Mahatma Gandhi Quotes

The glory of each generation is to make its own precedents.

We are all the beneficiaries of those who have gone before us.

Building the future holds more attraction than ancestor worship, whichever ancestor we're talking about.

You can't live in history. You've got to build for the future.

The future will be the child of the past and the present, even if a rebellious child.

Slumber not in the tents of your fathers. The world is advancing.

You cannot make a living on the past …the stone age did not end because they ran out of stones.

The Past, The Present, For the Future

We can't look for greatness in the past.

I want to create a different kind of legacy.

Each generation must go further than the last or what's the use in it?

We make the future better than the past. We don't hide from history. We make history.

The past is what provides us with the building blocks. Our job today is to create new buildings out of them.

There is no new world that you make without the old world.

With smoking axle hot with speed, with steeds of fire and steam, Wide-waked To-day leaves Yesterday behind him like a dream. Still, from the hurrying train of Life, fly backward far and fast The milestones of the fathers, the landmarks of the past. But human hearts remain unchanged: the sorrow and the sin, The loves and hopes and fears of old, are to our own akin; And if, in tales our fathers told, the songs our mothers sung, Tradition wears a snowy beard, Romance is always young.

The idealists dream and the dream is told, and the practical men listen and ponder and bring back the truth and apply it to human life, and progress and growth and higher human ideals come into being and so the world moves ever on.

What we call wisdom is the result of all the wisdom of past ages. Our best institutions are like young trees growing upon the roots of the old trunks that have crumbled away.

Tradition means taking account of a wonderful history but remembering that everybody today looks to the future.

When I see how fast technology is advancing, my mind thinks of evolution and how organisms also have to evolve or adapt in order to, in their case, survive.

Change brings opportunity.

Societies advance through innovation every bit as much as economies do.

We need to open up the future. We also need to keep everything valuable from the past.

Innovation makes the world go round. It brings prosperity and freedom.

Civilization is a movement and not a condition, a voyage and not a harbor.

I know that my grandfather is 92 years old. And he has seen this country evolve in amazing ways. He looks at South Carolina and he says, wow, what an amazing state that we have the blessing to live within because of the evolution.