Chris Coleman Quotes

In the fullness of time, when it is our turn to give, we must in turn plant gardens that we may never eat the fruit of, which will benefit the generations to come.

Hence it is that old men do plant young trees, the fruit whereof another age shall take.

I want it to be able to hold up in 30 years' time. So, I'm really thinking about everything.

I came to this office to solve problems, and not pass them on to future Presidents and future generations.

The only people who have the long view are some scientists and some science fiction writers.

Too old to plant trees for my own gratification, I shall do it for my posterity.

I don't care what happens in 100 years. I won't be around.

SUCCESS is not about HERE and NOW. you must pass the TEST OF TIME. the litmus test is FIFTY YEARS from now. SUCCESS is SUCCESSION.

Learn how to grow out of yourself and into the world of others: Plant a shade tree under which you know you will never sit. Set some goals that may benefit your children or an orphanage or the employees of your company or future generations or your own city, fifty years from now.

Last century, when the beams needed replacing, carpenters used oak trees that had been planted in 1386 when the dining hall was first built. The 14th-century builder had planted the trees in anticipation of the time, hundreds of years in the future, when the beams would need replacing. Did the carpenters plant new trees to replace the beams again a few hundred years from now?

Perhaps a good resolution for the new year would be to keep asking what world we want to pass on to the next generation. Indeed to ask whether we have a real and vivid sense of that next generation.

Dear young people, let me now ask you a question. What will you leave to the next generation? Are you building your lives on firm foundations, building something that will endure?

We are too careless of posterity; not considering that as they are, so the next generation will be.

I often quote an African proverb that says: "The world is not ours, the earth is not ours, It's a treasure we hold in trust for future generations." And I often hope we will be worthy of that trust.

I hope that I live for a thousand years, and have a thousand daughters so that there will always be a woman who can curse your name.

The most important question we must ask ourselves is, 'Are we being good ancestors?'

I think you have to be when you own your own business. I'm looking at the new No Limit as being a legacy. It's incredible that we've been able to build this up and survive over ten years and we are doing the right thing by maintaining.

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

We are the sowers - our children are those who reap. We labor so that future generations will be better and nobler than we are.

It has been well observed that we should treat futurity as an aged friend from whom we expect a rich legacy.

Are we being good ancestors?

As we peer into society's future, we -- you and I, and our government -- must avoid the impulse to live only for today, plundering for our own ease and convenience the precious resources of tomorrow. We cannot mortgage the material assets of our grandchildren without risking the loss also of their political and spiritual heritage. We want democracy to survive for all generations to come, not to become the insolvent phantom of tomorrow.

I'm sixty-eight years old. What I do now will be read by unborn generations for hundreds, perhaps thousands, of years. For me, it's not about my work - that is, it's not about Wayne Dyer's work, how much money I make, how well I do, or how well my products do.

Everybody makes money when times are good. It's when times are not so good that the groundwork is laid for the next generation.

They who look but little into futurity, have, perhaps, the quickest sensation of the present.