In this post, you will find great Future Quotes from famous people, such as Franklin D. Roosevelt, Angela Merkel, Julia Ward Howe, Kailash Satyarthi, Ian Ziering. You can learn and implement many lessons from these quotes.
Not only our future economic soundness but the very soundness of our democratic institutions depends on the determination of our government to give employment to idle men.
I know not why there is such a melancholy feeling attached to the remembrance of past happiness, except that we fear that the future can have nothing so bright as the past.
Architects today tend to depreciate themselves, to regard themselves as no more than just ordinary citizens without the power to reform the future.
Future orientation is combined with a notion and expectation of progress, and nothing is impossible.
I want people to really recognize that this is what I am naturally good at: I’m really good at making music and describing your feelings vicariously through my experiences, through my past and my future. I want people to relate to me in multiple ways and be versatile in my music.
Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past.
You can’t connect the dots looking forward; you can only connect them looking backwards. So you have to trust that the dots will somehow connect in your future. You have to trust in something – your gut, destiny, life, karma, whatever. This approach has never let me down, and it has made all the difference in my life.
Depression is the inability to construct a future.
Adolescence represents an inner emotional upheaval, a struggle between the eternal human wish to cling to the past and the equally powerful wish to get on with the future.
It all happened so fast. The ghetto. The deportation. The sealed cattle car. The fiery altar upon which the history of our people and the future of mankind were meant to be sacrificed.
Tomorrow is no man‘s gift.
With us air people, the future of our nation is indissolubly bound up in the development of air power.
Life science is an investment for the future.
I like the dreams of the future better than the history of the past.
We are at the very beginning of time for the human race. It is not unreasonable that we grapple with problems. But there are tens of thousands of years in the future. Our responsibility is to do what we can, learn what we can, improve the solutions, and pass them on.
Whatever you learn will never go waste. It will be beneficial for me in future.
I have seen the future, and it is much like the present, only longer.
Citizens victimized by genocide or abandoned by the international community do not make good neighbors, as their thirst for vengeance, their irredentism and their acceptance of violence as a means of generating change can turn them into future threats.
The past cannot be changed. The future is yet in your power.
Everywhere I go I find that people… both leaders and individuals… are asking one basic question, ‘Is there any hope for the future?’ My answer is the same, ‘Yes, through Jesus Christ.’
We must welcome the future, remembering that soon it will be the past; and we must respect the past, remembering that it was once all that was humanly possible.
I am tomorrow, or some future day, what I establish today. I am today what I established yesterday or some previous day.
You never say never. There’s always a chance to do things in the future.
Control your own destiny or someone else will.
What can a pencil do for all of us? Amazing things. It can write transcendent poetry, uplifting music, or life-changing equations; it can sketch the future, give life to untold beauty, and communicate the full-force of our love and aspirations.
Usually, people have a tendency to be caught in the worries concerning the future or in the regret concerning the past. There is some kind of energy that is pushing them to run, and they are not able to establish themselves in the present moment.
You never know what the future brings.
I see little of more importance to the future of our country and of civilization than full recognition of the place of the artist. If art is to nourish the roots of our culture, society must set the artist free to follow his vision wherever it takes him.
Prediction is very difficult, especially if it’s about the future.
Learn from the past, look to the future, but live in the present.
Humans are distinguished from other species by a massive brain that enables us to imagine a future and influence it by what we do in the present. By using experience, knowledge and insight, our ancestors recognized they could anticipate dangers and opportunities and take steps to exploit advantages and avoid hazards.
History is a relentless master. It has no present, only the past rushing into the future. To try to hold fast is to be swept aside.
No matter what has happened to you in the past or what is going on in your life right now, it has no power to keep you from having an amazingly good future if you will walk by faith in God. God loves you! He wants you to live with victory over sin so you can possess His promises for your life today!
Being in London has really taught me how important history is. Just having information of the past. It helps you predict the future, which is all we really have as, you know, humans.
We have to transcend our differences to transform our future.
In raising children, we need to continuously keep in mind how we can best create the most favorable environment for their imitative behavior. Everything done in the past regarding imitation must become more and more conscious and more and more consciously connected with the future.
I plant a lot of trees. I am a great believer in planting things for future generations. I loathe the now culture where you just live for today.
For time and the world do not stand still. Change is the law of life. And those who look only to the past or the present are certain to miss the future.
School is practice for the future, and practice makes perfect and nobody’s perfect so why bother.
We grow in time to trust the future for our answers.
Climate change is a matter of great peril but also one of great promise. We can pioneer the industries of the future, create millions of good-paying jobs, and build the clean energy economy of the future.
Let your hopes, not your hurts, shape your future.
If there is a future, it will be Green.
Do whatever you want to persevere, work for your own things, and do not depend on anyone to be your provider. That way, in the future, you will be all right regardless of the circumstances.
All successful people men and women are big dreamers. They imagine what their future could be, ideal in every respect, and then they work every day toward their distant vision, that goal or purpose.
The research rat of the future allows experimentation without manipulation of the real world. This is the cutting edge of modeling technology.
Language is the armory of the human mind, and at once contains the trophies of its past and the weapons of its future conquests.
The White House isn’t the place to learn how to deal with international crisis, the balance of power, war and peace, and the economic future of the next generation.
The best prophet of the future is the past.
AI is everywhere. It’s not that big, scary thing in the future. AI is here with us.
I know of no way of judging the future but by the past.
The white people should go back to Europe, and the country should be returned to the American Indians. This is the future I would like to see for the so-called United States.
It is difficult to live in the present, ridiculous to live in the future and impossible to live in the past. Nothing is as far away as one minute ago.
Time is an illusion. Time only exists when we think about the past and the future. Time doesn’t exist in the present here and now.
The hardships that I encountered in the past will help me succeed in the future.
In Iroquois society, leaders are encouraged to remember seven generations in the past and consider seven generations in the future when making decisions that affect the people.
My parents taught me to never give up and to always believe that my future could be whatever I dreamt it to be.
Education is the investment our generation makes in the future.
There’s even an aircraft sensor system that sends down hundreds of thousands of pulses of light measured at different return rates. It allows you to literally strip away vegetation and see entire cities beneath the rain forest canopy. This is the unbelievable future of archaeology.
We don’t see very far in the future, we are very focused on one idea at a time, one problem at a time, and all these are incompatible with rationality as economic theory assumes it.
I go to school the youth to learn the future.
Yesterday’s the past, tomorrow’s the future, but today is a gift. That’s why it’s called the present.
I think experience will teach you a combination of liberalism and conservatism. We have to be progressive and at the same time we have to retain values. We have to hold onto the past as we explore the future.
The man who can put himself in the place of other men, who can understand the workings of their minds, need never worry about what the future has in store for him.
I’ll never stop dreaming that one day we can be a real family, together, all of us laughing and talking, loving and understanding, not looking at the past but only to the future.
Go for it now. The future is promised to no one.
Conservatism discards Prescription, shrinks from Principle, disavows Progress; having rejected all respect for antiquity, it offers no redress for the present, and makes no preparation for the future.
As to the Amazon itself, the transition from conservation to sustainable development was a huge awakening since conservation was a western concept and strategy to encourage the developing world to protect biodiversity resources for the sake of future generations and the wellbeing of the planet.
Let Jammu and Kashmir lead the way in the building of a new future for India. Let it set an example to the rest of India and the world by showing how the entire region can be transformed into a zone of peace, stability and prosperity.
No matter how devastating our struggles, disappointments, and troubles are, they are only temporary. No matter what happens to you, no matter the depth of tragedy or pain you face, no matter how death stalks you and your loved ones, the Resurrection promises you a future of immeasurable good.
Progress imposes not only new possibilities for the future but new restrictions.
It needs time. Nobody wants to hear it, but that’s the truth: if you want to have success in the future, you have to be ready to work now.
I love entrepreneurship because that’s what makes this country grow, and if I can help companies grow, I am creating jobs; I am setting foundations for future generations. It sends the message that the American Dream is alive and well.
On every front there are clear answers out there that can make this country stronger, but we’re going to break through the fear and the frustration people are feeling. Our job is to make sure that even as we make progress, that we are also giving people a sense of hope and vision for the future.
We have to do with the past only as we can make it useful to the present and the future.
Higher education is a cornerstone of our state’s future.
Investing in women’s lives is an investment in sustainable development, in human rights, in future generations – and consequently in our own long-term national interests.
I’m really excited about what the future holds and to grow as an individual and as an artist.
I believe that my future is bright.
I’ve seen the future and it’s much like the present only longer.
The worst thing that can happen in a democracy – as well as in an individual’s life – is to become cynical about the future and lose hope.
An artist has to look at the future, to see what we can do better.
I’m always looking to the future and what will next be on the horizon.
The earth we abuse and the living things we kill will, in the end, take their revenge; for in exploiting their presence we are diminishing our future.
I’ve said it before, but it’s absolutely true: My mother gave me my drive, but my father gave me my dreams. Thanks to him, I could see a future.
When you forgive, you in no way change the past – but you sure do change the future.
The past, like the future, is indefinite and exists only as a spectrum of possibilities.
The one thing we know about the future is that it comes only one day at a time.
Forget the past – the future will give you plenty to worry about.
The value of beauty and inspiration is very much underrated, no question. But I want to be clear: I’m not trying to be anyone’s savior. I’m just trying to think about the future and not be sad.
Because of lack of moral principle, human life becomes worthless. Moral principle, truthfulness, is a key factor. If we lose that, then there is no future.
There are necessary evils. Money is an important thing in terms of representing freedom in our world. And now I have a daughter to think about. It’s really the first time I’ve thought about the future and what it could be.
Time and space always change, but there is something which is eternal and changeless. For example, the world and time, past or future, nothing exists for us in sleep. But we exist. Let us try to find out that which is changeless and which always exists.
I got a bright future ahead of me.
This is the first age that’s ever paid much attention to the future, which is a little ironic since we may not have one.
The real enemies of our life are the ‘oughts’ and the ‘ifs.’ They pull us backward into the unalterable past and forward into the unpredictable future. But real life takes place in the here and now.
For the cause that lacks assistance, the wrong that needs resistance, for the future in the distance, and the good that I can do.
You cannot fight against the future. Time is on our side.
Create your future from your future not your past.
If you believe that the killing of innocent people is right, then you are not part of my future.
Change is the law of life. And those who look only to the past or present are certain to miss the future.
The future is as bright as your faith.
Predictions are preposterous.
I don’t plan to restrict myself to rapping in the future, and I didn’t want to come off as too aggressive, which is why I thought about changing my name.
The risk of the Holocaust is not that it will be forgotten, but that it will be embalmed and surrounded by monuments and used to absolve all future sins.
If our nation is to rebuild opportunity for future generations, it will require our elected leaders to realize that their responsibility lies not with their political party, but rather with the American people that they have been chosen to represent.
The distinction between the past, present and future is only a stubbornly persistent illusion.
Religion and science are the two conjugated faces or phases of one and the same complete act of knowledge – the only one which can embrace the past and future of evolution and so contemplate, measure and fulfil them.
A great source of calamity lies in regret and anticipation; therefore a person is wise who thinks of the present alone, regardless of the past or future.
Nobody understands how the world will change. The only way you can plan for the future is to have scenarios. You have to have the courage to take a leap of faith on one of them.
For Republicans, accepting responsibility means accepting punishment; for Democrats, it means only an admission of error and a suggestion they’ll do better in the future. This double standard must end.
No valid plans for the future can be made by those who have no capacity for living now.
For the first time in the history of mankind, one generation literally has the power to destroy the past, the present and the future, the power to bring time to an end.
Being fully present is the best guarantee for a bright future.
You never know what can happen in the future. But I can’t say anything bad about Newcastle.
I do not believe that civilization will be wiped out in a war fought with the atomic bomb. Perhaps two-thirds of the people of the earth will be killed.
The Christian of the future will be a mystic or he will not exist at all.
It’s a question of whether we’re going to go forward into the future, or past to the back.
Make sure to save for the future and keep making money!
Our imagination is the only limit to what we can hope to have in the future.
Future’s like an older brother to me, and Thug’s more like a brother my age.
We make the future sustainable when we invest in the poor, not when we insist on their suffering.
If you think in terms of a year, plant a seed; if in terms of ten years, plant trees; if in terms of 100 years, teach the people.
I’m happy, I’m in a good place, I’m looking forward to my future.
I don’t think about my past or future.
The only way to predict the future is to have power to shape the future.
We all have a common goal, and we know it’s all for our future good.
Conventional agriculture has never succeeded in feeding the world, and it’s never produced anything good to eat. For the future, we need to look toward alternatives.
The culture is what creates the foundation for all future innovation. If you break the culture, you break the machine that creates your products.
The idea of personal salvation is intensely repugnant to me when it is not absurd. Imagine Roosevelt, the big brute, preserving his personality in a future state and swaggering about as a celestial Rough Rider!
We need not be afraid of the future, for the future will be in our own hands.
The future has a way of arriving unannounced.
As human beings, we are vulnerable to confusing the unprecedented with the improbable. In our everyday experience, if something has never happened before, we are generally safe in assuming it is not going to happen in the future, but the exceptions can kill you and climate change is one of those exceptions.
The future will either be green or not at all.
People say, ‘Respect your elders,’ but I always go, ‘Respect your young people because they are our future.’
There’s the famous quote that if you want to understand how animals live, you don’t go to the zoo, you go to the jungle. The Future Lab has really pioneered that within Lego, and it hasn’t been a theoretical exercise. It’s been a real design-thinking approach to innovation, which we’ve learned an awful lot from.
If you don’t focus on the future generation, it means you are destroying your country.
Only you can control your future.
Global sustainability is now the only avenue to future inclusive progress that can deliver the Sustainable Development Goals and the Paris climate agreement.
As I’ve always said: The future lies ahead.
Nobody gets to live life backward. Look ahead, that is where your future lies.
Our job is not to predict the future. Rather, it’s to suggest all the possible futures – so that society can make informed decisions about where we want to go.
On Earth Day, we celebrate all the gifts the world and nature make available to us. We recognize our complete dependence on its bounty. And we acknowledge the need for good stewardship to preserve its fruits for future generations.
Therefore I am sure that this, my Coronation, is not the symbol of a power and a splendor that are gone but a declaration of our hopes for the future, and for the years I may, by God’s Grace and Mercy, be given to reign and serve you as your Queen.
The trouble with our times is that the future is not what it used to be.
I remember being young in the 1960s… we had a great sense of the future, a great big hope. This is what is missing in the youth today. This being able to dream and to change the world.
Without forgiveness, there’s no future.
I take all of my life lessons, which some people might call ‘mistakes,’ and apply them to my future so that I keep growing.
Education, therefore, is a process of living and not a preparation for future living.
The future will be better tomorrow.
I’m not saying you can’t be successful in the music industry without Spotify. But when I look at the future of music, I don’t think scarcity is the model anymore. We have to embrace ubiquity – that music is everywhere.
I would like my architecture to inspire people to use their own resources, to move into the future.
With the past, I have nothing to do; nor with the future. I live now.
Planning is bringing the future into the present so that you can do something about it now.
The potential for synthetic biology and biotechnology is vast; we all have an opportunity to create the future together.
Right now people are interested in genetic engineering to help the human race. That’s a noble cause, and that’s where we should be heading. But once we get past that – once we understand what genetic diseases we can deal with – when we start thinking about the future, there’s an opportunity to create some new life-forms.
Let the future tell the truth, and evaluate each one according to his work and accomplishments. The present is theirs; the future, for which I have really worked, is mine.
Everybody aspires to an affordable home, a secure job, better living standards, reliable healthcare and a decent pension. My generation took those things for granted, and so should future generations.
My purpose… to go on with my heart and soul, devoting all my energies to Girl Scouts, and heart and hand with them, we will make our lives and the lives of the future girls happy, healthy and holy.
Don’t wait to be successful at some future point. Have a successful relationship with the present moment and be fully present in whatever you are doing. That is success.
I’m not going to fearmonger to win an election. I’m going to focus on the positive opportunities we have for a bright future for all of our families, where everyone has the freedom and opportunity to thrive.
I touch the future. I teach.
Happiness is not something you postpone for the future; it is something you design for the present.
The future is inherently uncertain.
If I’m too busy looking in the past, how can I see what’s in front of me with the future?
The future which we hold in trust for our own children will be shaped by our fairness to other people’s children.
Those people who develop the ability to continuously acquire new and better forms of knowledge that they can apply to their work and to their lives will be the movers and shakers in our society for the indefinite future.
Our human compassion binds us the one to the other – not in pity or patronizingly, but as human beings who have learnt how to turn our common suffering into hope for the future.
In this bright future you can’t forget your past.
If we are to better the future we must disturb the present.
Let us make future generations remember us as proud ancestors just as, today, we remember our forefathers.
Study the past, if you would divine the future.
The future is something which everyone reaches at the rate of 60 minutes an hour, whatever he does, whoever he is.
I see a bright future for the biotechnology industry when it follows the path of the computer industry, the path that von Neumann failed to foresee, becoming small and domesticated rather than big and centralized.
You will see – in the future, I will live by my watercolors.
My heroes, my dreams, and my future lay in Yankee Stadium. And they can’t take that away from me.
After the final no there comes a yes and on that yes the future of the world hangs.
I’m interested in things that change the world or that affect the future and wondrous, new technology where you see it, and you’re like, ‘Wow, how did that even happen? How is that possible?’
The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.
To the soul, there is no past and no future; all is, and will be ever, in now. For artificial purposes time is mutually agreed on, but there is really no such thing.
You are always free to change your mind and choose a different future, or a different past.
We think of our future as anticipated memories.
Whoso neglects learning in his youth, loses the past and is dead for the future.
In every conceivable manner, the family is link to our past, bridge to our future.
And all your future lies beneath your hat.
Baseball‘s future? Bigger and bigger, better and better! No question about it, it’s the greatest game there is!
The fact is that all writers create their precursors. Their work modifies our conception of the past, just as it is bound to modify the future.
A dream is your creative vision for your life in the future. You must break out of your current comfort zone and become comfortable with the unfamiliar and the unknown.
I have some tracks and songs written for future collaboration, and I’m happy to work with artists who have the right voice and taste.
Advances in technology will continue to reach far into every sector of our economy. Future job and economic growth in industry, defense, transportation, agriculture, health care, and life sciences is directly related to scientific advancement.
We would fight not for the political future of a distant city, rather for principles whose destruction would ruin the possibility of peace and security for the peoples of the earth.
It is our job, as members of parliament, to legislate with an eye to the long term future, to look over the horizon beyond the next election and ensure that as far as we can what we do today will make Australia a better place, a safer place, for future generations to live in.
The man who comes up with a means for doing or producing almost anything better, faster or more economically has his future and his fortune at his fingertips.
There’s no point in making predictions. It’s not worth speculating because nothing is set in stone and things change all the time in football. Today there are opportunities that no one knows if they will come round again in the future.
I think we have a duty to maintain the light of consciousness to make sure it continues into the future.
A mother’s happiness is like a beacon, lighting up the future but reflected also on the past in the guise of fond memories.
It’s obvious nonsense, but it makes nice people feel good about themselves to do their bit for the planet. It’s vanity of a grotesque kind to believe that mankind, and our ‘carbon footprint‘, has more impact on the future of Earth than Nature, which bends our planet to its will, as it sees fit.
A women who doesn’t wear perfume has no future.
The most important thing about global warming is this. Whether humans are responsible for the bulk of climate change is going to be left to the scientists, but it’s all of our responsibility to leave this planet in better shape for the future generations than we found it.
I can’t predict the future and I don’t have respect for people who try to.
We need to be investing in manufacturing and small businesses. We need to be creating a workforce where Americans can compete in a global marketplace because they have the necessary skills. And we need fairness, and we need a sustainable, strong economy that’s durable for the future.
If you deliver excellence right now, that gives you the best shot at the best future you’ve got coming.
An increased push for energy efficiency, renewable energy technology, electric mobility – along with the growing digitalization movement and a universal carbon pricing structure – would speed up the carbon-free future and the rise of a global middle class we desperately need. We can and must all do our part.
We need enlightenment, not just individually but collectively, to save the planet. We need to awaken ourselves. We need to practice mindfulness if we want to have a future, if we want to save ourselves and the planet.
When we see the face of a child, we think of the future. We think of their dreams about what they might become, and what they might accomplish.
We should all be concerned about the future because we will have to spend the rest of our lives there.
The unleashed power of the atom has changed everything save our modes of thinking and we thus drift toward unparalleled catastrophe.
The future has already arrived. It’s just not evenly distributed yet.
The important consequences to the American States from this Declaration of Independence, considered as the ground and foundation of a future government, naturally suggest the propriety of proclaiming it in such a manner as that the people may be universally informed of it.
I do not think white America is committed to granting equality to the American Negro. This is a passionately racist country; it will continue to be so in the foreseeable future.
It is by no means an irrational fancy that, in a future existence, we shall look upon what we think our present existence, as a dream.
A revolution is a struggle to the death between the future and the past.
Science and technology are a propellant for building a thriving country, and the happiness of the people and the future of the country hinge on their development.
Leaders don’t look backwards to condemn what has already been done; they look forward to create a better future.
Greet every morning with open arms and say thanks every night with a full heart. Each day is a precious gift to be savored and used, not left unopened and hoarded for a future that may never come.
Sustainable development is the pathway to the future we want for all. It offers a framework to generate economic growth, achieve social justice, exercise environmental stewardship and strengthen governance.
This is my work ethic: I do not want to raise my future kids where I was raised, and I know the only way to do it is working, working, working, working, working.
People look to time in expectation that it will eventually make them happy, but you cannot find true happiness by looking toward the future.
The future depends entirely on what each of us does every day; a movement is only people moving.
That’s where the future lies, in the youth of today.
The word tomorrow was invented for indecisive people and for children.
We need to look to the future. You can’t come up with new things unless you constantly forget the past. There’s no reason to keep wearing the same pair of pants.
Never be afraid to trust an unknown future to a known God.
There’s no need to look too far into the future or the past. Enjoy the moment.
Don’t look too far into the future, just look at tomorrow. One day at a time. Can you win tomorrow? Can you make progress? The answer is yes, you have a choice and tomorrow you’re going to win.
It is easy to predict that some of the discoveries of research directed towards Grand Challenges – but only the most unexpected ones, and at the most unexpected times – will be the basis of revolutionary improvements in the way that we exploit the power of our future computing devices.
The future is green energy, sustainability, renewable energy.
The future of technology is not really location-based apps; it is about making location completely unimportant.
I believe that agriculture land – productive agricultural land with water on site – will be valuable in the future.
It all comes down to interest rates. As an investor, all you’re doing is putting up a lump-sump payment for a future cash flow.
It is not in the stars to hold our destiny but in ourselves.
The future starts today, not tomorrow.
We have to forget the past. History is something that even today we are paying the consequences, and the future is integration. We all as a people, as citizens, as the leadership of both countries should be looking in that direction.
I think the future of lunar bases has to be somewhere around the South or North Pole. You have less variation in temperature and more daylight hours.
We are a party of innovation. We do not reject our traditions, but we are willing to adapt to changing circumstances, when change we must. We are willing to suffer the discomfort of change in order to achieve a better future.
For every minute, the future is becoming the past.
My generation, we’re so smart and opinionated, and we know the world we want to live in; we know the future we want. We’re such a liberal, forward-thinking generation that’s been held back by an older generation that doesn’t understand it, doesn’t want the world to progress quickly because of old ideologies.
There is no formula that will guarantee success in forecasting, no magic words that will part the clouds. The real problem, as the old saw puts it, is that the future lies ahead.
Promises are the uniquely human way of ordering the future, making it predictable and reliable to the extent that this is humanly possible.
The challenge of the unknown future is so much more exciting than the stories of the accomplished past.
Also, it is interesting that developing countries, with China and India perhaps in the lead, where the future of the global environment will be decided are now on board with the case for sustainable development.
A person often meets his destiny on the road he took to avoid it.
The ability to think straight, some knowledge of the past, some vision of the future, some skill to do useful service, some urge to fit that service into the well-being of the community – these are the most vital things education must try to produce.
Let us not seek the Republican answer or the Democratic answer, but the right answer. Let us not seek to fix the blame for the past. Let us accept our own responsibility for the future.
The best years of your life are the ones in which you decide your problems are your own. You do not blame them on your mother, the ecology, or the president. You realize that you control your own destiny.
People used to define me as a futurist designer, but, you know, the future is now for me.
I don’t compare shows. It’s very simple. I don’t live in the past. If there’s any secret to my longevity, it’s living in the future. And a little bit in the present.
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.
You cannot escape the responsibility of tomorrow by evading it today.
I like what the future holds. I don’t like thinking about the past.
An exciting and inspiring future awaits you beyond the noise in your mind, beyond the guilt, doubt, fear, shame, insecurity and heaviness of the past you carry around.
The future is no more uncertain than the present.
The only thing we know about the future is that it will be different.
God is more interested in your future and your relationships than you are.
I can’t change the past, but one person can change the future – anything can happen.
Real generosity toward the future lies in giving all to the present.
Although children are only 24 percent of the population, they’re 100 percent of our future and we cannot afford to provide any child with a substandard education.
Let us together create the new building of the future, which will be everything in one form: architecture and sculpture and painting.
The future will belong to those who have passion and are willing to work hard to make our country better.
Our wisest long-term investment is not in the dirty polluting fossil fuels from the past, but in the clean energy of the future.
The clear and present danger of climate change means we cannot burn our way to prosperity. We already rely too heavily on fossil fuels. We need to find a new, sustainable path to the future we want. We need a clean industrial revolution.
People don’t realize that now is all there ever is; there is no past or future except as memory or anticipation in your mind.
I have memories – but only a fool stores his past in the future.
A good leader, in my view, should have a clear vision of the future they want and the society they need to build. They must also have a connection with the people who work for them and be able to mobilise their best energies to create teams where people can be most creative and happy.
As the humanities and liberal arts are downsized, privatized, and commodified, higher education finds itself caught in the paradox of claiming to invest in the future of young people while offering them few intellectual, civic, and moral supports.
I have no plans, and no plans to plan.
The most reliable way to forecast the future is to try to understand the present.
True happiness is… to enjoy the present, without anxious dependence upon the future.
While the crash only took place six months ago, I am convinced we have now passed the worst, and with continued unity of effort, we shall rapidly recover. There is one certainty of the future of a people of the resources, intelligence and character of the people of the United States – that is, prosperity.
The future of humanity is going to bifurcate in two directions: Either it’s going to become multiplanetary, or it’s going to remain confined to one planet and eventually there’s going to be an extinction event.
Discontent, blaming, complaining, self-pity cannot serve as a foundation for a good future, no matter how much effort you make.
Everyone here has the sense that right now is one of those moments when we are influencing the future.
There is never time in the future in which we will work out our salvation. The challenge is in the moment; the time is always now.
I have realized that the past and future are real illusions, that they exist in the present, which is what there is and all there is.
If we can’t begin to agree on fundamentals, such as the elimination of the most abusive forms of child labor, then we really are not ready to march forward into the future.
How paramount the future is to the present when one is surrounded by children.
In the future, we will probably see cyber operations that change or manipulate electronic information to compromise its integrity instead of simply deleting the access to it.
God isn’t present in the past or future. The great ‘I Am’ is in the present moment. When I claim that presence, I can get through anything today.
I’m not sure what the future holds but I do know that I’m going to be positive and not wake up feeling desperate. As my dad said ‘Nic, it is what it is, it’s not what it should have been, not what it could have been, it is what it is.’
I’m really excited to see what the future hold for me in terms of work. It’s going to be hard, but it’s going to be good hard work, and I’m really excited for the challenge that awaits me.
I’ve been so fortunate to have the opportunity to work with some incredibly talented vocalists, guitarists and producers, and I can’t wait to share more originals in the future.
Stop acting as if life is a rehearsal. Live this day as if it were your last. The past is over and gone. The future is not guaranteed.
In order to design a future of positive change, we must first become expert at changing our minds.
We – the current generation – have a moral responsibility to make the world better for future generations.
Lots of companies don’t succeed over time. What do they fundamentally do wrong? They usually miss the future.
The best way to predict the future is to create it.
At the end of the day, if you’re not spanking your child and instilling in them the ideas of selflessness, servitude, and wisdom, you’re probably looking at a future P. Diddy in the making (maybe even a Keith Olbermann – take your pick).
Pick the day. Enjoy it – to the hilt. The day as it comes. People as they come… The past, I think, has helped me appreciate the present – and I don’t want to spoil any of it by fretting about the future.
Trying to tear down the past prohibits you from building up your future.
I have made good judgments in the past. I have made good judgments in the future.
The future enters into us, in order to transform itself in us, long before it happens.
You get caught up thinking about the future, you lose sight of the present.
I think in order to move forward into the future, you need to know where you’ve been.
After the Berlin Wall came down I visited that city and I will never forget it. The abandoned checkpoints. The sense of excitement about the future. The knowledge that a great continent was coming together. Healing those wounds of our history is the central story of the European Union.
You never know what the future holds or where my life will take me.
The shape and solutions of the future rely totally on the collective effort of people working together. We are all an integral part of the web of life.
As I say to our own team: ‘Never protect your past, never define yourself by a single product, and always continue to steward for the long-term. Keep moving towards the future.’
Belfast is a city which, while not forgetting its past, is living comfortably with its present and looking forward to its future.
It’s hard to predict the future, but some people think that Bitcoin could do to finance what the Internet did to communications.
My responsibility as president is to take care to solve the problems we are facing now and to provide a vision and direction for how our nation should advance in the future.
With success comes responsibility of playing your part, to do what you can to help not only those that helped you get to where you’re at, but the future of who’s going to be playing a part of your business and everything you do in your entire career.
I believe the future is only the past again, entered through another gate.
I have no illusions of the future. Or maybe it’s all illusion. I don’t know. I’ve always been ready for it.
I am grateful for all the moments that I have, and I’m moving forward one step at a time to the future.
Tonight we send a message to our party that here in Illinois, there will be a new generation of Republican leaders and we will fight to provide a better tomorrow for future generations. We’ve made clear the status quo is no longer acceptable.
Samsung‘s future hinges on new businesses, new products and new technologies. We should make our corporate culture more open, flexible and innovative.
Destiny is no matter of chance. It is a matter of choice. It is not a thing to be waited for, it is a thing to be achieved.
Performance art is going to be the future. Plays on Broadway are so restricted. But performance art is like haikus, just one line thing. And it’s more casual but more interesting.
Each man should frame life so that at some future hour fact and his dreaming meet.
While I take inspiration from the past, like most Americans, I live for the future.
The future belongs to us, because we have taken charge of it. We have the commitment, we have the resourcefulness, and we have the strength of our people to share the dream across Africa of clean water for all.
The past is really almost as much a work of the imagination as the future.
So foolish is the heart of man that he ever puts his hope in the future, learning nothing from his past errors and fancying that tomorrow must be better than today.
To live fixated on the future is to engage in psychological denial. It is a form of psychic violence that prepares us to accept the violence needed to ensure the maintenance of imperialist, future-oriented society.
Let us not be bitter about the past, but let us keep our eyes firmly on the future.
You do indeed have a past, but not now! And, yes, you have a future, but not now! You can consume your now with thoughts of ‘then’ and ‘maybe,’ but that will keep you from the inner peace you could experience.
Trying to predict the future is a loser’s game.
Worrying about the past or the future isn’t productive. When you start chastising yourself for past mistakes, or seeing disaster around every corner, stop and take a breath and ask yourself what you can do right now to succeed.
The future ain’t what it used to be.
The future influences the present just as much as the past.
Education is the passport to the future, for tomorrow belongs to those who prepare for it today.
The past is not dead, it is living in us, and will be alive in the future which we are now helping to make.
There is nothing like a dream to create the future.
Replacing traditional sources of energy completely with renewable energy is going to be a challenging task. However, by adding renewable energy to the grid and gradually increasing its contribution, we can realistically expect a future that is powered completely by green energy.
We must vote for hope, vote for life, vote for a brighter future for all of our loved ones.
Technology is changing so fast that investment in hardware is getting riskier everyday. On the other hand, whether it is traditional computers or smart gadgets which are part of the convergence technologies of the future, some planning of hardware needs is still important.
The human brain had a vast memory storage. It made us curious and very creative. Those were the characteristics that gave us an advantage – curiosity, creativity and memory. And that brain did something very special. It invented an idea called ‘the future.’
Here is the rule to remember in the future, When anything tempts you to be bitter: not, ‘This is a misfortune‘ but ‘To bear this worthily is good fortune.’
The future is made of the same stuff as the present.
I’ve found that when the market’s going down and you buy funds wisely, at some point in the future you will be happy.
You never know what the future holds, so I am just enjoying being happy, healthy, and having my wonderful husband by my side.
I do write a lot of children’s songs, and I’m going to do a children’s television show, which also means I’ll be doing a lot of albums. So I do hope my future will hold a lot of things for children.
If you invest in education and training of our young people, what you do is you increase the future economic capacity of the nation.
I know of no way of judging the future but by the past.
A good education is a foundation for a better future.
Destiny has two ways of crushing us – by refusing our wishes and by fulfilling them.
Imagination is the only key to the future. Without it none exists – with it all things are possible.
A transition to clean energy is about making an investment in our future.
Life is a series of collisions with the future; it is not the sum of what we have been, but what we yearn to be.
You’ve got to give your past attention, but you’ve got to forgive yourself, acknowledge what you did wrong, and be a man, taking responsibility. You can’t not fly anymore because of the things you’ve been through. You’ve got to believe in a brighter future, that better version of yourself.
We are made wise not by the recollection of our past, but by the responsibility for our future.
I look to the future because that’s where I’m going to spend the rest of my life.
I don’t believe in regrets; I believe your future is in your tomorrows.
The future is limitless.
Every thought we think is creating our future.
Patriarchy appears to be everywhere. Even outer space and the future have been colonized. As a rule, even the more imaginative science-fiction writers (allegedly the most foretelling futurists) cannot/will not create a space and time in which women get far beyond the role of space stewardess.
There is a huge need and a huge opportunity to get everyone in the world connected, to give everyone a voice and to help transform society for the future. The scale of the technology and infrastructure that must be built is unprecedented, and we believe this is the most important problem we can focus on.
Map out your future – but do it in pencil. The road ahead is as long as you make it. Make it worth the trip.
Unless one is able to live fully in the present, the future is a hoax.
I really believe in the idea of the future.
Wonder Woman is a fighter, better than most, but it’s what she fights for that is important. It’s her vision of a future of peace and acceptance that makes her the right ambassador for everyone.
The African mind has a lot to contribute, not only to world understanding of the arts, but to an understanding of spiritualism. That is the contribution Africa will make to the world of the future – an injection of sanity into the environment of the universe itself.
People tend to dwell more on negative things than on good things. So the mind then becomes obsessed with negative things, with judgments, guilt and anxiety produced by thoughts about the future and so on.
Without memory, there is no culture. Without memory, there would be no civilization, no society, no future.
Buckhannon, population 5,639, is a deeply conservative town and long has been. While coal is its past, oil and gas are its likely future. It’s a town where guns are sold at yard sales, where Pentecostal churches are nearly as common as restaurants, and where distrust of Hillary Clinton is visceral and deep-seated.
They might in the future more than ever before engage in hunting beavers.
Even though the future seems far away, it is actually beginning right now.
Electric cars are the future.
It’s much easier to be successful than it is to be relevant. The tricks won’t keep you relevant. Tricks might keep you popular for a while, but in all honesty, I don’t know how U2 will stay relevant. I know we’ve got a future. I know we can fill stadiums. And yet with every record, I think, ‘Is this it? Are we still relevant?’
As a small country, both in size and population, our future hinges on the quality of our people.
We all have a responsibility to protect endangered species, both for their sake and for the sake of our own future generations.
Let’s find those people whose names do not cause controversy in our present and in our future. Let’s name the monuments and streets for those people whose names do not provoke conflict.
You can choose a future where more Americans have the chance to gain the skills they need to compete, no matter how old they are or how much money they have. Education was the gateway to opportunity for me. It was the gateway for Michelle. And now more than ever, it is the gateway to a middle-class life.
Without libraries what have we? We have no past and no future.
‘Neon Future’ is, in short, a positive outlook on human progress and technology, looking forward to a bright, colorful utopia. It’s embracing the future and looking toward the future in a more optimistic way.
When did the future switch from being a promise to a threat?
The only thing that can save us as a species is seeing how we’re not thinking about future generations in the way we live.
I need to make money for my family and my future family. I’m not a YOLO person.
If my future were determined just by my performance on a standardized test, I wouldn’t be here. I guarantee you that.
If recycling is the future, then we must focus our efforts on mitigating negative impacts to our community while protecting our environment.
Happy is the person who knows what to remember of the past, what to enjoy in the present, and what to plan for in the future.
There are people in every time and every land who want to stop history in its tracks. They fear the future, mistrust the present, and invoke the security of a comfortable past which, in fact, never existed.
Before I leave this earth, I’m going to help people have a better future.
Do you realize that if you fall into a black hole, you will see the entire future of the Universe unfold in front of you in a matter of moments and you will emerge into another space-time created by the singularity of the black hole you just fell into?
When you relinquish the desire to control your future, you can have more happiness.
Natural selection will not remove ignorance from future generations.
As lifespan increases fertility rates go down all over the world. Humans will create better technology and space travel will increase. These are all good signs for the future.
See, when you drive home today, you’ve got a big windshield on the front of your car. And you’ve got a little bitty rearview mirror. And the reason the windshield is so large and the rearview mirror is so small is because what’s happened in your past is not near as important as what’s in your future.
I look forward to a time, in the not so distant future, when we no longer look forward to ‘firsts’ as milestones women have yet to achieve, but we look back on them as historic events that continue to teach and inspire.
In charting our course to the future, we are mindful of our path from the past.
The trouble with the future is that it usually arrives before we’re ready for it.
Peace is necessary. For justice, it is necessary. For hope, it is necessary, for our future.
When decentralized blockchain protocols start displacing the centralized web services that dominate the current Internet, we’ll start to see real internet-based sovereignty. The future Internet will be decentralized.
Do your duty and a little more and the future will take care of itself.
The doctor of the future will give no medicine but will instruct his patient in the care of the human frame, in diet, and the cause and prevention of disease.
The future belongs to those who see possibilities before they become obvious.
I believe the future is vegetables and fruits. They are so much more sexier than a piece of chicken.
We can build a much brighter future where humans are relieved of menial work using AI capabilities.
The reality is you either step into the future, or you become a dinosaur.
Our future growth relies on competitiveness and innovation, skills and productivity… and these in turn rely on the education of our people.
But I think it’s more that when you’re young, you’re invincible, you’re immortal – or at least you think you are. The possibilities are limitless, you’re inventing the future. Then you get older and suddenly you have a history. It’s fixed. You can’t change anything. I find that a bit disturbing, to be honest.
The wise man must remember that while he is a descendant of the past, he is a parent of the future.
As long as we are persistence in our pursuit of our deepest destiny, we will continue to grow. We cannot choose the day or time when we will fully bloom. It happens in its own time.
Fear keeps us focused on the past or worried about the future. If we can acknowledge our fear, we can realize that right now we are okay. Right now, today, we are still alive, and our bodies are working marvelously. Our eyes can still see the beautiful sky. Our ears can still hear the voices of our loved ones.
The danger of the past was that men became slaves. The danger of the future is that men may become robots.
Architecture is measured against the past; you build in the future, and you try to imagine the future.
The future isn’t just a place you’ll go. It’s a place you will invent.
Climate change is not just about carbon dioxide levels and melting polar ice caps. It is about our public health and protecting our Earth for future generations.
To design the future effectively, you must first let go of your past.
It is always wise to look ahead, but difficult to look further than you can see.
Man has a limited biological capacity for change. When this capacity is overwhelmed, the capacity is in future shock.
Nobody can predict the future. You just have to give your all to the relationship you’re in and do your best to take care of your partner, communicate and give them every last drop of love you have. I think one of the most important things in a relationship is caring for your significant other through good times and bad.
Our children are the living messages we send to a future we will ever see… Will we rob them of their destiny? Will we rob them of their dreams? No – we will not do that.
I’m looking forward to the future, and feeling grateful for the past.
Since God knows our future, our personalities, and our capacity to listen, He isn’t ever going to say more to us than we can deal with at the moment.
You can’t gaze in the crystal ball and see the future. What the Internet is going to be in the future is what society makes it.
Education is not only a ladder of opportunity, but it is also an investment in our future.
My future is in my past and my past is my present. I must now make the present my future.
People worry that gas prices are high and how they are affecting their pocket book. But they want to know about renewable energy. People are really starting to question things, and that’s made people look to the future in a positive way.
Memories are the key not to the past, but to the future.
