Quotes, Quotations and Sayings

Each day is a special gift from God, and while life may not always be fair, you must never allow the pains, hurdles, and handicaps of the moment to poison your attitude and plans for yourself and your future. You can never win when you wear the ugly cloak of self-pity, and the sour sound of whining will certainly frighten away any opportunity for success. Never again. There is a better way.

You've never seen anyone write a letter to future generations on a Kleenex before?" --Ellie, after writing something on a Kleenex due to lack of paper.

If a man is considered guilty for what goes on in his mind, give me the electric chair for all my future crimes.

If you go flying back through time, and you see somebody else flying forward into the future, it's probably best to avoid eye contact.

I never think of the future. It comes soon enough.

To make no mistakes is not in the power of man; but from their errors and mistakes the wise and good learn wisdom for the future.

For the ordinary man is passive. Within a narrow circle (home life, and perhaps the trade unions or local politics) he feels himself master of his fate, but against major events he is as helpless as against the elements. So far from endeavoring to influence the future, he simply lies down and lets things happen to him.

The most remarkable aspect of the transition we are living through is not so much the passage from want to affluence as the passage from labor to leisure. Leisure contains the future, it is the new horizon. The prospect then is one of unremitting labor to bequeath to future generations a chance of founding a society of leisure that will overcome the demands and compulsions of productive labor so that time may be devoted to creative activities or simply to pleasure and happiness.

He who asks fortune-tellers the future unwittingly forfeits an inner intimation of coming events that is a thousand times more exact than anything they may say. He is impelled by inertia, rather than curiosity, and nothing is more unlike the submissive apathy with which he hears his fate revealed than the alert dexterity with which the man of courage lays hands on the future.

Change is the law of life. And those who look only to the past or present are certain to miss the future.

Our task is not to fix the blame for the past, but to fix the course for the future.

It is by no means an irrational fancy that, in a future existence, we shall look upon what we think our present existence, as a dream.

The future depends on what we do in the present.

The best prophet of the future is the past.

The future lies ahead.

A mother's love is the treasury of our childhood; the star tha guides our future; the gift of life itself.

The girl with a future avoids a man with a past.

There's no future in time travel

Look to the past for guidance into the future.

The empires of the futures are the empires of the mind.

Study the past if you would divine the future.

The future isn't what it used to be. (It never was.)

To break a promise is to deny the reality of the past Therefore it is to deny the hope of a real future....

Lying makes a problem part of the future; truth makes a problem part of the past.

I desire no future that will break the ties with the past.

Future looks spotty. You will spill soup in late evening.

If we open a quarrel between the past and the present, we shall find we have lost the future.

Your fortune stateth: You are capable of planning your future.

Your fortune stateth: An exotic journey in downtown Newark is in your future.

The rest, called literature, is a dossier of human imbecility for the guidance of future professors.

With the past, I have nothing to do; nor with the future. I live now.

To apologize is to lay the foundation for a future offense.

A dream is your creative vision for your life in the future. You must break out of your current comfort zone and become comfortable with the unfamiliar and the unknown.

With our eyes fixed on the future, but recognizing the realities of today. ... we will achieve our destiny to be as a shining city on a hill for all mankind to see.

Children see in their parents the past, their parents see in them the future; and if we find more love in the parents for their children than in children for their parents, this is sad but natural. Who does not entertain his hopes more than his recollections.

Forgiveness does not change the past, but it does enlarge the future.

Die-hard conservatives thought that if I couldn't get everything I asked for, I should jump off the cliff with the flag flying-go down in flames. No, if I can get 70 or 80 percent of what it is I'm trying to get ... I'll take that and then continue to try to get the rest in the future.

By concentrating on what is good in people, by appealing to their idealism and their sense of justice, and by asking them to put their faith in the future, socialists put themselves at a severe disadvantage.

Right actions in the future are the best apologies for bad actions in the past.

A youth is to be regarded with respect. How do you know that his future will not be equal to our present?

Your fortune stateth: Future looks spotty. You will spill soup in late evening.

The essence of optimism is that it takes no account of the present, but it is a source of inspiration, of vitality and hope where others have resigned it enables a man to hold his head high, to claim the future for himself and not to abandon it to his enemy.

The road of life can only reveal itself as it is traveled; each turn in the road reveals a surprise. Man's future is hidden.

I've come to believe that we only change when the future we envision makes us inspired. It's when we find a compelling image of the future that we want at a deep level, that the pain and inefficiency of change becomes irrelevant and we find a way to make the future happen despite obstacles.

All sciences are now under the obligation to prepare the ground for the future task of the philosopher, which is to solve the problem of value, to determine the true hierarchy of values.

Your successful past will block your visions of the future.

Boys are found everywhere-on top of, underneath, inside of, climbing on, swinging from, running around or jumping to. Mothers love them, little girls hate them, older sisters and brothers tolerate them, adults ignore them and Heaven protects them. A boy is Truth with dirt on its face, Beauty with a cut on its finger, Wisdom with bubble gum in its hair and the Hope of the future with a frog in its pocket.

The distinction between the past, present and future is only a stubbornly persistent illusion.

While day by day the overzealous student stores up facts for future use, He who has learned to trust nature finds need for ever fewer external directions. He will discard formula after formula, until he reaches the conclusion Let nature take its course. By letting each thing act in accordance with its own nature, everything that needs to be done gets done.

A guidance counselor who has made a fetish of security, or who has unwittingly surrendered his thinking to economic determinism, may steer a youth away from his dream of becoming a poet, an artist, a musician or any other of thousands of things, because it offers no security, it does not pay well, there are no vacancies, it has no future.