Social Good Quotes

“If you are in a position where you can reach people, then use your platform to stand up for a cause. HINT: social media is a platform.”
― Germany Kent

“Want to get more done? Keep meditation #1 on your to-do list.”
― Waylon H. Lewis

“A fundamental approach to life transformation is using social media for therapy; it forces you to have an opinion, provides intellectual stimulation, increases awareness, boosts self-confidence, and offers the possibility of hope.”
― Germany Kent

“Do the right thing: the ethical path can be lonely, hard, costly…but you’ll never lose self-respect—and that’s priceless and fragile.”
― Waylon H. Lewis

“Like every thoughtful parent in every age of history, Neil consoled himself, "My generation failed, but this new one is going to change the entire world, and go piously to the polls even on rainy election-days, and never drink more than one cocktail, and end all war.”
― Sinclair Lewis, Kingsblood Royal

“To be wealthy, powerful or famous does mot matter to me. Starting a social good ripple that will turn to an ocean wave matters to me.”
― Petek Kabakci

“The notion that Google/ Alphabet has the potential to be a democratizing force is certainly laudable, but the contradictions inherent in its projects must be contextualized in the historical conditions that both create and are created by it.”
― Safiya Umoja Noble, Algorithms of Oppression: How Search Engines Reinforce Racism

“Incentives aren't the only thing that matter for economic growth. Opportunity is also crucial, and extreme inequality deprives many people of the opportunity to fulfill their potential, and government programs that reduce inequality can make the nation as a whole richer by reducing that waste.”
― Paul Krugman

“My first grade nun had instructed me that from those to whom much is given, much is expected. I was learning that this lesson had to be combined with Shakespeare's wisdom that one must 'to thine own self be true.' Add to this humility, empathy, a sense of curiosity, courage, and plain old hard work, and I was finally seeing the real path to leadership. Of course, humor is always a plus. (158)”
― Jacqueline Novogratz

“I value individuals and societies. I care about those who are not born yet. That is the reason for my joys and blues.”
― Petek Kabakci

“The focal point of my life and the hallmark of my success would be inexorably linked to my ability to live for something greater than myself.”
― Jordan Kassalow, Dare to Matter: Your Path to Making a Difference Now

“The truth of the matter is, though, that while we may hunger for meaning and impact, and while that hunger may be absolutely genuine, unless we think consciously about how to make it happen, unless we approach building a life of meaning and impact like a job, we remain far more likely to look back with regret upon all we wished we’d done.

The better option is to put ourselves in a position to call the shots and stomp out those regrets before they have a chance to multiply.”
― Jordan Kassalow & Jennifer Krause

“We all want to build our lives with intention, deliberately and consciously, so how we live our life aligns with what matters to us the most.

A central part of that is living for something bigger than ourselves, so ultimately we feel that we are leading a life that matters, that our brief presence on this earth made some kind of difference.”
― Jordan Kassalow, Dare to Matter: Your Path to Making a Difference Now

“To possess a wise heart, one that understands the fundamentally impenetrable calculus of mortality, we must face the fact that we are dying. That we will die. And the time to do this is long before death is imminent.

Death’s reality shakes us awake like nothing else can, compelling us to seize the opportunities that arrive each day to live more intentionally and love more fully—not with a sense of panic but with a sense of sacred urgency. Not to obsess over our mortality, but to realize that while everything we do holds the potential for having an impact now, it also contains the promise of the only thing that can grant us anything close to immortality: our legacy.”
― Jordan Kassalow, Dare to Matter: Your Path to Making a Difference Now

“Don’t be afraid to share an idea that gets your heart pumping, no matter how half-baked it may be, no matter how much resistance it meets.
Don’t be afraid to ask for help. If your heart is in the right place, you’ll find that people are not only happy to help, but that inviting someone into your effort to matter allows them to matter, too.
Don’t be afraid of being afraid. Fear is the gateway to better. Don’t be afraid to look stupid. Stupidity is bravery in disguise.”
― Jordan Kassalow, Dare to Matter: Your Path to Making a Difference Now

“In our modern urban civilization, multitudes of our people have been condemned to urban anonymity — to living the kind of life where many of them neither know nor care about their own neighbors. They find themselves isolated from the life of their community and their nation, driven by social forces beyond their control into little individual worlds in which their own individual objectives have become paramount to the collective good. Social objectives, social welfare, the good of the nation, the democratic way of life — all these have become nebulous, meaningless, sterile phrases.

This course of urban anonymity, of individual divorce from the general social life, erodes the foundations of democracy. For although we profess to be citizens of a democracy, and although we may vote once every four years, millions of our people feel deep down in their heart of hearts that there is no place for them that they do not “count.” They have no voice of their own, no organization (really their own instead of absentee) to represent them, no way in which they may lay their hand or their heart to the shaping of their own destinies.”
― Saul D. Alinsky, Reveille for Radicals