Our Future Quotes

Our future is like that of the passengers on a small pleasure boat sailing quietly above the Niagara Falls, not knowing that the engines are about to fail.

Now let us thank th' eternal power, convinced That Heaven but tries our virtue by affliction: That oft the cloud that wraps the present hour Serves but to brighten all our future days.

Our tears prepare the ground for our future growth.

We must therefore turn to the child as to the key to the fate of our future life.

The safest place to be is always halfway into your future, without even knowing what it is.

Our future will be shaped by the assumptions we make about who we are and what we can be.

I welcome and seek your ideas, but do not bring me small ideas; bring me big ideas to match our future.

I do most of my work with kids. They are the very foundation of our future. We are so incredibly disrespectful to them in America in every way because they can't vote.

I am supposing, or perhaps only hoping, that our future may be found in the past's fugitive moments of compassion rather than in its solid centuries of warfare.

We've staked our future on our ability to follow the Ten Commandments with all our heart.

Kids don't make up 100 percent of our population, but they do make up 100 percent of our future.

If you know wilderness in the way that you know love, you would be unwilling to let it go.... This is the story of our past and it will be the story of our future.

God's never as nervous about our future, or as concerned about our past, as we are.

If we forget our past, we won't remember our future and it will be as well because we won't have one.

Your attitudes contain your future.

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.

VISUALIZE!!! Rehearse your future.

Send me one hundred francs on our future deals, otherwise I will disappear in a cataclysm.

I love kids and I maintain that they are our future, that we adults owe them the ability to achieve their potential and that we don't own this planet. We hold it in trust for them.

The quality of our thinking will determine the quality of our future

Our future may look fearfully intimidating, yet we can look up to the Engineer of the Universe, confident that nothing escapes His attention or slips out of the control of those strong hands.

Our future begins on January 1 1999. The euro is Europe's key to the 21st century. The era of solo national fiscal and economic policy is over.

I am seeing strength in the ability of artistic expression to change our future.

I am seeing a resurgence of entertainment that not only entertains, but inspires, evokes, and moves. I am seeing strength in the ability of artistic expression to change our future.

Sit by me, my beloved, and listen to my heart; smile, for your happiness is a symbol of our future.

Children are our future, and their mothers are its guardians.

We have these impossibly high standards and we'll probably never live up to our perfect fantasies of our future selves. But I feel like that's okay.

There is nothing more precious to a parent than a child, and nothing more important to our future than the safety of all our children.

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.

Creating a meaningful life has less to do with how we feel about our past than what we do about our future.

Our destiny exercises its influence over us even when, as yet, we have not learned its nature: it is our future that lays down the law of our today

The search of our future being is but a needless, anxious, and haste to be knowing, sooner than we can, what, without all this solicitude, we shall know a little later.

You can't base your life on the past or the present. You have to tell me about your future.

I believe that children are our future. Unless we stop them now.

I care about the diversity of the mindset of the people creating our future, and the windows through which we see it, and the tools we use to build it.

Giving is what fuels us. Giving is our future.

We are on a perilous margin when we begin to look passively at our future selves, and see our own figures led with dull consent into insipid misdoing and shabby achievement.

I never quite trust futurists because I think they're kind of telling us what they think our future should be.

Our future depends on how we understand the past.

It is not every calamity that is a curse, and early adversity is often a blessing. Surmounted difficulties not only teach, but hearten us in our future struggles.

We didn't wish -- wishes are wasted... We didn't hope -- because our future was inevitable... And we didn't pray -- we were on our own.

In every interview I have ever read or seen or taken part in, the final question in our future-oriented society is always, What next?

Now is the time...for this nation to take a clearly leading role in space achievement, which in many ways may hold the key to our future on Earth.

If our salmon are not healthy, then our watersheds are not healthy-and if our watersheds our not healthy, then we have truly squandered our heritage and mortgaged our future.

Protecting our future on this planet depends on the conscious evolution of our species.

We go on dates thinking that person is our future husband or wife, without getting to know them, as we live in a fantasy and an illusion of romance.

We sow the seeds of our future hells or happiness by the way we open or close our minds right now.

Our future on this planet, exposed as it is to nuclear annihilation, depends one one single factor: humanity must make a moral about-face.

As self-governing entities, artists have a profound interest in change. Embracing change, we embrace growth and we embrace our future.

Oft the cloud that wraps the present hour serves but to brighten all our future days.