881 Quotes by Kofi Annan

Once you are really challenged, you find something in yourself. Man doesn't know what he is capable of until he is asked.

shocked to know that so many rich governments have given so little.

...there is no tool for development more effective than the empowerment of women.

Simply put, what the United Nations wants is what the U.S. also wants: a reformed United Nations that is effective, efficient, leaner and relevant to the tasks that member states want to set for us, ... The world has changed and we have to change, we have to adapt and I have given my commitment to the president that I will pursue reforms.

You are never too young to lead.

Since Europe is going to foot quite a lot of the bill (for Kosovo's reconstruction) that would be right,

Education is, quite simply, peace-building by another name. It is the most effective form of defense spending there is.

Millions of children and young people are already affected by the pandemic - including those infected through the most heart-reading from of transmission, mother to child,

Literacy is a bridge from misery to hope.