Future Quotes

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Do not look back on happiness or dream of it in the future. You are only sure of today; do not let yourself be cheated out of it.

- Henry Ward Beecher

Leadership is about creating, day by day, a domain in which we and those around us continually deepen our understanding of reality and are able to participate in shaping the future. This, then, is the deeper territory of leadership -- collectively "listening to what is wanting to emerge in the world, and then having the courage to do what is required."

- Joseph Jaworski

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

- Buddha

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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

In the landscape of time, there are few locations less comfortable than that of one who waits for some person or event to arrive at some unknown moment in the future.

- Robert Grudin

Long range planning does not deal with future decisions, but with the future of present decisions.

- Peter F. Drucker

To the highest leadership among women it is given to hold steadily in one hand the sacred vessels that hold the ancient sanctities of life, and in the other a flaming torch to light the way for oncoming generations.

- Anna Garlin Spencer

Let go of the past and go for the future. Go confidently in the direction of your dreams. Live the life you imagined.

- Henry David Thoreau

Objectives are not fate; they are direction. They are not commands; they are commitments. They do not determine the future; they are means to mobilize the resources and energies of the business for the making of the future.

- Peter Drucker

I have never been able to grasp the meaning of time. I don't believe it exists. I've felt this again and again, when alone and out in nature. On such occasions, time does not exist. Nor does the future exist.

- Thor Heyerdahl

For these are all our children. We will all profit by, or pay for, whatever they become,

- James Baldwin

A cynic is not merely one who reads bitter lessons from the past, he is one who is prematurely disappointed in the future.

- Sydney J. Harris

To be hopeful in bad times is not just foolishly romantic. It is based on the fact that human history is a history not only of cruelty, but also of compassion, sacrifice, courage, kindness.

What we choose to emphasize in this complex history will determine our lives. If we see only the worst, it destroys our capacity to do something. If we remember those times and places -- and there are so many -- where people have behaved magnificently, this gives us the energy to act, and at least the possibility of sending this spinning top of a world in a different direction.

And if we do act, in however small a way, we don't have to wait for some grand utopian future. The future is an infinite succession of presents, and to live now as we think human beings should live, in defiance of all that is bad around us, is itself a marvelous victory.

- Howard Zinn

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

I like dreams of the future better than the history of the past.

- Thomas Jefferson

Every man's life lies within the present; for the past is spent and done with, and the future is uncertain.

- Marcus Aurelius

Everything is material for the seed of happiness, if you look into it with inquisitiveness and curiosity. The future is completely open, and we are writing it moment to moment. There always is the potential to create an environment of blame -- or one that is conducive to loving-kindness.

- Pema Chodron

To the wrongs that need resistance,
To the right that needs assistance,
To the future in the distance,
Give yourselves.

- Carrie Chapman Catt

How far you go in life depends on your being tender with the young, compassionate with the aged, sympathetic with the striving, and tolerant of the weak and strong. Because some day in life you will have been all of these.

- George Washington Carver

The critical responsibility for the generation you're in is to help provide the shoulders, the direction, and the support for those generations who come behind.

- Gloria Dean Randle Scott

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We cannot build our own future without helping others to build theirs.

- Bill Clinton

If the earth does grow inhospitable toward human presence, it is primarily because we have lost our sense of courtesy toward the earth and its inhabitants.

- Thomas Berry

The future belongs to those who give the next generation reason for hope.

- Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

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When a scientist is ahead of his times, it is often through misunderstanding of current, rather than intuition of future truth. In science there is never any error so gross that it won't one day, from some perspective, appear prophetic.

- Jean Rostand

The immediate future is going to be tragic for all of us unless we find a way of making the vast educational resources of this country serve the true purpose of education, truth and justice.

- Anne Sullivan