Quotes about Future
Justifying the past mattered less than planning what to do next.
— Barack Obama
It went fine for us," I said. "But based on what I just saw, we better win this thing or the country is screwed.
— Barack Obama
I reminded myself that every president felt saddled with the previous administration's choices and mistakes, that 90 percent of the job was navigating inherited problems and unanticipated crises. Only if you did that well enough, with discipline and purpose, did you get a real shot at shaping the future.
— Barack Obama
It's the one thing we never quite get over: that we contain our own future.
— Barbara Kingsolver
Human manners are wildly inconsistent; plenty of people have said so. But this one takes the cake: the manner in which we're allowed to steal from future generations, while commanding them not to do that to us, and rolling our eyes at anyone who is tediously PC enough to point that out. The conspicious consumption of limited resources has yet to be accepted widely as a spirtual error, or even bad manners.
— Barbara Kingsolver
The very least you can do in your life is figure out what you hope for. And the most you can do is live inside that hope. What I want is almost so simple I can't say it: elementary kindness. Enough to eat, enough to go around. The possibility that kids might one day grow up to be neither the destroyers nor the destroyed.
— Barbara Kingsolver
After the final no there comes a yes And on that yes the future world depends. —WALLACE STEVENS, "The Well Dressed Man with a Beard
— Barbara Kingsolver
Why should it feel so risky to count concretely on a future?
— Barbara Kingsolver
The very least you can do in your life is to figure out what you hope for. And the most you can do is live inside that hope.
— Barbara Kingsolver
If we do not teach our children, societ will. And they-and we-will live with the results.
— Stephen Covey
Best way to predict your future is to create it.
— Stephen Covey
This power of choice means that we are not merely a product of our past or of our genes; we are not a product of how other people treat us. They unquestionably influence us, but they do not determine us. We are self-determining through our choices. If we have given away our present to the past, do we need to give away our future also?
— Stephen Covey