We can pay our debts to the past by putting the future in debt to ourselves.

John Buchan
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  2. You have within you, right now, everything you need to deal with whatever the world can throw at you. - Brian Tracy

  3. Love is the only future God offers. - Victor Hugo

  4. Why didn't I learn to treat everything like it was the last time. My greatest regret was how much I believed in the future. - Jonathan Safran Foer

  5. You realize that our mistrust of the future makes it hard to give up the past. - Chuck Palahniuk

More Quotes By John Buchan
  1. The more doubtful the political outlook the fiercer will be the dogmas which men create and contend for.

  2. The task of leadership is not to put greatness into humanity, but to elicit it, for the greatness is already there.

  3. It was strange how fear had gone, now that we knew the worst and had a fighting man by our side.

  4. When a man comes out of great danger, he is apt to be a little deaf to the call of duty.

  5. We can pay our debts to the past by putting the future in debt to ourselves.

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