Paul Keating Quotes

Every nation has a vision it lives for and is prepared to make all sacrifices. One may call it National purpose, … It is something which does not change. If it changes, a nation dies. It is supreme and therefore the nation acts and reacts with the limits laid down by it. It is the vision which allows a nation to build its future.

A nation has to look ahead.

History is the best guide to the future.

Never forget posterity when devising a policy. Never think of posterity when making a speech.

You must lay out of vision of what you want for the country. There is no more important thing.

In history lies all the secrets of statecraft.

More than any other time in history, mankind faces a crossroads. One path leads to despair and utter hopelessness. The other, to total extinction. Let us pray we have the wisdom to choose correctly.

We must be patient if we would act wisely. What we do today may bear fruit long after we are dead, for no good work is ever really lost. The important thing is to get the tendency right. We should think of all these subjects in terms not of brief individual life, but long continued national life.

The need to incorporate longer term time scales into our societal choices is very real—and right in the lap of our generation.

The longer you can look back, the farther you can look forward.

If generations past could get things so badly wrong, then we are forever vulnerable as well.

Presidents look back seeking both inspiration for the future and sanction for the moment

Unless we know where we've been as a country, we don't know where we are or where we are going.

You can write your own history.

Given the accelerating velocity of history, we should begin charting deliberately the next phase in its trajectory.

There comes a time in the life of every nation when it stands at the crossroads of history and must choose which way to go.

America needs a long-term vision.

Trump has a bigger, longer-term vision for this country than just sitting as a president for four years. He really does. And that's what I was impressed by.

India's history and destiny, India's legacy and future, are a function of coexistence and conciliation, of reform and reconciliation.

I don't think managers have the opportunity to think in terms of a long-term vision for a club.

When you make a choice, you change the future.

Choice is destiny's soul mate.

Decisions, they shape our destiny.

To deal with future we have to deal with possibilities. Analysis will only tell us what is.

I'll come out with policy on that and make on the future.