Thomas S. Monson Quotes

We, who are the living, possess the past. Tomorrow is for our martyrs.

Let us make future generations remember us as proud ancestors just as, today, we remember our forefathers.

It is up to us to live up to the legacy that was left for us, and to leave a legacy that is worthy of our children and of future generations.

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

I'm just becoming more and more aware of this truly profound responsibility that we carry as individuals. And it's a responsibility not only to ourselves and to our families, but to the billions of people who still have to come in the future who will be dealing with our legacy.

The wise man must remember that while he is a descendant of the past, he is a parent of the future.

Only by acknowledging the success and sacrifice made by those who came before us can we fully understand what we must do to ensure the liberty of those who will succeed us.

It is my firm belief that I have a link with the past and a responsibility to the future. I cannot give up. I cannot despair. There's a whole future, generations to come. I have to keep trying.

The past is only the present become invisible and mute; and because it is invisible and mute, its memorized glances and its murmurs are infinitely precious. We are tomorrow's past.

We are tomorrow's past.

Posterity! You will never know how much it cost the present generation to preserve your freedom.

The mantle of the pioneers has fallen on our shoulders.

People will not look forward to posterity who are not anxious to look backward to their ancestry

The world belongs primarily to the dead, and we only rent it from them for a little while. They created it, they wrote its literature and its songs, and they are deeply invested in how children are treated, because the children are the ones who will keep it going. The idea that each of us has the right to change everything is a deep insult to them.

Let us contemplate our forefathers, and posterity, and resolve to maintain the rights bequeathed to us from the former, for the sake of the latter.

Each generation is responsible to make the future of the next.

See! This our fathers did for us.

Call us the future from your past.

The function of posterity is to look after itself.

While we can remember the past, we cannot write the future. Only our children, the future of our community, can do that.

Our children's children will hear a good story.

What life half gives a man, posterity gives entirely.

I knew I could not cope with the future unless I was able to rediscover the past.

When a man says he is building a house for himself and his posterity, he does not mean to be understood as saying that he has any thought of binding them, nor is it to be inferred that he is so foolish as to imagine that he has any right or power to bind them, to live in it.

Let them look to the past, but let them also look to the future; let them look to the land of their ancestors, but let them look also to the land of their children.