Future Quotes

"Your future is still before you. Your land is a vast storehouse of mineral and agricultural wealth awaiting further development for the benefit of mankind. It potentialities are magnificent"

Charles E. Wilson, Businessman

"The educator must above all understand how to wait; to reckon all effects in the light of the future, not of the present"

Ellen Key, Writer

"The civil unrest of recent days must come to an end, and the healing process must begin for the future of the community. We will provide assistance both in ending the violence and enabling the healing process in Benton Harbor"

Jennifer Granholm, Politician

"The final upshot of thinking is the exercise of volition, and of this thought no longer forms a part; but belief is only a stadium of mental action, an effect upon our nature due to thought, which will influence future thinking"

Charles Sanders Peirce, Philosopher

"We are not out to boast that there is so much percentage of growth per year. Our real concern is how it affects the lives of people, the future of our country"

Daw Aung San Suu Kyi, Activist

"You will attract the younger generation and they might well prove tougher than the older generation. What we are trying to do is to look at the future and see what we can do to bring some stability back to people's lives"

Ian Botham, Athlete

"For example, a breakthrough in better batteries could supplant hydrogen. Better solar cells could replace or win out in this race to the fuel of the future. Those, I see, as the three big competitors: hydrogen, solar cells and then better batteries"

Bob Inglis, Politician

"But I'm not imaginative. I couldn't look into the future, like Star Wars or Robots or anything like that"

Harry Dean Stanton, Actor

"We must vote for hope, vote for life, vote for a brighter future for all of our loved ones"

Ed Markey, Politician

"In the 1999 resolution regarding Taiwan's future passed by the Democratic Progressive Party, it is stated very clearly that any change to the status quo of Taiwan must be decided by the people of Taiwan through referenda"

Chen Shui-bian, Statesman

"Even in my darkest times I knew I had a good future ahead of me"

Balthazar Getty, Actor

"Life... is not simply a series of exciting new ventures. The future is not always a whole new ball game. There tends to be unfinished business. One trails all sorts of things around with one, things that simply won't be got rid of"

Anita Brookner, Historian

"It's been a difficult thing because some great opportunities have come and I've just been holding my breath and praying... I'm basically gambling hoping something will come along this season and if not, I don't know what the future holds"

Charisma Carpenter, Actress

"I am convinced that the stratigraphic method will in the future enable archaeology to throw far more light on the history of American culture than it has done in the past"

Edward Sapir, Scientist

"Whether it's making sure that families have access to quality health care and child care, or making sure that our children receive the best educational opportunities we can give them, we must remain committed to these needs because our children are our future"

Blanche Lincoln, Politician

"Well, the future of the Internet is... Reality"

Daniel Keys Moran, Writer

"A quality is something capable of being completely embodied. A law never can be embodied in its character as a law except by determining a habit. A quality is how something may or might have been. A law is how an endless future must continue to be"

Charles Sanders Peirce, Philosopher

"If this is not done, future ages will certainly look back upon us as a people so immersed in the pursuit of wealth as to be blind to higher considerations"

Alfred Russel Wallace, Scientist

"Stop acting as if life is a rehearsal. Live this day as if it were your last. The past is over and gone. The future is not guaranteed"

Wayne Dyer, Psychologist

"The question of armaments, whether on land or sea, is the most immediately and intensely practical question connected with the future fortunes of nations and of mankind"

Woodrow Wilson

"Children can take lessons in that school via the Internet and can score extra points like e.g. in Geography or History. That sounds very promising and is a fantastic basis for future steps"

Anatoly Karpov, Celebrity

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

George Burns, Comedian

"A dream is your creative vision for your life in the future. You must break out of your current comfort zone and become comfortable with the unfamiliar and the unknown"

Denis Waitley, Writer

"Just, you never know what the next day is going to bring. That goes for football, goes for off the field, and I gave up a long time ago trying to predict the future and trying to deal with things I couldn't deal with"

Brett Favre, Athlete

"If the search engines don't respect the creators, there won't be anything to search in the future because creators have to make a living too"

Patricia Schroeder, Leader

"Let the workers organize. Let the toilers assemble. Let their crystallized voice proclaim their injustices and demand their privileges. Let all thoughtful citizens sustain them, for the future of Labor is the future of America"

John L. Lewis, Leader

"What matters is to live in the present, live now, for every moment is now. It is your thoughts and acts of the moment that create your future. The outline of your future path already exists, for you created its pattern by your past"

Sai Baba, Leader

"It is not enough to understand, or to see clearly. The future will be shaped in the arena of human activity, by those willing to commit their minds and their bodies to the task"

Robert Kennedy, Politician

"We are at the very beginning of time for the human race. It is not unreasonable that we grapple with problems. But there are tens of thousands of years in the future. Our responsibility is to do what we can, learn what we can, improve the solutions, and pass them on"

Richard P. Feynman, Physicist

"To live only for some future goal is shallow. It's the sides of the mountain that sustain life, not the top"

Robert M. Pirsig, Philosopher

"To live for some future goal is shallow. It's the sides of the mountain that sustain life, not the top"

Robert M. Pirsig, Philosopher

"The main consideration with those who, possessing some capital, propose to emigrate as the means of improving their condition, is, the society likely to be found in the land fixed on for their future residence"

Charles Sturt, Explorer

"It is to be feared that those who emigrate to New South Wales, generally anticipate too great facility in their future operations and certainty of success in conducting them; but they should recollect that competency cannot be obtained without labour"

Charles Sturt, Explorer

"The essence of optimism is that it takes no account of the present, but it is a source of inspiration, of vitality and hope where others have resigned; it enables a man to hold his head high, to claim the future for himself and not to abandon it to his enemy"

Dietrich Bonhoeffer, Theologian

"This experience actually means the very opposite: the largest military power was unable to stop such a sensitive attack and will be unable to rule out such a possibility in the future. Precisely this is the background to the United States' military interventions"

Ulrich Beck, Sociologist

"It's just really hard to work and get better, building and planning for the future with the new Monte Carlo and keeping the race team intact and keeping them healthy"

Dale Earnhardt, Celebrity

"The future infrared space telescope will cover that area in a much more efficient manner"

Claude Nicollier, Astronaut

"What we're discussing privately and publicly, is a budget which is a blueprint for the future which creates jobs, which educates our children, which provides healthcare for all Americans, which takes our deficit down, which gives a tax cut for 95% of the American people"

Nancy Pelosi, Politician

"People respond when you tell them there is a great future in front of you, you can leave your past behind"

Joel Osteen, Clergyman

"I never have plans for the future as you never know how things will turn out"

Nigella Lawson, Journalist

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