Future Forward Quotes

#1. I think in order to move forward into the future, you need to know where you've been.

Charles Williams

#2. Growing up, I think I always had a sense of art: a sense that there was poetry in the world. I didn't know where I was going to find it. I didn't know where I was going to fit in, that was for sure. But I kept moving forward. There wasn't a future in anything other than movement.

Lance Henriksen

#3. I welcome viagogo's fresh approach to the entertainment industry and I look forward to helping them build more innovative partnerships in the future.

Guy Oseary

#4. I'd learned quickly, as a matter of survival, that I needed to take opportunities as they came - if they came - and to look forward to the future.

Saroo Brierley

#5. Even more exciting is learning that to create the future of your dreams, you need only change your thoughts and vibrations from this day forward.

Jack Canfield

#6. I was not thinking about the world. I was not thinking about history. I was thinking about my body's small, precise, limited, hungry movement forward into the future that seemed at every instant on the verge of being shut down.

Wayne Koestenbaum

#7. Out of my general world-pattern-trend studies there now comes strong evidence that nothing is going to be quite so surprising and abrupt in the future history of man as the forward evolution in the educational process.

R. Buckminster Fuller

#8. I have three cows, and I'm looking forward to more in the future, so I'll have a little herd.

Lindsey Vonn

#9. I look forward to a time, in the not so distant future, when we no longer look forward to 'firsts' as milestones women have yet to achieve, but we look back on them as historic events that continue to teach and inspire.

Dee Dee Myers

#10. Time does not give one much leeway: it thrusts us forward from behind, blows us through the narrow tunnel of the present into the future. But space is broad, teeming with possibilities, positions, intersections, passages, detours, U-turns, dead-ends, one-way streets. Too many possibilities, indeed.

Susan Sontag

#11. Youth faces forward, impatient of the present, panting to anticipate the future. But we who have crossed a certain sad meridian, we turn our gaze backward,and tell the relentless gods what we would sacrifice to recover a little of the past...

Henry Harland

#12. 'Neon Future' is, in short, a positive outlook on human progress and technology, looking forward to a bright, colorful utopia. It's embracing the future and looking toward the future in a more optimistic way.

Steve Aoki

#13. I keep wishing, reflexively, for a glimpse of the future, so I'll know what to do. But I don't kid myself. I have to feel my way forward blindly. I try not to be afraid. Even if you know what's coming, you're never prepared for how it feels.

Natalie Standiford

#14. I have no intention of retaliating or looking backwards. We are going to forget the past and look forward to the future.

Jomo Kenyatta

#15. Our actions in the present build the staircase to the future. The question is whether that staircase is going up or down.

Craig D. Lounsbrough

#16. Never forget it. But stop living there. Live here, in the present. Think forward to your future.

A.S. King

#17. What we pass on moves forward to future generations. Never let anything important slip through the cracks.

Elizabeth B. Knaus

#18. Brian Auger is a superb technician on his instrument, but he also plays with feeling that is a rarity. I am looking forward in recording with him in the near future.

Eddie Harris

#19. Through my obedience to God, He has been able to use my life to help others. It's been a great journey and I'm looking forward to all the things God has in the future.

Joyce Meyer

#20. Imagination allows us to conceive of delightful future possibilities, pick the most amazing one, and pull the present forward to meet it.

Jason Silva

#21. What is our life: (Pause.) it's looking forward or it's looking back. And that's our life. That's it. Where is the moment?

David Mamet

#22. When we look ahead to 2018, we should expect big steps forward in science to come once again from changes in style rather than from marginal improvements in technology.

Freeman Dyson

#23. We can continue to try and clean up the gutters all over the world and spend all of our resources looking at just the dirty spots and trying to make them clean. Or we can lift our eyes up and look into the skies and move forward in an evolutionary way.

Buzz Aldrin

#24. He lives day-to-day now, just as we do, fumbling forward down the path to the future.

Robin Hobb

#25. The future has to do with fear. Don't attempt to come up here. Don't attempt to go forward, you were nobody, you are nobody, and you'll always be nothing, so don't even think about coming here because if you do, something awful will happen to you.

Malachy McCourt

#26. Without our artists and storytellers, we have no history, and without history your future is unmoored -- we drift. It is art, never war, that carries culture forward.

Sharon E. McKay

#27. Let's say your past is your present and your present is your cash, So I look forward to the future.

Young Jeezy

#28. She often told her children that they couldn't change the past and they couldn't jump forward to the future. All they had was today, and they needed to live it in such a way that they wouldn't create just another regretted yesterday. Mourning the past was never productive-she knew this full well.

Tracie Peterson

#29. We are excited about the music, past and present and future, and are really looking forward to playing.

Graham Nash

#30. Malawians must look forward toward a better future.

Joyce Banda

#31. Since the future is unknown, in every step forward we walk to the unknown!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

#32. Actually, we chose the name Sun Cellular because we believe the name 'Sun' is bright, forward-looking and optimistic. It is my sincere hope that the whole Philippines will share our positive outlook, optimism and faith in the country's future.

John Gokongwei

#33. I sometimes find myself sitting here not watching an uninteresting movie and contemplating the future. I don't always know what to do, but I have faith that I'll figure it out somehow.

D.S. Mixell

#34. He could not afford to indulge misery, to live in the past and stumble through life facing backwards.

Jonathan Renshaw

#35. Look forward to the future and look forward to the unknown. Nothing stays the same and people change. One day that hurt and pain will be a distant memory.

Angela Merkel

#36. I am only 33, I've got a lot to do. This is the first half of my career. I'm looking forward to the future and I'm proud about the past.

Ice Cube

#37. Do not follow after the past; do not go forward to meet the future. Instead, just rest the mind naturally in the present awareness.

Gampopa

#38. Always bear in mind that the people are not fighting for ideas, for the things in anyone's head. They are fighting to win material benefits, to live better and in peace, to see their lives go forward, to guarantee the future of their children ...

Amilcar Cabral

#39. If we can't begin to agree on fundamentals, such as the elimination of the most abusive forms of child labor, then we really are not ready to march forward into the future.

Alexis Herman

#40. Our archives are treasure troves - a testament to many lives lived and the complexity of the way we move forward. They contain clues to the real concerns of day-to-day life that bring the past alive.

Sara Sheridan

#41. May you look back on the past with as much pleasure as you look forward to the future.

Paul Dickson

#42. It's a question of whether we're going to go forward into the future, or past to the back.

Dan Quayle

#43. Sorrow is properly that state of the mind in which our desires are fixed upon the past without looking forward to the future.

Samuel Johnson

#44. After Westlife, I was in a scared place, you know; you've three children, and I worry about providing for them, and I had no guarantees going forward about the future.

Shane Filan

#45. It's great news. The reality of negotiations today is that they take time. But these have always been conducted in a good spirit and we are very pleased with the outcome. We can now look forward to the future.

Alex Ferguson

#46. Do not look back to the past, nor forward to the future. Claim only the present, for it holds God's will.

Rose Philippine Duchesne

#47. For all those moments in your life when you absolutely think you can't...think again.

Scott Schafer

#48. With iPad publishing, you can try new things, experiment, and even launch new magazines without the massive risk normally associated with print publishing. The future is digital, so there will be a digital version of everything we do going forward. There has to be. The cheese has been moved.

Scott Kelby

#49. We can't rewind the past, nor fast-forward the future, so today, all we can do is play, record, pause and keep moving, until something should press the stop button.

Anthony Liccione

#50. Everyone was always in such a rush to shoot forward that they never took the time to look back. Which was a mistake. If you wanted to avoid snags, kinks, knots, and cuts, you had to "keep your mind on your line," as the saying went.

Orson Scott Card

#51. Sometimes moving forward changes what's behind you.

Kami Garcia

#52. Your past is handing you a tool you can use to leap into your future: the crucible moments from your own life. The power you need is in looking back to look forward.

Bill Jensen

#53. Ive been waiting for this moment,
The one where looking back doesn't seem fascinating anymore & looking forward doesn't seem to be the greatest seek, I am so darn content with creating and living right now that there honestly isn't any room left for the ordinary.

Nikki Rowe

#54. When you look to the past, don't sit and dwell on your regrets. Instead, focus on the things you learned from each experience and how they may enrich your future. Use the past not as something to hold you back, but as a method for reaffirming the drive to move forward on your chosen path.

Jack Davenport

#55. I am a forward-looking person and live in the moment to build for the future.

Hugh Masekela

#56. Confront your past, live in the present, and look forward to the future.

Mary A. Perez

#57. I can say, "I don't have anything I regret!" But I can also say, "I can go forward in my life the way it is and I don't think I'll accrue any future regrets."

Michael J. Fox

#58. He knew he would always remember her, standing there with that expectant, forward-looking smile, enough to turn the future into summer.

Willa Cather

#59. Forward thinking doesn't just come with age. It comes with practice and experience. That's why some twenty-two-year-olds are incredibly self-possessed, future-oriented people who already know how to face the unknown, while some thirty-four-year-olds still have brains that run the other way.

Meg Jay

#60. Leaders: Your job in the future is to create a space where others feel save being vulnerable. Where fears and failures are openly discussed and used as lessons moving forward.

Bill Jensen

#61. History was once the future, the future will create history.

Daniel J. Hill

#62. The real enemies of our life are the 'oughts' and the 'ifs.' They pull us backward into the unalterable past and forward into the unpredictable future. But real life takes place in the here and now.

Henri Nouwen

#63. But you can build a future out of anything. A scrap, a flicker. The desire to go forward, slowly, one foot at a time. You can build an airy city out of ruins.

Lauren Oliver

#64. What is the special privilege of youth? It is, I think, the power of looking forward, the firm belief that the future holds something that is worth possessing, and that, therefore, one can let the present moment drop from one without regret and without fear.

Edith Sitwell

#65. Damien is my anchor to this world, and I am his. But if we are going to keep each other, we have to fight the shadows of
our pasts to move forward into our future.

J. Kenner

#66. God's vision is a call to move forward into the future in the full operation of love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, gentleness, faithfulness, and self-control, with a fearlessness that could only come from him.

Sarah Bessey

#67. I note that I've lived longer in the past now, than I can expect to live in the future. I have more to remember than I have to look forward to. Memory fades, not much of the past stays, and I wouldn't mind forgetting more of it.

Denis Johnson

#68. This is your life, Lea. Mine was over centuries ago, but you have the future, things to hope for and look forward to. I'm just here for one thing. I don't want anything to happen to you or Conner, even Shane or Tucker, because you're all trying to save me.

Christine Zolendz

#69. Belfast is a city which, while not forgetting its past, is living comfortably with its present and looking forward to its future.

James Nesbitt

#70. I'm happy, I'm in a good place, I'm looking forward to my future.

Katy Perry

#71. The mind is much stronger than most people realize. Concentrate on being happy, living in the moment, cherishing special events in the past and moving forward towards a beautiful future. That's my motto!

Jes Fuhrmann

#72. Your reactions, whether positive or negative, are creative of future circumstances. In your imagination, you can hear words congratulating you on getting a wonderful new job. That imaginal act now goes forward and you will encounter this pleasant experience in the future.

Neville Goddard

#73. One of the things that I've learned from the Selection so far is that moving forward means joining your life before coming to the palace with the future that lies in front of you. I'm hoping to make another step in joining those two worlds today.

Kiera Cass

#74. Now is not the time to look at the past. Lets look forward to the future.
Diplomats know very well that these are standard slogans for those who are engaged in serious crimes.

Noam Chomsky

#75. The only thing a person can ever really do is keep moving forward. Take that big leap forward without hesitation, without once looking back. Simply forget the past and forge toward the future.

Alyson Noel

#76. I look forward to continuing the debate about Britain's future - in Parliament and across the country.

Theresa May

#77. Remember to forget what lies behind, reach and press forward.

Jim George

#78. It will take faith, to go forward together without knowing exactly what the future brings.

Katy Regnery

#79. Break any ties - good or bad, emotional or spiritual - with any former relationships. You can't move forward into the future if you have a foot stuck in the past.

Stormie O'martian

#80. The idea of America endures. Our destiny remains our choice. And tonight, more than two centuries later, it is because of our people that our future is hopeful, our journey goes forward, and the state of our union is strong.

Barack Obama

#81. We are overcome by the "cares ... of this life" when we are paralyzed by fear of the future, which hinders our going forward in faith, trusting in God and His promises. It is up to each of us to set the priorities and to do the things that make our soil good and our harvest plentiful.

Dallin H. Oaks

#82. I got my best foot forward onto greener grass, cause there ain't no future living in the past.

Black Hawk

#83. We should regret our mistakes and learn from them, but never carry them forward into the future with us. - Lucy Maud Montgomery

Anonymous

#84. Life is fluid. We are the ghosts of all the people we might become, peering forward to catch a glimpse of what could be, our future selves staring back at us, at who we might have been, never were.

Bernie Mcgill

#85. The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today. Let us move forward with strong and active faith.

Franklin D. Roosevelt

#86. Look forward to your future and don't forget your past but, stop to enjoy the present moment called now.

M. Barbaro

#87. L I V E or E V I L
to Live life is to spell forward. To not live life is to spell backwards.

Shannon L. Alder

#88. Retirement is unthinkable to me. The future is bright and very exciting and I'm looking forward to playing a part in it.

Hugh Hefner

#89. Can you see the future, Kerbouchard?"
"Who would wish to? Our lives hold a veil between anticipation and horror. Anticipation is the carrot suspended before the jackass to keep him moving forward. Horror is what he would see if he took his eyes off the carrot.

Louis L'Amour

#90. I'm always interested in looking forward toward the future. Carving out new ways of looking at things.

Herbie Hancock

#91. The last chapter discussed why we see time go forward: why disorder increases and why we remember the past but not the future.

Stephen Hawking

#92. Life loses force and Death gains it as I trot forward in the future!' said the mighty God of Time.

J. Anita

#93. In addition, I'm finishing a track for the movie 'Waking Up In Reno', but there are numerous other singers I look forward to recording with in the near future.

Dwight Yoakam

#94. People move forward into the future out of the way they comprehend the past. When we don't understand something in our past, we are therefore crippled.

Norman Mailer

#95. As a musician you have to keep one foot back in the past and have one foot forward into the future.

Dizzy Gillespie

#96. America is a great country. We have a lot to be proud of, and a lot to look forward to being proud of. But let's not ever forget to look back into the past, learn from it, and embrace it, for to deny the past is a dark path to go down.

Lauren Lola

#97. Moving forward is not based upon your past; your future is exclusively determined by the decisions you make now, in this moment.

Mike Michalowicz

#98. Healing in America is being able to call it our home, to build a future for our children, to still believe in tough times, to remember our forefathers, and stepping forward together towards a common solution

Phil Mitchell

#99. There is never any turning back Gemma. You have to go forward. Make the future yours.

Libba Bray

#100. I'm not sure this will make sense to you but I felt as though I'd turned around to look in a different direction so that I no longer faced backward toward the past but forward toward the future. And now the question confronting me was this: What would the future be

Arthur Golden