Top 53 Define Your Future Quotes
#4. Best quote page 239: The past doesn't disappear, but it doesn't have to define your future. That's up to you.
Anna Jarzab
#5. Tough times are inevitable in life and in business. But how you compose yourself during those times defines your spirit and will define your future.
Richard Branson
#6. To achieve the impossible, you need to first develop the mindset that it's probable. Please don't allow the current limits of your life define your future reality. You deserve so much better. And the world deserves your best.
Robin Sharma
#8. One way to define wisdom is the ability to see, into the future, the consequences of your choices in the present. That ability can give you a completely different perspective on what the future might look like.
Andy Andrews
#9. The technology for a clothing printer exists but is not packaged in a form that would be suitable for consumer use. With the future potential of printing technology, an at-home clothing printer is a definite possibility. Our challenge was to define the experience.
Joshua Harris
#10. There are moments in our lives that define the people we will become in the future, like a symptom before an ailment, or the catalyst before the cure.
Brian Joyce
#11. Once your past no longer has the power to define you, your future is, quite literally, yours for the taking. Every single beautiful thing you could possibly want or imagine will be yours.
Dan Pearce
#12. Ideas define us, our past, our present, and most importantly, our future.
P.W. Cross
#13. But what, precisely, is hope? At a talk I gave last spring, someone asked me to define it. I turned the question back on the audience, and here's the definition we all came up with: hope is a longing for a future condition over which you have no agency; it means you are essentially powerless.
Derrick Jensen
#14. Your past doesn't define you. Only your present and your future. If your life is screwed up, stop making excuses. What are you going to do about it today?
Ingrid Weir
#16. Do not let your divorce define you and the rest of your life. Let go of anger and embrace the future possibilities of infinitesimal happiness
Divorce Goddess
#17. When it came to the discussion about would Harley do an electric bike, I said, 'Absolutely - this is a no-brainer.' Let's define the sound of the future.
Jochen Zeitz
#18. The forcings that drive long-term climate change are not known with an accuracy sufficient to define future climate change.
James Hansen
#19. Time is the most undefinable yet paradoxical of things; the past is gone, the future is not come, and the present becomes the past, even while we attempt to define it.
Charles Caleb Colton
#20. Tristan was silent for a few moments, looking at the leaves before them. "Life isn't about the past and the future. It's about today." He paused. "It's about five minutes from now and two seconds ago. It's moments, you know? Not years. Years aren't what define us.
Chelsea Fine
#21. Study the past if you would define the future. --CONFUCIUS
Steve Berry
#22. Every man is the craftsman of his future, whether he hone it himself or allow fate do it.
Ogwo David Emenike
#23. 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.
Edwin H. Friedman
#24. Prestige and premium will also play an important role in the future. But some people define these values differently today.
Norbert Reithofer
#25. We dream. We aspire. We hope. Sure, we can get down too. But it's not about that. It's not those moments that define us. It's those times when we're looking forward, seeing that brighter future, and acting on it.
Zechariah Barrett
#26. For Kenya: we have a chance to start again each time we meet one another. The ghosts do not need to define the future.
Yvonne Adhiambo Owuor
#27. Educators not only teach, but they also inspire students to learn, ignite the light of imaginations, shine the sense of perception, and define the path of life for future generations.
Debasish Mridha
#28. No one knows for sure about the future. But if you feel reluctant to plan something about it, then someone with guts would define it for you.
Toba Beta
#29. Superstars strive for approbation; heroes walk alone. Superstars crave consensus; heroes define themselves by the judgment of a future they see it as their task to bring about. Superstars seek success in a technique for eliciting support; heroes pursue success as the outgrowth of inner values.
Henry A. Kissinger
#30. Today is the day to cast your worries on God and breathe in new life. Your past does not define who you are today.
Gabriella Marigold Lindsay
#31. You define yourself by either what your clients want or what you believe they'll need for the future. So: Define yourself by your client, not your competitor.
Ginni Rometty
#32. I knew the things happening in my life would eventually define my future, and I guess I hoped no matter what occurred those things wouldn't ultimately define me.
S.R. Grey
#33. We have to define future worlds by imagining them first together.
Otherwise, we will deal with no man's lands and potential conflicts.
Toba Beta
#34. Afrofuturism is an intersection of imagination, technology, the future, and liberation. "I generally define Afrofuturism as a way of imagining possible futures through a black cultural lens," says Ingrid LaFleur, an art curator and Afrofuturist.
Ytasha L. Womack
#35. I learned that what happened to me did not have to define who I was. My past could not control my future unless I allowed it to.
Joyce Meyer
#36. People used to define me as a futurist designer, but, you know, the future is now for me.
Nicolas Ghesquiere
#37. It's like you wake up one morning, and decided that how you've been in the past doesn't have to define who you are in the future. Simple as that.
Carolyn Mackler
#38. As I say to our own team: 'Never protect your past, never define yourself by a single product, and always continue to steward for the long-term. Keep moving towards the future.'
Ginni Rometty
#39. I am me. I have to define myself. I'm going to stand up at the back of the train and take control of my future.
Kelly Masterson
#40. There are tenses that define us now: past tense, back then; future tense, not yet. We live in the small window between them, the space we've only recently come to think as still, and really it's no smaller than anyone else's window.
Margaret Atwood
#41. In Buddhism we don't really believe in sin and salvation as Westerners would define them. We believe in the limitless possibilities of the present and of future moments.
Frederick Lenz
#42. The past doesn't define you, your present does. It's okay to create a vision of the future because it affects your behavior in the "now," but don't dwell on past mistakes. Learn from them and focus those lessons in the moment. That's where change can really happen.
Jillian Michaels
#43. Study the past if you want to define the future.
Confucius
#44. The way humanity manages or mismanages its nature-based assets, including pollinators, will in part define our collective future in the 21st century,
Achim Steiner
#45. I like knowing that the further back one traces any lineage, the narrower the path grows, to the haunt of just a few shaggy ancestors, with luck on their side, little gizmos in their cells and a future storied with impulses and choices that will ultimately define them.
Diane Ackerman
#46. Most films made about the future acquiesce toward death, and I don't want to be told how to define my future.
Val Kilmer
#47. If Turkey is prepared to acknowledge the Armenian Genocide, then its leaders can proceed immediately to direct dialogue with its counterparts in Armenia to define a common vision for the future.
Mark Foley
#48. We're at the crossroads. Down one road is a European centralized bureaucratic socialist welfare system in which politicians and bureaucrats define the future. Down the other road is a proud, solid, reaffirmation of American exceptionalism.
Newt Gingrich
#49. When you allow your past to define your present, you're setting yourself up for future disaster.
Abdulazeez Henry Musa
#50. Your words, your schedule, your choices, your obedience, the way you savor your victories and the way you swallow your defeats all help to define your life. It is this definition that your children rely on most as they seek to chart their own future.
Tim Kimmel
#51. We won't let history define our future. Our actions will do the talking. Our determination will turn doubters into believers.
Andrew McCutchen
#52. When we define our happiness by some point in the future, it will never arrive. We'll keep waiting until tomorrow. If we allow impatience to govern us, we will miss the gift of the moment. We'll arrive at that point in time we expected to provide fulfillment and find it lacking.
Joshua Harris
#53. As a competitive gymnast, my life has always been filled with challenges that would ultimately define my future. From day one, I was taught to be prepared at all costs.
Dominique Moceanu
