Future Quotes - Page 39

• As people used to be wrong about the motion of the sun, so they are still wrong about the motion of the future. The future stands still, it is we who move in infinite space.

  Rainer Maria Rilke

  Moving, Space, People

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• When we build ... let it not be for present delights nor for present use alone. Let it be such work as our descendants will thank us for, and let us think ... that a time is to come when these stones will be held sacred because our hands have touched them, and that men will say as they look upon the labor, and the wrought substance of them, See! This our fathers did for us!

  John Ruskin

  Father, Men, Thinking

  John Ruskin (2013). “Selections and Essays”, p.188, Courier Corporation

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• Live only for today, and you ruin tomorrow.

  Charles Simmons

  Today, Ruins, Anticipation

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• If one listens to the faintest but constant suggestions of his genius, which are certainly true, he sees not to what extremes, or even insanity, it may lead him; and yet that way, as he grows more resolute and faithful, his road lies.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Depression, Lying, Insanity

  Henry David Thoreau (2012). “The Portable Thoreau”, p.272, Penguin

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• Be not discouraged. There is a future for you. . . . The resistance encountered now predicates hope. . .

  Frederick Douglass

  Hope, Resistance, Discouraged

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• Everywhere we turn, we see violence and hate and prejudice and anger and all of these negative emotions that are destroying humanity. And we have to wake up and take note of this and try to change our course, so that we can create a world of peace and harmony where future generations can live happily together.

  Arun Manilal Gandhi

  Peace, Hate, Humanity

  "Satyagraha 100 Years Later: Gandhi Launches Modern Non-Violent Resistance Movement on Sept. 11, 1906". "Democracy Now!" with Amy Goodman, www.democracynow.org. September 8, 2006.

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• If we want to reap the harvest of peace and justice in the future, we will have to sow seeds of nonviolence, here and now, in the present.

  Mairead Corrigan

  Inspirational, Peace, Justice

  Mairead Corrigan Maguire (2010). “The Vision of Peace: Faith and Hope in Northern Ireland”, p.19, Wipf and Stock Publishers

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• The world must learn to work together, or finally it will not work at all.

  Dwight D. Eisenhower

  Vision, Working Together, World

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• I see a world in the future in which we understand that all life is related to us and we treat that life with great humility and respect.

  David Suzuki

  Respect, Humility, Understanding

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• Once again a new world view is arising ... This idea is the culmination of all human history. It holds the promise of fulfilling the great aspirations of the past and heralds the advent of the next phase of our evolution. It is the idea of conscious evolution.

  Barbara Marx Hubbard

  Past, Views, Ideas

  Barbara Marx Hubbard (2015). “Conscious Evolution: Awakening the Power of Our Social Potential”, p.9, New World Library

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• I always try to see things with children's eyes. Are they happy? Sad? What do they need? Everywhere I went, I realized that children are society's victims ... We have a duty to speak to political leaders, to influence people to give these children a better future.

  Nana Mouskouri

  Children, Eye, People

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• When we protect the places where the processes of life can flourish, we strengthen not only the future of medicine, agriculture and industry, but also the essential conditions for peace and prosperity.

  Harrison Ford

  Strength, Medicine, Agriculture

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• Because I have confidence in the power of truth, and of the spirit, I have confidence in the future of mankind.

  Albert Schweitzer

  Truth, Spirit, Mankind

  Albert Schweitzer (2014). “Out of My Life and Thought: An Autobiography”, p.245, Henry Holt and Company

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• Many times the reading of a book has made the future of a man.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Wisdom, Time, Reading

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• The future is like heaven-everyone exalts it but no one wants to go there now.

  James A. Baldwin

  Time, Memories, Heaven

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• It is said that our anxiety does not empty tomorrow of its sorrows, but only empties today of its strength.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Motivational, Strength, Wisdom

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• The future you see is the future you get.

  Robert G. Allen

  Business, Law Of Attraction, Imagination

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• It is never safe to look into the future with eyes of fear.

  E. H. Harriman

  Confidence, Courage, Fear

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• Never make bad predictions, especially about the futture.

  Casey Stengel

  Predictions

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• Live in the present, forget the past. Give up hopes of future.

  Sivananda

  Giving Up, Yoga, Past

  Swami Sivananda (1964). “Bliss Divine: A Book of Spiritual Essays on the Lofty Purpose of Human Life and the Means to Its Achievement”

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• There are two days in the week about which and upon which I never worry... Yesterday and Tomorrow.

  Robert Jones Burdette

  Two, Yesterday, Worry

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• The mind that is anxious about future events is miserable.

  Seneca the Younger

  Inspirational, Fear, Motivation

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• The ability to think straight, some knowledge of the past, some vision of the future, some urge to fit that service into the well-being of the community - these are the most vital things that education must try to produce.

  Virginia Gildersleeve

  Education, Past, Thinking

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• Intellectual beauty is sufficient unto itself, and only for it rather than for the future good of humanity does the scholar condemn himself to arduous and painful labors.

  Santiago Ramon y Cajal

  Pain, Science, Humanity

  Santiago Ramón y Cajal (2004). “Advice for a Young Investigator”, p.51, MIT Press

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• In this society the young people from the cities and from the countryside, professionals or not, often unemployed, have all means to join and reinforce our efforts to raise the brave torch of Human Rights that illuminates the way in which the future of us all is decided.

  Martin Almada

  Mean, Rights, Cities

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