Joel Osteen Quotes

The fruits of your labors may be reaped two generations from now. Trust, even when you don't see the results.

The diligent farmer plants trees, of which he himself will never see the fruit.

Think of the long view of life, not just what's going to happen today or tomorrow. Don't give up what you most want in life for something you think you want now.

Sometimes leadership is planting trees under whose shade you'll never sit. It may not happen fully till after I'm gone. But I know that the steps we're taking are the right steps.

If you sacrifice early, you'll win late.

Those who live to the future must always appear selfish to those who live to the present.

We accept it because we have seen the vision. We know that we cannot reap the harvest, but we hope that we may so well prepare the land and so diligently sow the seed that our successors may gather the ripened grain.

The educator must above all understand how to wait; to reckon all effects in the light of the future, not of the present.

Someone is sitting in the shade today because someone planted a tree a long time ago.

Enjoy present pleasures in such a way as not to injure future ones.

I'll get mine in a few years, when I get up there and when the time comes.

There are necessary evils. Money is an important thing in terms of representing freedom in our world. And now I have a daughter to think about. It's really the first time I've thought about the future and what it could be.

The lessons of the past should steer us towards ensuring lasting legacies for generations yet to be born.

We can do things the cheap way, the simple way, for the short-term and without regard for the future. Or, we can make the extra effort, do the hard work, absorb the criticism and make decisions that will cause a better future.

The difficulties and struggles of today are but the price we must pay for the accomplishments and victories of tomorrow.

If you don't focus on the future generation, it means you are destroying your country.

A man has made at least a start on discovering the meaning of human life when he plants shade trees under which he knows full well he will never sit.

The strongest are those who renounce their own times and become a living part of those yet to come. The strongest and the rarest.

One generation plants the trees. Another gets the shade.

Why we should put ourselves out of our way to do anything for posterity, for what has posterity ever done for us?

We must be patient if we would act wisely. What we do today may bear fruit long after we are dead, for no good work is ever really lost. The important thing is to get the tendency right. We should think of all these subjects in terms not of brief individual life, but long continued national life.

It needs time. Nobody wants to hear it, but that's the truth: if you want to have success in the future, you have to be ready to work now.

When you allow yourself to really think about the future and the legacy you're leaving, you become gentler.

Keep working and saving and striving for a better future for your children, and for their children, even if you won't be around to see it pay off.

Invest in the millennium. Plant sequoias. Say that your main crop is the forest that you did not plant, that you will not live to harvest.