Manifesto for a Moral Revolution Quotes

“you don’t plan your way into finding your purpose. You live into it.”
― Jacqueline Novogratz, Manifesto for a Moral Revolution: Practices to Build a Better World

“learn to listen with your whole body. Listen with your ears, your eyes, all your senses. Listen not to convince or to convert, but to change yourself, spark your moral imagination, soften your hardened edges, and open yourself to the world.”
― Jacqueline Novogratz, Manifesto for a Moral Revolution: Practices to Build a Better World

“Rather than being rewarded for what we give, we’re too often affirmed by what we take.”
― Jacqueline Novogratz, Manifesto for a Moral Revolution: Practices to Build a Better World

“As Eleanor Roosevelt wrote long ago, the work of renewing a world based on extending dignity to every being on the planet begins in small places, close to home.”
― Jacqueline Novogratz, Manifesto for a Moral Revolution: Practices to Build a Better World

“if you want to serve, you must begin by listening, not assuming.”
― Jacqueline Novogratz, Manifesto for a Moral Revolution: Practices to Build a Better World

“With those you aim to serve or lead, your job is to be interested, to help make another person shine, not demonstrate how smart or good or capable you yourself are.”
― Jacqueline Novogratz, Manifesto for a Moral Revolution: Practices to Build a Better World

“be more interested than interesting.”
― Jacqueline Novogratz, Manifesto for a Moral Revolution: Practices to Build a Better World

“When individual listening is ingrained in collective culture, the whole community is more likely to shine.”
― Jacqueline Novogratz, Manifesto for a Moral Revolution: Practices to Build a Better World

“Solving complex problems is rarely accomplished with a silver bullet or a single approach.”
― Jacqueline Novogratz, Manifesto for a Moral Revolution: Practices to Build a Better World

“The point is this: We are the system. We decide how to define success, and we can reject purely individualistic terms.”
― Jacqueline Novogratz, Manifesto for a Moral Revolution: Practices to Build a Better World

“This is the secret of accompaniment. I will hold a mirror to you and show you your value, bear witness to your suffering, and to your light. And over time, you will do the same for me, for within the relationship lies the promise of our shared dignity and the mutual encouragement needed to do the hard things.
Whatever you aim to do, whatever problem you hope to address, remember to accompany those who are struggling, those who are left out, who lack the capabilities needed to solve their own problems. We are each other’s destiny. Beneath the hard skills and firm strategic priorities needed to resolve our greatest challenges lies the soft, fertile ground of our shared humanity. In that place of hard and soft is sustenance enough to nourish the entire human family.”
― Jacqueline Novogratz, Manifesto for a Moral Revolution: Practices to Build a Better World

“the urgent challenge for our times is to reimagine capitalism as a tool to enable our wholeness rather than to reinforce our separation”
― Jacqueline Novogratz, Manifesto for a Moral Revolution: Practices to Build a Better World

“We are made from what came before. We make ourselves out of the promises that lie ahead. And we are always in the process of becoming.”
― Jacqueline Novogratz, Manifesto for a Moral Revolution: Practices to Build a Better World

“Moral leadership requires the judgment to make the right short-term compromises so as to realize the long-term change we seek.”
― Jacqueline Novogratz, Manifesto for a Moral Revolution: Practices to Build a Better World

“In a world of extreme inequality, what kind of economic system is just? By conforming to a system structured solely to maximize shareholder returns, we avoid taking personal responsibility for the answer to that moral question.”
― Jacqueline Novogratz, Manifesto for a Moral Revolution: Practices to Build a Better World

“When we dare to understand the other, we find the seeds of our best selves.”
― Jacqueline Novogratz, Manifesto for a Moral Revolution: Practices to Build a Better World

“cynics don’t build the future.”
― Jacqueline Novogratz, Manifesto for a Moral Revolution: Practices to Build a Better World

“This book assumes that you are interested in being part of world-changing human capital that will help solve problems big and small. Maybe you are a teacher or a communicator, an activist or a doctor, a lawyer or an investor, or some new force for positive change. I have seen people like you alter the lives of schoolchildren and street children, refugees, the formerly incarcerated; of people living in forgotten communities and in places ravaged by war, poverty, or toxic industries.”
― Jacqueline Novogratz, Manifesto for a Moral Revolution: Practices to Build a Better World

“Your greatest calling card is your reputation for integrity. Treat it like gold, though it's worth even more”
― Jacqueline Novogratz, Manifesto for a Moral Revolution: Practices to Build a Better World

“Purpose does not reveal itself to those sitting safely at the starting block. In other words, you don’t plan your way into finding your purpose. You live into it.”
― Jacqueline Novogratz, Manifesto for a Moral Revolution: Practices to Build a Better World

“What happens to the earth if we see it as a resource but not a responsibility?”
― Jacqueline Novogratz, Manifesto for a Moral Revolution: Practices to Build a Better World

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― Jacqueline Novogratz, Manifesto for a Moral Revolution: Practices to Build a Better World

“That night in Kigali, I renewed my commitment to working toward dreams so big that they may not be completed in my lifetime.”
― Jacqueline Novogratz, Manifesto for a Moral Revolution: Practices to Build a Better World

“And while the first or second or sometimes tenth time I tried something might still feel uncomfortable, each experience expanded my worldview, even the most incremental of victories imparting me with the belief that life could be a great adventure if you were willing to dare.”
― Jacqueline Novogratz, Manifesto for a Moral Revolution: Practices to Build a Better World

“Strategically, as my friend and founding Acumen board member Stuart Davidson says, “If you want advice, ask for money. If you want to raise money, ask for advice.” We all yearn to be recognized.”
― Jacqueline Novogratz, Manifesto for a Moral Revolution: Practices to Build a Better World

“Moral imagination means to view other people’s problems as if they were your own, and to begin to discern how to tackle those problems. And then to act accordingly. It summons us to understand and transcend the realities of current circumstances and to envision a better future for ourselves and others. Moral imagination starts with empathy, but it does not content itself simply to feel another’s pain. Empathy without action risks reinforcing the status quo. Rather, moral imagination is muscular, built from the bottom up and grounded through immersion in the lives of others. It involves connecting on a human level, analyzing the systemic issues at play, and only then envisioning how to go beyond applying a Band-Aid to making a long-term difference.”
― Jacqueline Novogratz, Manifesto for a Moral Revolution: Practices to Build a Better World

“John’s was a lived and practical wisdom. “The self-renewing man,” he wrote, “looks forward to an endless and unpredictable dialogue between his potentialities and the claims of life—not only the claims he encounters but the claims he invents.” He was a half century older than me, but John’s enduring curiosity, his sense of possibility and willingness to try made him seem the youngest person I knew. So, just start.”
― Jacqueline Novogratz, Manifesto for a Moral Revolution: Practices to Build a Better World

“the decision we face is not to chart the perfect way forward; it is simply to embark on a journey.”
― Jacqueline Novogratz, Manifesto for a Moral Revolution: Practices to Build a Better World

“We commit ourselves to being members of a single human family, beyond any nation or religion, caste or tribe. This work is difficult and it is long, but it is the work of the moral revolution, the only way to build a future that will sustain us.”
― Jacqueline Novogratz, Manifesto for a Moral Revolution: Practices to Build a Better World

“We are on dangerous ground when “faith” becomes associated with political parties, or when nonbelievers are seen as heretics rather than seekers.”
― Jacqueline Novogratz, Manifesto for a Moral Revolution: Practices to Build a Better World