Top 100 Shape The Future Quotes
#2. Since many things we see were once an idea, let us create good ideas today because they will be the realities of tomorrow! When you create an idea, do not forget that you shape the future! Idea is your God side! With ideas, you can change the universe, but only with very great ideas!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#3. I am told that there is a proverbial phrase among the Inuit: 'A long time ago, in the future.' Let the children see our history, and maybe it will help to shape the future.
Romeo LeBlanc
#4. The past is a distraction, a source of envy, enmity, bitterness. Only the present matters, for only in the present can we shape the future.
Cut loose the past; it is dead weight.
Let the Extirpation continue. Let it never end.
Stephen Baxter
#5. I am totally against the idea that a Muslim woman should not have the same opportunities as a Muslim man to learn, to open up, to work, help shape the future. To close Islam down to a sexist approach is totally intolerable and ridiculous. It's not Islam.
King Hussein I
#6. I want to encourage more young women to get involved in coding, because it's important for them to be able to help shape the future, and coding is the future.
Karlie Kloss
#7. Your vision, ideas and plans have the power to shape the future, but not if you keep them to yourself.
Gloria Feldt
#8. The only way to predict the future is to have power to shape the future.
Eric Hoffer
#9. Vadderung grinned. I've never heard it phrased quite like that, but it's accurate enough. In any event, overcoming that inertia requires tremendous energy, will, and a measure of simple luck. If one wishes to alter the course of history, it's a far simpler matter to attempt to shape the future.
Jim Butcher
#10. Not to leave planet Earth would be like castaways on a desert island not trying to escape ... Sending humans to other planets ... will shape the future of the human race in ways we don't yet understand, and may determine whether we have any future at all.
Stephen Hawking
#11. The choices we make now will shape the future of not just our countries, but the world at large. We should intensify our cooperation in confronting global challenges like Terrorism, Cyber Security and Climate Change.
Narendra Modi
#12. What kind of nation we will be, what kind of world we will live in, whether we shape the future in the image of our hopes, is ours to determine by our actions and our choices.
Richard M. Nixon
#13. We marked men were not at all worried about the shape the future would take.
Hermann Hesse
#14. The groups of which we are a part impact our decisions and our decisions shape the future.
Mal Fletcher
#15. The visions we offer our children shape the future.
Carl Sagan
#16. We don't know which of our acts in the present will shape the future. But
Gloria Steinem
#17. My will shall shape the future. Whether I fail or succeed shall be no man's doing but my own. I am the force. I can clear any obstacle before me or I can be lost in the maze. My choice, my responsibility. Win or lose, only I hold the key to my destiny.
Elaine Maxwell
#18. I hear so many people talking about what's wrong, whether it's climate change or whatever, but so few say, 'Well, look, we've got this problem, so let's find the solution. Let's find a scientist, let's find politicians who are prepared to shape the future, or try and keep up with it.'
Jenny Shipley
#19. May we be the kind of good faith Christians who shape the future by asking the right questions and then confronting what is wrong, clarifying what is confused, celebrating what is good, and creating what the world is missing.
David Kinnaman
#20. Memories establish the past;
Senses perceive the present;
Imaginations shape the future.
Toba Beta
#21. Live in the present and shape the future, do not be casting lingering looks to the distant past for the past has passed away, never again to return.
Subramanya Bharathi
#22. God expects you not simply to face the future; He expects you to embrace and shape the future
to love it and rejoice in it and delight in your opportunities.
Jeffrey R. Holland
#23. The legacy I leave will be unimaginably enhanced by the legacies I received. Therefore, I must be wise enough to embrace the history of those who have gone before me so that I can shape the future of those who will go ahead of me.
Craig D. Lounsbrough
#24. If I've learned anything in life, it's that it doesn't help to sit and play a situation over and over again in your head. You can't change the past, but you can shape the future with the right now.
Brittainy C. Cherry
#25. Women need to see ourselves as individuals capable of creating change. That is what political and economic power is all about: having a voice, being able to shape the future. Women's absence from decision-making positions has deprived the country of a necessary perspective.
Madeleine M. Kunin
#26. I was brought up in a family of leaders, and I think leadership is a life sentence. I like changing things that will shape the future.
Jenny Shipley
#27. Americans are a responsive people and the ideas, the knowledge and the emotions that come through the television screen in our living rooms will most certainly shape the course of the future for ourselves and our children.
Walt Disney Company
#28. The only important property of evils of the past is that they not be repeated in the future, in any way, shape, or form.
Erik Naggum
#29. I look upon youth in admiration and admire them for their curiosity about the world, their shape shifting, their ideas about the future.
Polixeni Papapetrou
#30. The future is taking shape now in our own beliefs and in the courage of our leaders. Ideas and leadership - not natural or social "forces" - are the prime movers in human affairs.
George Roche III
#31. Man's body had a different shape in the past from that of the present, and from that which it will have in the future. During involution it was approximately spherical, as it still is during ante-natal life, because the intra-uterine development is a recapitulation of past stages of evolution.
Max Heindel
#32. Ari Shavit's My Promised Land is without question one of the most important books about Israel and Zionism that I have ever read ... This is the book that has the capacity to reinvent and reshape the long-overdue conversation about how Israel's complex past ought to shape its still-uncertain future.
Daniel Gordis
#33. Culture and technology exist in a dynamic reciprocal relationship. Culture comprehends technology through the means of narratives or myths, and those narratives influence the future shape and purposes of technology. The culture-technology circuit is at the heart of cultural evolution.
Brenda Laurel
#34. The power to shape Oregon's future remains where it has always been - in our collective hands.
Ted Kulongoski
#35. Is there a greater tragedy imaginable than that, in our endeavour consciously to shape our future in accordance with high ideals, we should in fact unwittingly produce the very opposite of what we have been striving for?
Friedrich August Von Hayek
#36. There are always limits, and opportunities. The ones we rehearse and focus on are the ones that shape our future.
Seth Godin
#37. The most important thing about global warming is this. Whether humans are responsible for the bulk of climate change is going to be left to the scientists, but it's all of our responsibility to leave this planet in better shape for the future generations than we found it.
Mike Huckabee
#38. The American people and the Israeli peoples share a faith in the future and believe that democracies can shape their own destinies and that opportunities should be available to all. Throughout its own extraordinary history, Israel has given life to that promise.
Barack Obama
#39. We all make mistakes, have struggles, and even regret things in our past. But you are not your mistakes, you are not your struggles, and you are here NOW with the power to shape your day and your future.
Steve Maraboli
#40. The future is the shape of things to come.
H.G.Wells
#41. The basis of English law is as simple as this: If you would know the future's shape, look to the past.
John Pipkin
#42. Designers can show us a better future, can present us with all kinds of new possibilities so that we can decide: Is this what we want? Before any of that can happen, though, the designer must first commit - by taking what is just a faint glimmer in the mind's eye and giving it shape and life.
Warren Berger
#43. Lots of people are unable to see all kinds of truths right in front of their eyes."
"The world is what we make it, and our future is ours to shape.
Dean Koontz
#44. Truth: We are the present. We are now. We are the razor's edge of history. The future flies at us and from that dark blur we shape the past. And the past is forever.
N.D. Wilson
#45. Let me dream so I can shape the world, let me dream so I can make others dream as well, but do not let me dream my days away; lest I sleep my years away too.
Dave Guerrero
#46. When a reader enters the pages of a book of poetry, he or she enters a world where dreams transform the past into knowledge made applicable to the present, and where visions shape the present into extraordinary possibilities for the future
Aberjhani
#47. My telephone calls and meetings and decisions were now parts of a prescribed ritual aimed at making peace with the past; his calls, his meetings and his decisions were already the ones that would shape America's future. (On transfer of power to Gerald R Ford)
Richard M. Nixon
#48. Our moral responsibility is not to stop future, but to shape it ... to channel our destiny in humane directions and to ease the trauma of transition.
Alvin Toffler
#49. We shape ourselves the joy or fear
Of which the coming life is made,
And fill our Future's atmosphere
With sunshine or with shade.
John Greenleaf Whittier
#50. The capacity of a human community to shape it's future.
Peter Senge
#51. The Black family of the future will foster our liberation, enhance our self-esteem, and shape our ideas and goals.
Dorothy Height
#52. We must act to shape and mold the future, and leave our imprint on events as they slip past into history.
Haile Selassie
#53. The shape of your character is the shape of your future.
Erwin McManus
#54. Claire's hands moved when she talked, rising long and white in the air, as though she would catch the future between them and give it shape, would hand Jamie her thoughts as she spoke them, smooth and polished objects, bits of sculptured air.
Diana Gabaldon
#55. People who grow up without a sense of how yesterday has affected today are unlikely to have a strong sense of how today affects tomorrow. They are unlikely to understand in a bone-deep way how the decisions they make now will shape and affect their future.
William Kirk Kilpatrick
#56. Serving in obscurity can do more to shape a future leader than a dozen years of combing evangelicalism for the perfect position.
Dave Harvey
#57. ...in life, a man only comes to a few crossroads that can shape his future for good or bad. Sometimes one recognized these crossroads, and could stop and think about the right decision. But other times, the choice could only be seen with the clarity that came afterward.
Morgan Rhodes
#58. Knowing your history can give you the tools to shape your future.
Gloria Feldt
#59. We remake the world through our technologies, and these in turn remake and extend us, in ever spiraling lattices of complexity. McLuhan uncannily foresaw the future, where electronic technology would shape and expand cultures and societies into a global membrane of communications.
B.W. Powe
#60. Human migration is an important part of our ancestral story. The places we live shape us, the places we leave behind forges our history, and the places we might travel to becomes our mysterious future.
Kilroy J. Oldster
#61. It is thus that imagination can in the end determine destiny, and it but needs our future actions to be given shape in speech so that we are obliged to give them the reality of accomplishment.
Maurice Druon
#62. It is not your environment, it is you- the quality of your mind, the integrity of your soul and the determination of your will that will decide your future and shape your life.
Benjamin E. Mays
#63. A gasline will help shape our economic future - the same way that oil has shaped our economic present.
Sarah Palin
#64. To move forth and grab your destiny is admirable. To shape your own future with the strength in your fist is beyond that.
S.A. Bouraleh
#65. We have a choice. We can shape our future, or let events shape it for us. And if we want to succeed, we can't fall back on the stale debates and old divides that won't move us forward.
Barack Obama
#66. Ii would no longer waste time on regret. I would turn my face to the future and carve it into the shape I wanted. - Panchali
Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni
#67. Don't let life happen to you. Choose to be a Conscious Creator and shape your future and the future of the planet
Jackie Lapin
#68. The future is all around us, waiting in moments of transition to be born in moments of revelation. No one knows the shape of the future or where it will take us. We know only that it is always born in pain.
J. Michael Straczynski
#69. Wealth is also defined by family, connection to our ancestry, and our best vision of the future. All of these find their inner spirit, their constancy, and their strength in the values that shape our thinking and our actions.
Nainoa Thompson
#70. We did not come here to fear the future. We came here to shape it.
Barack Obama
#71. It was never too late to learn something. The past is unalterable in any event. The future is the only thing we can change. Learning the lessons of the past is the only way to shape the present and the future.
Jim Butcher
#72. The influence of teachers extends beyond the classroom, well into the future. It is they who shape and enrich the minds of the young, who touch their hearts and souls. It is they who shape a nation's future.
F. Sionil Jose
#73. All endeavor calls for the ability to tramp the last mile, shape the last plan, endure the last hours toil. The fight to the finish spirit is the one ... characteristic we must posses if we are to face the future as finishers.
Henry David Thoreau
#74. The Orange Revolution was a powerful example of democracy around the world. The people of Ukraine are continuing to shape their own future.
Scott McClellan
#75. The content of a book holds the power of education and it is with this power that we can shape our future and change lives.
Malala Yousafzai
#76. Volunteerism is the voice of the people put into action. These actions shape and mold the present into a future of which we can all be proud.
Helen Dyer
#77. Abandon ideology. It's time for every American to think for themselves about the financial, social and political issues that will shape our future.
Richard L. DeProspo
#78. Whatever has happened in someone's past, the future is theirs to shape. The first step is to find a way out.
Ellen Hopkins
#79. The planetary phase of history has begun, but the future shape of global society remains profoundly uncertain. Though perhaps improbable, a shift toward a planetary civilization of enriched lives, human solidarity, and environmental sustainability is still possible.
Paul Raskin
#80. Oh hours of childhood,
when behind each shape more than the past appeared
and what streamed out before us was not the future.
We felt our bodies growing and were at times impatient to be grown up, half for the sake
of those with nothing left but their grownupness.
Rainer Maria Rilke
#81. The basic idea of arbitrary coherence is this: although initial prices (such as the price of Assael's pearls) are "arbitrary," once those prices are established in our minds they will shape not only present prices but also future prices (this makes them "coherent").
Dan Ariely
#82. In my view, the greatest threat to America's future isn't hiding in a cave in Pakistan or Afghanistan; it's right here at home. Baby boomers like myself are on course to become the first generation of Americans who leave things in worse shape than they found them.
David Walker
#83. Words matter, especially words defining complicated political arrangements, because they shape perceptions of the events of the past, attitudes toward policies being carried out in the present, and expectations about desirable directions for the future.
Michael Mandelbaum
#84. It was grounded in my belief at the time that a business is only as strong as its closest customer relationships, and that what those customers said about our business beyond our four walls would shape our future. I
Gary Vaynerchuk
#85. The actions you take will shape your future for better or for worse. Such is the power of choice.
Dan Millman
#86. I think that by staying out of shape at the age of 33 I'm doing myself a huge favor for my future. There will never be anyone commenting on how I've 'let myself go.' I've gone. It's gone. It's not going, it's GONE.
Janeane Garofalo
#87. You have the power to shape your life the way you want it to be. Every though, every word, every action guides you with a purpose. And that purpose is to fulfill your destiny. Some may say you're just a dreamer. But everything imagined began with a dream.
Amaka Imani Nkosazana
#88. Technology is rooted in the past. It dominates the present and tends into the future. It is a real historical movement - one of the great movements which shape and represent their epoch.
Ludwig Mies Van Der Rohe
#89. When you can be your own best audience and when your applause is the best applause you know of, youre in good shape.
L. Ron Hubbard
#90. Money talks, and people like science that seems just a little bit insane. It reminds them that the future is tomorrow, and that we have a chance to shape it.
Mira Grant
#92. Who you are today is the outcome of the choices you have made in the past. Choices that you will make today, will shape your future.
Vishwas Chavan
#93. Commemorations can stimulate debate, which will ultimately lead to a greater understanding of the events of our 'through-other' history and to shape a better future.
Martin McGuinness
#94. I think the principal purpose of education is to allow each of us, when we become adults, to shape our own future.
Michael Gove
#95. I think effective leaders typically are able to see the future to a certain degree and then try to take actions to shape it in some way.
Mitt Romney
#96. To reclaim our past and insist that it become a part of our human history is the task that lies before us. For the future requires that women, as well as men, shape the world destiny.
Judy Chicago
#97. Vision is perhaps our greatest strength ... it has kept us alive to the power and continuity of thought through the centuries, it makes us peer into the future and lends shape to the unknown.
Li Ka-shing
#98. Dreams shape the kind of human beings we become. Not having a dream gave me a smaller future and made me a smaller person.
Martina Boone
#99. To predict the future we would have to know today what we will learn tomorrow which will shape our future actions
Douglass North
#100. Don't let your dreams escape / The future's ours to shape
Kim Wilde
