Echoes

Source

Alan Turing

1951

“We can only see a short distance ahead, but we can see plenty there that needs to be done.”

Theodore Roosevelt

·1913·Sagamore Hill

Do what you can, with what you have, where you are.

William Osler

·1910

The best preparation for tomorrow is to do today's work superbly well.

Kahlil Gibran

·1925

Progress lies not in enhancing what is, but in advancing toward what will be.

Søren Kierkegaard

·1844

Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.

Seneca

·49 AD·Corsica

The whole future lies in uncertainty: live immediately.

Thomas Carlyle

·1836·London, England

Do the duty which lies nearest thee, which thou knowest to be a duty! Thy second duty will already have become clearer.

Lao Tzu

·500 BC·Luoyang

A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step.

Horace

·23 BC

Even as we speak, envious time is running away from us. Seize the day, trusting as little as possible in tomorrow.

Erskine Childers

·1922·Dublin, Ireland

Take a step forward, lads. It will be easier that way.

Confucius

·5th century BC·Qufu, China

If a man take no thought about what is distant, he will find sorrow near at hand.

Socrates

·400 BC·Athens

The secret of change is to focus all of your energy not on fighting the old, but on building the new.

Seneca

·65 AD

It is indeed foolish to be unhappy now because you may be unhappy at some future time.

Confucius

·492 BC·State of Song

The man who moves a mountain begins by carrying away small stones.

Seneca

·55 AD·Rome

True happiness is to enjoy the present, without anxious dependence upon the future.

Seneca

·63 AD·Rome

It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare; it is because we do not dare that things are difficult.

Samuel Johnson

·1749

To-morrow's action! Can that hoary wisdom, Borne down with years, still doat upon tomorrow! That fatal mistress of the young, the lazy, The coward, and the fool, condemn'd to lose A useless life in waiting for to-morrow, To gaze with longing eyes upon to-morrow, Till interposing death destroys the prospect Strange! that this general fraud from day to day Should fill the world with wretches undetected. The soldier, labouring through a winter's march, Still sees to-morrow drest in robes of triumph; Still to the lover's long-expecting arms To-morrow brings the visionary bride. But thou, too old to hear another cheat, Learn, that the present hour alone is man's.

Abraham Lincoln

·1858·Freeport

I am a slow walker, but I never walk back.

Theodore Roosevelt

·1904

We face the future with our past and our present as guarantors of our promises; and we are content to stand or to fall by the record which we have made and are making.

Theodore Roosevelt

·1899

We have a given problem to solve. If we undertake the solution, there is, of course, always danger that we may not solve it aright; but to refuse to undertake the solution simply renders it certain that we cannot possibly solve it aright.