitious of us complacent and sloppy. In a way, you have to cultivate a kind of amnesia and forget all of your previous prosperity.

Maybe it’s a little ambitious of me to presume that no matter how big the film is, that I can always go down to the shop to buy a pint of milk.

Don’t be afraid to be ambitious about your goals. Hard work never stops. Neither should your dreams.

All women are ambitious naturally.

With the ambitious, the failure of one expedient is the suggestion of another; but with the irresolute, defeat usually occasions abandonment of purpose.