Future Quotes by Antonio Guterres, Elizabeth Moon, Tony Robbins, John Dewey, Billy Mitchell, Dolly Parton and many others.
We have to transcend our differences to transform our future.
It may be far in the future, but there’s some kind of logical way to get from where we are to where the science fiction is.
It is in your moments of decision that your destiny is shaped.
The future of our civilisation depends upon the widening spread and deepening hold of the scientific habit of mind.
With us air people, the future of our nation is indissolubly bound up in the development of air power.
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.
The future is not out there in front of us, but inside us.
Foreknowledge of the future makes it possible to manipulate both enemies and supporters.
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.
Memories are the key not to the past, but to the future.
The stock market crash in October 1929 didn’t destroy a particularly large amount of wealth or make people highly pessimistic. Rather, it made companies and consumers very unsure about future income, and so led them to stop spending as they waited for more information.
The central dogma of the New Testament is that Jesus died as a scapegoat for the sin of Adam and the sins that all we unborn generations might have been contemplating in the future. Adam’s sin is perhaps mitigated by the extenuating circumstance that he didn’t exist.
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.
As a small country, both in size and population, our future hinges on the quality of our people.
We two [Deucalion and Pyrrha, after the deluge] form a multitude.
[Lat., Nos duo turba sumus.]
[Lat., Nos duo turba sumus.]
I can look at the future with anticipation. And it’s comforting to know that someday, as Christians, we’ll be able to look back and have a little more clarity on why certain things in life happened.
The future has already arrived. It’s just not evenly distributed yet.
To the being of fully alive, the future is not ominous but a promise; it surrounds the present like a halo.
All political thinking for years past has been vitiated in the same way. People can foresee the future only when it coincides with their own wishes, and the most grossly obvious facts can be ignored when they are unwelcome.
I tell people a lot of times, if you want to be a part of something, you never know, you kind of just have to be around. A lot of people don’t really have the patience for it, and they don’t stick around. Dre and I are still working together, and we have plenty of music for the future.
Children are not casual guests in our home. They have been loaned to us temporarily for the purpose of loving them and instilling a foundation of values on which their future lives will be built.
The Future, like a fruitfuller Summer, sits Ripening her Eden silently.
The past is a foreign country; they do things differently there.
I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones.
Everything that looks to the future elevates human nature; for never is life so low or so little as when occupied with the present.
Every child matters. If we fail our children, we are bound to fail our present, our future, faith, cultures, and civilisations as well.
I live in the present with an eye on the future.
Whenever a mind is simple and receives an old wisdom, old things pass away,–means, teachers, texts, temples fall; it lives now, and absorbs past and future into present hour. All things are made sacred by relation to it,–one as much as another.
The future remains uncertain and so it should, for it is the canvas upon which we paint our desires. Thus always the human condition faces a beautifully empty canvas. We possess only this moment in which to dedicate ourselves continuously to the sacred presence which we share and create.
It is possible to live happily in the here and the now. So many conditions of happiness are available – more than enough for you to be happy right now. You don’t have to run into the future in order to get more.
CLOCK, n. A machine of great moral value to man, allaying his concern for the future by reminding him what a lot of time remains to him.
Whoso neglects learning in his youth, loses the past and is dead for the future.
A soil adapted to the growth of plants, is necessarily prepared and carefully preserved; and, in the necessary waste of land which is inhabited, the foundation is laid for future continents, in order to support the system of the living world.
Peace, non-violence, human rights and the environment – if only everybody saw these as the seamless whole that they are
That is America. That is America. Those bonds of affection; that common creed. We don’t fear the future; we shape it. We embrace it, as one people, stronger together than we are on our own.
As I’ve always said: The future lies ahead.
I am not afraid of tomorrow, for I have seen yesterday and I love today.
The future of this business is far beyond the vision of any of us.
The future is called ‘perhaps,’ which is the only possible thing to call the future. And the important thing is not to allow that to scare you.
The best possible preparation for the future is a well lived present.
Nothing can be reckoned good or bad to us in this life, any further than it indisposes us for the enjoyment of another.
Don’t let yourself be weighed down by what other people think, because in a few years, in a few decades, or in a few centuries, that way of thinking will have changed. Live now what others will only live in the future.
There are far, far better things ahead than any we leave behind.
The future has no shelf life
The reason people find it so hard to be happy is that they always see the past better than it was, the present worse than it is, and the future less resolved than it will be.
Nobody gets to live life backward. Look ahead, that is where your future lies.
The truth is that you can only come to know God when you give up the past and the future in your mind and merge totally into the now, because God is always here now.
Enjoy present pleasures in such a way as not to injure future ones.
In a world that is constantly changing, there is no one subject or set of subjects that will serve you for the foreseeable future, let alone for the rest of your life. The most important skill to acquire now is learning how to learn.
The human race is challenged more than ever before to demonstrate our mastery, not over nature but of ourselves.
We can see well into the past; we can guess shrewdly into the future, but that which is rolled up and muffled in impenetrable folds is today.
And if California slides into the ocean, as the mystics and statistics say it will, I predict this hotel will be standing until I’ve paid my bill.
The creative conquest of space will serve as a wonderful substitute for war.
The future is green energy, sustainability, renewable energy.
The fact that there is a general belief in a future life is no evidence of its truth
At every crossroads on the path that leads to the future, tradition has placed 10,000 men to guard the past.
Let your hopes, not your hurts, shape your future.
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.
If we do not find anything very pleasant, at least we shall find something new.
We cannot always build a future for our youth, but we can always build our youth for the future.
When you’re poor, you know nothing about the future, you know nothing about the world, nothing that goes on outside 300 yards around you.
If I say, if I talk about, ‘I want to be enlightened…’ it implies a future. And there isn’t any.
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 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.
The best preparation for the future is the present well seen to, and the last duty done.
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.
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.
Sustainable development: Holding our world in trust for our children
The future you see is the future you get.
Short term “dash for cash” economic solutions hinder progress towards a better, more sustainable, world
It is time to understand the environment for what it is: the national security issue of the early twenty-first century.
Building sustainable cities – and a sustainable future – will need open dialogue among all branches of national, regional and local government. And it will need the engagement of all stakeholders – including the private sector and civil society, and especially the poor and marginalized.
You may pronounce the sentence upon me, honourable judge, but let the world know that in A.D. 1886, in the State of Illinois, eight men were sentenced to death because they believed in a better future; because they had not lost their faith in the ultimate victory of liberty and justice!
Today is, after all, today, but yesterday is of the same substance as tomorrow.
The hardships that I encountered in the past will help me succeed in the future.
To build up a future, you have to know the past.
The things of another world being distant, operate but faintly upon us: to remedy this inconvenience, we must frequently revolve their certainty and importance.
The future condition of the conquered power depends on the will of the conquerer.
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.
To be hopeful means to be uncertain about the future, to be tender toward possibilities, to be dedicated to change all the way down to the bottom of your heart.
I don’t think about the future. I don’t think about the past. I just think of what comes into my head at the time. So that might be about the past, that might be about the future. Or, the present.
For all of its uncertainty, we cannot flee the future.
We cannot erase what has happened, but we are building a new future.
I like the dreams of the future better than the history of the past.
O Death, O Beyond,
Thou art sweet, thou art strange!
Thou art sweet, thou art strange!
The future may be an enemy. Time can turn happy days and nights into nothing.
The ethics of excellence requires a sense of perspective. Look at the big picture. If you live for the moment you might mortgage the future? What happens if you put your reputation at risk and lose the bet?
Set your sights high, the higher the better. Expect the most wonderful things to happen, not in the future but right now. Realize that nothing is too good. Allow absolutely nothing to hamper you or hold you up in any way.
I bear witness that the Savior lives. He loves you. He will guide you through the Holy Ghost as you steadfastly choose to do what is right to a future glorious beyond your dreams. I know He will.
I know my past is not what my future holds.
I look to the future because that’s where I’m going to spend the rest of my life.
The greatest adventure is what lies ahead
It is much less what we do than what we think, which fits us for the future.
Tomorrow has always been better than today, and it always will be.
The future you shall know when it has come; before then, forget it.
Learn from the past, look to the future, but live in the present.
Our future will be shaped by the assumptions we make about who we are and what we can be.
Life is no brief candle to me. It is a sort of splendid torch which I have got a hold of for the moment, and I want to make it burn as brightly as possible before handing it on to future generations.
There is nothing more precious to a parent than a child, and nothing more important to our future than the safety of all our children.
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.
The future of the world belongs to the youth of the world, and it is from the youth and not from the old that the fire of life will warm and enlighten the world. It is your privilege to breathe the breath of life into the dry bones of many around you.
There are certain moments when we might wish the future were built by men of the past.
History will remember the twentieth century for two technological developments: atomic energy and space flight.
The future will either be green or not at all.
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.
When wireless is fully applied the earth will be converted into a huge brain, capable of response in every one of its parts.
Well, the future for me is already a thing of the past.
We may believe that we shall know each other’s forms hereafter; and in the bright fields of the better land call the lost dead to us.
The softer your heart is the less that your past is forming your present and your future. When there is openness and softness of heart, what forms the present and the future is not your past but the reality of your own being.
Education, therefore, is a process of living and not a preparation for future living.
Too many marketers assume that future will hold back and wait until they’re ready for it. It won’t.
The future belongs to science and those who make friends with science.
The Times are the masquerade of the eternities; trivial to the dull, tokens of noble and majestic agents to the wise; the receptacle in which the Past leaves its history; the quarry out of which the genius of today is building up the Future.
Grounded in the natural philosophy of the Middle Ages, alchemy formed a bridge: on the one hand into the past, to Gnosticism, and on the other into the future, to the modern psychology of the unconscious.
No one knows what the future holds, except the One Who holds the future!
I’m pro-life. I’ll do all I can to see every baby is created with a future and potential. The legislature should do all it can to protect human life.
In the future, human rights will be increasingly a universal criterion for designing ethical systems.
Map out your future – but do it in pencil. The road ahead is as long as you make it. Make it worth the trip.
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?’
When you use your faith, it gives you energy. It gives you the ability to be able to see beyond where you are right now and see into the future.
Astronauts will remain the explorers, the pioneers-the first to go back to moon and on to Mars. But I think it’s really important to make space space available to as many people as we can. It’s going to be a while before we can launch people for less than $20 million a ticket. But that day is coming.
I’m sure that in the future, every part of the world will recognize that Holodomor is a huge tragedy for Ukraine, and was actually the destruction of Ukrainian people.
Sustainability is a political choice, not a technical one. It’s not a question of whether we can be sustainable, but whether we choose to be
An economist is an expert who will know tomorrow why the things he predicted yesterday didn’t happen today.
The past cannot be changed. The future is yet in your power.
Tell the people of all lands Let’s get together the future is in our hands. United nations have to agree To say no to war, and yes to peace.
For the future, the motto is, “No days unalert.”
the future is simply nothing at all. Nothing has happened to the present by becoming past except that fresh slices of existence have been added to the total history of the world. The past is thus as real as the present.
How sure I feel, how warm and strong and happy For the future! How sure the future is within me; I am like a seed with a perfect flower enclosed.
When I see our country’s stagnation and economic woes, I cannot help but think that we need a creative revolution that is embraced by business and endorsed by government and educators alike.
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.
Freedom is secured every day by our men and women in uniform. We must build a future worthy of their sacrifice.
As a nation we have the right to decide our own affairs, to mould our own future. This does not pose any danger to anybody. Our nation is fully aware of the responsibility for its own fate in the complicated situation of the contemporary world.
You know when you’re young you think you will always be. As you become more fragile, you reflect and you realize how much comfort can come from the past. Hymns can carry you into the future.
The essence of leadership is essentially taking the responsibility of trying to interpret the future to the present.
Nobody knows what the future is except for wizards.
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.
We think of our future as anticipated memories.
The Present only has a being in Nature; things Past have a being in the Memory only, but things to come have no being at all; the Future but a fiction of the mind.
I’ve been through a lot and I realise the future can’t be controlled. I’m not worried. You can always learn to overcome difficulties.
We should regret our mistakes and learn from them, but never carry them forward into the future with us.
As we look ahead into the next century, leaders will be those who empower others.
The future is here, now, and the past is full of actual deeds, real history. Utopias hardly have the meat on their bones to sustain a people in grave times.
They took all the trees and put them in a tree museum.
Spontaneous combustion of grassroots politics is the future.
Fascism is not in itself a new order of society. It is the future refusing to be born.
When you forgive, you in no way change the past – but you sure do change the future.
The future is purchased by the present.
The way you deal with automation is by upgrading people’s skills so they can get the jobs of the future.
Make sure there are lots of Harvard M.B.A.s working for MIT Ph.D.s in the future.
I think that we’re living in a time where there are trillion-dollar opportunities that never existed before.
A world where one tenth of the population gets to be extremely wealthy, and six tenths very poor, is not, in the long run, a stable place.
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.
One planet, one experiment.
There will be miracles After the last war is won Science and poetry rule in the new world to come Prophets and angels Gave us the power to see What an amazing future there will be
In the future, I’d like to continue being honest with myself and admit when I’d be better off asking someone else to illustrate my writing.
The past is of no importance. The present is of no importance. It is with the future that we have to deal. For the past is what man should not have been. The present is what man ought not to be. The future is what artists are.
Whatever the short term clashes between protecting the environment and eradicating poverty, medium term and long term it is clear. Unless we grow sustainably, at some point we face catastrophe
Leaders establish the vision for the future and set the strategy for getting there.
It is said that our anxiety does not empty tomorrow of its sorrows, but only empties today of its strength.
My heroes, my dreams, and my future lay in Yankee Stadium. And they can’t take that away from me.
Let’s start a new tomorrow, today.
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.
So our future is in our own hands. What greater free will do we need?
Technology is rooted in the past. It dominates the present and tends into the future. It is a real historical movement – one of the great movements which shape and represent their epoch.
I don’t speculate too much about the future. That’s the thing about this job – it’s so fickle. You take the jobs, you read the scripts and, if something interests you and you like the people who are working on it, you go for it.
The future is a fog that is still hanging out over the sea, a boat that floats home or does not. The trade winds blow me, and I do not know where the land is; the waves fold over each other; they are in love with themselves; sleeping in their own skin; and I float over them and I do not know about tomorrow.
I believe that my future is bright.
What men have seen they know; But what shall come hereafter No man before the event can see, Nor what end waits for him.
Learn from the past, set vivid, detailed goals for the future, and live in the only moment of time over which you have any control: now.
Some new machinery with adequate powers must be created now if our fine phrases and noble sentiments are to have substance and meaning for our children.
The youth is the hope of our future.
It is an old cliche to say that the future is in the hands of the young. This is no longer true. The quality of life to be enjoyed or the existence to be survived by our children and future generations is in our hands now.
Investing is about predicting the future, and the future is inherently unpredictable. Therefore, the only way you can do better is to assess all the facts and truly know what you know and know what you don’t know. That’s your probability edge.
The future doesn’t exist. The only thing that exists is now and our memory of what happened in the past. But because we invented the idea of a future, we’re the only animal that realized we can affect the future by what we do today.
We have embraced the 21st century by entering such cutting-edge industries as brick, carpet, insulation and paint. Try to control your excitement.
Education is not only a ladder of opportunity, but it is also an investment in our future.
When you plant something, you invest in a beautiful future amidst a stressful, chaotic and, at times, downright appalling world.
There comes a point in your life when you realize:
Who matters,
Who never did,
Who won’t anymore,
And who always will.
So, don’t worry about people from your past, there’s a reason why they didn’t make it to your future.
Who matters,
Who never did,
Who won’t anymore,
And who always will.
So, don’t worry about people from your past, there’s a reason why they didn’t make it to your future.
Trying to predict the future is like trying to drive down a country road at night with no lights while looking out the back window.
FIGHT FOR THE EARTH: The earth can’t speak for itself, it will just slowly die if we don’t fight for it.
Attachment to the past and fears concerning the future not only govern the way you select the things you own but also represent the criteria by which you make choices in every aspect of your life, including your relationships with people and your job.
People do not decide their futures, they decide their habits and their habits decide their futures.
Louis Armstrong playing trumpet on the Judgment Day.
The younger generation of rocket engineers is just beginning. They are of the new generation to which space travel is not going to be a dream of the future but an everyday job with everyday worries in which they will be engaged.
There are no practical alternatives to air transportation.
I never was able to believe in the existence of next year except as in a metaphysical notion.
I would not think that philosophy and reason themselves will be man’s guide in the foreseeable future; however, they will remain the most beautiful sanctuary they have always been for the select few.
The future will be the child of the past and the present, even if a rebellious child.
There’s no money back guarantee on future happiness.
Give me insight into today and you may have the antique and future worlds.
The distinction between the past, present and future is only a stubbornly persistent illusion.
The visions we offer our children shape the future. It _matters_ what those visions are. Often they become self-fulfilling prophecies. Dreams are maps.
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.
The new king [Alexander the Great] should perform acts so important and glorious as would make the poets and musicians of future ages labour and sweat to describe and celebrate him.
If the world should blow itself up, the last audible voice would be that of an expert saying it can’t be done.
Technology and robotics are advancing and will reduce the need for workers in the future.
I would like my architecture to inspire people to use their own resources, to move into the future.
The unleashed power of the atom has changed everything save our modes of thinking and we thus drift toward unparalleled catastrophe.
A child in India grows up with the idea that you have to make choices that will create a better future. In fact, your whole life is a continuum of choices, so the more conscious you are, the greater your life will be.
The future is as irrevocable as an inflexible yesterday.
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.
The future has to be lived before it can be written about.
The future… seems to me no unified dream but a mince pie, long in the baking, never quite done
Knowing your HIV status is so important for your future health and that of your loved ones.
God does not lie in our collective past, God lies in our collective future; the Garden of Eden is tomorrow, not yetsterday; the Golden Age lies down the road, not up it.
The mind that is anxious about the future is miserable.
Live for today, but hold your hands open to tomorrow. Anticipate the future and its changes with joy. There is a seed of God’s love in every event, every unpleasant situation in which you may find yourself.
Girls are the future mothers of our society, and it is important that we focus on their well-being.
If you see the magic in a fairy tale, you can face the future.
Many people think that if they were only in some other place, or had some other job, they would be happy. Well, that is doubtful. So get as much happiness out of what you are doing as you can and don’t put off being happy until some future date.
You see, it’s all clear, we were meant to be here from the beginning.
The future generation is not going to judge India just on the basis of one election. There are greater things by which the country is judged. The future generation is going to want a strong economy.
What we need to do is always lean into the future; when the world changes around you and when it changes against you – what used to be a tail wind is now a head wind – you have to lean into that and figure out what to do because complaining isn’t a strategy.
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.
That man is prudent who neither hopes nor fears anything from the uncertain events of the future.
I know I’m going to blow one day. My life is doomed the way it is. I have no future.
I love this stuff – bitcoin, ethereum, blockchain technology – and what the future holds.
Natural selection will not remove ignorance from future generations.
The planets are lining up, bringing brighter days.
Children are our future we must take care of them with maximum effort.
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.
Our future growth relies on competitiveness and innovation, skills and productivity… and these in turn rely on the education of our people.
Replace what you don’t know about the future with what you do know about God!
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 distance between the earth and her satellite is a mere trifle, and undeserving of serious consideration. I am convinced that before twenty years are over one-half of our earth will have paid a visit to the moon.
Sustainable development: Meeting present needs without compromising the stock of natural resources remaining for future generations. In terms of buildings, it implies resource efficiency, minimum energy use, flexibility and long life
The future is now.
I am quite pessimistic about ever achieving interstellar travel.
The testimony of every scientist is that the frontiers that are opening out ahead of us now are far wider and more spectacular than any frontier of America in the past. Our horizons are not closed. We are going to write a greater development in America than has ever been conceived.
Mob rule is always extremely dangerous for the future of democracy.
Sustainability is a set of conditions and trends in a given system that can continue indefinitely
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.
How narrow our souls become when absorbed in any present good or ill! It is only the thought of the future that makes them great.
Each man should frame life so that at some future hour fact and his dreaming meet.
A women who doesn’t wear perfume has no future.
I object to people running down the future. I am going to live all the rest of my life there.
To my mind, there is no doubt that this Gandhi age is the dark age of India. It is an age in which people, instead of looking for their ideals in the future, are returning to antiquity.
Don’t hurry anything. Don’t worry about the future. Don’t worry about what progress you’re making. Just be entirely content to be aware of what is.
As chairman of the Senate subcommittee responsible for NASA appropriations, I say not a penny for this nutty fantasy.
Literacy is much more than an educational priority – it is the ultimate investment in the future and the first step towards all the new forms of literacy required in the twenty-first century. We wish to see a century where every child is able to read and to use this skill to gain autonomy.
God is more interested in your future and your relationships than you are.
The future is unwritten.
The saga of a nation is the saga of its families written large. And whoever owns the family owns the future.
They who look but little into futurity, have, perhaps, the quickest sensation of the present.
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.
…deficit consumption is, in effect, drawing down on the capital entitlements of future generations
It’s very important that historic cities are allowed to reinvent their future.
In the end, they traded their tired wings for the resignation that living brings. And exchanged love’s bright and fragile glow for the glitter and the rouge, and in the moment they were swept before the deluge.
The best way to predict the future is to invent it.
One of the most tragic things I know about human nature is that all of us tend to put off living. We are all dreaming of some magical rose garden over the horizon instead of enjoying the roses that are blooming outside our windows today.
Everyone here has the sense that right now is one of those moments when we are influencing the future.
Those who foresee the future and recognize it as tragic are often seized upon by a madness which forced them to commit the very acts which make it certain that what they dread will happen.
Plans are only good intentions unless they immediately degenerate into hard work.
Back when I watched ‘Future Boy Conan,’ I thought I might like to try my hand at animation, but now, not at all.
My vision is a future for humanity where we will be completely free to pursue activities outside of our planet.
In the future, everyone will be famous for 15 minutes.
In the next 10 years, data science and software will do more for medicine than all of the biological sciences together.
Nothing we do can change the past, but everything we do changes the future.
I’m always looking to the future and what will next be on the horizon.
There is my love… of the young artists of my country who can carry on the dreams and ideals into the future.
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.
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.
The mind that is anxious about future events is miserable.
It is absurd to say that the age of miracles is past. It has not yet begun.
The assertion that ‘all men are created equal’ was of no practical use in effecting our separation from Great Britain and it was placed in the Declaration not for that, but for future use.
Some things are so unexpected that no one is prepared for them.
I think in order to move forward into the future, you need to know where you’ve been.
The direction in which education starts a man will determine his future in life.
The purpose of thinking about the future is not to predict it but to raise people’s hopes.
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.
The future will be green, or not at all
Your past does not determine who you are. Your past prepares you for who you are to become.
What can there be concerning outer space but ignorance?
He who controls the past controls the future.
Worry does not empty tomorrow of its sorrow. It empties today of its strength.
I don’t know what’s coming next and neither does anyone else. It’s something that we do have to face but the thing is that a lot of people don’t want to face it. And there’s denial. If somebody says it, like me, everybody feels a little better that they can discuss it.
We can do things the cheap way, the simple way, for the short-term and without regard for the future. Or, we can make the extra effort, do the hard work, absorb the criticism and make decisions that will cause a better future.
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.
Children of the future, watching empires fall. Madness the cup they drink from, self destruction the toll.
Existence is no more than the precarious attainment of relevance in an intensely mobile flux of past, present, and future.
People talk about doom-laden scenarios happening in the future: they are happening in Africa now. You can see it perfectly clearly. Periodic famines are due to too many people living on land that can’t sustain them.
Future peace, prosperity and confidence depend not just on ourselves but on the success of all nations. Hence, we are all partners, no matter what our backgrounds, cultures, faiths and histories.
If I could time travel into the future, my first port of call would be the point where medical technology is at its best because, like most people on this planet, I have this aversion to dying.
Even if I knew that tomorrow the world would go to pieces, I would still plant my apple tree.
We’ll go into orbit. We’ll go to the Moon. This business has no limits.
The true felicity of life is to be free from anxieties and pertubations; to understand and do our duties to God and man, and to enjoy the present without any serious dependence on the future.
Never make bad predictions, especially about the futture.
Any revolutionary change must be preceded by a passive, affirmative, non-challenging attitude toward change among the mass of our people. They must feel so frustrated, so defeated, so lost, so futureless in the prevailing system that they are willing to let go of the past and chance the future.
I think chatbots are the future of engagement between a fan and a brand or celebrity.
I’m a lousy predictor of the future.
I think the American Dream should be about a greater progressive legislation that allows for what I call a necessary future world of cooperational humanism.
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.
Change is the law of life. And those who look only to the past or present are certain to miss the 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.
Business, more than any other occupation, is a continual dealing with the future; it is a continual calculation, an instinctive exercise in foresight.
I am not like a pebble on the beach – a grain of sand on the seashore or just one of millions of human beings past, present and future. No, I am a unique human being loved by God as if I were an only child – the only fruit of his creative powers.
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.
A mother’s happiness is like a beacon, lighting up the future but reflected also on the past in the guise of fond memories.
U.S. has lost a battle more important and greater than Pearl Harbor.
I believe that children are our future. Teach them well and let them lead the way. Show them all the beauty they possess inside.
I touch the future. I teach.
All human situations have their inconveniences. We feel those of the present but neither see nor feel those of the future; and hence we often make troublesome changes without amendment, and frequently for the worse.
Nothing is impossible for a man with a strong will. The possible is in store only for a man who loves the future. There is no word “impossible” in the Korean language.
The future is not something we enter. The future is something we create.
A wise God shrouds the future in obscure darkness.
The present is never the mark of our designs. We use both past and present as our means and instruments, but the future only as our object and aim.
My future is in my past and my past is my present. I must now make the present my future.
Hydrogen holds great promise to meet many of our future energy needs, and it addresses national security and our environmental concerns. Hydrogen is the simplest, most abundant element in the universe.
The future of advertising is the Internet.
For what we are about to see next, we must enter quietly into the realm of genius!
Doomsday is quite within our reach, if we will only stretch for it.
Create your future from your future not your past.
The most decisive actions of our life – I mean those that are most likely to decide the whole course of our future – are, more often than not, unconsidered.
In times of pain, when the future is too terrifying to contemplate and the past too painful to remember, I have learned to pay attention to right now. The precise moment I was in was always the only safe place for me.
When you get just a complete sense of blackness or void ahead of you, that somehow the future looks an impossible place to be, and the direction you are going seems to have no purpose, there is this word despair which is a very awful thing to feel.
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!
Our wisest long-term investment is not in the dirty polluting fossil fuels from the past, but in the clean energy of the future.
I was planning on my future as a homeless person. I had a really good spot picked out.
Imagining in excited reverie That the future years had come, Dancing to a frenzied drum, Out of the murderous innocence of the sea.
Belfast is a city which, while not forgetting its past, is living comfortably with its present and looking forward to its future.
I never think of the future – it comes soon enough.
The sustainability revolution will, hopefully, be the third major social and economic turning point in human history, following the Neolithic Revolution – moving from hunter-gathering to farming – and the Industrial Revolution
If something is sustainable, it means we can go on doing it indefinitely. If it isn’t, we can’t
All a company report and balance sheet can tell you is the past and the present. They cannot tell future.
After 2014, we will support a unified Afghanistan as it takes responsibility for its own future.
My parents taught me to never give up and to always believe that my future could be whatever I dreamt it to be.
Human spirit is the ability to face the uncertainty of the future with curiosity and optimism. It is the belief that problems can be solved, differences resolved. It is a type of confidence. And it is fragile. It can be blackened by fear and superstition.
Most dystopian, classic and contemporary, paints a future world that puts a twist on present society – a future world that could plausibly happen.
I have been judged to be a pessimist but what abyss of ignorance and low egoism is not hidden in one who thinks that Man is the god of himself and that his future can only be triumphant?
A happy man is too satisfied with the present to dwell too much on the future.
The future interests me – I’m going to spend the rest of my life there.
Let’s go invent tomorrow…
On one hand, I’m an optimistic pessimist. On the other, I’m a pessimistic optimist. But while there’s life, there’s still hope, and I wouldn’t be doing what I’m doing if I didn’t think there was still hope.
The hours we pass with happy prospects in view are more pleasing than those crowded with fruition.
Be the designer of your own destiny.
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 see no hope for the future of our people if they are dependent on the frivolous youth of today, for certainly all youth are reckless beyond words. When I was a boy, we were taught to be discrete and respectful of elders, but the present youth are exceedingly wise and impatient of restraint.
Tomorrow will be a new day.
The spirit of man, which God inspired, cannot together perish with this corporeal clod.
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.
I don’t know what the future holds, but I know that God holds tomorrow, so it is exciting. Even when I have hard things happen, He loves me so big, so much. I come through it and I grow from it, because He has got me.
Nothing has happened in the past; it happened in the Now. Nothing will ever happen in the future; it will happen in the Now.
I believe that children are our future. Unless we stop them now.
Once I knew only darkness and stillness… my life was without past or future… but a little word from the fingers of another fell into my hand that clutched at emptiness, and my heart leaped to the rapture of living.
Out of the homes of America will come the future citizens of America, and only as those homes are what they should be will this nation be what it should be.
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.
We steal if we touch tomorrow. It is God’s.
All futurity seems teeming with endless destruction never to be repelled; Desperate remorse swallows the present in a quenchless rage.
You never know what the future holds or where my life will take me.
I really do believe in succession building and giving people experience for future leadership.
At every level the greatest obstacle to transforming the world is that we lack the clarity and imagination to conceive that it could be different
Man is better without knowledge of things to come, for what is to be will be, and man can neither avert nor hasten. It is better to go in the dark when the road must pass a lion and there is no other road.
If we want to reap the harvest of peace and justice in the future, we will have to sow seeds of nonviolence, here and now, in the present.
She’ll prophesy your death. She won’t say when.
The future depends entirely on what each of us does every day; a movement is only people moving.
I meet the designers very often, we discuss the products, they show me their ideas, we discuss the ad campaigns and every new invention that we can find for the future.
