200 Quotes by Jacqueline Novogratz

Despite the hundreds of non-governmental organizations and the continued outpouring of foreign aid, East Africa remains as a region overwhelmed by extreme poverty.

A #‎ sustainable world means working together to create prosperity for all.

May each of you live lives of immersion. They won't necessarily be easy lives. But in the end, it is all that will sustain us.

Every day we have a choice. We can take the easier road, the more cynical road, which is a road sometimes based on a dream of a past that never was, fear of each other, distancing and blame, or we can take the much more difficult path, the road of transformation, transcendence, compassion, and love, but also accountability and justice.

Standing with the poor means walking away from unethical leaders, even when their companies are 'succeeding.'

We need leaders, we ourselves need to lead from a place that has the audacity to believe that we ourselves can extend the fundamental assumption that all men are created equal to every, man woman and child on this planet. And we need the humility to recognize that we cannot do it alone.

Monsters will always exist. There's one inside each of us. But an angel lives there, too. There is no more important agenda than figuring out how to slay one and nurture the other.

I'm relentless in that I deeply believe in people.

Nothing important happens in life without a cost.