Douglas MacArthur Quotes

America, this is our moment. This is our time. Our time to turn the page on the policies of the past. Our time to bring new energy and new ideas to the challenges we face. Our time to offer a new direction for the country we love.

There are a lot of things that need correcting in this country, but there is not the slightest use of feeling over-pessimistic about it..

Change takes courage.

I hope that people understand in order for things to change in our country, we all have to come together and do it together.

China is a very big and complicated country; it's not easy to govern. But with courage and unity, China will certainly overcome all difficulties and continue to develop and move forward.

Going forward, we must continue the fight to change the direction of our country.

President Obama helped move this country forward.

We need to be brave and tell the politicians what a better future could be.

The people who live in the past must yield to the people who live in the future. Otherwise the world would begin to turn the other way round.

We cannot go backward,' Marco says. 'A great deal is not how it used to be.

We accept the verdict of the past until the need for change cries out loudly enough to force upon us a choice between the comforts of inertia and the irksomeness of action.

I think that all human systems require continuous renewal. They rigidify. They get stuff in the joints. They forget what they cared about. The forces against it are nostalgia and the enormous appeal of having things the way they always have been, appeals to a supposedly happy past. But we've got to move on.

The past does not equal the future.

The world is starving for leaders who are not afraid to dismantle the sacred and precious beliefs, which hold us as prisoners of the past.

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

If we're growing, we're always going to be out of our comfort zone.

What I like most about change is that it's a synonym for 'hope'. If you're taking a risk, what you are really saying is, 'I believe in tomorrow and I will be the part of it.

Hold fast to the best of the past and move fast to the best of the future.

The past is dead; let it bury its dead, its hopes and its aspirations; before you lies the future-a future full of golden promise.

To grow, you must be willing to let your present and future be totally unlike your past. Your history is not your destiny.

Nothing we do can change the past, but everything we do changes the future.

Future shock is the disorientation that affects an individual, a corporation, or a country when he or it is overwhelmed by change and the prospect of change ... we are in collision with tomorrow.

Does a man shrink from change? Why, what can come into being save by change?

All real change requires risk. You must take risks every day of your life. You must get up each morning and ask...: What can I do that is different?