Future Quotes

‘If you do not think about your future, you cannot have one.’ – John Galsworthy

‘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.’ – Steve Jobs

‘You cannot escape the responsibility of tomorrow by evading it today.’ – Abraham Lincoln

‘There is always one moment in childhood when the door opens and lets the future in.’ – Graham Greene

‘A person often meets his destiny on the road he took to avoid it.’ – Jean de La Fontaine

‘It is not in the stars to hold our destiny but in ourselves.’ – William Shakespeare

‘The future rewards those who press on. I don’t have time to feel sorry for myself. I don’t have time to complain. I’m going to press on.’ – Barack Obama

‘The only difference between the saint and the sinner is that every saint has a past, and every sinner has a future.’ – Oscar Wilde

‘Never let the future disturb you. You will meet it, if you have to, with the same weapons of reason which today arm you against the present.’ – Marcus Aurelius

‘The youth is the hope of our future.’ – Jose Rizal

‘The secret of your future is hidden in your daily routine.’ – Mike Murdock

‘Only you can control your future.’ – Dr. Seuss

‘Life is divided into three terms – that which was, which is, and which will be. Let us learn from the past to profit by the present, and from the present, to live better in the future.’ – William Wordsworth

‘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.’ – Alan Watts

‘Let us put our minds together and see what life we can make for our children.’ – Sitting Bull

‘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.’ – William Jennings Bryan

‘I don’t know what the future may hold, but I know who holds the future.’ – Ralph Abernathy

‘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.’ – Confucius

‘In this bright future you can’t forget your past.’ – Bob Marley

‘The future starts today, not tomorrow.’ – Pope John Paul II

‘The future ain’t what it used to be.’ – Yogi Berra

‘The empires of the future are the empires of the mind.’ – Winston Churchill

‘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.’ – James Baldwin

‘Prediction is very difficult, especially if it’s about the future.’ – Niels Bohr

‘Map out your future – but do it in pencil. The road ahead is as long as you make it. Make it worth the trip.’ – Jon Bon Jovi

‘The factory of the future will have only two employees, a man and a dog. The man will be there to feed the dog. The dog will be there to keep the man from touching the equipment.’ – Warren Bennis

‘There is nothing like a dream to create the future.’ – Victor Hugo

‘The most glorious moments in your life are not the so-called days of success, but rather those days when out of dejection and despair you feel rise in you a challenge to life, and the promise of future accomplishments.’ – Gustave Flaubert

‘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.’ – Nelson Mandela

‘The future influences the present just as much as the past.’ – Friedrich Nietzsche

‘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.’ – Nikola Tesla

‘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.’ – Albert Ellis

‘Look not mournfully into the past, it comes not back again. Wisely improve the present, it is thine. Go forth to meet the shadowy future without fear and with a manly heart.’ – Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

‘The future is always beginning now.’ – Mark Strand

‘Do your duty and a little more and the future will take care of itself.’ – Andrew Carnegie

‘Choose your friends with caution; plan your future with purpose, and frame your life with faith.’ – Thomas S. Monson

‘Fear not for the future, weep not for the past.’ – Percy Bysshe Shelley

‘Every man has his own destiny: the only imperative is to follow it, to accept it, no matter where it leads him.’ – Henry Miller

‘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.’ – Jeff Bezos

‘It took the madmen of yesterday for us to be able to act with extreme clarity today. I want to be one of those madmen. We must dare to invent the future.’ – Thomas Sankara

‘Real generosity toward the future lies in giving all to the present.’ – Albert Camus

‘The essence of optimism is that it takes no account of the present, but it is a source of inspiration, of vitality and hope where others have resigned; it enables a man to hold his head high, to claim the future for himself and not to abandon it to his enemy.’ – Dietrich Bonhoeffer

‘I look to the future because that’s where I’m going to spend the rest of my life.’ – George Burns

‘Control your own destiny or someone else will.’ – Jack Welch

‘You can never plan the future by the past.’ – Edmund Burke

‘Neither a wise man nor a brave man lies down on the tracks of history to wait for the train of the future to run over him.’ – Dwight D. Eisenhower

‘Destiny has two ways of crushing us – by refusing our wishes and by fulfilling them.’ – Henri Frederic Amiel

‘When the past no longer illuminates the future, the spirit walks in darkness.’ – Alexis de Tocqueville

‘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.’ – Marcel Pagnol

‘I don’t try to describe the future. I try to prevent it.’ – Ray Bradbury

‘I am tomorrow, or some future day, what I establish today. I am today what I established yesterday or some previous day.’ – James Joyce

‘My interest is in the future because I am going to spend the rest of my life there.’ – Charles Kettering

‘The past, the present and the future are really one: they are today.’ – Harriet Beecher Stowe

‘Yesterday is a cancelled check. Today is cash on the line. Tomorrow is a promissory note.’ – Hank Stram

‘I know of no way of judging the future but by the past.’ – Patrick Henry

‘What matters is to live in the present, live now, for every moment is now. It is your thoughts and acts of the moment that create your future. The outline of your future path already exists, for you created its pattern by your past.’ – Sai Baba

‘We must respect the past, and mistrust the present, if we wish to provide for the safety of the future.’ – Joseph Joubert

‘If future generations are to remember us more with gratitude than sorrow, we must achieve more than just the miracles of technology. We must also leave them a glimpse of the world as it was created, not just as it looked when we got through with it.’ – Lyndon B. Johnson

‘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.’ – Albert Einstein

‘America’s future will be determined by the home and the school. The child becomes largely what he is taught; hence we must watch what we teach, and how we live.’ – Jane Addams

‘Hold fast to the Bible. To the influence of this Book we are indebted for all the progress made in true civilization and to this we must look as our guide in the future.’ – Ulysses S. Grant

‘There’s no present. There’s only the immediate future and the recent past.’ – George Carlin

‘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.” – Nicole Kidman

‘For all of its uncertainty, we cannot flee the future.’ – Barbara Jordan

‘They gave each other a smile with a future in it.’ – Ring Lardner

‘Enjoy present pleasures in such a way as not to injure future ones.’ – Seneca

‘Without forgiveness, there’s no future.’ – Desmond Tutu

‘Well, the future for me is already a thing of the past.’ – Bob Dylan

‘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.’ – George Santayana

‘The future is no more uncertain than the present.’ – Walt Whitman

‘Elegance is not the prerogative of those who have just escaped from adolescence, but of those who have already taken possession of their future.’ – Coco Chanel

‘The future has a way of arriving unannounced.’ – George Will

‘The one thing we know about the future is that it comes only one day at a time.’ – Jeff Rich

‘Cease to inquire what the future has in store, and take as a gift whatever the day brings forth.’ – Horace

‘If humanity doesn’t land on Mars in my lifetime, I would be very disappointed.’ – Elon Musk

‘Tomorrow is only found in the calendar of fools.’ – Og Mandino

‘Sooner and later you will see great changes made, dreadful horrors and vengeances. For as the Moon is thus led by its angel, the heavens draw near to the Balance.’ – Nostradamus

‘Never make predictions, especially about the future.’ – Casey Stengel

‘One faces the future with one’s past.’ – Pearl S. Buck

‘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.’ – Tennessee Williams

‘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.’ – Denis Waitley

‘If we open a quarrel between past and present, we shall find that we have lost the future.’ – Winston Churchill

‘No work or love will flourish out of guilt, fear, or hollowness of heart, just as no valid plans for the future can be made by those who have no capacity for living now.’ – Alan Watts

‘Predictions are preposterous.’ – Jackie Mason

‘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.’ – Wayne Dyer

‘If you believe that feeling bad or worrying long enough will change a past or future event, then you are residing on another planet with a different reality system.’ – William James

‘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.’ – Arthur C. Clarke

‘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.’ – Oliver Goldsmith

‘Upper classes are a nation’s past; the middle class is its future.’ – Ayn Rand

‘The distinction between the past, present and future is only a stubbornly persistent illusion.’ – Albert Einstein

‘The wise man must remember that while he is a descendant of the past, he is a parent of the future.’ – Herbert Spencer

‘Let others lead small lives, but not you. Let others argue over small things, but not you. Let others cry over small hurts, but not you. Let others leave their future in someone else’s hands, but not you.’ – Jim Rohn

‘Look back over the past, with its changing empires that rose and fell, and you can foresee the future, too.’ – Marcus Aurelius

‘Trying to tear down the past prohibits you from building up your future.’ – Lil Wayne

‘Every man gotta right to decide his own destiny.’ – Bob Marley

‘The only thing we know about the future is that it will be different.’ – Peter Drucker

‘The word tomorrow was invented for indecisive people and for children.’ – Ivan Turgenev

‘What else does anxiety about the future bring you but sorrow upon sorrow?’ – Thomas a Kempis

‘I believe that you control your destiny, that you can be what you want to be. You can also stop and say, ‘No, I won’t do it, I won’t behave his way anymore. I’m lonely and I need people around me, maybe I have to change my methods of behaving,’ and then you do it.’ – Leo Buscaglia

‘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.’ – Andy Griffith

‘We steal if we touch tomorrow. It is God’s.’ – Henry Ward Beecher

‘Memories are the key not to the past, but to the future.’ – Corrie Ten Boom

‘Study the past, if you would divine the future.’ – Confucius

‘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.’ – John F. Kennedy

‘If you don’t focus on the future generation, it means you are destroying your country.’ – Malala Yousafzai

‘I have no plans, and no plans to plan.’ – Mario Cuomo

‘Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past.’ – George Orwell

‘It is always wise to look ahead, but difficult to look further than you can see.’ – Winston Churchill

‘God wants us to prosper financially, to have plenty of money, to fulfill the destiny He has laid out for us.’ – Joel Osteen

‘I never think of the future – it comes soon enough.’ – Albert Einstein

‘Even though the future seems far away, it is actually beginning right now.’ – Mattie Stepanek

‘I don’t think the human mind can comprehend the past and the future. They are both just illusions that can manipulate you into thinking theres some kind of change.’ – Bob Dylan

‘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.’ – Arnold H. Glasow

‘I do not want to foresee the future. I am concerned with taking care of the present. God has given me no control over the moment following.’ – Mahatma Gandhi

‘When I look into the future, it’s so bright it burns my eyes.’ – Oprah Winfrey

‘When did the future switch from being a promise to a threat?’ – Chuck Palahniuk

‘I haven’t been faithful to my own advice in the past. I will in the future.’ – Billy Graham

‘While I take inspiration from the past, like most Americans, I live for the future.’ – Ronald Reagan

‘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.’ – Peter Drucker

‘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.’ – Amy Grant

‘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.’ – Denis Waitley

‘The unleashed power of the atom has changed everything save our modes of thinking and we thus drift toward unparalleled catastrophe.’ – Albert Einstein

‘I think that we’re living in a time where there are trillion-dollar opportunities that never existed before.’ – Peter Diamandis

‘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.’ – Elon Musk

‘Our awesome responsibility to ourselves, to our children, and to the future is to create ourselves in the image of goodness, because the future depends on the nobility of our imaginings.’ – Barbara Grizzuti Harrison

‘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.’ – Julia Ward Howe

‘We can continue to try and clean up the gutters all over the world and spend all of our resources looking at just the dirty spots and trying to make them clean. Or we can lift our eyes up and look into the skies and move forward in an evolutionary way.’ – Buzz Aldrin

‘It is not enough to understand, or to see clearly. The future will be shaped in the arena of human activity, by those willing to commit their minds and their bodies to the task.’ – Robert Kennedy

‘It looks like the future’s really bright.’ – Michael P. Anderson

‘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.’ – Barack Obama

‘I just don’t want to live like I used to. And at some point, I’m going to put a gag order on myself in terms of talking about the past. I’ve got to slam the door and deal with the present and the future.’ – Charlie Sheen

‘The key to making healthy decisions is to respect your future self. Honor him or her. Treat him or her like you would treat a friend or a loved one. A Stanford study showed that those who saw a photo of their future self made smarter financial decisions.’ – A. J. Jacobs

‘We grow in time to trust the future for our answers.’ – Ruth Benedict

‘But I dare not think too far into the future on the risk that I’ll miss the present.’ – Colin Farrell

‘The future belongs to those who prepare for it today.’ – Malcolm X

‘Education is the passport to the future, for tomorrow belongs to those who prepare for it today.’ – Malcolm X

‘Tomorrow is no man’s gift.’ – Gilbert Parker

‘The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.’ – Eleanor Roosevelt

‘Do not dwell in the past, do not dream of the future, concentrate the mind on the present moment.’ – Buddha

‘Change your life today. Don’t gamble on the future, act now, without delay.’ – Simone de Beauvoir

‘Yesterday’s the past, tomorrow’s the future, but today is a gift. That’s why it’s called the present.’ – Bil Keane

‘Change is the law of life. And those who look only to the past or present are certain to miss the future.’ – John F. Kennedy

‘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.’ – Thich Nhat Hanh

‘The best way to predict the future is to create it.’ – Peter Drucker

‘Never be afraid to trust an unknown future to a known God.’ – Corrie Ten Boom

‘The future doesn’t belong to the fainthearted; it belongs to the brave.’ – Ronald Reagan

‘Prejudice is a burden that confuses the past, threatens the future and renders the present inaccessible.’ – Maya Angelou

‘I like the dreams of the future better than the history of the past.’ – Thomas Jefferson

‘Happiness is not something you postpone for the future; it is something you design for the present.’ – Jim Rohn

‘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.’ – David Suzuki

‘Losers live in the past. Winners learn from the past and enjoy working in the present toward the future.’ – Denis Waitley

‘The past cannot be changed. The future is yet in your power.’ – Unknown

‘Infuse your life with action. Don’t wait for it to happen. Make it happen. Make your own future. Make your own hope. Make your own love. And whatever your beliefs, honor your creator, not by passively waiting for grace to come down from upon high, but by doing what you can to make grace happen… yourself, right now, right down here on Earth.’ – Bradley Whitford

‘Let us make our future now, and let us make our dreams tomorrow’s reality.’ – Malala Yousafzai

‘I don ‘t know what the future holds, but what I know is that as long as I can enjoy life, anywhere is my stage.’ – Fala Chen

‘True happiness is… to enjoy the present, without anxious dependence upon the future.’ – Lucius Annaeus Seneca

‘The future is green energy, sustainability, renewable energy.’ – Arnold Schwarzenegger

‘A mother’s happiness is like a beacon, lighting up the future but reflected also on the past in the guise of fond memories.’ – Honore de Balzac

‘I touch the future. I teach.’ – Christa McAuliffe

‘Let your hopes, not your hurts, shape your future.’ – Robert H. Schuller

‘We must vote for hope, vote for life, vote for a brighter future for all of our loved ones.’ – Ed Markey

‘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.’ – Ban Ki-moon

‘Teaching is a very noble profession that shapes the character, caliber, and future of an individual. If the people remember me as a good teacher, that will be the biggest honour for me.’ – A. P. J. Abdul Kalam

‘Without memory, there is no culture. Without memory, there would be no civilization, no society, no future.’ – Elie Wiesel

‘If you want a vision of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face – forever.’ – George Orwell

‘The power for creating a better future is contained in the present moment: You create a good future by creating a good present.’ – Eckhart Tolle

‘Times and conditions change so rapidly that we must keep our aim constantly focused on the future.’ – Walt Disney

‘The illiterate of the future will not be the person who cannot read. It will be the person who does not know how to learn.’ – Alvin Toffler

‘In every conceivable manner, the family is link to our past, bridge to our future.’ – Alex Haley

‘If my future were determined just by my performance on a standardized test, I wouldn’t be here. I guarantee you that.’ – Michelle Obama

‘The beauty of dystopia is that it lets us vicariously experience future worlds – but we still have the power to change our own.’ – Ally Condie

‘To make no mistakes is not in the power of man; but from their errors and mistakes the wise and good learn wisdom for the future.’ – Plutarch

‘A revolution is a struggle to the death between the future and the past.’ – Fidel Castro

‘I’m looking forward to the future, and feeling grateful for the past.’ – Mike Rowe

‘If you get up in the morning and think the future is going to be better, it is a bright day. Otherwise, it’s not.’ – Elon Musk

‘Only mothers can think of the future – because they give birth to it in their children.’ – Maxim Gorky

‘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.’ – Robert Kennedy

‘I believe that children are our future. Teach them well and let them lead the way. Show them all the beauty they possess inside.’ – Whitney Houston

‘Darkness comes. In the middle of it, the future looks blank. The temptation to quit is huge. Don’t. You are in good company… You will argue with yourself that there is no way forward. But with God, nothing is impossible. He has more ropes and ladders and tunnels out of pits than you can conceive. Wait. Pray without ceasing. Hope.’ – John Piper

‘The future is something which everyone reaches at the rate of 60 minutes an hour, whatever he does, whoever he is.’ – C. S. Lewis

‘Do not brood over your past mistakes and failures as this will only fill your mind with grief, regret and depression. Do not repeat them in the future.’ – Swami Sivananda

‘Every time I see an adult on a bicycle, I no longer despair for the future of the human race.’ – H. G. Wells

‘Planning is bringing the future into the present so that you can do something about it now.’ – Alan Lakein

‘The greatest discovery of all time is that a person can change his future by merely changing his attitude.’ – Oprah Winfrey

‘We are made wise not by the recollection of our past, but by the responsibility for our future.’ – George Bernard Shaw

‘The power of youth is the common wealth for the entire world. The faces of young people are the faces of our past, our present and our future. No segment in the society can match with the power, idealism, enthusiasm and courage of the young people.’ – Kailash Satyarthi

‘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.’ – Brian Tracy

‘The future will either be green or not at all.’ – Bob Brown

‘I was a peripheral visionary. I could see the future, but only way off to the side.’ – Steven Wright

‘Forget the past – the future will give you plenty to worry about.’ – George Allen, Sr.

‘The challenge is to stay cool enough to handle the pressure in the moment so that you can succeed in the future.’ – Jurgen Klopp

‘The best way to predict the future is to study the past, or prognosticate.’ – Robert Kiyosaki

‘Education is the foundation upon which we build our future.’ – Christine Gregoire

‘A good education is a foundation for a better future.’ – Elizabeth Warren

‘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.’ – Joel Osteen

‘Go for it now. The future is promised to no one.’ – Wayne Dyer

‘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.’ – Jose Ortega y Gasset

‘We drive into the future using only our rearview mirror.’ – Marshall McLuhan

‘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.’ – Helen Keller

‘Poetry is not only dream and vision; it is the skeleton architecture of our lives. It lays the foundations for a future of change, a bridge across our fears of what has never been before.’ – Audre Lorde

‘If you see the magic in a fairy tale, you can face the future.’ – Danielle Steel

‘Learn from the past, look to the future, but live in the present.’ – Petra Nemcova

‘The future enters into us, in order to transform itself in us, long before it happens.’ – Rainer Maria Rilke

‘We should regret our mistakes and learn from them, but never carry them forward into the future with us.’ – Lucy Maud Montgomery

‘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.’ – Queen Elizabeth II

‘The atomic bomb made the prospect of future war unendurable. It has led us up those last few steps to the mountain pass; and beyond there is a different country.’ – J. Robert Oppenheimer

‘Biodiversity starts in the distant past and it points toward the future.’ – Frans Lanting

‘When you forgive, you in no way change the past – but you sure do change the future.’ – Bernard Meltzer

‘Without ethics, man has no future. This is to say, mankind without them cannot be itself. Ethics determine choices and actions and suggest difficult priorities.’ – John Berger

‘We all have a responsibility to protect endangered species, both for their sake and for the sake of our own future generations.’ – Loretta Lynch

‘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.’ – Eileen Caddy

‘The hardships that I encountered in the past will help me succeed in the future.’ – Philip Emeagwali

‘As an architect, you design for the present, with an awareness of the past, for a future which is essentially unknown.’ – Norman Foster

‘The Christian of the future will be a mystic or he will not exist at all.’ – Karl Rahner

‘We all have a choice. We can create transformational action that will safeguard the living conditions for future generations. Or we can continue with our business as usual and fail.’ – Greta Thunburg

‘You can make a board for all the goals you want in your life with the pictures on it, and that’s great, daydreaming is wonderful, but you can never plan your future.’ – Taylor Swift

‘I’m really excited about what the future holds and to grow as an individual and as an artist.’ – Khalid

‘We are called to be architects of the future, not its victims.’ – R. Buckminster Fuller

‘I’m living in the present, thinking about the past, hoping for the future.’ – Paul Auster

‘I don’t carry the burden of the past or the madness of the future. I live in the present.’ – Narendra Modi

‘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.’ – Mike Huckabee

‘The best thing about the future is that it comes only one day at a time.’ – Dean Acheson

‘Learn to enjoy every minute of your life. Be happy now. Don’t wait for something outside of yourself to make you happy in the future. Think how really precious is the time you have to spend, whether it’s at work or with your family. Every minute should be enjoyed and savored.’ – Earl Nightingale

‘If you don’t know your history, you can’t know your future.’ – Lenny Henry

‘The past, like the future, is indefinite and exists only as a spectrum of possibilities.’ – Stephen Hawking

‘Humanity has the stars in its future, and that future is too important to be lost under the burden of juvenile folly and ignorant superstition.’ – Isaac Asimov

‘The Web as I envisaged it, we have not seen it yet. The future is still so much bigger than the past.’ – Tim Berners-Lee

‘Diversification and globalization are the keys to the future.’ – Fujio Mitarai

‘Life is a culmination of the past, an awareness of the present, an indication of a future beyond knowledge, the quality that gives a touch of divinity to matter.’ – Charles Lindbergh

‘The purpose of the Jewish state is to secure the Jewish future. That is why Israel must always have the ability to defend itself, against any threat.’ – Benjamin Netanyahu

‘Vaccines are the most cost-effective health care interventions there are. A dollar spent on a childhood vaccination not only helps save a life, but greatly reduces spending on future healthcare.’ – Ezekiel Emanuel

‘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!’ – Joyce Meyer

‘The future is as bright as the promises of God.’ – William Carey

‘No one knows what the future holds, except the One Who holds the future!’ – Eric Metaxas

‘You never know what the future holds, so I am just enjoying being happy, healthy, and having my wonderful husband by my side.’ – Olivia Newton-John

‘The only way to predict the future is to have power to shape the future.’ – Eric Hoffer

‘If we are to better the future we must disturb the present.’ – Catherine Booth

‘Our future cannot depend on the government alone. The ultimate solutions lie in the attitudes and the actions of the American people.’ – Joe Biden

‘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.’ – Ramana Maharshi

‘I’m always thinking about creating. My future starts when I wake up every morning… Every day I find something creative to do with my life.’ – Miles Davis

‘Forgiving does not erase the bitter past. A healed memory is not a deleted memory. Instead, forgiving what we cannot forget creates a new way to remember. We change the memory of our past into a hope for our future.’ – Lewis B. Smedes

‘Electric cars are the future.’ – Albert II, Prince of Monaco

‘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.’ – Thomas A. Edison

‘A transition to clean energy is about making an investment in our future.’ – Gloria Reuben

‘The past is not dead, it is living in us, and will be alive in the future which we are now helping to make.’ – William Morris

‘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.’ – Jorgen Vig Knudstorp

‘Dreams about the future are always filled with gadgets.’ – Neil deGrasse Tyson

‘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.’ – Mark Zuckerberg

‘The reality is you either step into the future, or you become a dinosaur.’ – M. Shadows

‘Depression is the inability to construct a future.’ – Rollo May

‘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.’ – Bernard Beckett

‘You control your future, your destiny. What you think about comes about. By recording your dreams and goals on paper, you set in motion the process of becoming the person you most want to be. Put your future in good hands – your own.’ – Mark Victor Hansen

‘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.’ – Henri Nouwen

‘Keep all special thoughts and memories for lifetimes to come. Share these keepsakes with others to inspire hope and build from the past, which can bridge to the future.’ – Mattie Stepanek

‘The direction in which education starts a man will determine his future in life.’ – Plato

‘The best way to predict the future is to invent it.’ – Alan Kay

‘We cannot turn the clock back nor can we undo the harm caused, but we have the power to determine the future and to ensure that what happened never happens again.’ – Paul Kagame

‘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.’ – Audrey Hepburn

‘I am grateful for all the moments that I have, and I’m moving forward one step at a time to the future.’ – Park Bo-gum

‘Pearl Harbor caused our Nation to wholeheartedly commit to winning World War II, changing the course of our Nation’s history and the world’s future.’ – Joe Baca

‘Whoso neglects learning in his youth, loses the past and is dead for the future.’ – Euripides

‘Our intuition about the future is linear. But the reality of information technology is exponential, and that makes a profound difference. If I take 30 steps linearly, I get to 30. If I take 30 steps exponentially, I get to a billion.’ – Ray Kurzweil

‘Republicans are men of narrow vision, who are afraid of the future.’ – Jimmy Carter

‘I’m not good at future planning. I don’t plan at all. I don’t know what I’m doing tomorrow. I don’t have a day planner and I don’t have a diary. I completely live in the now, not in the past, not in the future.’ – Heath Ledger

‘And after Brexit, we will be free to determine our economic future, with control over our money, laws and borders.’ – Liz Truss

‘The future is unwritten.’ – Joe Strummer

‘School is practice for the future, and practice makes perfect. But nobody’s perfect, so why practice?’ – Billie Joe Armstrong

‘If we have to use force, it is because we are America. We are the indispensable nation. We stand tall. We see further into the future.’ – Madeleine Albright

‘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.’ – Jon Jones

‘AI is everywhere. It’s not that big, scary thing in the future. AI is here with us.’ – Fei-Fei Li

‘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.’ – Debbie Ford

‘The future belongs to those who see possibilities before they become obvious.’ – John Sculley

‘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.’ – Josh McDowell

‘My future is in my past and my past is my present. I must now make the present my future.’ – Vladimir Horowitz

‘The future is fluid. Each act, each decision, and each development creates new possibilities and eliminates others. The future is ours to direct.’ – Jacque Fresco

‘I want to make sure that that future that we’re creating is one that is the best it can be for people around the world, and also one that includes the full range of our talent and our skills – and, you know, gender and ethnicity, geography – to solving the world’s problems.’ – Mae Jemison

‘We deal here with the right of all of our children, whatever their race, to an equal start in life and to an equal opportunity to reach their full potential as citizens. Those children who have been denied that right in the past deserve better than to see fences thrown up to deny them that right in the future.’ – Thurgood Marshall

‘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.’ – Mike Rounds

‘I love this stuff – bitcoin, ethereum, blockchain technology – and what the future holds.’ – Abigail Johnson

‘I’m excited about what the future will bring and I think the best is yet to come.’ – Alonzo Mourning

‘The danger of the past was that men became slaves. The danger of the future is that men may become robots.’ – Erich Fromm

‘The flesh endures the storms of the present alone; the mind, those of the past and future as well as the present. Gluttony is a lust of the mind.’ – Thomas Hobbes

‘At some future period, not very distant as measured by centuries, the civilized races of man will almost certainly exterminate, and replace the savage races throughout the world.’ – Charles Darwin

‘Partition is bad. But whatever is past is past. We have only to look to the future.’ – Mahatma Gandhi

‘The present was an egg laid by the past that had the future inside its shell.’ – Zora Neale Hurston

‘I don’t know what the future holds. All I know is, I’m good today. Real good.’ – Chris Farley

‘The job market of the future will consist of those jobs that robots cannot perform. Our blue-collar work is pattern recognition, making sense of what you see. Gardeners will still have jobs because every garden is different. The same goes for construction workers. The losers are white-collar workers, low-level accountants, brokers, and agents.’ – Michio Kaku

‘Our wisest long-term investment is not in the dirty polluting fossil fuels from the past, but in the clean energy of the future.’ – London Breed

‘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.’ – Nick Cannon

‘Aerospace services represents one of our biggest growth opportunities for the future.’ – Dennis Muilenburg

‘I know why I am here and my only real focused goal is to live each day to the fullest and to try and honor God and be an encouragement to others. What the future holds is firmly in God’s hands, and I am very happy about that!’ – Ken Hensley

‘We must restore hope to young people, help the old, be open to the future, spread love. Be poor among the poor. We need to include the excluded and preach peace.’ – Pope Francis

‘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.’ – Herbert Hoover

‘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.’ – Marina Abramovic

‘I am yet to have a child, and if I am blessed with a baby girl, and in future, if a guy tries to impress my daughter by singing my hits, I have no issues with it.’ – Yo Yo Honey Singh

‘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.’ – Tom Mann

‘The future will be better tomorrow.’ – Dan Quayle

‘Every thought we think is creating our future.’ – Louise L. Hay

‘The past is a source of knowledge, and the future is a source of hope. Love of the past implies faith in the future.’ – Stephen Ambrose

‘Public education is an investment in our future.’ – Matt Blunt

‘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.’ – Elijah Cummings

‘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.’ – John Naisbitt

‘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.’ – Andrew Lau

‘You never know what the future holds or where my life will take me.’ – Kim Kardashian

‘A society should be judged by how it treats its children. A country that fails to invest in its children is imperilling its future.’ – Owen Jones

‘Looking at the world through a sustainability lens not only helps us ‘future proof’ our supply chain, it also fuels innovation and drives brand growth.’ – Paul Polman

‘We can build a much brighter future where humans are relieved of menial work using AI capabilities.’ – Andrew Ng

‘The future is today.’ – William Osler

‘We don’t wait for a better future, we create it.’ – Marty Walsh

‘You have reckoned that history ought to judge the past and to instruct the contemporary world as to the future. The present attempt does not yield to that high office. It will merely tell how it really was.’ – Leopold Von Ranke

‘It is said that the present is pregnant with the future.’ – Voltaire

‘Girls are the future mothers of our society, and it is important that we focus on their well-being.’ – Miriam Makeba

‘I saw rock n’ roll future and its name is Bruce Springsteen.’ – Jon Landau

‘I live in the present with an eye on the future.’ – MS Dhoni

‘Together let us desire, conceive, and create the new structure of the future, which will embrace architecture and sculpture and painting in one unity and which will one day rise toward Heaven from the hands of a million workers like the crystal symbol of a new faith.’ – Walter Gropius

‘Technology and robotics are advancing and will reduce the need for workers in the future.’ – Jan C. Ting

‘When you realize the value of all life, you dwell less on what is past and concentrate more on the preservation of the future.’ – Dian Fossey

‘Defeating malaria is absolutely critical to ending poverty, improving the health of millions, and enabling future generations to reach their full potential.’ – Tedros Adhanom

‘The future doesn’t just happen. We are building it, and we are building it all the time.’ – Hannah Fry

‘Nobody gets to live life backward. Look ahead, that is where your future lies.’ – Ann Landers

‘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.’ – Regina Brett

‘The challenge of the unknown future is so much more exciting than the stories of the accomplished past.’ – Simon Sinek

‘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.’ – Joe Wicks

‘You can’t let your past hold your future hostage.’ – LL Cool J

‘The influence of teachers extends beyond the classroom, well into the future. It is they who shape and enrich the minds of the young, who touch their hearts and souls. It is they who shape a nation’s future.’ – F. Sionil Jose

‘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.’ – Jim Bishop

‘Future’s like an older brother to me, and Thug’s more like a brother my age.’ – Metro Boomin

‘Natural selection will not remove ignorance from future generations.’ – Richard Dawkins

‘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.’ – Kim Jong-un

‘No other investment yields as great a return as the investment in education. An educated workforce is the foundation of every community and the future of every economy.’ – Brad Henry

‘Children are our future we must take care of them with maximum effort.’ – Naomi Campbell

‘As educators, we are only as effective as what we know. If we have no working knowledge of what students studied in previous years, how can we build on their learning? If we have no insight into the curriculum in later grades, how can we prepare learners for future classes?’ – Heidi Hayes Jacobs

‘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.’ – Zygmunt Bauman

‘Education, therefore, is a process of living and not a preparation for future living.’ – John Dewey

‘I know I’m going to blow one day. My life is doomed the way it is. I have no future.’ – Mike Tyson

‘The future has already arrived. It’s just not evenly distributed yet.’ – William Gibson

‘Leaders don’t look backwards to condemn what has already been done; they look forward to create a better future.’ – Mark Cuban

‘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.’ – John F. Kennedy

‘Have you not noticed that love is silence? It may be while holding the hand of another, or looking lovingly at a child, or taking in the beauty of an evening. Love has no past or future, and so it is with this extraordinary state of silence.’ – Jiddu Krishnamurti

‘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.’ – John Hancock

‘The future is purchased by the present.’ – Samuel Johnson

‘We should not fret for what is past, nor should we be anxious about the future; men of discernment deal only with the present moment.’ – Chanakya

‘Everyone goes through the ups and downs of living – fretting about the future, worrying about what happened. Music teaches us how to be in the moment.’ – David Sanborn

‘When asked if I am pessimistic or optimistic about the future, my answer is always the same: If you look at the science about what is happening on Earth and aren’t pessimistic, you don’t understand the data.’ – Paul Hawken

‘Young men, trust God, and make the future bright with blessing. Old men, trust God, and magnify him for all the mercies of the past.’ – Charles Spurgeon

‘We have to do with the past only as we can make it useful to the present and the future.’ – Frederick Douglass

‘With the past, I have nothing to do; nor with the future. I live now.’ – Ralph Waldo Emerson

‘I don’t think people are going to talk in the future. They’re going to communicate through eye contact, body language, emojis, signs.’ – Kanye West

‘When I was in Japan on tour in 2010, I felt like I was 30 years into the future. I love technology and they are so advanced with their phones, computers, everything. I think they had the iPhone way before we did in the U.S. I love gadgets, games, social media and I try to stay ahead on all that stuff, but they get it all first.’ – Soulja Boy

‘In the future, I’m sure there will be a lot more robots in every aspect of life. If you told people in 1985 that in 25 years they would have computers in their kitchen, it would have made no sense to them.’ – Rodney Brooks

‘Technology is the future, I have seen the third industrial revolution, and we are in the midst of the fourth industrial revolution.’ – N. Chandrababu Naidu

‘The trouble with our times is that the future is not what it used to be.’ – Paul Valery

‘Our children are our future and we must continue to nurture them and provide the best possible environment for them to grow and learn.’ – Jim Justice

‘Dissents speak to a future age.’ – Ruth Bader Ginsburg

‘Let the workers organize. Let the toilers assemble. Let their crystallized voice proclaim their injustices and demand their privileges. Let all thoughtful citizens sustain them, for the future of Labor is the future of America.’ – John L. Lewis

‘I think that the future of currency is digital, and Bitcoin has a good shot at being the currency of the future.’ – Adam Draper

‘You never know what the future brings.’ – Randy Jackson

‘Anybody who doesn’t see the impact of climate change is really, I would say, myopic. They don’t see the reality. It’s so evident that we are destroying Mother Earth. This is not the problem of one country or a few countries: it is the problem of mankind. We need to work together to stop this. Otherwise, our future generations will simply disappear.’ – Juan Manuel Santos

‘The future of advertising is the Internet.’ – Bill Gates

‘We – the current generation – have a moral responsibility to make the world better for future generations.’ – Priscilla Chan

‘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.’ – Amybeth McNulty

‘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.’ – Ellen Johnson Sirleaf

‘Even gang members imagine a future that doesn’t include gangs.’ – Greg Boyle

‘When all else is lost, the future still remains.’ – Christian Nestell Bovee

‘Solitude is not something you must hope for in the future. Rather, it is a deepening of the present, and unless you look for it in the present you will never find it.’ – Thomas Merton

‘Innovation is the calling card of the future.’ – Anna Eshoo

‘As a leader, I am tough on myself and I raise the standard for everybody; however, I am very caring because I want people to excel at what they are doing so that they can aspire to be me in the future.’ – Indra Nooyi

‘Your past is not your potential. In any hour you can choose to liberate the future.’ – Marilyn Ferguson

‘Ensuring quality higher education is one of the most important things we can do for future generations.’ – Ron Lewis

‘Why does everyone think the future is space helmets, silver foil, and talking like computers, like a bad episode of Star Trek?’ – Tracey Ullman

‘Before I leave this earth, I’m going to help people have a better future.’ – Giannis Antetokounmpo

‘The best prophet of the future is the past.’ – Lord Byron

‘Somebody who can reckon with the past, who can live with the past in the present, and move towards the future – that’s fabulous.’ – Bruce Springsteen

‘You are always free to change your mind and choose a different future, or a different past.’ – Richard Bach

‘The children have been a wonderful gift to me, and I’m thankful to have once again seen our world through their eyes. They restore my faith in the family’s future.’ – Jackie Kennedy

‘Promises are the uniquely human way of ordering the future, making it predictable and reliable to the extent that this is humanly possible.’ – Hannah Arendt

‘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.’ – Richard P. Feynman

‘Poetry is often the art of overhearing yourself say things you didn’t know you knew. It is a learned skill to force yourself to articulate your life, your present world or your possibilities for the future.’ – David Whyte

‘What we can afford least is to define the problem of future war as we would like it to be and, by doing so, introduce into our defense vulnerabilities based on self-delusion.’ – H. R. McMaster

‘If we intend to provide a better life, and a better world, for future generations, we can’t ignore the quality of the environment we leave them.’ – John Kasich

‘At my core, I know that the American Dream is about the opportunity to work hard to make your future.’ – Tammy Duckworth

‘I would feel more optimistic about a bright future for man if he spent less time proving that he can outwit Nature and more time tasting her sweetness and respecting her seniority.’ – E. B. White

‘We need nuclear energy now, and we will need it in the future.’ – Conor Lamb

‘By refocusing our space program on Mars for America’s future, we can restore the sense of wonder and adventure in space exploration that we knew in the summer of 1969. We won the moon race; now it’s time for us to live and work on Mars, first on its moons and then on its surface.’ – Buzz Aldrin

‘Science is the key to our future, and if you don’t believe in science, then you’re holding everybody back.’ – Bill Nye

‘I don’t think anybody anywhere can talk about the future of their people or of an organization without talking about education. Whoever controls the education of our children controls our future.’ – Wilma Mankiller

‘Fascism, the more it considers and observes the future and the development of humanity, quite apart from political considerations of the moment, believes neither in the possibility nor the utility of perpetual peace.’ – Benito Mussolini

‘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.’ – Rob Dyrdek

‘The future is made of the same stuff as the present.’ – Simone Weil

‘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.’ – Edgar Allan Poe

‘The Internet: transforming society and shaping the future through chat.’ – Dave Barry

‘I believe in the power of shared data and technology to help build a better future.’ – Paul Allen

‘If we examine our thoughts, we shall find them always occupied with the past and the future.’ – Blaise Pascal

‘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.’ – Alexis Herman

‘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.’ – Eckhart Tolle

‘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.’ – Mike Quigley

‘If every senator looks into the mirror and sees a future president, then every president looks into that same mirror and sees himself on Mount Rushmore.’ – Richard Cohen

‘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.’ – Owen D. Young

‘Of course you learn from certain moments, and you always get more and more experience, so maybe in the future you will do some different things, but in general, the basics always stay the same.’ – Max Verstappen

‘You don’t have to be a poet, you don’t have to be a politician or be in the White House to make an impact with your words. We all have this capacity to find solutions for the future.’ – Amanda Gorman

‘There’s an awful lot of future out there, and what you got to do, is you go to out and grab it, wrestle it to the ground, accept the challenges, and then decide. You’ve got the skills. You’ve got the knowledge. You’ve got the love, and you’re capable of moving forward and making a great life yourself.’ – Gene Kranz

‘I tell you the past is a bucket of ashes, so live not in your yesterdays, no just for tomorrow, but in the here and now. Keep moving and forget the post mortems; and remember, no one can get the jump on the future.’ – Carl Sandburg

‘The choice of whom to vote for in a general election is not only a choice of Prime Minister. It is a choice about the future of our country, the values we want it to stand for, the principles we want it to be governed by.’ – Nick Boles

‘Let us make future generations remember us as proud ancestors just as, today, we remember our forefathers.’ – Roh Moo-hyun

‘I know certainly that my parents sacrificed a lot to come to America, and to… start a new life for their family and their future families. At least with first-generation Asian-American immigrants, parents put so much risk in work and to provide the best for their children.’ – Jonny Kim

‘The future is going to be boring. The suburbanisation of the planet will continue, and the suburbanisation of the soul will follow soon after.’ – J. G. Ballard

‘People who live in the past generally are afraid to compete in the present. I’ve got my faults, but living in the past is not one of them. There’s no future in it.’ – Sparky Anderson

‘I think the teaching profession contributes more to the future of our society than any other single profession.’ – John Wooden

‘I only cast the actors and actresses I fall in love with – truly having an emotion for them, an anticipation and enthusiasm when seeing them – and I believe that my emotional confidence in them blends into chemistry. It’s always been like that, and I hope I won’t be wrong in the future.’ – Luca Guadagnino

‘Investing in science education and curiosity-driven research is investing in the future.’ – Ahmed Zewail

‘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.’ – Atifete Jahjaga

‘You need imagination in order to imagine a future that doesn’t exist.’ – Azar Nafisi

‘Right actions in the future are the best apologies for bad actions in the past.’ – Tryon Edwards

‘Higher education is a cornerstone of our state’s future.’ – Michelle Lujan Grisham

‘Chile is not a rich country in terms of gas, or oil or coal, but we are extremely rich in terms of the energies of the future.’ – Sebastian Pinera

‘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.’ – bell hooks

‘I believe the future is only the past again, entered through another gate.’ – Arthur Wing Pinero

‘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.’ – Rebecca Solnit

‘There have been ups and downs over the years, but that’s in the past, and now I’m just looking forward and focussed on the future ahead.’ – Jack Rodwell

‘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.’ – Thich Nhat Hanh

‘If this war is not fought with the greatest brutality against the bands both in the East and in the Balkans then in the foreseeable future the strength at our disposal will not be sufficient to be able to master this plague.’ – Wilhelm Keitel

‘Sustainable development is a fundamental break that’s going to reshuffle the entire deck. There are companies today that are going to dominate in the future simply because they understand that.’ – Francois-Henri Pinault

‘Trying to predict the future is a loser’s game.’ – Ken Liu

‘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.’ – Susan Sontag

‘The key to the future in an aging society is not found in increasing just our life span; we need to increase our health span at the same time.’ – Chuck Norris

‘The people in charge, globally, are maniacs. They are maniacs, and unless we do something about it these people are going to deprive us of a future.’ – Thom Yorke

‘Unemployment is sky-rocketing; deflation is in our future for the first time since the Great Depression. I don’t care whose fault it is, it’s the truth.’ – John Mellencamp

‘To write our constitution is for the past, the present, and the future to come together all at once in one single motion, in one single heave, one single cry. For we correct the errors of the past and chart a new course for the future, based on the experience of the present.’ – Ferdinand Marcos

‘Horror is the future. And you cannot be afraid. You must push everything to the absolute limit, or else life will be boring. People will be boring. Horror is like a serpent: always shedding its skin, always changing. And it will always come back. It can’t be hidden away like the guilty secrets we try to keep in our subconscious.’ – Dario Argento

‘When I was campaigning, I told the people if nothing happens under my mandate it will still be a positive thing because my mandate will be used as a rupture between the past and the future.’ – Michel Martelly

‘Success to us is not just a girl overseas going to school – but also leading her village to a better future.’ – Craig Kielburger

‘Whenever in future wars the battle is fought, armored troops will play the decisive role.’ – Heinz Guderian

‘In the far, far future, essentially all matter will have returned to energy. But because of the enormous expansion of space, this energy will be spread so thinly that it will hardly ever convert back to even the lightest particles of matter. Instead, a faint mist of light will fall for eternity through an ever colder and quieter cosmos.’ – Brian Greene

‘I find my earliest memories covering the anachronistic features of a previous incarnation. Clear recollections came to me of a distant life, a yogi amidst the Himalayan snows. These glimpses of the past, by some dimensionless link, also afforded me a glimpse of the future.’ – Paramahansa Yogananda

‘I have a great belief in the future of my people and my country.’ – Marian Anderson

‘You don’t buy experience at the pharmacy. You acquire it through games over time. Every player must go through that, but when the federation hired me, they told me they wanted new players and young players who will prepare for the future.’ – Agustin Castillo

‘Every man is his own ancestor, and every man is his own heir. He devises his own future, and he inherits his own past.’ – Frederick Henry Hedge

‘Properly defined, a startup is the largest group of people you can convince of a plan to build a different future.’ – Peter Thiel

‘Nothing is a bigger waste of time than regretting the past and worrying about the future.’ – James Meredith

‘An expectation is a future object, recognised as belonging to me.’ – Samuel Alexander

‘History is the best guide to the future.’ – Bill Dedman

‘Leaders establish the vision for the future and set the strategy for getting there.’ – John P. Kotter

‘The future of architecture is culture.’ – Philip Johnson

‘I had no future with the Dodgers, because I was too closely identified with Branch Rickey. After the club was taken over by Walter O’Malley, you couldn’t even mention Mr. Rickey’s name in front of him. I considered Mr. Rickey the greatest human being I had ever known.’ – Jackie Robinson

‘I think in order to move forward into the future, you need to know where you’ve been.’ – Charles Williams

‘The importance of money flows from it being a link between the present and the future.’ – John Maynard Keynes

‘The future which we hold in trust for our own children will be shaped by our fairness to other people’s children.’ – Marian Wright Edelman

‘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.’ – Dalai Lama

‘If you’re doing business, not that simple to only buy. You have to create something. You have to create something that never exist for the future.’ – Jack Ma

‘If I get married in the future, I want to have a relationship like friends with my other half. It’d be best if we can communicate often.’ – Lee Min-ho

‘We are having Internet Governance discussions and meetings and a very large number of people are discussing the future of the Internet who have no clue as to what the Internet is except that it is important and that they have to be involved.’ – Steve Crocker

‘If I advocate cautious optimism it is not because I do not have faith in the future but because I do not want to encourage blind faith.’ – Aung San Suu Kyi

‘We have to keep an eye on the future with a sense of the past in every passing moment of the present.’ – Amanda Harlech

‘To love someone is to isolate him from the world, wipe out every trace of him, dispossess him of his shadow, drag him into a murderous future. It is to circle around the other like a dead star and absorb him into a black light.’ – Jean Baudrillard

‘I think I’m going to be making country records for as long as I can see into the future. It’s much more down-home and real.’ – Neil Young

‘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.’ – Juliette Gordon Low

‘If education is always to be conceived along the same antiquated lines of a mere transmission of knowledge, there is little to be hoped from it in the bettering of man’s future. For what is the use of transmitting knowledge if the individual’s total development lags behind?’ – Maria Montessori

‘Everyone succumbs to finitude. I suspect I am not the only one who reaches this pluperfect state. Most ambitions are either achieved or abandoned; either way, they belong to the past. The future, instead of the ladder toward the goals of life, flattens out into a perpetual present.’ – Paul Kalanithi

‘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.’ – Cristiano Ronaldo

‘The future battle on the ground will be preceded by battle in the air. This will determine which of the contestants has to suffer operational and tactical disadvantages and be forced throughout the battle into adoption compromise solutions.’ – Erwin Rommel

‘Since we can’t know what knowledge will be most needed in the future, it is senseless to try to teach it in advance. Instead, we should try to turn out people who love learning so much and learn so well that they will be able to learn whatever needs to be learned.’ – John Holt

‘We know not of the future and cannot plan for it much.’ – Joshua Chamberlain

‘There are times when even the most potent governor must wink at transgression, in order to preserve the laws inviolate for the future.’ – Herman Melville

‘The necessary thing for anyone to be happy and contented as long as he lives is working for the ones who will come after him rather than working for himself… One can reach the true delight and happiness in the life only by working for the existence, honor, and happiness of the future generations.’ – Mustafa Kemal Ataturk

‘Where you come from now is much less important than where you’re going. More and more of us are rooted in the future or the present tense as much as in the past. And home, we know, is not just the place where you happen to be born. It’s the place where you become yourself.’ – Pico Iyer

‘After all, the past is our only real guide to the future, and historical analogies are instruments for distilling and organizing the past and converting it to a map by which we can navigate.’ – Michael Mandelbaum

‘Sometime in the future – 25, 50, 75 years hence – what will the situation be like then? By that time the Chinese will have the capability of delivery too.’ – Curtis LeMay

‘If the history of resistance to Darwinian thinking is a good measure, we can expect that long into the future, long after every triumph of human thought has been matched or surpassed by ‘mere machines,’ there will still be thinkers who insist that the human mind works in mysterious ways that no science can comprehend.’ – Daniel Dennett

‘We think of our future as anticipated memories.’ – Daniel Kahneman

‘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.’ – Charles Stanley

‘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.’ – Anand Mahindra

‘In the future, maybe quantum mechanics will teach us something equally chilling about exactly how we exist from moment to moment of what we like to think of as time.’ – Richard K. Morgan

‘A good financial plan is a road map that shows us exactly how the choices we make today will affect our future.’ – Alexa Von Tobel

‘If we were logical, the future would be bleak, indeed. But we are more than logical. We are human beings, and we have faith, and we have hope, and we can work.’ – Jacques Yves Cousteau

‘We have to transcend our differences to transform our future.’ – Antonio Guterres

‘NAFTA recognizes the reality of today’s economy – globalization and technology. Our future is not in competing at the low-level wage job; it is in creating high-wage, new technology jobs based on our skills and our productivity.’ – John F. Kerry

‘Future orientation is combined with a notion and expectation of progress, and nothing is impossible.’ – Alan Dundes

‘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.’ – Samantha Power

‘We have lost our vision for the future. Before, we say, ‘Nothing will be the same. Cars will fly, and we go to the end of the universe.’ We have this kind of naive but exciting idea of the future. Now, the vision has been reduced to ways to select our garbage and how to survive global warming.’ – Jean-Michel Jarre

‘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.’ – Jack Horner

‘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.’ – Bobby Fischer

‘I think people respond to dystopian stories because they’re ways of acting out anxieties that we have and fears that we have about the future. So much media’s coming at you over the Internet, your brain gets overloaded. You don’t know what to do with it. And one thing you can do with it is read a story.’ – Suzanne Collins

‘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.’ – Daniel Ek

‘I believe whatever smart, ambitious people are working on will be the trend of the future. I do think that it’s worth thinking critically about what the future will be.’ – Sam Altman

‘Our goal is to be able to serve our future customers. To do that, we need to build a strong and capable e-commerce business – but also to strengthen what we’re doing in stores.’ – Doug McMillon

‘Samsung’s future hinges on new businesses, new products and new technologies. We should make our corporate culture more open, flexible and innovative.’ – Lee Kun-hee

‘The trouble with the future is that it usually arrives before we’re ready for it.’ – Arnold H. Glasow

‘I always had all of these childhood fantasies about wanting to invent things, like a spaceship or a time machine. And everyone’s imagined what it would be like to go back in time and change things, to see what would happen if you had a different life. ‘Back to the Future’ fulfills all of those daydreams. It’s the perfect movie.’ – Sasha Grey

‘I can’t speak for the future. I have no crystal ball.’ – Michael Jordan

‘That’s where the future lies, in the youth of today.’ – Willie Stargell

‘There’s no need to look too far into the future or the past. Enjoy the moment.’ – Ashleigh Barty

‘Why should I be studying for a future that soon may not exist?’ – Greta Thunburg

‘If recycling is the future, then we must focus our efforts on mitigating negative impacts to our community while protecting our environment.’ – Tony Cardenas

‘Winners live in the present tense. People who come up short are consumed with future or past. I want to be living in the now.’ – Alex Rodriguez

‘Until the attack on Pearl Harbor, isolationism was an important, even dominant strand in U.S. politics. After the Second World War, this strand disappeared, smothered by the widespread and bipartisan conviction that the United States needed to stay engaged with the world to prevent future crises.’ – Anne Applebaum

‘Continue to speak out against all forms of injustice to yourselves and others, and you will set a mighty example for your children and for future generations.’ – Bernice King

‘I’m a big laser believer – I really think they are the wave of the future.’ – Courteney Cox

‘Two persons love in one another the future good which they aid one another to unfold.’ – Margaret Fuller

‘The future is much like the present, only longer.’ – Dan Quisenberry

‘I think, in the future, people are going to look back and say, ‘I can’t believe that gay and lesbian people had to fight to be able to get married.” – Edy Ganem

‘That’s what I do this for, to secure my family’s future. I don’t care about anything else. I’m able to spoil people, and that’s the best thing.’ – Conor McGregor

‘People don’t realize that we cannot forecast the future. What we can do is have probabilities of what causes what, but that’s as far as we go. And I’ve had a very successful career as a forecaster, starting in 1948 forward. The number of mistakes I have made are just awesome. There is no number large enough to account for that.’ – Alan Greenspan

‘We must not only imagine a better future for women, children, and persecuted minorities; we must work consistently to make it happen – prioritizing humanity, not war.’ – Nadia Murad

‘Why have we had to invent Eden, to live submerged in the nostalgia of a lost paradise, to make up utopias, propose a future for ourselves?’ – Julio Cortazar

‘You got to make the most of your second life. I was born Nayvadius, but now I’m Future. Should I dwell on what Nayvadius was supposed to be? I get a chance to experience life as something else. I wasn’t supposed to be like this.’ – Future

‘The future? Like unwritten books and unborn children, you don’t talk about it.’ – Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau

‘I believe life is a series of near misses. A lot of what we ascribe to luck is not luck at all. It’s seizing the day and accepting responsibility for your future. It’s seeing what other people don’t see And pursuing that vision.’ – Howard Schultz

‘I really do encourage other manufacturers to bring electric cars to market. It’s a good thing, and they need to bring it to market and keep iterating and improving and make better and better electric cars, and that’s what going to result in humanity achieving a sustainable transport future. I wish it was growing faster than it is.’ – Elon Musk

‘A dream collage is pictures of your goals. It is like your future photo album.’ – Bo Bennett

‘All along the untrodden paths of the future, I can see the footprints of an unseen hand.’ – Boyle Roche

‘I think my message to the politicians who have within their power the ability to make change is, ‘Do you really, really not care about the future of your great-grandchildren? Because if we let the world continue to be destroyed the way we are now, what’s the world going to be like for your great-grandchildren?” – Jane Goodall

‘When my father articulated his vision for the future, he expressed his wish that one day his children would be judged not by the color of their skin, but by the content of their character. This dream was not just about me and my siblings, but about our children and their children.’ – Martin Luther King III

‘I would like my architecture to inspire people to use their own resources, to move into the future.’ – Tadao Ando

‘The future depends entirely on what each of us does every day; a movement is only people moving.’ – Gloria Steinem

‘My own belief is that rather than getting involved in trying to change the reality of social-political things, creators can be involved in and express in different ways and be meaningful in different ways, so for me, it’s important to leave messages to people of the future and to be engaged with the people now.’ – Takashi Murakami

‘We know from chaos theory that even if you had a perfect model of the world, you’d need infinite precision in order to predict future events. With sociopolitical or economic phenomena, we don’t have anything like that.’ – Nassim Nicholas Taleb

‘Starting a new job can be nerve-racking , but it’s also exciting. You’re embarking on a new future, positioning yourself to write a fresh story on a clean slate.’ – Adena Friedman

‘Religion often partakes of the myth of progress that shields us from the terrors of an uncertain future.’ – Frank Herbert

‘I decide my future. I decide what I want to do. Nobody else. If I decide this will be my last year, maybe it is. If I decide it will be my last contract, I decide that. Nobody else. So I will decide when the moment is there.’ – Zlatan Ibrahimovic

‘The future is always a dystopia in movies.’ – Alex Cox

‘I am an enthusiast, but not a crank in the sense that I have some pet theories as to the proper construction of a flying machine. I wish to avail myself of all that is already known and then, if possible, add my mite to help on the future worker who will attain final success.’ – Wilbur Wright

‘My life is what it is, and I can’t change it. I can change the future, but I can’t do anything about the past.’ – Alex Trebek

‘The saga of a nation is the saga of its families written large. And whoever owns the family owns the future.’ – Tony Evans

‘Future. That period of time in which our affairs prosper, our friends are true and our happiness is assured.’ – Ambrose Bierce

‘The negotiation of city space has been made more difficult with the idea that redevelopment is an improvement for some vague future – but it’s never like that, is it? Once you get there, for economic reasons you have to generate the next project – so you’re immediately starting to dig up something else, and so it goes on.’ – Iain Sinclair

‘For every minute, the future is becoming the past.’ – Thor Heyerdahl

‘Just as we have the power to harm the ocean, we have the power to put in place policies and modify our own behavior in ways that would be an insurance policy for the future of the sea, for the creatures there, and for us, protecting special critical areas in the ocean.’ – Sylvia Earle

‘At every crossroads on the path that leads to the future, tradition has placed 10,000 men to guard the past.’ – Maurice Maeterlinck

‘I had faith in Israel before it was established, I have in it now. I believe it has a glorious future before it – not just another sovereign nation, but as an embodiment of the great ideals of our civilization.’ – Harry S Truman

‘Our most basic common link is that we all inhabit this planet. We all breathe the same air. We all cherish our children’s future. And we are all mortal.’ – John F. Kennedy

‘I take all of my life lessons, which some people might call ‘mistakes,’ and apply them to my future so that I keep growing.’ – Kimberly Caldwell

‘I need to make money for my family and my future family. I’m not a YOLO person.’ – Cardi B

‘Character robotics could plant the seed for robots that actually have empathy. So, if they achieve human level intelligence or, quite possibly, greater than human levels of intelligence, this could be the seeds of hope for our future.’ – David Hanson

‘The thing that really draws me and excited me about the future is the opportunity to be a part of kindling America’s passion for aerospace and space.’ – Victor J. Glover

‘Wisdom is the abstract of the past, but beauty is the promise of the future.’ – Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.

‘Don’t forget what I discovered that over ninety percent of all national deficits from 1921 to 1939 were caused by payments for past, present, and future wars.’ – Franklin D. Roosevelt

‘But for me, it is when a student has died. I find the death of a young person the most difficult and painful of times. To explain it to other young people, to see a bright future snuffed out, is just awful. I am haunted by those deaths.’ – Donna Shalala

‘The future of any corporation is as good as the value system of the leaders and followers in the organization.’ – N. R. Narayana Murthy

‘Most people are prisoners, thinking only about the future or living in the past. They are not in the present, and the present is where everything begins.’ – Carlos Santana

‘The vast possibilities of our great future will become realities only if we make ourselves responsible for that future.’ – Gifford Pinchot

‘If you are not able to do something, that is true for the present, not for the future. All the time there’s a chance to go a step further. Not to be frustrated.’ – Erno Rubik

‘To live only for some future goal is shallow. It’s the sides of the mountain that sustain life, not the top.’ – Robert M. Pirsig

‘Many of us crucify ourselves between two thieves – regret for the past and fear of the future.’ – Fulton Oursler

‘I no longer say I’m unemployed. I say I’m unemployable. It’s different. An unemployed suggests at a certain point in the future, you might be employed. That’s not the case with me. I’m unemployable, and unfortunately, that’s one of the bits of the web, in particular of Google.’ – Norman Finkelstein

‘If only America would realize that the art of Europe is finished – dead – and that America is the country of the art of the future, instead of trying to base everything she does on European traditions!’ – Marcel Duchamp

‘We have a close, unshakable bond between the United States and Israel, and between the American and Israeli people. We share common values and a commitment to a democratic future for the world, and we are both committed to a two-state solution. But that doesn’t mean that we’re going to agree.’ – Hillary Clinton

‘Together my friends, we will ride our ponies into a zombie-powered future.’ – Vermin Supreme

‘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.’ – Richard Jefferies

‘I’d like to think a baseball picture is somewhere in my future.’ – Garth Brooks

‘When I was interviewed after I got hired to replace Walter Alston, a future Hall of Famer, I was asked: ‘Don’t you feel pressure on you?’ I said: ‘Want to know something? I’m worried about the guy who’s going to have to replace me.” – Tommy Lasorda

‘Fighting is just something that’s gonna open doors for things to come in the future.’ – Kamaru Usman

‘You get a chance like that maybe once in your lifetime, and you are lucky to sustain it over that period of time. It doesn’t mean to say that whatever I do in the future has no substance to it – I may present some new material I’ve got, and there are definitely new angles of doing it – but I’m not looking to recreate another Led Zeppelin.’ – Jimmy Page

‘Listen, you know this: If there’s not a rebellious youth culture, there’s no culture at all. It’s absolutely essential. It is the future. This is what we’re supposed to do as a species, is advance ideas.’ – John Lydon

‘Keep looking up! I learn from the past, dream about the future and look up. There’s nothing like a beautiful sunset to end a healthy day.’ – Rachel Boston

‘If there is a future, it will be Green.’ – Petra Kelly

‘I am not interested in the past, except as the road to the future.’ – Gianni Versace

‘A people do not throw their geniuses away. And if they are thrown away, it is our duty as artists and as witnesses for the future to collect them again for the sake of our children and, if necessary, bone by bone.’ – Alice Walker

‘I’ve got big, big dreams for the future.’ – Margot Robbie

‘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.’ – Sanjay Gandhi

‘The bright future is that readers are accepting more varied forms of stories.’ – Chuck Palahniuk

‘I want our future leaders to know what’s possible and to be part of a world where diversity and gender equality aren’t special programs but the natural way of operating.’ – Pierre Nanterme

‘For the cause that lacks assistance, the wrong that needs resistance, for the future in the distance, and the good that I can do.’ – George Linnaeus Banks

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

‘Often, sustainability is discussed only in the context of energy. Energy sustainability is essential – but the word has a much broader meaning. It means long-term thinking about how we manage our businesses, invest in social spending, and plan for the future. This requires vision and leadership, and it requires citizen engagement.’ – Joe Kaeser

‘India has indeed a great and free future before her, in which she can make her special contribution to the well-being of mankind. The first and indispensable part of that contribution is to work with the United Nations for the defeat of fascism and of brutal aggression.’ – Stafford Cripps

‘Most farmers know that their children’s future will probably not be in agriculture, but they have a hard time imagining a different life.’ – Abhijit Banerjee

”Carpe Diem’ is a phrase that I try to embrace. It means seize the day, to make the most of the present and to give little thought to the past or future. In the time that I have here, I want to love and live life to the fullest while being a positive influence on others. And I want a full life for everyone.’ – Matt Czuchry

‘You never say never. There’s always a chance to do things in the future.’ – Nick Cummins

‘You never know what will happen in the future – I would never say ‘no’ to getting into MMA.’ – Amir Khan

‘Anniversaries are like birthdays: occasions to celebrate and to think ahead, usually among friends with whom one shares not only the past but also the future.’ – Zbigniew Brzezinski

‘Astrobiology is the science of life in the universe. It’s an attempt to scientifically deal with the question of whether or not we’re alone in the universe, looking at the past of life, the present of life, and the future of life. It’s an interdisciplinary study incorporating astronomy, biology, and the Earth sciences.’ – David Grinspoon

‘What a man is is an arrow into the future, and what a woman is is the place the arrow shoots off from.’ – Sylvia Plath

‘Education is not a tool for development – individual, community and the nation. It is the foundation for our future. It is empowerment to make choices and emboldens the youth to chase their dreams.’ – Nita Ambani

‘What you’re doing now, or have done in the past, need not determine what you can do next and in the future.’ – Ken Robinson

‘I think the important thing now is to have a celebration and then with determination move into our common, shared, different future.’ – Michael D. Higgins

‘You cannot fight against the future. Time is on our side.’ – William E. Gladstone

‘Because of poverty, we must adopt the capitalist means of production to develop our resources to get rich. However, if we ignore the issue of social justice at the beginning of China’s industrialization, we will sow the seeds of class warfare in the future.’ – Sun Yat-sen

‘I believe that investing in our children’s development from the earliest age is the single most important contribution we can make to the health and wellbeing of our citizens, their capacity and the future prosperity of our state.’ – Jay Weatherill

‘Children are our future and every child deserves to have an environment where they can learn and flourish and gain knowledge.’ – Lil Jon

‘Live in the present moment. The past and future are nonexistent. Only the present can be grasped or, better, embraced.’ – Stephen Hough

‘Studies have identified a significant ‘skills gap’ between what students are currently being taught and the skills employers are seeking in today’s global economy. Our children must be better prepared than they are now to meet the future challenges of our ever-changing world.’ – Stephen Covey

‘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?’ – Neil deGrasse Tyson

‘Once we agree on the future, the present will be much easier. A captain who does not know where he wants to sail, there is no wind on Earth that will bring him there. We have first to decide where we want to go, where we want to sail.’ – Ami Ayalon

‘If you are truly serious abut preparing your child for the future, don’t teach him to subtract teach him to deduct.’ – Fran Lebowitz

‘As entrepreneurs, we must constantly dream and have the conviction and obsession to transform our dreams into reality – to create a future that never existed before.’ – Clara Shih

‘Something has to change in the world. Without change, young people will have no future.’ – Donatella Versace

‘Does art have a future? Performance genres like opera, theater, music and dance are thriving all over the world, but the visual arts have been in slow decline for nearly 40 years. No major figure of profound influence has emerged in painting or sculpture since the waning of Pop Art and the birth of Minimalism in the early 1970s.’ – Camille Paglia

‘Happy accidents are real gifts, and they can open the door to a future that didn’t even exist. It’s kind of nice sometimes to set up something to encourage or allow happy accidents to happen.’ – David Lynch

‘When you face up to bad things in the past, the most important thing is not to allow them to happen today or in the future, and as storytellers, we must play our part in that.’ – Michelle Yeoh

‘Don’t be intimidated by people who seem to be experts. Hear their points of view and get their judgements. But at the end of day, you’ve got to make a judgement because it’s not their life that’s going to be affected so much as your future.’ – Robert Dallek

‘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.’ – Gal Gadot

‘I’m trying to get to a deep future, but in order to get to a deep future, I had to think about the deep past.’ – Mary Daly

‘In fact when you combine stem cell technology with the technology known as tissue engineering you can actually grow up entire organs, so as you suggest that sometime in the future you get in an auto accident and lose your kidney, we’d simply take a few skin cells and grow you up a new kidney. In fact this has already been done.’ – Robert Lanza

‘Longevity in this business is about being able to reinvent yourself or invent the future.’ – Satya Nadella

‘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.’ – Robert J. Sawyer

‘You’ve got to embrace the future. You can whine about it, but you’ve got to embrace it.’ – Matt Groening

‘I have frequently pointed out that the future belongs to nations with grains and not guns.’ – M. S. Swaminathan

‘Men and women are custodians of this society, and we both decide what’s going to happen for our future. I feel that very, very strongly.’ – Cillian Murphy

‘Everything is a railway junction where past and future are sliding over one another, not touching.’ – Timothy Morton

‘Peace is necessary. For justice, it is necessary. For hope, it is necessary, for our future.’ – Harry Belafonte

‘With us air people, the future of our nation is indissolubly bound up in the development of air power.’ – Billy Mitchell

‘Make sure to save for the future and keep making money! – Jam Master Jay’ – Jam Master Jay

‘I owe everything to Nirvana. But I can’t let that overshadow the future. For the first few years, I didn’t even want to talk about Nirvana. Partly because it was just painful to talk about losing Kurt but also because I wanted the Foo Fighters to mean something.’ – Dave Grohl

‘We need not be afraid of the future, for the future will be in our own hands.’ – Thomas Dewey

‘My family was, I think, a bit more radical than most Mormons, especially on the question of gender. So in my mind, growing up, there wasn’t ever any question of what my future would look like. I would get married when I was 17 or 18. And I would be given some corner of the farm, and my husband would put a house on it, and we would have kids.’ – Tara Westover

‘An author is a fool who, not content with boring those he lives with, insists on boring future generations.’ – Montesquieu

‘Everybody has to be able to participate in a future that they want to live for. That’s what technology can do.’ – Dean Kamen

‘I want to be the Mexican-American Oprah Winfrey. That’s a small goal, isn’t it? That’s something that I want. And of course not just to host, I want to OWN it! So, that’s in my future.’ – Jenni Rivera

‘Discontent, blaming, complaining, self-pity cannot serve as a foundation for a good future, no matter how much effort you make.’ – Eckhart Tolle

‘They might in the future more than ever before engage in hunting beavers.’ – Samuel de Champlain

‘If we care about the children, the grandchildren, the future generations, we need to make sure that they do not become the cannon fodder of the future.’ – Helen Thomas

‘Those few people who do respond to the dire conditions of the future – journalists, environmentalists, behavioral scientists – tend not to be powerful.’ – B. F. Skinner

‘If you invest in education and training of our young people, what you do is you increase the future economic capacity of the nation.’ – Anthony Albanese

‘Live life to the fullest, for the future is scarce.’ – Nick Carter

‘Chasing after the past is not going to lead you to the future you want.’ – Ad-Rock

‘A liberal is a man or a woman or a child who looks forward to a better day, a more tranquil night, and a bright, infinite future.’ – Leonard Bernstein

‘The fundamental dogma of Modernism – that, if the past is irrelevant to the future, then today is irrelevant to tomorrow – has created a throwaway society of disposable objects. That is sick.’ – Marcel Wanders

‘The problem with the future is that it keeps turning into the present.’ – Bill Watterson

‘I think there are hardships with anything you do. And for us, we have our fans, who give us so much love and support. So, that helps us push forth with whatever we are doing, and it will continue to do that in the future.’ – Jisoo

‘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.’ – James Dobson

‘While time lasts there will always be a future, and that future will hold both good and evil, since the world is made to that mingled pattern.’ – Dorothy L. Sayers

‘Life insurance became popular only when insurance companies stopped emphasizing it as a good investment and sold it instead as a symbolic commitment by fathers to the future well-being of their families.’ – James Surowiecki

‘The country that is more developed industrially only shows, to the less developed, the image of its own future.’ – Karl Marx

‘The potential for synthetic biology and biotechnology is vast; we all have an opportunity to create the future together.’ – Ryan Bethencourt

‘There are hurdles, there are handicaps, hardships you have to face in life, but you hope for a great future.’ – Anil Kapoor

‘The ultimate function of prophecy is not to tell the future, but to make it. Your successful past will block your visions of the future.’ – Joel A. Barker

‘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.’ – Al Gore

‘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.’ – Fela Kuti

‘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.’ – Neal Asher

‘It’s a question of whether we’re going to go forward into the future, or past to the back.’ – Dan Quayle

‘The future of work is really about people deciding to live and work in the way that they want.’ – Stacy Brown-Philpot

‘When I was pregnant with Future, one thing I learned quickly was, don’t ever let a pregnant lady be hungry, because when I was, I was like the Tasmanian Devil!’ – Ciara

‘We are living in a world of fear. The life of man today is corroded and made bitter by fear: fear of the future, fear of the hydrogen bomb, fear of ideologies. Perhaps this fear is a greater danger than the danger itself because it is fear, which drives men to act thoughtlessly, to act dangerously.’ – Sukarno

‘Anyone who is passionate about what they do will have a better chance of connecting with future generations than those who simply follow transient trends. At least their work will have a distinctive character, and this is what people respond to, I believe.’ – Giorgio Armani

‘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.’ – Bob Kahn

‘Global sustainability is now the only avenue to future inclusive progress that can deliver the Sustainable Development Goals and the Paris climate agreement.’ – Johan Rockstrom

‘I’m very hopeful. I am very optimistic about the future.’ – John Lewis

‘To design the future effectively, you must first let go of your past.’ – Charles J. Givens

‘Bahrain ‘s margin of freedom is growing day after day as we head into the future with steady steps.’ – Hamad bin Isa Al Khalifa

‘Solar energy is bound to be in our future. There’s a kind of inevitability about it.’ – Jim Inhofe

‘I invite you, citizens, to open your eyes and to give serious attention to the future. Reflect on the disasters which may ensue from longer obstinacy. Submit to lawful authority, if you wish to preserve the South untouched. Save your families and your property.’ – Toussaint Louverture

‘The theme of the Labor Department’s centennial is ‘Then, Now, Next.’ So in honoring Esther Peterson, we look not just to the past but to the future, acknowledging with honesty and a sense of purpose the lingering challenges we still face and the distance we’ve yet to travel before equality is truly a reality in the lives of all women.’ – Tom Perez

‘Even a brief interaction can change the way people think about themselves, their leaders, and the future. Each of those many connections you make has the potential to become a high point or a low point in someone’s day.’ – Douglas Conant

‘Corporate responsibility extends not only to the customers, the resources and the workers of the present, but also to those of the future.’ – Donella Meadows

‘It is the business of the future to be dangerous; and it is among the merits of science that it equips the future for its duties.’ – Alfred North Whitehead

‘The power to mould the future of the Republic will be in the hands of the journalists of future generations.’ – Joseph Pulitzer

‘Modern science says: ‘The sun is the past, the earth is the present, the moon is the future.’ From an incandescent mass we have originated, and into a frozen mass we shall turn. Merciless is the law of nature, and rapidly and irresistibly we are drawn to our doom.’ – Nikola Tesla

‘I think the future of this planet depends on humans, not technology, and we already have the knowledge – we’re kind of at the endgame with knowledge. But we’re nowhere near the endgame when it comes to our perception. We still have one foot in the dark ages.’ – Graham Hawkes

‘For 50 years, nuclear power stations have produced three products which only a lunatic could want: bomb-explosive plutonium, lethal radioactive waste and electricity so dear it has to be heavily subsidised. They leave to future generations the task, and most of the cost, of making safe sites that have been polluted half-way to eternity.’ – James Buchan

‘So while I was in college I did a little study on the freight industry, the air freight industry. And I looked at this company called Flying Tiger. And I actually put a thousand dollars in it and I remember I thought this air cargo was going to be a thing of the future.’ – Peter Lynch

‘I didn’t have many friends; I might not have had any friends. But it all turned out good in the end, because when you aren’t popular and you don’t have a social life, it gives you more time to focus on your future.’ – Madonna Ciccone

‘I don’t believe in regrets; I believe your future is in your tomorrows.’ – John Travolta

‘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.’ – Jay Inslee

‘I really believe in the idea of the future.’ – Zaha Hadid

‘My heroes, my dreams, and my future lay in Yankee Stadium. And they can’t take that away from me.’ – Derek Jeter

‘A lot of people tell me a lot of things about my conduct, my game, my future… but I try to stay away from their words of wisdom. I don’t let it distract me. On the field, you will be facing the ball alone. If you fail, you will the only one to blame. So, you should be the one deciding for yourself.’ – Virat Kohli

‘Most dystopian, classic and contemporary, paints a future world that puts a twist on present society – a future world that could plausibly happen.’ – Lauren DeStefano

‘If I wanted to know what a certain future would feel like to me, I would find someone who is already living that future. If I wonder what it’s like to become a lawyer or marry a busy executive or eat at a particular restaurant, my best bet is to find people who have actually done these things and see how happy they are.’ – Daniel Gilbert

‘No skill shapes a child’s future success in school or in life more than the ability to read.’ – Bob Riley

‘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.’ – Rudolf Steiner

‘As a kid, I’d go into the bathroom when I was having a tantrum. I’d be in the bathroom crying, studying myself in the mirror. I was preparing for future roles.’ – Adam Sandler

‘While day by day the overzealous student stores up facts for future use, he who has learned to trust nature finds need for ever fewer external directions. He will discard formula after formula, until he reaches the conclusion: Let nature take its course.’ – Larry Bird

‘People sacrifice the present for the future. But life is available only in the present. That is why we should walk in such a way that every step can bring us to the here and the now.’ – Thich Nhat Hanh

‘Kids are our future, and we hope baseball has given them some idea of what it is to live together and how we can get along, whether you be black or white.’ – Larry Doby

‘Your future takes precedence over your past. Focus on your future, rather than on the past.’ – Gary Ryan Blair

‘Reactionary: a man walking backwards with his face to the future.’ – Aneurin Bevan

‘Back in my mid-20s I was told I’d never be able to have children as I wasn’t having periods. Doctors tried to start up my monthly cycles, but when nothing worked, they actually offered me a hysterectomy. Without it, they said I might get ovarian cancer in the future. I chose not to have the operation, and am so glad I didn’t.’ – Jill Scott

‘There have to be reasons that you get up in the morning and you want to live. Why do you want to live? What’s the point? What inspires you? What do you love about the future? If the future does not include being out there among the stars and being a multi-planet species, I find that incredibly depressing.’ – Elon Musk

‘Shakespeare is practically our only link with the classic and the past. The future of education has much to do with whether we will be able to cling to him or not.’ – Allan Bloom

‘It would be wonderful to think that the future is unknown and sort of surprising.’ – Alan Rickman

‘The future belongs to God.’ – Charles Oliveira

‘The future of the Republican Party and the future of America is based on a values system and the issues that drive those values are on our side.’ – Tim Scott

‘When you deprive people of their right to live in dignity, to hope for a better future, to have control over their lives, when you deprive them of that choice, then you expect them to fight for these rights.’ – Queen Rania of Jordan

”The Handmaid’s Tale’ takes place in the near future, a dystopian future, and is based on the book by Margaret Atwood. It takes place in what was formerly part of the United States at a period of time when society has been taken over by a totalitarian theocracy. It’s about the women who live in subjugation.’ – Alexis Bledel

‘I would hope that, for me, regardless of what happens in my career in the future, I always want to maintain a level of humility. I think it’s so important to not lose yourself and to just understand that you’re a conduit.’ – Paul Wesley

‘As I’ve always said: The future lies ahead.’ – Pat Paulsen

‘The future is in our hands; we are masters of our own destiny.’ – Mauro Icardi

‘My colleagues and I have gone in the footsteps of our predecessors since the very first day we were called by our people to care for their future. We went any place, we looked for any avenue, we made any effort to bring about negotiations between Israel and its neighbors, negotiations without which peace remains an abstract desire.’ – Menachem Begin

‘You have to like the present; if not your life becomes secondhand, if you think it was better before. Or that it will be better in the future.’ – Karl Lagerfeld

‘You never know what can happen in the future.’ – Luka Doncic

‘Asian Pacific American Heritage Month provides us all an opportunity to reflect upon this community’s many contributions and to celebrate its bright future.’ – Nydia Velazquez

‘The secret to being a writer is that you have to write. It’s not enough to think about writing or to study literature or plan a future life as an author. You really have to lock yourself away, alone, and get to work.’ – Augusten Burroughs

‘Our imagination is the only limit to what we can hope to have in the future.’ – Charles Kettering

‘It sucks that I had to get engaged and then go through an excruciating breakup and let go of this future I had planned for myself with another person. But the hour that ended up being ‘Quarter-Life Crisis’ was different and, in my opinion, so much better than what it would have been if I hadn’t gone through that right before.’ – Taylor Tomlinson

‘Hungary does not need a single migrant for the economy to work or the population to sustain itself or for the country to have a future.’ – Viktor Orban

‘Your ability to shape your future depends on how well you communicate where you want to be when you get there. When ideas are communicated effectively, people follow and change.’ – Nancy Duarte

‘No one is going to try to fill my mother’s shoes, what she did was fantastic. It’s about making your own future and your own destiny and Kate will do a very good job of that.’ – Prince William

‘I hope people can envision a future where we as humans have robots that are alongside us, assisting in our daily lives.’ – Grant Imahara

‘My mission is a cosmic mission. My concern is for all of humanity, and not only this present world, but the world hereafter. My mission penetrates the past, present, and future, and encompasses all humanity.’ – Sun Myung Moon

‘The winter solstice has always been special to me as a barren darkness that gives birth to a verdant future beyond imagination, a time of pain and withdrawal that produces something joyfully inconceivable, like a monarch butterfly masterfully extracting itself from the confines of its cocoon, bursting forth into unexpected glory.’ – Gary Zukav

‘I think the future for solar energy is bright.’ – Ken Salazar

‘I did a lot of great things in the past, but I live for today and for the future.’ – Vinnie Paul

‘Business, more than any other occupation, is a continual dealing with the future; it is a continual calculation, an instinctive exercise in foresight.’ – Henry R. Luce

‘What I do is I keep trying to focus on what I am doing now, instead of wasting time thinking about what went wrong in the past or will happen in the future.’ – HoYeon Jung

‘The future may be made up of many factors but where it truly lies is in the hearts and minds of men. Your dedication should not be confined for your own gain, but unleashes your passion for our beloved country as well as for the integrity and humanity of mankind.’ – Li Ka-shing

‘Nobody can see into the future. Nobody knows what going to go on.’ – Don Mattingly

‘Children have neither a past nor a future. Thus they enjoy the present, which seldom happens to us.’ – Jean de la Bruyere

‘We are the only beings on the planet who lead such rich internal lives that it’s not the events that matter most to us, but rather, it’s how we interpret those events that will determine how we think about ourselves and how we will act in the future.’ – Tony Robbins

‘For sure, life takes many twists and turns, and one never knows what the future might hold.’ – Angel Di Maria

‘A healthy vision of the future is not possible without an accurate knowledge of the past.’ – Daisaku Ikeda

‘The future will be the child of the past and the present, even if a rebellious child.’ – George Crumb

‘We are not here to curse the darkness, but to light the candle that can guide us thru that darkness to a safe and sane future.’ – John F. Kennedy

‘As one went to Europe to see the living past, so one must visit Southern California to observe the future.’ – Alison Lurie

‘In Korean, the word ‘future’ is made up of two parts. The first part means ‘not,’ and the second means ‘to come.’ In that sense, ‘future’ means something that will not come. This is to say the future is now, and our now is us living our future.’ – RM

‘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.’ – John Hoeven

‘We can pay our debts to the past by putting the future in debt to ourselves.’ – John Buchan

‘The best preparation for the future is the present well seen to, and the last duty done.’ – George MacDonald

‘I believe that the future of humans, and the future of Earth, depends on space exploration. That’s not a French problem, or a problem for Alabama: it’s a planet-wide problem. International cooperation is crucial.’ – John M. Grunsfeld

‘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.’ – Ray Dalio

‘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.’ – Tulsi Tanti

‘Most of us enter adult life with great ambitions for how we will start our own ventures, but the harshness of life wears us down. We settle into some job and slowly give in to the illusion that our bosses care about us and our future, that they spend time thinking of our welfare.’ – Robert Greene

‘From working in my mum’s tiny chemist shop to my experience building large businesses, I have seen how we should support free enterprise and innovation to ensure Britain has a stronger future.’ – Rishi Sunak

‘Stephen King in many respects is a wonderful writer. He has made a contribution. People in the future will be able to pick up Stephen King’s books and learn a lot about who we were by reading those books.’ – Anne Rice

‘There are two futures, the future of desire and the future of fate, and man’s reason has never learned to separate them.’ – John Desmond Bernal

‘For all my years in public life, I have believed that America must sail toward the shores of liberty and justice for all. There is no end to that journey, only the next great voyage. We know the future will outlast all of us, but I believe that all of us will live on in the future we make.’ – Edward Kennedy

‘Dystopian novels help people process their fears about what the future might look like; further, they usually show that there is always hope, even in the bleakest future.’ – Lauren Oliver

‘I desire no future that will break the ties with the past.’ – George Eliot

‘Freedom is secured every day by our men and women in uniform. We must build a future worthy of their sacrifice.’ – Nancy Pelosi

‘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.’ – Brian Tracy

‘Together, we can nurture the talent of the future and bring the empowering force of music and the arts to a new generation.’ – Andrew Lloyd Webber

‘As a leader, your job is to share your vision with your followers and either warn them of danger or highlight opportunities coming in the future.’ – Lewis Howes

‘Every single immigrant we have, undocumented or documented, is a future American. That’s just the truth of it.’ – Junot Diaz

‘That man is prudent who neither hopes nor fears anything from the uncertain events of the future.’ – Anatole France

‘In the future society, i.e. the communist society that we want to build, we are not going to establish charity institution, as there shall be no needy or poor, and no alms-giving and alms-taking.’ – Bhagat Singh

‘Let him who would enjoy a good future waste none of his present.’ – Roger Babson

‘Privacy is dead. We live in a world of instantaneous, globalised gossip. The idea that there is a ‘private’ sphere and a ‘public’ sphere for world leaders, politicians or anyone in the public eye is slowly disintegrating. The death of privacy will have a profound effect on who our leaders will be in the future.’ – Gavin Esler

‘We have no right to assume that any physical laws exist, or if they have existed up until now, that they will continue to exist in a similar manner in the future.’ – Max Planck

‘The blame for election interference belongs to the criminals who committed election interference. We need to work together to hold the perpetrators accountable, and keep moving forward to preserve our values, protect against future interference, and defend America.’ – Rod Rosenstein

‘Anxiety is a really crippling condition, and I suffer with it myself, and I feel for anyone who suffers from it. The way that I deal with it is try as much as possible to stay in the moment to not think about the past and not think about what’s coming up in the future: to try and just seize the moment as much as possible.’ – James Arthur

‘I know that together we can and will help shape the future of this country for the better.’ – Sharice Davids

‘Nobody knows the future with certainty. We can, however, identify ongoing patterns of change.’ – Alvin Toffler

‘I got a bright future ahead of me.’ – Justin Bieber

‘Architecture is measured against the past; you build in the future, and you try to imagine the future.’ – Richard Rogers

‘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.’ – Ed Markey

‘We don’t know the probabilities of future events. Still, you have to take action, and so you do it on gut feeling. That’s the world we live in.’ – Robert J. Shiller

‘Yes, prudently invested contributions to the Social Security fund may bring greater dividends, but those contributions would also face a greater risk. It would be like gambling. We should not gamble with the investments and the future of the citizens of this land.’ – Daniel Inouye

‘My business is to prevent the future.’ – Ray Bradbury

‘I just want to be like a good example to somebody in the future.’ – Megan Thee Stallion

‘I invented an algorithm for starting micro turbo-molecular vacuum pumps to be used in science instruments on a future Mars rover.’ – Christina Koch

‘But blind to former as to future fate, what mortal knows his pre-existent state? – Alexander Pope’ – Alexander Pope

‘Creativity has always depended on openness and flexibility, so let us hope for more of both in the future.’ – Siri Hustvedt

‘And all your future lies beneath your hat.’ – John Oldham

‘Richard Nixon made a toast to me as a future Prime Minister of Canada when I was 4 months old, sitting as a centerpiece in the middle of a table as my father had plonked me down there. It was more about politeness than any great vision.’ – Justin Trudeau

‘Five million Jews are regarding me as a traitor, but six billion people around the world think me as a hero and a good man who bring the message to all the human beings that we should survive and prevent the use of nuclear weapons and to prevent the nuclear preparations and to prevent nuclear war in the future.’ – Mordechai Vanunu

‘We need to think of the future and the planet we are going to leave to our children and their children.’ – Kofi Annan

‘I have no illusions of the future. Or maybe it’s all illusion. I don’t know. I’ve always been ready for it.’ – Gord Downie

‘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.’ – Edgar Fiedler

‘An accurate knowledge of the past of a country is necessary for everyone who would understand its present, and who desires to judge of its future.’ – Annie Besant

‘The future hasn’t happened yet and the past is gone. So I think the only moment we have is right here and now, and I try to make the best of those moments, the moments that I’m in.’ – Annie Lennox

‘This time, instead of moving oceans and healing planets, let’s get our bills in order and pay down the debt so we control our own future.’ – Artur Davis

‘Future is mobile computing – smartphones and tablets are just elements of it. The industry is on the verge of a whole new paradigm.’ – Thorsten Heins

‘Past success is no guarantee of future success, so I have learned to be an entrepreneur. I began to produce and direct my own projects.’ – Ian Ziering

‘If you’ve been betrayed by a spouse or a partner, it’s much easier to focus on causing that person pain than it is to turn forward and actually create a life that’s worthy of you in the future.’ – Martha Nussbaum

‘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.’ – Stephen Fry

‘Every one rushes elsewhere and into the future, because no one wants to face one’s own inner self.’ – Michel de Montaigne

‘Our investments in social justice and basic needs are as vital to our future as fiscal and macroeconomic reforms. A nation deeply divided will not stand. And it certainly will not move forward.’ – Gloria Macapagal Arroyo

‘What is history? An echo of the past in the future; a reflex from the future on the past.’ – Victor Hugo

‘The opening of space to human development and settlement is the most important activity of the human species. From hope to health, from wonder to wealth, the environment, and the very act of living, space is the future.’ – Rick Tumlinson

‘I’m most passionate about personalization. I firmly believe that personalized experiences with brands will most drive loyalty and relevance for customers in the future.’ – Katrina Lake

‘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).’ – Steven Crowder

‘I have a very, very good life. I’m grateful for all of my friends, my family and the life that I have, and the possibilities in my future.’ – Raquel Welch

‘As for the United States’ future in Afghanistan, it will be fire and hell and total defeat, God willing, as it was for their predecessors – the Soviets and, before them, the British.’ – Mohammed Omar

‘Gay people – generally speaking – have a responsibility to our own community and to future generations of gay people to come out, if and when we feel that we can.’ – Rachel Maddow

‘Education is the investment our generation makes in the future.’ – Mitt Romney

‘I think there is a general unrest or curiosity about what a human future is going to be like, and whether the way we’re living is even sustainable.’ – Brit Marling

‘Language is the armory of the human mind, and at once contains the trophies of its past and the weapons of its future conquests.’ – Samuel Taylor Coleridge

‘Our national future does not demand we revise and malign our past.’ – Michael J. Knowles

‘Exploring and colonizing Mars can bring us new scientific understanding of climate change, of how planet-wide processes can make a warm and wet world into a barren landscape. By exploring and understanding Mars, we may gain key insights into the past and future of our own world.’ – Buzz Aldrin

‘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.’ – Bobby Seale

‘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.’ – Liza Minnelli

‘The practice of law requires both continuity and growth – a deep understanding of legal principles born of reason, tradition, and experience and tested by time, but also a mind alert to present needs and the future consequences of public and private legal decisions.’ – Diane S. Sykes

‘In our first decade, I interviewed about five thousand people in pursuit of the talent that would create our future. As our success grew, we became known across the four corners of finance not just for our outstanding returns, but also for our outstanding people.’ – Kenneth C. Griffin

‘Look at anyone’s bookcase at home, no matter how modest, and you’re going to find a book that contains wisdom or ideas or a language that’s at least a thousand years old. And the idea that humans have created a mechanism to time travel, to hurl ideas into the future, it sort of bookends. Books are a time machine.’ – Jonathan Nolan

‘We need to tell young people that America was built by men and women of all colors and that the future of this country is dependent on the participation of all of our citizens.’ – Walter Dean Myers

‘So not only do we need to deal with threats as they emerge, we have to be thinking in anticipation of future threats, and the things we do have to be things that enable the system to continue to work.’ – Janet Napolitano

‘Any purchase is one for the future. If you buy a refrigerator, you are making a commitment to the future so that you have food to eat for the next ten years.’ – Kenneth Arrow

‘Whether people like it or not, China is incredibly important to the future of mankind. For me, this is something that we all need to have intelligent discussions about in America, in Britain, in Europe.’ – Damon Albarn

‘The world is full of people whose notion of a satisfactory future is, in fact, a return to the idealised past.’ – Robertson Davies

‘Peace is what enables development and is critical in providing opportunities to young people. Efforts to preserve peace are absolutely vital in bringing prosperity and hope for the future.’ – Kim Yuna

‘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.’ – Valerie Jarrett

‘If you take away people’s identity and their ability through the ballot box to determine their future, don’t be surprised if they turn to extremes or violence or anything else.’ – Nigel Farage

‘I believe coding is fundamental to literacy in the future.’ – Craig Federighi

‘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.’ – Eckhart Tolle

‘I have always been a fan of ‘Star Trek.’ I love Gene Roddenberry’s vision of the future.’ – LeVar Burton

‘Man can and must prevent the tragedy of famine in the future instead of merely trying with pious regret to salvage the human wreckage of the famine, as he has so often done in the past.’ – Norman Borlaug

‘Writing about the future and the past is less a way of dramatizing change than of showing, by way of contrast, what abides.’ – Walter Kirn

‘I don’t know where streaming will go in the future. The analytics that we’re seeing tell us that streaming is the next thing, and downloads are going down. I feel like with the history of this platform, from vinyl to where we are now, it just seems like the next logical step.’ – Jay-Z

‘Pan Sonic sound like they are playing music of the future made with the electric instruments of yesterday.’ – Johann Johannsson

‘We cannot always assure the future of our friends; we have a better chance of assuring our future if we remember who our friends are.’ – Henry Kissinger

‘One of the matters that must be addressed is that Rwanda and Uganda have to leave the Democratic Republic of the Congo. We’re also supporting processes to ensure that the political dialogue among the Congolese themselves takes place so that the people there can decide their future.’ – Thabo Mbeki

‘In my books and in romance as a genre, there is a positive, uplifting feeling that leaves the reader with a sense of encouragement and hope for a brighter future – or a brighter present.’ – Debbie Macomber

‘The work of art shows people new directions and thinks of the future. The house thinks of the present.’ – Adolf Loos

‘I’m really hopeful about the future of space exploration and human spaceflight. Civilization as we know it has been defined by exploration. You know, we need to go off and find out what’s around the next corner and what’s just beyond what we already know. It’s part of our being; it’s part of our moral fiber to go off and explore.’ – Alan G. Poindexter

‘We need to be vigilant about how we design and train these machine-learning systems, or we will see ingrained forms of bias built into the artificial intelligence of the future.’ – Kate Crawford

‘To make riot grrrl move into the future in a new way with a bunch of new names and a bunch of new energy, younger people have to learn about it and apply it to their own lives and own modern conversation. And they are.’ – Kathleen Hanna

‘Pakistan’s future viability, stability and security lie in empowering its people and building political institutions. My goal is to prove that the fundamental battle for the hearts and minds of a generation can be accomplished only under democracy.’ – Benazir Bhutto

‘The research rat of the future allows experimentation without manipulation of the real world. This is the cutting edge of modeling technology.’ – John Spencer

‘The basic DNA we’ve got to implant in leaders now is adaptability: not to get wedded to the solution to a particular problem, because not only the problem but the solution changes day to day. Creating people who are hardwired for that is going to be our challenge for the future.’ – Stanley A. McChrystal

‘When I was born in 1942, World War II was still going. And I began to realize when I became a young adult that if we don’t teach our kids a better way of relating to their fellow human beings, the very future of humanity on the planet is in jeopardy.’ – Graham Nash

‘We make the future sustainable when we invest in the poor, not when we insist on their suffering.’ – Bill Gates

‘Future is gonna be remembered forever. Future just has so much quality music.’ – Lil Peep

‘Yes, I have cancer and it might not go away, but I can still have a future because life goes on.’ – Kris Carr

‘Either people cling to the past and refuse to advance their ways, or they’re always looking to future and not appreciating what’s in front of them right now.’ – JPEGMAFIA

‘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.’ – Wilfrid Laurier

‘The truth is my idea has been to always stay at Barcelona and see out the rest of my career here. Like I always say, one doesn’t know what can happen in the future, but if it were up to me to decide, I would stay at Barcelona for the rest of my career.’ – Lionel Messi

‘My parents taught me to never give up and to always believe that my future could be whatever I dreamt it to be.’ – Susana Martinez

‘Have a well-thought financial plan that is not dependent upon correctly guessing what will happen in the future.’ – Barry Ritholtz

‘I want to believe that those who have been appointed to accomplish this mission will be totally committed, devoting all their skills and determination to their work. I urge you to lend them your support so that, together, we can build that bright future worthy of our country.’ – Paul Biya

‘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.’ – Carl Jung

‘I would say that normally it is the creative minorities that determine the future, and in this sense, the Catholic Church must understand itself as a creative minority that has a heritage of values that are not things of the past, but a very living and relevant reality.’ – Pope Benedict XVI

‘I believe that as a nation we must have a bipartisan discussion about how to best preserve and protect Social Security for our seniors and for future generations of Americans.’ – Steve Israel

‘We look forward with great anticipation to see the course that the National Space Council charts for America’s future in space.’ – Bruce Pittman

‘When you plant something, you invest in a beautiful future amidst a stressful, chaotic and, at times, downright appalling world.’ – Monty Don

‘These interviews, sometimes they jog your memories, like what you were doing when you were 10 years old. They’re always searching for your past; they can keep you living there. I want to go on to the future.’ – Marvin Hagler

‘I think the future of journalism is going to be a battle between caution and recklessness. And I think a little bit of recklessness is a good thing, as some of the WikiLeaks cables proved.’ – Alex Gibney

‘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.’ – Yoko Ono

‘We can chart our future clearly and wisely only when we know the path which has led to the present.’ – Adlai Stevenson I

‘Armageddon is not around the corner. This is only what the people of violence want us to believe. The complexity and diversity of the world is the hope for the future.’ – Michael Palin

‘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.’ – Ban Ki-moon

‘Living a frugal lifestyle gives you the opportunity to invest more money towards your future.’ – John Rampton

‘Creating life at the speed of light is part of a new industrial revolution. Manufacturing will shift from centralised factories to a distributed, domestic manufacturing future, thanks to the rise of 3D printer technology.’ – Craig Venter

‘We’re really building, at the highest level, the future of entertainment. And we’re involved in the convergence of social communication and storytelling and we’re doing it in immersive, 3D, social environment.’ – David Baszucki

‘The people of the future will say, meat-eaters in disgust and regard us in the same way that we regard cannibals and cannibalism.’ – Dennis Weaver

‘I do believe the most important thing I can do now is to help young people understand the past and prepare for the future.’ – John C. Stennis

‘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?” – Elon Musk

‘My message is that if we do not care about the climate crisis and if we do not act now then almost no other question is going to matter in the future.’ – Greta Thunburg

‘To put it mildly, nothing can be turned and worn inside out with greater ease than one’s notion of social justice, public conscience, a better future, etc.’ – Joseph Brodsky

‘Every great work of art has two faces, one toward its own time and one toward the future, toward eternity.’ – Daniel Barenboim

‘I am joining the hundreds of thousands who shall be marching in the Virtual March on Washington to Stop Global Warming in order to demonstrate the concern that we all hold for the future of our planet and all the living things – flora, fauna, human and animal – that exist upon it.’ – Walter Cronkite

‘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.’ – Bernardo Bertolucci

‘The science of politics is the one science that is deposited by the streams of history, like the grains of gold in the sand of a river; and the knowledge of the past, the record of truths revealed by experience, is eminently practical, as an instrument of action and a power that goes to making the future.’ – John Dalberg-Acton

‘I’m happy, I’m in a good place, I’m looking forward to my future.’ – Katy Perry

‘Our ideals, laws and customs should be based on the proposition that each generation in turn becomes the custodian rather than the absolute owner of our resources – and each generation has the obligation to pass this inheritance on in the future.’ – Alberto Moravia

‘The present moment is changing so fast that we often do not notice its existence at all. Every moment of mind is like a series of pictures passing through a projector. Some of the pictures come from sense impressions. Others come from memories of past experiences or from fantasies of the future.’ – Henepola Gunaratana

‘For most of the world, civil and political rights… come as luxuries that are far away in the future.’ – Andrew Young

‘When you destroy a population, once femicide happens, we’re going to see the end of humanity, because I don’t know how you sustain a future without vitalised women.’ – Eve Ensler

‘In fact, I argue that the future of advertising, whatever the technology, will be to associate each brand with one word. This is one word equity. It’s the modern equivalent of having the best site on the high street, except the location is in the mind.’ – Maurice Saatchi

‘The first principle of contract negotiations is don’t remind them of what you did in the past – tell them what you’re going to do in the future.’ – Stan Musial

‘Future generations are not going to ask us what political party were you in. They are going to ask what did you do about it, when you knew the glaciers were melting.’ – Martin Sheen

‘You will see – in the future, I will live by my watercolors.’ – Winslow Homer

‘In the past the man has been first; in the future the system must be first… The first object of any good system must be that of developing first class men.’ – Frederick W. Taylor

‘With respect to the environment in our state and our state’s future – in addition to water which is very important here – I think it is crucial for him to make a sincere commitment to energy efficiency, fuel efficiency, by helping us to produce those cars of the future.’ – Jennifer Granholm

‘One of the primary reasons why the human brain has evolved to look so far into the future is so that we can take actions in the present that will bring us to a better future rather than a worse one.’ – Daniel Goldstein

‘It’s a very difficult business, and I’m very interested in the future of it after I’m gone, and I thought that if I can’t produce a strong management team here myself, and I can find better management elsewhere, then I should sell it.’ – Harry Triguboff

‘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.’ – Bernard Arnault

‘I have seen the future, and it is much like the present, only longer.’ – Dan Quisenberry

‘I think that, hundreds of years from now, if people invent a technology that we haven’t heard of yet, maybe a computer could turn evil. But the future is so uncertain. I don’t know what’s going to happen five years from now. The reason I say that I don’t worry about AI turning evil is the same reason I don’t worry about overpopulation on Mars.’ – Andrew Ng

‘Foreknowledge of the future makes it possible to manipulate both enemies and supporters.’ – Raymond Aron

‘There can be no darker or more devastating tragedy than the death of man’s faith in himself and in his power to direct his future.’ – Saul Alinsky

‘It’s absolutely clear that whatever cruel and unusual punishments may – may mean with regard to future things, such as death by injection or the electric chair, it’s clear that – that the death penalty, in and of itself, is not considered cruel and unusual punishment.’ – Antonin Scalia

‘You have to risk failure to succeed. The important thing is not to make one single mistake that will jeopardize the future.’ – An Wang

‘A new, a vast, and a powerful language is developed for the future use of analysis, in which to wield its truths so that these may become of more speedy and accurate practical application for the purposes of mankind than the means hitherto in our possession have rendered possible.’ – Ada Lovelace

‘Education is the key to the future.’ – Alek Wek

‘Sometimes your disappointments make you a stronger person for the future.’ – Blanka Vlasic

‘Use your lives wisely, my friends, and conserve these precious freedoms for future generations.’ – Ted Nugent

‘As for the future, we are equally determined to explore all possibilities of getting rid, once and for all, of the huge Arab minority which originally threatened us.’ – Moshe Sharett

‘All you have to do is drive by the empty tennis courts and basketball courts and compare them to the skate parks… c’mon people, get with the program – the future is now! – Jeff Ament’ – Jeff Ament

‘We live trapped, between the churned-up and examined past and a future that waits for our work.’ – Anna Freud

‘Together we will act to bring about national reconciliation, secure Malaysia’s economic future, and build a stronger, more harmonious society.’ – Najib Razak

‘It’s always relevant – moving forward into the future and finding out who you are. I think those themes never get stale.’ – Joshua Henry

‘I am incredibly bad at predicting the future; I am only smart enough to observe the present and listen to my intuition about tendencies.’ – Rem Koolhaas

‘Children are the world’s future, and we need to take care of them like we would any precious resource.’ – Ziggy Marley

‘I haven’t really made plans for the future; I’m just enjoying the moment, going with the flow. I haven’t really had time to mortify myself thinking about the future.’ – Yalitza Aparicio

‘It is not predictions but plans that make the future. If you want predictions, it is because you do not have the ability to make a plan and fulfill it.’ – Jaggi Vasudev

‘Only through acknowledgment of the erasure and void of Jewish life can the history of Berlin and Europe have a human future.’ – Daniel Libeskind

‘Becoming an adult means leaving the world of your parents and starting to make your way toward the future that you will share with your peers.’ – Alison Gopnik

‘The artist is an educator of artists of the future who are able to understand and in the process of understanding perform unexpected – the best – evolutions.’ – Saul Steinberg

‘Prayer doesn’t work because someone out there is listening, it works because someone in here is listening. I’ve paid attention. I’ve pictured what I want to happen in my life. I’ve meditated extensively on my family, my future, my past actions and what did and didn’t work for me about them.’ – Adam Savage

‘We owe it to our children to give them a dignified and hopeful future.’ – Giorgio Napolitano

‘I have a lack of fear, whereas in the past the fear of failure was a powerful motivator. Anyway, I have great expectations for the future, but I just don’t know if I’m the monarch of all I survey.’ – Sylvester Stallone

‘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.’ – Denis Waitley

‘Commemorations can stimulate debate, which will ultimately lead to a greater understanding of the events of our ‘through-other’ history and to shape a better future.’ – Martin McGuinness

‘We can choose a future where we export more products and outsource fewer jobs. After a decade that was defined by what we bought and borrowed, we’re getting back to basics, and doing what America has always done best: We’re making things again.’ – Barack Obama

‘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.’ – Wayne Dyer

‘You know, nothing is more important than education, because nowhere are our stakes higher; our future depends on the quality of education of our children today.’ – Arnold Schwarzenegger

‘Every child matters. If we fail our children, we are bound to fail our present, our future, faith, cultures, and civilisations as well.’ – Kailash Satyarthi

‘Unless one is able to live fully in the present, the future is a hoax.’ – Alan Watts

‘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.’ – Elie Wiesel

‘The future is like heaven, everyone exalts it, but no one wants to go there now.’ – James Baldwin

‘Everyone here has the sense that right now is one of those moments when we are influencing the future.’ – Steve Jobs

‘To live in the light of a new day and an unimaginable and unpredictable future, you must become fully present to a deeper truth – not a truth from your head, but a truth from your heart; not a truth from your ego, but a truth from the highest source.’ – Debbie Ford

‘We are a people in a quandary about the present. We are a people in search of our future. We are a people in search of a national community.’ – Barbara Jordan

‘Everything you need for better future and success has already been written. And guess what? All you have to do is go to the library.’ – Henri Frederic Amiel

‘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.’ – Jurgen Klopp

‘It is up to us to live up to the legacy that was left for us, and to leave a legacy that is worthy of our children and of future generations.’ – Christine Gregoire

‘Without culture, and the relative freedom it implies, society, even when perfect, is but a jungle. This is why any authentic creation is a gift to the future.’ – Albert Camus

‘The human brain now holds the key to our future. We have to recall the image of the planet from outer space: a single entity in which air, water, and continents are interconnected. That is our home.’ – David Suzuki

‘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.’ – Regina Brett

‘I live for the moment – not the future, not the past.’ – MS Dhoni

‘A women who doesn’t wear perfume has no future.’ – Coco Chanel

‘I believe in the future of AI changing the world. The question is, who is changing AI? It is really important to bring diverse groups of students and future leaders into the development of AI.’ – Fei-Fei Li

‘I would sum up my fear about the future in one word: boring. And that’s my one fear: that everything has happened; nothing exciting or new or interesting is ever going to happen again… the future is just going to be a vast, conforming suburb of the soul.’ – J. G. Ballard

‘In order to design a future of positive change, we must first become expert at changing our minds.’ – Jacque Fresco

‘I have made good judgments in the past. I have made good judgments in the future.’ – Dan Quayle

‘You can’t have people making decisions about the future of the world who are scientifically illiterate. That’s a recipe for disaster. And I don’t mean just whether a politician is scientifically literate, but people who vote politicians into office.’ – Neil deGrasse Tyson

‘Creativity is the key to success in the future, and primary education is where teachers can bring creativity in children at that level.’ – A. P. J. Abdul Kalam

‘Living in dreams of yesterday, we find ourselves still dreaming of impossible future conquests.’ – Charles Lindbergh

‘Religion was nearly dead because there was no longer real belief in future life; but something was struggling to take its place – service – social service – the ants creed, the bees creed.’ – John Galsworthy

‘But as for the future, I foresee a world which is more creative, more open, more loving, more ecologically friendly, more honest about its history and progress, and I think a lot of those contributions will be made by young people.’ – Amanda Gorman

‘The mind that is anxious about the future is miserable.’ – Lucius Annaeus Seneca

‘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.’ – Elon Musk

‘Sabotage did not involve loss of life, and it offered the best hope for future race relations. Bitterness would be kept to a minimum and, if the policy bore fruit, democratic government could become a reality.’ – Nelson Mandela

‘You can always cope with the present moment, but you cannot cope with something that is only a mind projection – you cannot cope with the future.’ – Eckhart Tolle

‘Sustainability, ensuring the future of life on Earth, is an infinite game, the endless expression of generosity on behalf of all.’ – Paul Hawken

‘The optimism that many felt in the 1960s over labour-saving technology is giving way to a fearful question: ‘Will your labour be good for anything in the future? Or will you be replaced by a machine?” – Peter Thiel

‘How do you think we build a future? I think we build it by investing in our kids and investing in education.’ – Elizabeth Warren

‘We always project into the future or reflect in the past, but we are so little in the present.’ – Marina Abramovic

‘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.’ – Desmond Tutu

‘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.’ – Barack Obama

‘When you realize the value of all life, you dwell on what is past and concentrate more on the preservation of the future.’ – Dian Fossey

‘The future, like everything else, is not what it used to be.’ – Paul Valery

‘I think the future of psychotherapy and psychology is in the school system. We need to teach every child how to rarely seriously disturb himself or herself and how to overcome disturbance when it occurs.’ – Albert Ellis

‘You practice mindfulness, on the one hand, to be calm and peaceful. On the other hand, as you practice mindfulness and live a life of peace, you inspire hope for a future of peace.’ – Thich Nhat Hanh

‘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.’ – John F. Kennedy

‘The future is as bright as your faith.’ – Thomas S. Monson

‘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.’ – Abraham Lincoln

‘In each action we must look beyond the action at our past, present, and future state, and at others whom it affects, and see the relations of all those things. And then we shall be very cautious.’ – Blaise Pascal

‘The Christian leader of the future is called to be completely irrelevant and to stand in this world with nothing to offer but his or her own vulnerable self. God loves us, not because of what we do or accomplish, but because God has created and redeemed us in love.’ – Henri Nouwen

‘Must we wait for selection to solve the problems of overpopulation, exhaustion of resources, pollution of the environment and a nuclear holocaust, or can we take explicit steps to make our future more secure? In the latter case, must we not transcend selection?’ – B. F. Skinner

‘The power of noble deeds is to be preserved and passed on to the future.’ – Joshua Chamberlain

‘Let us together create the new building of the future, which will be everything in one form: architecture and sculpture and painting.’ – Walter Gropius

‘The most reliable way to forecast the future is to try to understand the present.’ – John Naisbitt

‘There is a better place, the hard but joyful work beyond struggle, beyond the shadow of a doubt. It is our real home, the long-remembered future when everything worked and things made sense.’ – Marilyn Ferguson

‘Smiles form the channels of a future tear.’ – Lord Byron

‘I feel often that we don’t have the right language to talk about emotions in disasters. Everyone is on edge, of course, but it also pulls people away from a lot of trivial anxieties and past and future concerns and gratuitous preoccupations that we have, and refocuses us in a very intense way.’ – Rebecca Solnit

‘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.” – Marcus Aurelius

‘Planning ahead is a measure of class. The rich and even the middle class plan for future generations, but the poor can plan ahead only a few weeks or days.’ – Gloria Steinem

‘When you relinquish the desire to control your future, you can have more happiness.’ – Nicole Kidman

‘It’s very important that historic cities are allowed to reinvent their future.’ – Zaha Hadid

‘My future is righteousness.’ – Bob Marley

‘It is our future on the line, and we must at least have a say in it.’ – Greta Thunburg

‘It is my idea to make capitalism create socialism in China so that these two economic forces of human evolution will work side by side in future civilization.’ – Sun Yat-sen

‘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.’ – Wilma Mankiller

‘The scientific man does not aim at an immediate result. He does not expect that his advanced ideas will be readily taken up. His work is like that of the planter – for the future. His duty is to lay the foundation for those who are to come, and point the way.’ – Nikola Tesla

‘I think we have a duty to maintain the light of consciousness to make sure it continues into the future.’ – Elon Musk

‘If I can create some space that people haven’t experienced before and if it stays with them or gives them a dream for the future, that’s the kind of structure I seek to create.’ – Tadao Ando

‘Fascism is not in itself a new order of society. It is the future refusing to be born.’ – Aneurin Bevan

‘To communicate the truths of history is an act of hope for the future.’ – Daisaku Ikeda

‘I want to tell young girls to try thinking of their future selves as their role models.’ – Jisoo

‘Citizens, not less generous than myself, let your most precious moments be employed in causing the past to be forgotten; let all my fellow-citizens swear never to recall the past; let them receive their misled brethren with open arms, and let them, in future, be on their guard against the traps of bad men.’ – Toussaint Louverture

‘Drugs are the enemies of ambition and hope – and when we fight against drugs we are fighting for the future.’ – Bob Riley

‘Let us not be bitter about the past, but let us keep our eyes firmly on the future.’ – Sukarno

‘The future is an opaque mirror. Anyone who tries to look into it sees nothing but the dim outlines of an old and worried face.’ – Jim Bishop

‘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.’ – Eckhart Tolle

‘The future is the worst thing about the present.’ – Gustave Flaubert

‘Education is not only a ladder of opportunity, but it is also an investment in our future.’ – Ed Markey

‘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.’ – Peter Lynch

‘I have the responsibility to translate peace and stability for future generations.’ – Nadia Murad

‘I’m worried about the future of America insofar as our academically most promising students are being funneled through the cookie-cutter Ivy League and other elite schools and emerging with this callow anti-American, anti-military cast to their thinking.’ – Camille Paglia

‘How paramount the future is to the present when one is surrounded by children.’ – Charles Darwin

‘There’s an ongoing competition by global companies across all areas from products, technology development and hiring talented people to patent disputes. The market is big and opportunities are wide open, so we should find out new businesses that Samsung’s future will hinge on.’ – Lee Kun-hee

‘We’ve had great successes, but our future is not about our past success. It’s going to be about whether we will invent things that are really going to drive our future.’ – Satya Nadella

‘Humans are the only creatures with the ability to dive deep in the sea, fly high in the sky, send instant messages around the globe, reflect on the past, assess the present and imagine the future.’ – Sylvia Earle

‘While the resurrection promises us a new and perfect life in the future, God loves us too much to leave us alone to contend with the pain, guilt and loneliness of our present life.’ – Josh McDowell

‘Confident countries are willing to invest in the future.’ – Justin Trudeau

‘You need people who can walk their companies into the future rather than back them into the future.’ – Warren Bennis

‘Vision is perhaps our greatest strength… it has kept us alive to the power and continuity of thought through the centuries, it makes us peer into the future and lends shape to the unknown.’ – Li Ka-shing

‘Without libraries what have we? We have no past and no future.’ – Ray Bradbury

‘Our world faces difficult challenges, but no more so than in the past. Working together in a constructive spirit, we can assure our children the future they deserve.’ – Paul Kagame

‘My interest in well-being evolved from my interest in decision making – from raising the question of whether people know what they will want in the future and whether the things that people want for themselves will make them happy.’ – Daniel Kahneman

‘The road to the future leads us smack into the wall. We simply ricochet off the alternatives that destiny offers. Our survival is no more than a question of 25, 50 or perhaps 100 years.’ – Jacques Yves Cousteau

‘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.’ – RM

‘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.’ – Ban Ki-moon

‘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.’ – Mary Daly

‘Each man should frame life so that at some future hour fact and his dreaming meet.’ – Victor Hugo

‘People who are digital native, they want to have real-time performance feedback. They want to understand where they are, what might happen, what their future is. And they want to understand that quickly in a very direct conversation.’ – Pierre Nanterme

‘If GE’s strategy of investment in China is wrong, it represents a loss of a billion dollars, perhaps a couple of billion dollars. If it is right, it is the future of this company for the next century.’ – Jack Welch

‘The main threat to the future of Europe is not those who want to come here to live but our own political, economic, and intellectual elites bent on transforming Europe against the clear will of the European people.’ – Viktor Orban

‘I’ve seen the future and it’s much like the present only longer.’ – Dan Quisenberry

‘If the future, as imagined in literature, is really the present taken to extremes, then the past is also the present, but boiled down.’ – Walter Kirn

‘Architecture is a living thing. If I want to leave something to the future, it has to be able to change – but retain something of the ethos that we built up over 50 years.’ – Richard Rogers

‘I claim for Canada this, that in future Canada shall be at liberty to act or not act, to interfere or not interfere, to do just as she pleases, and that she shall reserve to herself the right to judge whether or not there is cause for her to act.’ – Wilfrid Laurier

‘Your timeless self does not age and has no fear of the future. Contemplate your physical self and all its possessions, and practice laughing peacefully at it all.’ – Wayne Dyer

‘No valid plans for the future can be made by those who have no capacity for living now.’ – Alan Watts

‘We must not become the new puritans and reject our society. We must address and master the future together. It can be done if we restore the belief that we share a sense of national community, that we share a common national endeavor. It can be done.’ – Barbara Jordan

‘When we look back on all the perils through which we have passed and at the mighty foes that we have laid low and all the dark and deadly designs that we have frustrated, why should we fear for our future? We have come safely through the worst.’ – Winston Churchill

‘We should all be concerned about the future because we will have to spend the rest of our lives there.’ – Charles Kettering

‘Invest three percent of your income in yourself (self-development) in order to guarantee your future.’ – Brian Tracy

‘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.’ – Thich Nhat Hanh

‘Our combat mission is ending, but our commitment to Iraq’s future is not.’ – Barack Obama

‘Future shock is the shattering stress and disorientation that we induce in individuals by subjecting them to too much change in too short a time.’ – Alvin Toffler

‘Orwell’s ‘1984’ convinced me, rightly or wrongly, that Marxism was only a quantum leap away from tyranny. By contrast, Huxley’s ‘Brave New World’ suggested that the totalitarian systems of the future might be subservient and ingratiating.’ – J. G. Ballard

‘I look forward to a great future for America – a future in which our country will match its military strength with our moral restraint, its wealth with our wisdom, its power with our purpose.’ – John F. Kennedy

‘And also I didn’t want my future to be just sitting in a room and be imprisoned in my four walls and just cooking and giving birth to children. I didn’t want to see my life in that way.’ – Malala Yousafzai

‘If a typical person can do a mental task with less than one second of thought, we can probably automate it using AI either now or in the near future.’ – Andrew Ng

‘Poetry is the lens we use to interrogate the history we stand on and the future we stand for.’ – Amanda Gorman

‘Take time to gather up the past so that you will be able to draw from your experience and invest them in the future.’ – Jim Rohn

‘When I moved to Cleveland, defense research was laying the foundations for the Internet. The Apollo program was just about to put a man on the moon – and it was Neil Armstrong, from right here in Ohio. The future felt limitless. But today, our government is broken.’ – Peter Thiel

‘In George Bush you get experience, and with me you get – The Future!’ – Dan Quayle

‘I welcome and seek your ideas, but do not bring me small ideas; bring me big ideas to match our future.’ – Arnold Schwarzenegger

‘We all sort of do want incentives for creative people to still exist at a certain level. You know, maybe rock stars shouldn’t make as much; who knows? But you want as much creativity to take place in the future as took place in the past.’ – Bill Gates

‘So many people have this idea: I want to achieve something great or be somebody great. And they neglect the step that leads to greatness. They don’t honor this step at this moment because they have this idea of some future moment where they are going to be great.’ – Eckhart Tolle

‘To make any future that we dreamt up real requires creative scientists, engineers, and technologists to make it happen. If people are not within your midst who dream about tomorrow – with the capacity to bring tomorrow into the present – then the country might as well just recede back into the cave because that’s where we’re headed.’ – Neil deGrasse Tyson

‘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.’ – Barack Obama

‘People tell me that they are so hopeful when they see me and other children ‘school-striking,’ and they say, ‘Oh the children are going to save us.’ But no, we aren’t. We are too young to be able to do that. We don’t have time to wait for us to grow up and fix this in the future.’ – Greta Thunburg

‘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.’ – Wayne Dyer

‘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.’ – Thich Nhat Hanh

‘To state the facts frankly is not to despair the future nor indict the past. The prudent heir takes careful inventory of his legacies and gives a faithful accounting to those whom he owes an obligation of trust.’ – John F. Kennedy

‘I’m reasonably optimistic about the future, especially the future of the United States – for the century, at least.’ – Elon Musk

‘People look to time in expectation that it will eventually make them happy, but you cannot find true happiness by looking toward the future.’ – Eckhart Tolle