Top 100 Future If Quotes
#1. Your kids are going to do well in the workplace of the future if they can bring creativity, if they can bring some innovation, if they can bring some entrepreneurialism.
Dalton McGuinty
#2. We need enlightenment, not just individually but collectively, to save the planet. We need to awaken ourselves. We need to practice mindfulness if we want to have a future, if we want to save ourselves and the planet.
Thich Nhat Hanh
#3. How can you expect to handle the future if you can't even handle the present?
Daniel Suarez
#4. You can't talk mediocrity and expect to have victory. You are prophesying your future. If you want a shift to occur, you've got to think positive.
Joel Osteen
#5. All of this comes out of what is now an empty space. There are depths to this. It's a lot to think about. From an empty space the future. If there's no empty space where can one put the future? It all figures if you take the time to think it out.
Russell Hoban
#6. Memory really matters ... only if it binds together the imprint of the past and the project of the future, if it enables us to act without forgetting what we wanted to do, to become without ceasing to be, and to be without ceasing to become.
Italo Calvino
#7. Live every day to its fullest, and do not be a slave to your hopes for the future. If you do not learn to enjoy today you will not enjoy the future no matter what it may bring.
Jane Roberts
#9. You cannot conquer the future if you are imprisoned in the past.
Matshona Dhliwayo
#10. A free culture has been our past, but it will only be our future if we change the path we are on right now.
Lawrence Lessig
#11. You can't drive into the future if you are looking into a rear vision mirror.
Catherine DeVrye
#12. The greatest testimony to the human spirit that I'm witnessing now is the fact that people still come back to work, after all that has been done to them. They are still willing to participate for a more positive future if they would be sincerely invited.
Walter Wriston
#13. I write a lot too, so I would like to write or direct in the future if I can.
Alexis Bledel
#15. Much education springs from some image of the future. If the image of the future held by a society is grossly inaccurate, its education system will betray its youth.
Alvin Toffler
#16. I love my children and care greatly for their future. If they decide they just want to loaf around for a bit between the ages of 16 and 25, that's perfectly fine by me. I did it, and I'm doing fine, thanks. Sometimes 'leaving kids to their own devices' is the best thing for them.
John Niven
#17. Together we can and must fight for justice for our children and protect them from draconian tax cuts and budget choices that threaten their survival, education and preparation for the future. If they are not ready for tomorrow, neither is America.
Marian Wright Edelman
#18. I've always felt like you should love who you love - sexuality doesn't matter. It would be so cool in the future if it weren't even an issue to anybody anymore.
Shay Mitchell
#19. He sighed, and then his voice was fierce. It's not right! I don't want you to have to make sacrifices for me. I want to give you things, not take things away from you. I don't want to steal your future. If I were human -
Stephenie Meyer
#20. God finds a way to weave even your mistakes into the fabric of a brighter future if you let Him.
Elizabeth George
#21. No matter what has happened to you in the past or what is going on in your life right now, it has no power to keep you from having an amazingly good future if you will walk by faith in God. God loves you! He wants you to live with victory over sin so you can possess His promises for your life today!
Joyce Meyer
#22. Love has no future, if we don't love now.
Marty Rubin
#23. While we won't be able to help the 10,000 people who died in last year's [Ebola] outbreak, we can do something to save untold numbers of lives in the future if NIH is working at full strength.
Diana DeGette
#24. It's no good pretending that any relationship has a future if your record collections disagree violently or if your favorite films wouldn't even speak to each other if they met at a party.
Nick Hornby
#25. We can't rightly ever talk about the future, if you think about it. We can only talk about what we imagine or wish for. It's not the same thing.
M.L. Stedman
#26. All beings are not only the parents in the past. They will become the Buddha in the future. If you free their lives, you are Buddha.
Gautama Buddha
#27. True," Brymmer said, and then found himself wrestling with the old Shall I Argue With The Boss Now problem, which perfectly defined a lose-lose situation. If you argued and were wrong, you would never have a future. If you argued and were right, you would never be forgiven.
Walt Cody
#28. The past will continue to be your future if you drag it along with you.
David Bach
#29. In the future . . . if by some miracle you ever find yourself in the position to fall in love again . . . fall in love with me." He presses his lips against my forehead. "You're still my favorite person, Lily. Always will be.
Colleen Hoover
#30. In the future, if nuclear weapons are unleashed there will be no front and no rear.
Nikita Khrushchev
#31. People often say, with pride, 'I'm not interested in politics.' They might as well say, 'I'm not interested in my standard of living, my health, my job, my rights, my freedoms, my future or any future.' ... If we mean to keep any control over our world and lives, we must be interested in politics.
Martha Gellhorn
#32. 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
#33. How can you grow with your present to get ready for your future if you continue to live in your past and all that it contains.
Angelica Stevenson
#34. None but the Creator has knowledge of the future; If anyone says he knows it, do not believe him! - Baba Musafir (d. 1714), a Naqshbandi Sufi saint, speaking about the war of succession among Aurangzeb's sons
Audrey Truschke
#35. Would you like to know your future? If your answer is yes, think again. Not knowing is the greatest life motivator. So enjoy, endure, survive each moment as it comes to you in its proper sequence
a surprise.
Vera Nazarian
#36. 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
#37. Why is it that we only see short-term benefits? No one wants to invest in the future if it's more than twenty-four hours away,
Evan Currie
#38. Regardless of where I am or what I am working on, there is always one thought on my mind: Who shows promise? Who shows up every morning? Who solves problems? Who thinks of something clever? These people are my future if I can involve and develop them.
Freddy Balle
#40. How can I see the future if it didn't already exist?
Clyde Bruckman
#41. You can't master your future if you're still a slave to your past.
Habeeb Akande
#42. At each point in our lives, we are at a crossroads. We are the fruit of our past and we are the architects of our future ... If you want to know your past, look at your present circumstances. If you want to know your future, look at what is in your mind.
Matthieu Ricard
#43. You cannot create your future, if you do not have a purpose.
Sunday Adelaja
#44. The past marks on your slate only live on in your memory, if you allow them to remain. They can't affect your future if they're no longer there.
Melody Jackson
#45. Women are the primary resource of the planet. They give birth, we come from them. They are mothers, they are visionaries, they are the future. If we can figure out how to make women feel safe and honor women, it would be parallel or equal to honoring life itself.
Eve Ensler
#46. If you live day by day and do the best you can, then you'll have a great future. If you worry about the future, and you don't live the best day, you're not going to have a future.
Jason David Frank
#47. Ultimately I live in the now with artistic creation, not what could or could not be in the future, if a creation appears timeless in somebody's opinion, it won't in others, that's not for me to guess.
Justin Broadrick
#48. One can never swim upstream to a prosper future if they continue to drown in their past.
Timothy Pina
#49. There have been times when I felt suicidal and I would stop my head from going in that direction of negativity because I thought there'd be something I'd miss that was funny in the future. If there's a chance I'm going to laugh tomorrow then want to live to experience that.
Dave Navarro
#50. Regulate your mind. Do not worry excessively about the future. If you have done everything that has to be done, the future will take care of itself.
Choa Kok Sui
#52. We're not planning for the future. If we continue to spend ourselves into oblivion, we are going to destroy this nation.
Ben Carson
#53. The past guarantees you nothing in the future if the rules change.
Joel A. Barker
#54. You can't sail towards your future if you're still anchored in the past.
Julie-Anne
#55. I think we built the right future. If it's a choice between the flying car or the Internet, tablets and smartphones, I'll take what we've got.
David Gerrold
#56. Life on Earth is at an ever-increasing risk of being wiped out by disaster ... I think the human race doesn't have a future if it doesn't go into space. I therefore want to encourage public interest in space.
Peter Diamandis
#57. Too many live in the future. If you keep living in the future, in what may be, then the future gets shorter every minute.
Karina Halle
#58. We, who pay dearly for every breath of pure, fresh air, must guard against the tendency to fetter the future. If we succeed in clearing the soil from the rubbish of the past and present, we will leave to posterity the greatest and safest heritage of all ages.
Emma Goldman
#59. By the way, I love your precept. I agree, sometimes it's good to start over. A fresh start gives us the chance to reflect on the past, weigh the things we've done, and apply what we've learned from those things to the future. If we don't examine the past, we don't learn from it.
R.J. Palacio
#60. The science is crystal clear: we humans are the primary cause of global warming, and we face a bleak future if we fail to act quickly.
Joseph J. Romm
#61. The golden flower blooms if you are ready to die to the past, if you are utterly in the present. And you can be utterly in the present only if you have no desire to be anywhere else in the future, if you have no desire to be somebody else. This I call enlightenment.
Osho
#62. If a person doesn't have the capacity that we all want that person to have, I suspect hope is in the far distant future, if at all.
George W. Bush
#63. 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
#64. I think as a species we're not designed to be able to think more than one year into the future - if that. Even trying to imagine one year from now makes most people feel like they've been given a huge boring chunk of homework that's too hard to do.
Douglas Coupland
#65. Perhaps we humans are still in command, and perhaps there really will be a conventional robot war in the not-so-distant future. If so, let's roll. I'm ready. My toaster will never be the boss of me. Get ready to make me some Pop-Tarts, bitch.
Chuck Klosterman
#66. I do think that in the near future, if it hasn't happened already, people will be able to use technology to design their own novels, perhaps with individuals themselves as the main character. In other words, everything is being individualized and narrowed.
Don DeLillo
#67. It's a lot easier for our children to look forward to a hopeful future if they have the confidence that we are doing all we can, while they are in our care, to groom them for the future.
Tim Kimmel
#68. In the future if my mother tries to shame me with her disapproval, I will let her know in no uncertain terms that I reject her and all of her codependent baggage. I am Codependent No More.
Susan Juby
#69. Our country demands all our strength, all our energies. To resist the powerful combination now forming against us will require every man at his place. If victorious, we will have everything to hope for in the future. If defeated, nothing will be left for us to live for.
Robert E.Lee
#70. The source of anxiety lies in the future. If you can keep the future out of mind, you can forget your worries.
Milan Kundera
#71. there's only one future, if I want to keep those I love alive and stay alive myself. I'll have to marry Peeta.
Suzanne Collins
#72. The child is endowed with unknown powers, which can guide us to a radiant future. If what we really want is a new world, then education must take as its aim the development of these hidden possibilities.
Maria Montessori
#73. Our culture encourages us to pursue pleasure at all costs, to look for what will please us in the present and not to think about the price we might pay in the future if we do not delay gratification.
Anonymous
#74. One cannot have a future if he doesn't serve the one and only God
Sunday Adelaja
#75. You shouldn't talk to people about the future if you don't believe in one for yourself.
Francisco X Stork
#76. In my view, you can't go to the future if you haven't come from the past.
Iris Apfel
#77. 'It ain't ever over. You can't have no future if you don't have no past, and the past ain't never done with you...At the end of your life, all you have is what you know.'
Vicki Pettersson
#78. Live Today [10w]
Don't plan for the future if you can't live today.
Beryl Dov
#79. Is this all we are? Continual actions and reactions? No control over our future? [ ... ] If that's true, then life is one pathetic and sick game.
Katie McGarry
#80. Not since the original Mac had a clarity of product vision so propelled a company into the future. If anybody was ever wondering why Apple is on the earth, I would hold up this as a good example
Walter Isaacson
#81. I also enjoy writing my regular column for Organic Gardening magazine, so I may do more of that sort of thing in the future, if anybody wants it!
Ken Thompson
#82. He thought about his son's stone flying across the yard, the youthful idea that you could toss away the future if
you didn't like it - and he realized, suddenly, what he needed to do.
Mitch Albom
#83. I have seen such an immense change from the total repression and criminality of homosexuality in my lifetime. It does make me much more buoyant and optimistic about the future. If that change can occur in that time there's hope for many other changes.
Bob Brown
#84. You're living in the present. It's a reminder that you can see the future if you just point the glass in the right direction.
Maria V. Snyder
#85. We are creating the future. It is not determined. If we get our act together and solve our current problems, we could have a sustainable, abundant future. If we don't, we could wipe ourselves out. We are on the verge of doing it with our current politics. It is regressive, going back the other way.
Edgar Mitchell
#87. If we want to find safe alternatives to obstetrics, we must rediscover midwifery. To rediscover midwifery is the same as giving back childbirth to women. And imagine the future if surgical teams were at the service of the midwives and the women instead of controlling them.
Michel Odent
#88. The Neo-Feudalism of UN Agenda 21/Sustainable Development is reviving serfdom as the condition of the future. If you let it.
Rosa Koire
#89. I think the human race has no future if it doesn't go into space.
Stephen Hawking
#90. We face a dark future if children stop asking questions, Susanna, Goody Alsop remarked.
Deborah Harkness
#91. Botswana has an incredible future if it can wrestle the HIV scenario to the ground.
Colin Salmon
#92. Negative emotions often make things even more memorable than positive ones because recalling things that are threatening - and avoiding those situations in the future if possible - is often critical to survival.
Bruce D. Perry
#93. No, its not, because you can see into the future if you have basic understanding of how people are likely to act.
John Green
#94. He believed in himself, believed in his quixotic ambition, letting the failures of the previous day disappear as each new day dawned. Yesterday was not today. The past did not predict the future if he could learn from his mistakes.
Daniel Wallace
#95. He pulls back to look down at me and when he sees my tears, he brings his hands up to my cheeks. In the future . . . if by some miracle you ever find yourself in the position to fall in love again . . . fall in love with me.
Colleen Hoover
#96. One cannot have a future if he does not serve God, the one and only God
Sunday Adelaja
#97. Ask yourself exactly what you want in your life - now and in the future. If you were given the opportunity to do or have anything, what would it be, and why?
Beverly K. Bachel
#98. We shall have no better conditions in the future if we are satisfied with all those which we have at present.
Thomas A. Edison
#99. There are no limits to our future if we don't put limits on our people.
Jack Kemp
#100. Provide for her Future - if you can! - That's my motto! - But a man's just a plain bum who don't provide for his own Past!
Eleanor Hallowell Abbott
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