Quote Lady's Quotes by Subject, Future

Future

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 challenges of change are always hard. It is important that we begin to unpack those challenges that confront this nation and realize that we each have a role that requires us to change and become more responsible for shaping our own future.--Hillary Rodham Clinton
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
Do your duty and a little more and the future will take care of itself.--Andrew Carnegie
Every time I see an adult on a bicycle, I no longer despair for the future of the human race.--H. G. Wells
The future belongs to people who see possibilities before they become obvious.--Ted Levitt
The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.--Eleanor Roosevelt
The future depends entirely on what each of us does every day.--Gloria Steinem
The future is not some place we are going, but one we are creating. The paths to it are not found but made, and the activity of making them changes both the maker and the destination.--John Schaar
The future is something which everyone reaches at the rate of sixty minutes an hour, whatever he does.--C. S. Lewis
The future should be something we deserve, not something which is merely reached at the rate of 60 minutes per hour.--Anonymous
The future will belong not only to the educated man, but to the man who is educated to use his leisure wisely.--C. K. Brightbill
I have long considered it one of God's greatest mercies that the future is hidden from us. If it were not, life would surely be unbearable.--Eugene Forsey
I see no hope for the future of our people if they are dependent on the frivolous youth of today, for certainly all youth are reckless beyond words. When I was a boy, we were taught to be discrete and respectful of elders, but the present youth are exceedingly wise and impatient of restraint.--Hesiod (8th century B.C.)
If we can recognize that change and uncertainty are basic principles, we can greet the future and the transformation we are undergoing with the understanding that we do not know enough to be pessimistic.--Hazel Henderson
In the future, instead of striving to be right at a high cost, it will be more appropriate to be flexible and plural at a lower cost. If you cannot accurately predict the future then you must flexibly be prepared to deal with various possible futures.--Edward de Bono (Serious Creativity)
It is change, continuing change, inevitable change, that is the dominant factor in society today. No sensible decision can be made any longer without taking into account not only the world as it is, but the world as it will be.--Isaac Asimov ("My Own View" in The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction ed. by Holdstock)
It is the business of the future to be dangerous.... The major advances in civilization are processes that all but wreck the societies in which they occur.--Alfred North Whitehead
Learn the past, watch the present, and create the future.--Jesse Conrad
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
Light tomorrow with today!--Elizabeth Barrett Browning
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
My interest is in the future because I'm going to spend the rest of my life there.--Charles Kettering
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
One problem with gazing too frequently into the past is that we may turn around to find the future has run out on us.--Michael Cibenko
The only certain thing about the future is that it will surprise even those who have seen furthest into it.--E. J. Hobsbawm
The only way to predict the future is to have power to shape the future.--Eric Hoffer (The Passionate State of Mind: And Other Aphorisms)
Our children are our only hope for the future, but we are their only hope for their present and their future.--Zig Ziglar (Zig Ziglar's Little Book of Big Quotes)
Our past and present are only our means; the future is always our end. Thus we never really live, but only hope to live.--Blaise Pasca
Predicting the future is easy. It's trying to figure out what's going on now that's hard.--Fritz R. S. Dressler
The sad truth is that opportunity doesn't knock twice. You can put things off until tomorrow but tomorrow may never come.--Gloria Estefan
The stories that you tell about your past shape your future.--Eric Ransdell (in Fast Company)
There are two days in the week about which and upon which I never worry. Two carefree days, kept sacredly free from fear and apprehension. One of these days is Yesterday... And the other ... is Tomorrow.--Robert Jones Burdette
There may be no more pleasing picture in the world than that of a child peering into a book--the past and the future entrancing each other.--Roger Rosenblau
Those who are unwilling to invest in the future haven't earned one.--H. W. Lewis (Technological Risk)
To believe in something to yet proved and to underwrite it with our lives; it is the only way we can leave the future open.--Lillian Smith
To live only for some future goal is shallow. It's the sides of the mountain which sustain life, not the top. Here's where things grow. But of course, without the top you can't have any sides. It's the top that defines the sides.--Robert M. Pirsig (Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance)
Tomorrow is our permanent address.--E. E. Cummings
Very strange is this quality of our human nature which decrees that unless we feel a future before us we do not live completely in the present.--Phillips Brooks
We cannot always build the future for our youth, but we can build our youth for the future.--Franklin D. Roosevelt
We must welcome the future, remembering that soon it will be the past; and we must respect the past, knowing that once it was all that was humanly possible.--George Santayana
When it comes to the future, there are three kinds of people: those who let it happen, those who make it happen, and those who wonder what happened.--John M. Richardson, Jr.
The wise man must remember that while he is a descendant of the past, he is a parent of the future.--Herbert Spencer
You can no longer look to the past in an attempt to predict your future. A large part of the present is obsolete and, for most people, much of the future is beyond comprehension.--Christopher Hegarty
Your future takes precedence over your past. Focus on your future, rather than on the past.--Gary Ryan Blair (Mind Munchies : A Delicious Assortment of Brain Snacks!)