Our Future Quotes - Page 27

• Armed with the knowledge of our past, we can with confidence charter a course for our future. Culture is an indispensable weapon in the freedom struggle. We must take hold of it and forge the future with the past.

  Malcolm X

  Struggle, Past, Culture

  Malcolm X (1992). “By any means necessary”, Pathfinder Pr

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• Karma is not fate, for man acts with free will, creating his own destiny. The Vedas tell us, if we sow goodness, we will reap goodness; if we sow evil, we will reap evil. Karma refers to the totality of our actions and their concomitant reactions in this and previous lives, all of which determines our future.

  Sivaya Subramuniyaswami

  Karma, Fate, Destiny

  Satguru Sivaya Subramuniyaswami (2003). “Dancing with Siva: Hinduism's Contemporary Catechism”, p.38, Himalayan Academy Publications

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• The past is only so heroic as we see it. It is the canvas on which our idea of heroism is painted, and so, in one sense, the dim prospectus of our future field.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Future, Past, Ideas

  Henry David Thoreau (2013). “The Essential Thoreau”, p.655, Simon and Schuster

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• Believers have a genuine, unfailing hope of a future reunion with loved ones. We can find joy in anticipating our future reunion.

  Paul P. Enns

  Joy, Loved Ones, Reunion

  "Heaven Revealed: What Is It Like? What Will We Do?". Book by Paul P. Enns, 2011.

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• Crime is a social problem, and education is the only real deterrent. Look at all of us in prison; we were all truants and dropouts, a failure of the educational system. Look at your truancy problem, and you're looking at your future prisoners. Put the money there.

  Wilbert Rideau

  Teacher, Real, Educational

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• Would you exalt your profession, exalt those who labor with you...increase the salaries of the women engaged in the noble work of educating our future presidents, senators and congressmen.

  Susan B. Anthony

  President, Salary, Noble

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• 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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• 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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• We know that when we protect our oceans we're protecting our future.

  William J. Clinton

  Ocean, Sea, Environment

  Clinton, William J. (2000). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: William J. Clinton, 2000-2001”, p.1573, Best Books on

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• Once a new social stage appears in a culture, it will spread its instructional codes and life-priority messages throughout that culture's surface-level expressions: religion, economic and political arrangements, psychological and anthro-pological theories, and views of human nature, our future destiny, globalization, and even architectural patterns and sports preferences. We all live in flow states; there is always new wine, always old wineskins. We, indeed, find ourselves pursuing a neverending quest.

  Don Edward Beck

  Sports, Wine, Destiny

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• You can't run from feelings, Charity. You have to face them. Otherwise your future will look just like your past.

  Elizabeth Jane Howard

  Running, Past, Feelings

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• You are not bound. You have got free will. You cannot change the experiences, the results of Prarabdha but you can change your future by right thinking and right action and thus make your will pure and irresistible. You can attain Self-realisatio n with the help of a dynamic will.

  Sivananda

  Thinking, Self, Helping

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• A nation can be no stronger abroad than she is at home. Only an America which practices what it preaches about equal rights and social justice will be respected by those whose choice affects our future.

  John F. Kennedy

  Home, Rights, Practice

  Undelivered Speech to the Dallas Citizens Council, delivered 22 November 1963, Trade Mart, Dallas, Texas

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• It is possible to reclaim your future, to build a happy life despite an imperfect past. We can order the universe to our will and mind.

  Katherine Marsh

  Happy Life, Past, Order

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• From your past emerges the present, and from the present is born your future.

  Muhammad Iqbal

  Time, Past, Born

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• Because we are intelligent creatures-meaning that we are freed from instinctive and patterned behavior to a degree unparalleled in the animal kingdom-we are capable of, and dependent on, using rational choice to decide our futures.

  Willard Gaylin

  Animal, Intelligent, Choices

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• No one likes to be criticized, of course, but if the things we successfully strive for do not make our future selves happy, or if the things we unsuccessfully avoid do, then it seems reasonable (if somewhat ungracious) for them to cast a disparaging glance backward and wonder what the hell we were thinking.

  Daniel Gilbert

  Thinking, Self, Likes

  Daniel Gilbert (2006). “Stumbling on Happiness”, p.14, Vintage

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• Of course I am political. You 'ave to be don't you? Every day it is about your future, your right to that future. 'Ow can people ignore this? We 'ave to leave a good world for our children, n'est-ce pas?

  Emmanuelle Beart

  Children, People, Political

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• We are mortgaging our future.

  Joan Blades

  "MoveOn as an Instrument of the People". Interview with Terrence McNally, www.alternet.org. June 24, 2004.

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• One of India's biggest advantages is our young demographic and that we have a youthful population that is indeed our future.

  Vijay Mallya

  India, Population, Advantage

  "Unfortunate that I am being held responsible for Kingfisher Airlines' difficulties: Vijay Mallya". ET Now interview, economictimes.indiatimes.com. January 10, 2013.

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