Future Quotes - Page 28

• Indemnity for the past and security for the future.

  Bertrand Russell

  Past, Security

  "Memoir of Fox". Book by Siegfried Sassoon, vol. iii, 1928.

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• Try to find the real tense of the report you are reading: Was it done, is it being done, or is something to be done? Reports are now written in four tenses: past tense, present tense, future tense, and pretense. Watch for novel uses of CONGRAM (CONtractor GRAMmer), defined by the past imperfect, the present insufficient, and the future absolutely perfect.

  Amrom Harry Katz

  Real, Reading, Past

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• The only use of a knowledge of the past is to equip us for the present. The present contains all that there is. It is holy ground; for it is the past, and it is the future.

  Alfred North Whitehead

  Wisdom, Past, Holy Ground

  Alfred North Whitehead (1967). “Aims of Education”, p.3, Simon and Schuster

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• Lying makes a problem part of the future; truth makes a problem part of the past.

  Rick Pitino

  Inspirational, Lying, Past

  Rick Pitino (2001). “Lead to Succeed: 10 Traits of Great Leadership in Business and Life”, p.88, Crown Business

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• Take it that you have died today, and your life's story is ended; and henceforward regard what future time may be given you as uncovenanted surplus, and live it out in harmony with nature.

  Marcus Aurelius

  Life, Stories, May

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• There is little peace or comfort in life if we are always anxious as to future events. He that worries himself with the dread of possible contingencies will never be at rest.

  Samuel Johnson

  Life, Peace, Worry

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• Pessimism is a very easy way out because it is a short view of life. If you look at what is happening around us today, you can't help but feel that life is a terrible complexity of problems. But if you look back a few thousand years, you realize that we have advanced fantastically. If you take a long view, I do not see how you can be pessimistic about the future of mankind.

  Robertson Davies

  Life, Views, Years

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• I bear witness that the Savior lives. He loves you. He will guide you through the Holy Ghost as you steadfastly choose to do what is right to a future glorious beyond your dreams. I know He will.

  Richard G. Scott

  Life, Dream, Love You

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• Deem not life a thing of consequence. For look at the yawning void of the future, and at that other limitless space, the past.

  Marcus Aurelius

  Life, Past, Yawning

  "Meditations". Book by Marcus Aurelius. Book IV, 50,

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• Of all created things the source is one, Simple, single as love; remember The cell and seed of life, the sphere That is, of child, white bird, and small blue dragon-fly Green fern, and the gold four-petalled tormentilla The ultimate memory. Each latent cell puts out a future, Unfolds its differing complexity As a tree puts forth leaves, and spins a fate Fern-traced, bird feathered, or fish-scaled.

  Kathleen Raine

  Life, Memories, Children

  Kathleen Raine (1989). “Selected Poems”, p.55, SteinerBooks

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• There is not any present moment that is unconnected with some future one. The life of every man is a continued chain of incidents, each link of which hangs upon the former.

  Joseph Addison

  Life, Men, Links

  Joseph Addison (1793). “A Collection of Interesting Anecdotes, Memoirs, Allegories, Essays, and Poetical Fragments”, p.336

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• To provide for the future is a part of one's responsibility in life; and the world has scant consideration for the man who neglects it.

  Henry Latham Doherty

  Life, Responsibility, Men

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• What I am thinking and doing day by day is resistlessly shaping my future, — a future in which there is no expiation except through my own better conduct. No one can save me. No one can live my life for me. It is mine for better or for worse. If I am wise, I shall begin to-day by the simplest and most natural of all processes to build my own truer and better world from within.

  Horatio Dresser

  Life, Wise, Thinking

  "The Power of Silence: An Interpretation of Life in Its Relation to Health and Happiness".

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• I feel that you are justified in looking into the future with true assurance, because you have a mode of living in which we find the joy of life and the joy of work harmoniously combined. Added to this is the spirit of ambition which pervades your very being, and seems to make the day's work like a happy child at play.

  Albert Einstein

  Life, Children, Ambition

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• It has been well said that no man ever sank under the burden of the day. It is, when tomorrow's burden is added to the burden of today, that the weight is more than a man can bear. Never load yourselves so, my friends. If you find yourselves so loaded, at least remember this: it is your own doing, not God's. He begs you to leave the future to Him, and mind the present.

  George MacDonald

  Men, Mind, Weight

  George Macdonald (2015). “Annals Of A Quiet Neighbourhood”, p.142, George Macdonald

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• Winners live each day as if their last. Not in the future, nor in the past, and someday . . . becomes now!

  Denis Waitley

  Past, Each Day, Lasts

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• PAST, n. That part of Eternity with some small fraction of which we have a slight and regrettable acquaintance... The Past is the Future of yesterday, the Future is the Past of to-morrow. They are one - the knowledge and the dream.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Dream, Past, Yesterday

  "The Devil's Dictionary". Book by Ambrose Bierce, 1911.

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• My house says to me, "do not leave me, for here dwells your past." And the road says to me, "Come and follow me, for I am your future." And I say to both my house and the road, "I have no past, nor have I a future. If I stay here, there is a going in my staying; and if I go there is a staying in my going. Only love and death change all things."

  Khalil Gibran

  Love, Past, House

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• Some philosophers see into themselves, and some into their times; still others forge an alliance with the future.

  David Berlinski

  Time, Alliances, Philosopher

  David Berlinski (2000). “The Advent of the Algorithm: The Idea that Rules the World”, Houghton Mifflin

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• I can not 'make my mark' for all time - those concepts are mutually exclusive. 'Lasting effect' is a self-contradictory term. Meaning does not exist in the future and neither do I. Nothing will have meaning 'ultimately.' Nothing will even mean tomorrow what it did today. Meaning changes with the context. My meaningfulness is here. It is enough that I am of value to someone today. It is enough that I make a difference now.

  Hugh Prather

  Time, Mean, Self

  Hugh Prather (2009). “Notes to Myself: My Struggle to Become a Person”, p.24, Bantam

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• It is a paradox that in our time of drastic rapid change, when the future is in our midst devouring the present before our eyes, we have never been less certain about what is ahead of us.

  Eric Hoffer

  Change, Time, Eye

  Eric Hoffer (1982). “Between the Devil and the Dragon: The Best Essays and Aphorisms of Eric Hoffer”, HarperCollins Publishers

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• CLOCK, n. A machine of great moral value to man, allaying his concern for the future by reminding him what a lot of time remains to him.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Time, Men, Machines

  Ambrose Bierce (2016). “The Devil's Dictionary: The Devil World”, p.31, 谷月社

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• It is easy to act as a Saturday morning quarterback and replay the game lost the night before. All of us seem to have better hindsight (the ability to see after the event what should have been done) than foresight

  Carlos E. Asay

  Morning, Night, Should Have

  Carlos E. Asay (1994). “The road to somewhere: a guide for young men and women”, Bookcraft Pubs

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• The age of selfishness and greed is over. The age of kindness and generosity is underway.

  Laurence Overmire

  Kindness, Generosity, Greed

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• Future's the only flower worth tending in this earth, where I sow my words daily: and you know, these good trees bear fruit round the year, discreetly, moving along the waterways and four seasons of the faithful sun.

  Alamgir Hashmi

  Flower, Moving, Years

  Alamgir Hashmi (1992). “Sun and moon, and other poems”

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