Future - Quotes & Sayings

A transition to clean energy is about making an investment in our future.

Gloria Reuben

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

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 vote is a trust more delicate than any other, for it involves not just the interests of the voter, but his life, honor and future as well.

Jose Marti

The future is like heaven, everyone exalts it, but no one wants to go there now.

James A. Baldwin

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

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

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

In the wake of the disaster caused by Tropical Storm Sandy, various allies of the Obama campaign have rushed to claim that the event was caused by anthropogenic global warming, thereby justifying the president's program of crushing the economy with regressive carbon taxes, a supposedly necessary measure to prevent future bad weather.

Robert Zubrin

I don't try to describe the future. I try to prevent it.

Ray Bradbury

The future of any corporation is as good as the value system of the leaders and followers in the organization.

N. R. Narayana Murthy

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

Our greatest motivation in life comes from not knowing the future.

Thomas Frey

Knowing your HIV status is so important for your future health and that of your loved ones.

David Furnish

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

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

Pakistan is heir to an intellectual tradition of which the illustrious exponent was the poet and philosopher Mohammad Iqbal. He saw the future course for Islamic societies in a synthesis between adherence to the faith and adjustment to the modern age.

Benazir Bhutto

For every minute, the future is becoming the past.

Thor Heyerdahl

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

If our nation is to rebuild opportunity for future generations, it will require our elected leaders to realize that their responsibility lies not with their political party, but rather with the American people that they have been chosen to represent.

Ami Bera

When decentralized blockchain protocols start displacing the centralized web services that dominate the current Internet, we'll start to see real internet-based sovereignty. The future Internet will be decentralized.

Olaf Carlson-Wee

Even gang members imagine a future that doesn't include gangs.

Greg Boyle

Never make predictions, especially about the future.

Casey Stengel

Not only our future economic soundness but the very soundness of our democratic institutions depends on the determination of our government to give employment to idle men.

Franklin D. Roosevelt

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

All along the untrodden paths of the future, I can see the footprints of an unseen hand.

Boyle Roche

I'm a very happy university professor... the best thing about being a university professor is that you see young people as they're being shaped and molded toward their own future, and you have a chance to be a part of that.

Condoleezza Rice

My interest is in the future because I am going to spend the rest of my life there.

Charles Kettering

I guess short films have a bright future... The advantage is budget.

Anurag Kashyap

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

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

Adolescence represents an inner emotional upheaval, a struggle between the eternal human wish to cling to the past and the equally powerful wish to get on with the future.

Louise J. Kaplan

You have to focus on the future and know that you can succeed in life, and you have to keep working hard.

Dele Alli

Live life to the fullest, for the future is scarce.

Nick Carter

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

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

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

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

Walter Gropius

You can never plan the future by the past.

Edmund Burke

I look to the future because that's where I'm going to spend the rest of my life.

George Burns

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

Smiles form the channels of a future tear.

Lord Byron

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

One of my goals is that, at a dinner party some time in the future, someone will say, 'Oh, my nephew is starting a ready-to-wear brand', and 20 people will turn around and say, 'Is he? Can we invest?' in the same way that, now, if you were to say, 'My nephew is starting a mobile app,' everyone would say, 'Oh, smashing! Can I invest?'

Natalie Massenet

We have to prove that digital manufacturing is inclusive. Then, the true narrative will emerge: Welcome, robots. You'll help us. But humans are still our future.

Joe Kaeser

I think the future for solar energy is bright.

Ken Salazar

While we cannot predict the future, we will most surely live it. Every action and decision we take - or don't - ripples into the future. For the first time, we have the capability, the technology, and the knowledge to direct those ripples.

Jacque Fresco

School is practice for the future, and practice makes perfect and nobody's perfect so why bother.

Tre Cool

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

The best way to predict the future is to study the past, or prognosticate.

Robert Kiyosaki