The Future Quotes

Our children are our only hope for the future, but we are their only hope for their present and their future.

The land belongs to the future.

I believe that hope for the future depends on each of us taking nonviolence into our hearts and minds and developing new and imaginative structures which are nonviolent and life-giving for all.

We all use the future to escape the present.

I have long come to believe that, more than any other destruction, our word-recklessness is endangering the future of us all.

Leadership can be thought of as a capacity to define oneself to others in a way that clarifies and expands a vision of the future.

We must look forward to the future as that is where most of us will be spending the rest of our lives.

This was my attempt to deter cold callers: "There's no past, there's no future, just one pulsating present... Please leave your message after the tone."

We are the ancestors of the future and what we do now will have an impact.

The entire plan for the future has its key in the resurrection.

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.

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.

I try to learn from the past, but I plan for the future by focusing exclusively on the present. That's where the fun is.

Hardly anyone knows how much is gained by ignoring the future.

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.

You can only predict things after they have happened.

Consciousness means choicelessness, and to be choiceless is to be free from all desire, is to be free from all projection, is to be free from all imagination, is to be free from future.

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

Recognising that the future growth of India will depend on greater skill development, the National Policy for Skill Development aims to create a skilled workforce of 500 million by 2022.

Perhaps then, some day far in the future, you will gradually, without even noticing it, live your way into the answer.

Education has become a prisoner of contemporaneity. It is the past, not the dizzy present, that is the best door to the future.

The price we pay for anticipation of the future is anxiety about it

Who has gone hungry learns to think of the future and of the children.

Don't waste your time lookin' over your shoulder; those loves from the past ain't getting' no closer. When I look in my future, you're all I can see, so honey, don't go lovin' on nobody but me.

It is a time when one's spirit is subdued and sad, one knows not why; when the past seems a storm-swept desolation, life a vanity and a burden, and the future but a way to death.

The day we fret about the future is the day we leave our childhood behind.

All our knowledge - past, present, and future - is nothing compared to what we will never know.

The future for us is the foreseeable future. The South Asian, however, feels that it is perfectly realistic to think of a 'long time' in terms of thousands of years.

From this vision of the role of the United Nations in the next century flow three key priorities for the future: eradicating poverty, preventing conflict and promoting democracy.

History will remember the twentieth century for two technological developments: atomic energy and space flight.

The source of anxiety lies in the future. If you can keep the future out of mind, you can forget your worries.

Hope . . . is one of the ways in which what is merely future and potential is made vividly present and actual to us. Hope is the positive, as anxiety is the negative, mode of awaiting the future.

With capitalism and prosperity came something new: the idea of progress. This is the notion that things are getting better and will continue to get better in the future.

The past is always triple-A. We can all remember what the past was. But if we try to make the future triple-A, we have no future. The future is always single-B.

To have known how to change the past into a few saddened smiles-is this not to master the future?

The future will be different if we make the present different.

The past will continue to be your future if you drag it along with you.

It's easier to invent the future than to predict it.

The moment right now, it's a tragically regressive time we live in, you know. We just grounded the Concorde. Where's the future? We've lost the future.

The future is always a dystopia in movies.

Every great work of art has two faces, one towards its own time and one towards future, towards eternity.

The white race will either inhabit planet earth in totality, or it will not survive at all. There will be no in between in our future.

Sulking about your mistakes only leads to future ones.

Education is our passport to the future.

I do believe that the future of civilization belongs to those who would lay emphasis on working together instead of talking about clash of civilizations.

Future shock is a sickness which comes from too much change in too short a time. It's the feeling that nothing is permanent anymore.

I'm so totally future oriented that, for me, I don't know what the future's about, but I can promise you it's gonna be exciting.

What I believe is that, by proper effort, we make the future almost anything we want to make it.

We work day after day, not to finish things; but to make the future better ... because we will spend the rest of our lives there.

A population that does not take care of the elderly and of children and the young has no future, because it abuses both its memory and its promise.