My Future Quotes - Page 2

• To be hopeful in bad times is not just foolishly romantic. It is based on the fact that human history is a history not only of cruelty but also of compassion, sacrifice, courage, kindness.

  Howard Zinn

  Kindness, Future, Sacrifice

  Howard Zinn (2010). “You Can't Be Neutral on a Moving Train: A Personal History of Our Times”, p.208, Beacon Press

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• You have to trust in something--your gut, destiny, life, karma, whatever.

  Steve Jobs

  Success, Trust, Karma

  Commencement Address at Stanford University, delivered 12 June 2005, Palo Alto, CA

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• Be the trouble you want to see in the world.

  Joey Comeau

  Inspirational, Motivational, Change

  "A Softer World". Webcomic by Joey Comeau,

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• Education, therefore, is a process of living and not a preparation for future living.

  John Dewey

  Education, Future, Learning

  John Dewey (1972). “The Early Works, 1882-1898: 1895-1898. Early essays”, p.87, SIU Press

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• What we choose to emphasize in this complex history will determine our lives. If we see only the worst, it destroys our capacity to do something. If we remember those times and places--and there are so many--where people have behaved magnificently, this gives us the energy to act, and at least the possibility of sending this spinning top of a world in a different direction.

  Howard Zinn

  Future, People, Giving

  Howard Zinn (2006). “A Power Governments Cannot Suppress”, p.270, City Lights Publishers

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• The harder I work the more I live.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Work, Good Luck, True Joy

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• The empires of the future are the empires of the mind.

  Winston Churchill

  Inspirational, Life, Inspiring

  Speech at Harvard University, Cambridge, Mass., 6 Sept. 1943

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• Tomorrow is a new day. You shall begin it well and serenely

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Forgiveness, Problems Love, New Day

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• Our most basic common link is that we all inhabit this small planet.

  John F. Kennedy

  Future, Diversity, Brotherhood

  Commencement Address at American University, Washington, D.C., 10 June 1963

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• You can never plan the future by the past.

  Edmund Burke

  Time, Smart, Inspiration

  'Letter to a Member of the National Assembly' (1791) p. 73

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• I'm sure that in 1985, plutonium is available in every corner drugstore, but in 1955, it's a little hard to come by.

  Doc Brown

  Littles, Plutonium, Marty

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• The only thing we know about the future is that it will be different.

  Peter Drucker

  Change, Wise, Future

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• You can't connect the dots looking forward; you can only connect them looking backwards.

  Steve Jobs

  Change, Success, Trust

  Commencement Address at Stanford University, delivered 12 June 2005, Palo Alto, CA

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• Be the change you want to see in your networks

  James H. Fowler

  Inspirational, Motivational, Change

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• If you don't change direction, you end up where you are headed.

  John Gibbons

  Change, Life Changing, Darkness Within

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• The future belongs to those who prepare for it.

  Jim Moran

  Positive, Future, Swimming

  Jim Moran (1996). “Jim Moran, the Courtesy Man: Inside the Heart of One of the Most Successful Marketers in the Automobile Industry”

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• We did not come to fear the future. We came here to shape it.

  Barack Obama

  Future, Presidential, Shapes

  Speech to a Joint Session of Congress on Health Care Reform, delivered 9 September 2009

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• Learn from yesterday, live for today.

  Albert Einstein

  Life, New Year, Hope

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• Build what you want to see in the world.

  Jack Dorsey

  Inspirational, Motivational, Change

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• Whoever undertakes to set himself up as a judge of Truth and Knowledge is shipwrecked by the laughter of the gods.

  Albert Einstein

  Love, Inspirational, Funny

  Albert Einstein (2010). “The Ultimate Quotable Einstein”, p.188, Princeton University Press

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• Whatever you can do, or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power and magic in it.

  W. H. Murray

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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• For I dipped into the future, far as human eye could see, Saw the Vision of the world, and all the wonder that would be.

  Alfred Lord Tennyson

  Graduation, Future, Eye

  "Locksley Hall" l. 119 (1842)

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• Curiosity has its own reason for existence.

  Albert Einstein

  Learning, Science, Awe And Wonder

  Albert Einstein (2010). “The Ultimate Quotable Einstein”, p.425, Princeton University Press

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• Be the change you want to see.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Inspirational, Motivational, Change

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• Be the compromise you want to see in the world.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Inspirational, Motivational, Change

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