Plant your Good Works

“Someone is enjoying shade today because someone planted a tree a long time ago.”

Warren Buffett (born 1930); American businessman, philanthropist

Finish it, whatever it is!

“To finish first, you must first finish. ”

Rick Mears (born 1951); American race car driver

Struggle for the future

“The struggle of today, is not altogether for today–it is for a vast future also”

Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865); 16th U.S. President

The Future Belongs to...

“The future does not belong to those who are content with today, apathetic toward common problems and their fellow man alike, timid and fearful in the face of bold projects and new ideas. Rather, it will belong to those who can blend passion, reason and courage in a personal commitment to [their] ideals.”

Robert F. Kennedy (1925-1968); 64th US Attorney General

Life gets Better through Change

“Your life does not get better by chance, it gets better by change.”

Jim Rohn (1930-2009); entrepreneur, author, motivational speaker

Get a Purpose

“Nothing contributes so much to tranquilize the mind as a steady purpose- a point on which the soul may fix its intellectual eye.”

Mary Shelley (1797-1851); English novelist

Those who get on

“The people who get on in this world are the people who get up and look for the circumstances they want, and, if they can’t find them, make them.”

George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950); playwright, Nobel Prize winner

Practice

“To practice any art, no matter how well or badly, is a way to make your soul grow. So do it. ”

Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. (1922-2007); Writer

Destiny

“The only person you are destined to become is the person you decide to be.”

Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882); Philosopher, Poet, Author, Essayist

Building the Future

“We cannot always build the future for our youth, but we can build our youth for the future.”

—Franklin D. Roosevelt (1882-1945); 32nd U.S. President

Replant Your Garden!

“We need to support each other. I look at this as replanting your garden so that future generations will have a full bounty of crops."

—Thomas Steyer (1957-) American asset manager, philanthropist and environmentalist

Saints and Sinners

“Every saint has a past and every sinner has a future.”

—Oscar Wilde (1854-1900) Irish Poet, Novelist, Dramatist and Critic

Make a Better Future

“We work day after day, not to finish things; but to make the future better… because we will spend the rest of our lives there.”

–Charles F. Kettering