25 result(s) for Our Generation Quotes.
"The children now love luxury; they have bad manners, contempt for authority; they show disrespect for elders and love chatter in place of exercise. Children are now tyrants, not the servants of their households. They no longer rise when elders enter the room. They contradict their parents, chatter before company, gobble up dainties at the table, cross their legs, and tyrannize their teachers."
"I am irritated by my own writing. I am like a violinist whose ear is true, who detests every note he plays."
"Believe me, my young friend, there is nothing – absolutely nothing – half so much worth doing as simply messing about in boats."
"Future generations are not going to ask us what political party were you in? They are going to ask what did you do about it, when you knew the glaciers were melting."
"It is the supreme art of the teacher to awaken joy in creative expression and knowledge."
"To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment."
"The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams."
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"The best way to predict the future is to create it."
"We are too busy dancing on quicksand to even recognize quicksand."
"The youth of today are the leaders of tomorrow."
"The world changes according to the way people see it, and if you alter, even but a millimeter, the way a person looks at reality, then you can change the world."
"Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world; indeed, it's the only thing that ever has."
"Study while others are sleeping; work while others are loafing; prepare while others are playing; and dream while others are wishing."
"Change will not come if we wait for some other person or some other time. We are the ones we've been waiting for. We are the change that we seek."
"The most common way people give up their power is by thinking they don't have any."
"What is a weed? A plant whose virtues have not yet been discovered."
"The important thing is this: To be able at any moment to sacrifice what we are for what we could become."
"We do not inherit the earth from our ancestors; we borrow it from our children."
"It is easier to build strong children than to repair broken men."
"We must teach our children to dream with their eyes open."
"The greatest discovery of all time is that a person can change his future by merely changing his attitude."
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"Don't let yesterday take up too much of today."
"The only way to do great work is to love what you do."
"You must be the change you wish to see in the world."
"Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter."
