Our Future Quotes - Page 20

• No one remembers her beginnings. Mothers and aunts tell us about infancy and early childhood, hoping we won't forget the past when they had total control over our lives and secretly praying that because of it, we'll include them in our future.

  Rita Mae Brown

  Mother, Aunt, Past

  Rita Mae Brown (2014). “Rubyfruit Jungle”, p.3, Bantam

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• Oft the cloud that wraps the present hour serves but to brighten all our future days.

  William Browne

  Clouds, Affliction, Hours

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• I believe that children are our future. Unless we stop them now.

  Matt Groening

  Children, Believe, Future

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• The content of a book holds the power of education and it is with this power that we can shape our future and change lives.

  Malala Yousafzai

  Life Changing, Book, Shapes

  "'I'm a Brummie now', says Malala, the schoolgirl shot by the Taliban, as she opens huge new library in her adopted home city". Malala Yousafzai's address to her 'fellow Brummies' at the opening of the library of Birmingham, www.dailymail.co.uk. September 3, 2013.

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• We are each an army of one. March forward with your army, never let go of your future and never listen to idiots who tell you ‘no.’

  Johnny Weir

  Letting Go, Army, March

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• Your time is too valuable, your destiny is too great, and your future is too bright to waste a single moment. Be a now person.

  Joel Osteen

  Single Mom, Future, Destiny

  Twitter post from Jun 23, 2014

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• Don't worry about your future lives, past lives. Button up your shirt! Stand up straight! Go out and do something. Go out and have some fun. Be alive, change, dissolve, explode!

  Frederick Lenz

  Fun, Buddhism, Past

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• The present is our future past, we've gotta make this moment last

  Sabrina Carpenter

  Past, Lasts, Moments

  Song: Right Now, Album: Eyes Wide Open, 2015

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• Instead of talking yourself out of your future start talking yourself into it.

  Joel Osteen

  Talking, Your Future

  Twitter post from Dec 21, 2014

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• At this crucial crossroads of history, we join to call on the world to recognize that violence begets violence; that nuclear proliferation benefits no one; that we can, we will, and we must find other ways to protect ourselves, our nations and our future: for it is not sufficient to have peace in our time, but, instead, we must leave a peaceful world to our children.

  David Saperstein

  Religious, Children, Peaceful

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• The constant abrasion and decay of our lives makes the soil of our future growth.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Life, Growth, Decay

  Henry David Thoreau (2016). “A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers”, p.251, Xist Publishing

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• ... we've allowed a youth-centered culture to leave us so estranged from our future selves that, when asked about the years beyondfifty, sixty, or seventy--all part of the average human life span providing we can escape hunger, violence, and other epidemics--many people can see only a blank screen, or one on which they project fear of disease and democracy.

  Gloria Steinem

  Fear, Epidemics, Self

  Gloria Steinem (2017). “Passion, Politics, and Everyday Activism: Collected Essays: Moving Beyond Words; Outrageous Acts and Everyday Rebellions; and Revolution from Within”, p.407, Open Road Media

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• The older we become, the more certain our future.

  Mason Cooley

  Destiny, Aging, Certain

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• I would sell my life to avoid
  the pain that begins in the crib
  with its bars or perhaps
  with your first breath
  when the planets drill
  your future into you.

  Anne Sexton

  Life, Pain, Bars

  Anne Sexton (1976). “45 Mercy Street”, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (HMH)

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• It is never the duty of a leader to struggle for someone else;  a leader must encourage others to struggle and assure them that the struggles are worthwhile.  Do battle with the challenges of your present, and you will unlock the prizes of your future.

  Andy Andrews

  Motivational, Leadership, Struggle

  Andy Andrews (2009). “Traveler's Gift; Mastering the Seven Decisions”, p.40, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• Children in home-school conflict situations often receive a double message from their parents: "The school is the hope for your future, listen, be good and learn" and "the school is your enemy. . . ." Children who receive the "school is the enemy" message often go after the enemy--act up, undermine the teacher, undermine the school program, or otherwise exercise their veto power.

  James P. Comer

  Teacher, Children, Home

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• Moving forward is not based upon your past; your future is exclusively determined by the decisions you make now, in this moment.

  Mike Michalowicz

  Motivational, Success, Moving

  Mike Michalowicz (2008). “The Toilet Paper Entrepreneur: The Tell-it-like-it-is Guide to Cleaning Up in Business, Even If You are at the End of Your Roll”, p.126, Toilet Paper Entrepreneur

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• Don't worry about people from your past there's a reason why they didn't make it to your future.

  Adam Lindsay Gordon

  Past, People, Worry

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• [Alternative energy] will make us less dependent on foreign oil. It would make us more secure in our future. It would mean that our foreign policy could be a reflection of our values and our other interests, and not just that.

  William J. Clinton

  Mean, Reflection, Oil

  Source: www.foxnews.com

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• America should be cooling down the tensions in the internet, making it a more trusted environment, making it a more secure environment, making it a more reliable environment, because that's the foundation of our economy and our future.

  Edward Snowden

  America, Foundation, Internet

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• We don't always know the details of our future. We do not know what lies ahead. We live in a time of uncertainty. We are surrounded by challenges on all sides. Occasionally discouragement may sneak in to our day; frustration may invite itself into our thinking; doubt might enter about the value of our work. In these dark moments Satan whispers in our ears that we will never be able to succeed, that the price isn't work the effort, and that our small part will never make a difference. He, the father of all lies, will try to prevent us from seeing the end from the beginning.

  Dieter F. Uchtdorf

  Lying, Father, Dark

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• Your past experiences will flavour your future ones, that is human nature.

  Deborah

  Past, Human Nature, Your Future

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• There is no law of progress. Our future is in our own hands, to make or to mar. It will be an uphill fight to the end, and would we have it otherwise? Let no one suppose that evolution will ever exempt us from struggles. 'You forget,' said the Devil, with a chuckle, 'that I have been evolving too.

  William Ralph Inge

  Struggle, Fighting, Hands

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• With your votes you are working for your future. It is not a holiday; it is the most serious day of work since you were born. Better to come in clothing dirty from work than with your soul filthy from having sold your right to justice.

  Luis Munoz Marin

  Dirty, Holiday, Justice

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• Most people are just trying to get through the day. Be committed to learn to get from the day. Don't just get through it; get from it. Learn from it. Let the day teach you. Join the university of life. What a difference that will make in your future. Commit yourself to learning. Commit yourself to absorbing. Be like a sponge. Get it. Don't miss it.

  Jim Rohn

  Learning, Differences, People

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