Our Future Quotes - Page 21

• Forgiveness is not something you do for someone else, but to free YOURSELF from the continuation of pain and anger. It is a gift to your peace of mind, your self esteem, your relationships with others, your future.

  Kenneth Cloke

  Pain, Self Esteem, Life Changing

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• Books are a better investment in our future than bullets. Books, not bullets, will pave the path towards peace and prosperity.

  Malala Yousafzai

  Book, Bullets, Path

  Malala Yousafzai’s speech at the Education Summit in Oslo, Norway, blog.malala.org. July 9, 2015.

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• Our future is in our hands. Our lives are what we choose to make them.

  Winston Churchill

  Hands, Our Lives

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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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• My top priority in any trade negotiation is expanding opportunity for hardworking Americans. It's no secret that past trade deals haven't always lived up to their promise, and that's why I will only sign my name to an agreement that helps ordinary Americans get ahead, the bill put forward today would help us write those rules in a way that avoids the mistakes from our past, seizes opportunities for our future and stays true to our values.

  Barack Obama

  Mistake, Writing, Past

  "Lawmakers clear path for Obama's historic trade deal" by Eric Bradner, www.cnn.com. April 30, 2015.

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• If we are to give our utmost effort and skill and enthusiasm, we must believe in ourselves, which means believing in our past and in our future, in our parents and in our children, in that particular blend of moral purpose and practical inventiveness which is the American character.

  Margaret Mead

  Children, Believe, Character

  "And Keep Your Powder Dry: An Anthropologist Looks at America". Book by Margaret Mead, 1942.

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• Our future may lie beyond our vision, but it is not completely beyond our control. It is the shaping impulse of America that neither fate nor nature nor the irresistible tides of history, but the work of our own hands, matched to reason and principle, that will determine our destiny. There is pride in that, even arrogance, but there is also experience and truth. In any event, it is the only way we can live.

  Robert Kennedy

  Nature, Lying, Fate

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• Your past doesn't define you. Only your present and your future. If your life is screwed up, stop making excuses. What are you going to do about it today?

  Ingrid Weir

  Life, Past, Today

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• Whatever you possess today is enough to create anything else you will ever want in your future.

  Mike Murdock

  Want, Today, Enough

  Mike Murdock (2012). “1 Minute Businesswoman's Devotional”, p.99, Wisdom International Inc

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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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• Our future rates of gain will fall far short of those achieved in the past. Berkshire's capital base is now simply too large to allow us to earn truly outsized returns. If you believe otherwise, you should consider a career in sales but avoid one in mathematics.

  Warren Buffett

  Believe, Fall, Past

  Berkshire Hathaway Inc. Chairman's Letter, 1998.

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• It is essential to collectively struggle to recover our status as Daughters of the Earth. In that is our strength, and the security, not in the predator, but in the security of our Mother, for our future generations. In that we can insure our security as the Mothers of our Nations.

  Winona LaDuke

  Daughter, Mother, Women

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• If we can avoid disaster for the next two centuries, our species should be safe as we spread into space. If we are the only intellegent beings in the galaxy we should make sure we survive and continue. . . . Our only chance of long-term survival is not to remain inward looking on planet Earth but to spread out into space. We have made remarkable progress in the last hundred years. But if we want to continue beyond the next hundred years, our future is in space.

  Stephen Hawking

  Moon, Years, Two

  "Abandon Earth or Face Extinction, Stephen Hawking Warns -- Again", www.foxnews.com. August 9, 2010.

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• Now let us thank th' eternal power, convinced That Heaven but tries our virtue by affliction: That oft the cloud that wraps the present hour Serves but to brighten all our future days.

  John Brown

  Clouds, Heaven, Trying

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• We are a part of everything that is beneath us, above us, and around us. Our past is our present, our present is our future, and our future is seven generations past and present.

  Winona LaDuke

  Past, Environmental, Generations

  Winona LaDuke (1999). “All Our Relations: Native Struggles for Land and Life”, p.12, South End Press

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• Our future is only limited by our commitment to keep the momentum going. Now that television has been set free from all constraints - including time, place, and all previous definitions - what comes next?

  Anne Sweeney

  Commitment, Momentum, Television

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• I want to encourage you by letting you know that there's hope for you and your situation whatever you are dealing with. God is intimately involved with every detail of your future and His desire is for you to be an overcomer.

  Sue Augustine

  Desire, Details, Want

  Sue Augustine (2005). “When Your Past Is Hurting Your Present: Getting Beyond Fears That Hold You Back”, p.33, Harvest House Publishers

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• All of us have to ensure that our future generations lead a life of peace, dignity and mutual respect. We need to sow the seeds of a conflict-free world, and in this endeavour, Buddhism and Hinduism have a great contribution.

  Narendra Modi

  Buddhism, Empowerment, India

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• The idea of losing someone that you love could throw you into a situation where you could not see your future and you really would be living in the past.

  Tom Ford

  Past, Ideas, Losing Someone

  "Director Tom Ford Interview A SINGLE MAN". Interview with Steve "Frosty" Weintraub, collider.com. December 7, 2009.

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• Music, art, writing - it gives us a sense of who we are, a sense of our history, a sense of our future and it should provide some kind of comfort. It's not just entertainment for entertainment's sake, it's an investment.

  Sheryl Crow

  Art, Writing, Giving

  "The Billboard Q&A: Sheryl Crow". Interview with Ken Tucker, www.billboard.com. January 23, 2008.

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• You can live in heaven right now. Heaven or hell is here and now; you don't need to wait to die. If you take responsibility for your own life, for your own actions, then your future is in your hands, and you can live in heaven while your body is alive.

  Miguel Angel Ruiz

  Responsibility, Hands, Waiting

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• We shape ourselves the joy or fear
  Of which the coming life is made,
  And fill our Future's atmosphere
  With sunshine or with shade.

  John Greenleaf Whittier

  Sunshine, Joy, Atmosphere

  John Greenleaf Whittier (1873). “The Complete Poetical Works of John Greenleaf Whittier”, p.131

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• It used to be said that you had to know what was happening in America because it gave us a glimpse of our future. Today, the rest of America, and after that Europe, had better heed what happens in California, for it already reveals the type of civilisation that is in store for all of us.

  Alistair Cooke

  Europe, California, America

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