Sharad Vivek Sagar Quotes

There are three qualities that every individual must have to achieve success: a Monk’s patience, a Warrior’s courage, a Child’s imagination.

~ Sharad Vivek Sagar

If you are born on this planet, we want to make sure you get the kind of education you actually deserve.

~ Sharad Vivek Sagar

The times today are too dangerous for the young and the smart to be not bothered. Know the truth. Remember, “We can deny the truth. But, we can’t avoid it.” We have been there; we have all been there. Ask a female friend who is fighting for a better pay scale, ask the father of an immigrant who is nervous about the future of his daughter, ask a gay friend who is fighting for the right to marry, ask an African-American friend who wants her younger brother to be unafraid and proud, ask a homeless worker in Bangladesh whose house just got swept by rising sea levels, ask a young child in Beijing who breathes an air polluted by fossil fuels, ask a child labor in India who works ten hours and twelve hours to get two square meals a day. And, when you ask, you will know. You will know why we need to take it personally.

~ Sharad Vivek Sagar

My mother, who taught me how to read and write and home-schooled me for the first 12 years of my life, whose presence shaped me as much as her absence did, who imbibed in me the values of empathy and fearlessness and hard work, looks down on me today with great pride.

~ Sharad Vivek Sagar

We haven’t even reached 0.00000001% of where we want to reach. There is so much more to do. We want to make sure that no child should ever be on the mercy of anyone else for his/her education.

~ Sharad Vivek Sagar

We cannot leave our children disconnected from opportunities that are designed specially for them.

~ Sharad Vivek Sagar

We cannot let the future of our children be decided by their zip codes and family incomes.

~ Sharad Vivek Sagar

We cannot let commercialization of education come in the way of democratization of education.

~ Sharad Vivek Sagar

Let's be grateful to all those who came in before us. Grateful to all those men and women, young and old alike, who paved the path forward for us, brick by brick. To those men and women who marched across the bridge in Selma on that great day, those men and women who rallied behind the Gandhis and the Mandelas every single time they were needed, to those men and women who stood up for voting rights and civil rights and gay rights and equality and justice and a free world, those men and women who invented the future by inventing things that fundamentally changed the world from the electricity to vaccinations, from airplanes to birth control pills, from the printing press to the internet.

~ Sharad Vivek Sagar

I sometimes wonder how powerful are those Fortune 500 CEOs who can can’t even change the way that list looks (leave aside how the world looks). And, I wonder what message do we send to our young girls, in classrooms across the world, who work as hard as our young boys but see only 20 CEOs out of those 500 who look like them.

~ Sharad Vivek Sagar

Our national emblem has four lions but unfortunately we have highlighted more lambs and wolfs than real lions of our country.

~ Sharad Vivek Sagar

I know there are days when we want to be liked by others a little more than we want to change the world. But, if we decided to speak up a little more and hesitate a little less, we will begin making ripples of change.

~ Sharad Vivek Sagar

The world will become only as great a place to live in as we make it. And, for that, the world needs us. It needs us to get invested. It needs us to be more grateful. It needs us to take things personally! And, I know together we can make it happen. I know wherever you’ll go; you’ll stand for change, for peace, for justice, for equality, for each other, and for a better tomorrow. You’ll put in your brick. I know. I know.

~ Sharad Vivek Sagar

Change takes time. But, it also takes people.

~ Sharad Vivek Sagar

I’d always heard people say and I’m sure you heard it too, “Change takes time.” But, my parents taught me the more important lesson, very silently but with even greater clarity, “Change takes time. But, it also takes people.” People who are willing to put in their everything. Change doesn’t happen by itself.

~ Sharad Vivek Sagar

Change needs us. Change needs people who are willing to invest themselves and their time and their energy and all that they can in making it happen. And, remember, if we don’t quit; if we choose to walk the more difficult path; if we refuse to give up, no matter how long the road or how steep the climb; we will make change happen.

~ Sharad Vivek Sagar

Be Practical. That's probably the most stupid piece of advice I've ever received in my life.

~ Sharad Vivek Sagar

Success for me hasn't been about individual success. It's about the success of all those young boys and girls who I have the honor of working with.

~ Sharad Vivek Sagar

Very often we sit back thinking good things will happen, knowing that good things take time and hoping that someone else will do it. The world needs us!

~ Sharad Vivek Sagar

I know I could’ve been on the other side of the line too. I refuse to accept injustice and inequality because I know it can be against any one of us, our brothers and sisters and friends and family. I know it’s personal. I know this is our only chance, our only planet, our only shot. And, I know this is my brick.

~ Sharad Vivek Sagar

We cannot afford to let the ideas of our young generation go untapped or unbacked.

~ Sharad Vivek Sagar

Ten years later, I will be able to say, I saw future happen. And, this is the most rewarding part of what I do.

~ Sharad Vivek Sagar

There is no greater peace than work and no greater happiness than progress.

~ Sharad Vivek Sagar

May the hopes of your heart and dreams of your eyes keep turning into realities. To all women out there: The more you progress, the more humanity progresses.

~ Sharad Vivek Sagar

Remember, there are people who care for us: there are some who grow food for us, some who cook for us, some who take our trash out, some who keep us safe, some who call us late at night when it’s been a tough day and some who are right by our side the next morning when we are sick, some who smile at us, some who hold the door for us, some who compliment us, who back us, who pray for us. And, they can be friends and family and mentors and relatives and sometimes, in fact, most of the times, even perfect strangers. Let’s be grateful to each one of them, let’s be grateful to all those around us.

~ Sharad Vivek Sagar

Close your eyes, imagine yourself in the world of your dreams, imagine everything you ever wanted, live that moment, get the feel of it. Once you've lived that moment in your mind fully, open your eyes and get started with work, work as hard as possible, do all that it takes to live that moment in real. Just do it, it's possible.

~ Sharad Vivek Sagar

There's magic in stories, magic in hope, and magic in coming together. I have learnt from people's stories, been inspired by their hope, and been strengthened by their coming together.

~ Sharad Vivek Sagar

Our parents are the coolest parents ever. No other generation went on from writing letters to their own parents to sending snapchats to their own kids.

~ Sharad Vivek Sagar

The world will become only as great a place to live in as we make it.

~ Sharad Vivek Sagar

Before you talk to the world, talk to yourself. And, before you listen to the world, listen to yourself.

~ Sharad Vivek Sagar

Consistency. Clarity. Courage. I like to stand for consistency, clarity and courage in my thoughts, words, and actions.

~ Sharad Vivek Sagar

You've to stand up for yourself. If you don't, no one else will.

~ Sharad Vivek Sagar

What's usual for us may not be the same for everyone. I'm inspired by lives and stories of all those amazing people who overcome extraordinary challenges each day to live what we see as an ordinary life.

~ Sharad Vivek Sagar

Intent matters. Integrity matters. Courage matters. If you have the three, nothing else matters

~ Sharad Vivek Sagar

To all the students - no school report card can tell you weather you can achieve your dream or not. Know your purpose, know your dream, know your vision, stay focused, do your job and do not listen to anyone including your report card. Don’t let the board results or rankings bother you. Do what you are passionate about, work harder, do better but don’t let your mark sheet tell you anything.

~ Sharad Vivek Sagar

I am not concerned about results. The only thing I am concerned about is the process. How you tried to achieve something matters more than what you achieved.

~ Sharad Vivek Sagar

Three Ps that I can't sacrifice: Process, Purpose, and Principles.

~ Sharad Vivek Sagar

To all young people out there: This is the time you should be fearless but not jobless. Identify the right job, find what excited you the most, find what you are the most passionate about.

~ Sharad Vivek Sagar

I refuse to believe in three things: cash, clock, and calendar. You should never be enslaved by these three.

~ Sharad Vivek Sagar

I wonder how can I ever work for an organization that pollutes the world and refuses to clean up and sometimes even own up. And, I wonder how on earth can I work for an organization where one of my fellow classmates wouldn’t get the same paycheck and the same perks and the same benefits as I would simply because she is a girl.

~ Sharad Vivek Sagar