Top 100 For The Future Quotes
#1. The essence of statesmanship is not a rigid adherence to the past, but a prudent and probing concern for the future.
Hubert H. Humphrey
#2. As to forming any plan for the future, I could as soon have formed an elephant.
Charles Dickens
#3. You can't really innovate for the past (your offering won't be innovative and will be beaten easily by competitors). If you innovate for the future, then adoption will be slow until customers become ready. The trick is to task your insights team to provide guidance for the future present.
Braden Kelley
#4. Whoso neglects learning in his youth, loses the past and is dead for the future.
Euripides
#5. At moments of departure and a change of life, people capable of reflecting on their actions usually get into a serious state of mind. At these moments they usually take stock of the past and make plans for the future.
Leo Tolstoy
#6. Man to the last is but a froward child;
So eager for the future, come what may,
And to the present so insensible.
Samuel Rogers
#7. ...knowing the full depth of any human, knowing their hopes and frailties, the hurts of their past, the tremor with which they reach for the future...that knowledge is akin to love.
J.M. Martin
#8. Children bring chaos and clutter and an infinite potential for the future
Dan Simmons
#9. Whatever you went through in past equipped you for today. What you experience now prepares you for the future.
Lailah Gifty Akita
#10. Sometimes hope for the future is found in the ashes of yesterday.
Karen Kingsbury
#11. The role of a philosopher is to create a better way for the future generations.
Debasish Mridha
#12. A photograph captures a magical moment for the future to ponder.
Debasish Mridha
#13. I believe our only hope for the future is to adopt a new conception of human ecology, one in which we start to reconstitute our concept of the richness in human capacity.
Ken Robinson
#14. The choices we made today were templates for the future.
Richelle Mead
#15. One must plan for the future and anticipate the future without fearing the future.
Robin Hobb
#16. There are a lot of problems involved in comparative history. You never know if you're getting the comparisons weighted rightly, you're bound to dominate one literature better than another. But I do see it as one of the ways forward for the future. I think it is a very important approach.
John Elliott
#17. I have a lack of fear, whereas in the past the fear of failure was a powerful motivator. Anyway, I have great expectations for the future, but I just don't know if I'm the monarch of all I survey.
Sylvester Stallone
#18. When you get a whole country - as did ours - thinking that Washington is a sort of heaven and behind its clouds dwell omniscience and omnipotence, you are educating that country into a dependent state of mind which augers ill for the future.
Henry Ford
#19. The hard part about living in the present is it forces you to abandon hope for the future. Thanks for nothing, now.
Dana Gould
#20. God brings men [and women] into deep waters, not to drown them, but to cleanse [teach and improve] them. [It is fair and appropriate to get excited about what those lessons and improvements to you will mean for the future happiness of you and those you care about.]
John H. Aughey
#21. For the first time in my life I feel truly free, truly strong and comfortable with who I am and what I stand for. The future feels like an exciting adventure and I am a daring explorer ... who knows what I'll discover? But I know it's going to be fun!
Maria Rodale
#23. Dear young people, you have many plans and dreams for the future. But, is Christ at the center of each of your plans and dreams?
Pope Francis
#24. Motherhood is given the brush-off in our society. 'Oh, I'm just a mom,' you hear women say. 'Just' a mom? Please! Being a mom is everything. It's mentorship, it's inspirational, it's our hope for the future.
Sally Field
#25. Christ's resurrection not only gives you hope for the future; it gives you hope to handle your scars right now.
Timothy Keller
#26. I try to learn from the past, but I plan for the future by focusing exclusively on the present. That's were the fun is.
Donald J. Trump
#27. A baby is the symbol of the future, hope for the future, and our opinion in the future.
Debasish Mridha
#28. One thing that keeps me awake at night: I am a mother and, I have to confess with great delight, a grandmother of five girls, which gives me great hope for the future - girl power! Can I say that without alienating all of the men?
Queen Noor Of Jordan
#29. The hardest thing is to live richly in the present without letting it be tainted out of fear for the future or regret for the past.
Sylvia Plath
#30. Learn from the past, enjoy the now, and prepare for the future.
Kailin Gow
#31. We need to preserve these sacred locations for ourselves, for the species of plants and animals that coexist in harmony there, and for the future generations of humankind that will need to be refreshed, renewed and healed by them.
Frederick Lenz
#32. On this one long, blessed night we refused to worry, allowing only hopes and dreams for the future of the human race, held in the miniscule hands of these newborns.
A.B. Shepherd
#34. You can be diagnosed and treated early. And there is hope for the future.
Teri Garr
#35. Booking windows are shrinking, and customers are going mobile: trends which position HotelTonight perfectly for the future.
Barry Sternlicht
#36. By a merging and interplay of identities between himself and his beautiful room, he might be preparing a ghost for the future; it had not occurred to him that there might have been a similar merging and coalescence in the past. Oliver Onions The Beckoning Fair One
Adam Nevill
#37. I plan for the future, but the only day I really worry about is the day I'm living right now.
Richard Simmons
#39. London has the trick of making its past, its long indelible past, always a part of its present. And for that reason it will always have meaning for the future, because of all it can teach about disaster, survival, and redemption. It is all there in the streets. It is all there in the books.
Anna Quindlen
#40. What if you save for 40 years, putting off all kinds of opportunities, then get hit by a bus the day before retirement? Better to plan for the future while also living in the present.
Chris Guillebeau
#41. Campaign season is the only time of public debate about what we want for the future. It can change consciousness even more than who gets elected. In short, campaigns may be the closest thing we have to democracy itself.
Gloria Steinem
#42. Your enthusiasm for learning gives me hope for the future," he said. "We can start right now if you'd like. You don't seem to be ... working
Cassandra Rose Clarke
#43. Science now finds itself in paradoxical strife with society: admired but mistrusted; offering hope for the future but creating ambiguous choice; richly supported yet unable to fulfill all its promise; boasting remarkable advances but criticized for not serving more directly the goals of society.
J. Michael Bishop
#44. Competition for the future is competition to create and dominate emerging opportunities-to stake out new competitive space. Creating the future is more challenging than playing catch up, in that you have to create your own roadmap.
Gary Hamel
#45. It is certain that there can be no work in political economy on any other than an altruistic basis... If our work is to retain any meaning it can only be informed by this: concern for the future, for those who will come after us.
Max Weber
#46. The present is passed over in the race for the future; the here is neglected in favor of the there. Enjoy the moment, even if it means merely a walk in the country.
Anne Morrow Lindbergh
#47. I haven't any sort of plans for the future but I reckon things will work out in some manner.
Dashiell Hammett
#48. She cried for the life she could not control. She cried for the mentor who had died before her eyes. She cried for the profound loneliness that filled her heart. But, above all, she cried for the future ... which suddenly felt so uncertain.
Dan Brown
#49. Check up each week on the progress you are making. Ask yourself what mistakes you have made, what improvement, what lessons you have learned for the future.
Dale Carnegie
#50. We can do things the cheap way, the simple way, for the short-term and without regard for the future. Or, we can make the extra effort, do the hard work, absorb the criticism and make decisions that will cause a better future.
Mike Rounds
#51. Everyone hustles his life along, and is troubled by a longing for the future and weariness of the present.
Seneca.
#52. We need them. We need scientifically literate voters and taxpayers for the future.
Bill Nye
#53. Why not coincidentally? From religion comes hope for the future and a sense of societal obligation (i.e., a non-hedonistic worldview). No faith, no hope. No hope for the future, no sense of obligation - hence, no children.
Don Feder
#54. If there were a prerequisite for the future successful digital creative, it would be the passion for discovery.
John Maeda
#55. If the world is to save any part of its resources for the future, it must reduce not only consumption but the number of consumers.
B.F. Skinner
#56. One may say that predictions are dangerous particularly for the future. If the danger involved in a prediction is not incurred, no consequence follows and the uncertainty principle is not violated.
Edward Teller
#57. Americans have a penchant for the future and tend to disregard the past.
Alan Dundes
#58. Happiness implies a positive mood in the present and a positive outlook for the future.
Shawn Achor
#59. If you only get money, but you don't care about a thing, right or wrong, you cannot last. That cannot sustain you for the future.
Wang Shi
#60. I'm living in the present, thinking about the past, hoping for the future.
Paul Auster
#61. I know Quebecers don't want to relive old battles; they prefer to build for the future.
Kim Campbell
#62. If more of our so-called leaders would walk the same streets as the people who voted them in, live in the same buildings, eat the same food instead of hiding behind glass and steel and bodyguards, maybe we'd get better leadership and a little more concern for the future.
Bruce Boxleitner
#63. Every time I see an adult on a bicycle, I no longer despair for the future of the human race.
H.G.Wells
#64. South Australia has transformed. There has been a range of changes to our economy over the past 10 years in which we have genuinely set ourselves up for the future. I think we have to start behaving like that's real and project a quiet confidence in the future of our state.
Jay Weatherill
#65. Lessons from the past create hope for the future and action in the present.
Orrin Woodward
#66. The best possible way to prepare for tomorrow is to concentrate with all your intelligence, all your enthusiasm, on doing today's work superbly today. That is the only possible way you can prepare for the future.
Dale Carnegie
#67. I never have plans for the future as you never know how things will turn out.
Nigella Lawson
#68. While I take inspiration from the past, like most Americans, I live for the future.
Ronald Reagan
#69. When families save, they can get through emergencies like a bad harvest or a medical emergency. But it's more than that. They can also plan for the future, gradually saving up for a small business or for their children's school tuition.
Jeff Raikes
#70. I woke up one day and I was like, "I don't have anything to save for myself for the future." That's when I started archiving things. I take four or five things that are really key to each collection, and I restore them or, in some cases, remake parts of them, and archive them.
Jason Wu
#71. I'll have to remember that for the future. When in a life-or-death battle, be sure to club unconscious everyone on your side as early on in the fight as possible, Laura said, laughing.
Mark Walden
#72. Sometimes, Anu, we have to take actions that make us sad because it's the right thing to do for the future.
Michelle Moran
#73. Recruit for the future not just for the gap.
John Gregory
#74. At the moment, my biggest plan for the future consists of a take-out pizza and re-watching the first six seasons of Sons of Anarchy. I'm nurturing a monogamous, not-at-all disturbing relationship with Charlie Hunnam's work right now.
L.J. Shen
#75. By working together to focus on our national priorities today we can ensure that the state of our union is strong for the future.
Patty Murray
#76. Every man must be a part of a progressive revolution at least once in his lifetime! This will leave him great honour and great memories for the future.
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#77. Most of the time when people work with an artist, they don't give them what they need for the future, they give them what their last album sounded like. So it's like, 'Oh, One Republic needs a song, why don't we send them 10 that sound like 'Apologize?'
Benny Blanco
#78. The wave of the future is on the local level. Don't waste your heart and mind trying to pull down what is already destroying itself. But come into where you're almost below the radar and reorganize life. We want communities where we live and work and fight for the future.
Joanna Macy
#79. I live for those who love me, for those who know me true; for the heaven that smiles above me and awaits my spirit too. For the cause that lacks assistance, for the wrong that needs resistance, for the future in the distance, and the good that I can do.
George Linnaeus Banks
#80. This is a simple change that will provide a huge financial boost for many Americans, particularly low- to moderate-income families. It is an important step in making sure we do everything we can to encourage all Americans to save and plan for the future.
Jim Cooper
#82. Leaders establish the vision for the future and set the strategy for getting there.
John P. Kotter
#83. The narrative that each person tells herself and others is a big part of how we construct our self-identities. It's one of the most important ways that we make sense of our past and present and understand our hopes for the future.
Peg O'Connor
#84. The history of humanity has, to a large extent, been one of groping blindly in the dark, fearing for the future and yet resisting the guiding hand of inspired men who would willingly lead mankind in the path of safety.
Ezra Taft Benson
#85. Time passed solely in the pursuit of pleasure leaves no solid enjoyment for the future; but from the hours you spend in reading and studying useful books, you will gather a golden harvest in future years.
Dorothea Dix
#86. Anyone who fights for the future, lives in it today.
Ayn Rand
#87. Everyone needs to remember that Ebola was not a worst-case scenario. Preparedness for the future means preparedness for a very severe disease that spreads via the airborne route or can be transmitted during the incubation period, before an infected person shows telltale signs of illness.
Margaret Chan
#88. Daydreaming of the past and longing for the future may provide comfort but will not take the place of living in the present.
Thomas S. Monson
#89. I'd rather do something than read about it."
"That's fine, but if you do it, and then can't think what it means, it's never much of a memory. Life has more to so with memories of the past and longings for the future than it ever does with *right now*."
-pg 138-9
Dean Hughes
#90. Like her, he cared more for the future than the past, more for hope than anger.
John Hart
#91. Changing anything in the past, if you believe it's possible, could alter the entire future of the world, including my own birth, so I'd change nothing. Not a thing. As for the future ... I think I'd like to see how it all ends, which is probably why I write about the future apocalypse so frequently.
Jeremy Robinson
#92. The truth is I suppose that a tour lays in a great stock of thought and spirits for the future; the fatigue and drawbacks of actual travelling are forgotten and a bright residuum remains.
Henry Parry Liddon
#93. Arbor Day is not like other holidays. Each of those reposes on the past, while Arbor Day proposes for the future.
Julius Sterling Morton
#94. The not so simple Truth is that we must be psychologically free in order to resist and we must resist in order to be free, and all of this requires an understanding of what bondage has been, of what it continues to be and of its ramifications for the future.
Mari Evans
#95. What man is really anti-progressive? For he is only anti-certain-people's-visions-for-the-future.
Criss Jami
#96. History is the heritage and patrimony of mankind in its lessons of the past that give priceless inspiration for the future.
Henry Clausen
#97. Thus my faith grew that my beautiful dream for the future would become reality after all, even though this might require long years.
Adolf Hitler
#98. Sooner or later, people are going to figure out if all you run is negative attack ads you don't have much of a vision for the future or you're not ready to articulate it.
John McCain
#99. We're not planning for the future. If we continue to spend ourselves into oblivion, we are going to destroy this nation.
Ben Carson
#100. Never look back, except for an occasional glance, look ahead and plan for the future. Success is not built on past laurels, but rather on a continuous activity. Keep busy searching out new ideas and, experimentally, keep ahead of the times, or at least up with them.
Dorothy Draper
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