Ruben Dario Quotes

Change your life today. Don't gamble on the future, act now, without delay.

Life is an operation which is done in a forward direction. One lives toward the future, because to live consists inexorably in doing, in each individual life making itself.

All I can do is to try and make the future better.

If it all just happens like this for the rest of my life, it's going to be one endless Groundhog Day. I determined that I was not prepared to submit to this regime, so I thought I had to do something about it.

You don't make progress by standing on the sidelines, whimpering and complaining. You make progress by implementing ideas.

But we are not in the world to be good but to change it.

What I'm asking for is hard. It's easier to be cynical; to accept that change isn't possible, and politics is hopeless, and to believe that our voices and actions don't matter. But if we give up now, then we forsake a better future.

I can't change the past, but one person can change the future - anything can happen.

Back in those days we thought we could change the world.

Progress is more of a challenge for the cynic but also more important and urgent, since for the optimist things aren't that bad and are bound to get better anyway.

The past is lying in flames. The future will rise from the flames within our hearts.

The social revolution of the nineteenth century can not draw its poetry from the past, it can draw that only from the future. It cannot start upon its work before it has stricken off all superstition concerning the past

Anyone who fights for the future, lives in it today.

The future requires action and not mere conversation.

I always feel like I have to keep going. You can sit back and say, 'Maybe I can stop.' But then you're yesterday, and I love tomorrow.

In difficult times, it's important to speak up. We cannot change the past, but we can impact the future.

It's great to have a great past and history. But it's even greater to have a good future. So the most important history is the history we make today.

What I try to focus on is going forward.

We're not thinking about the past, we're full steam ahead on the future.

If you change nothing, nothing will change.

We must look forward to the future as that is where most of us will be spending the rest of our lives.

Where you are now is not where you will always be. There are brighter days up ahead.

To most of us the future seems unsure. But then it always has been; and we who have seen great changes must have great hopes.

It is saying these things that keeps us from falling apart. And maybe by imagining these futures we can make them real, and maybe not, but either way we must imagine them. The light rushes out and floods in.

There are far, far better things ahead than any we leave behind.