Future Quotes

The future is as bright as your faith.

~ Thomas S. Monson

If I advocate cautious optimism it is not because I do not have faith in the future but because I do not want to encourage blind faith.

~ Aung San Suu Kyi

We must teach our people the greatness of China's historical culture. In our educational program we must stress Chinese history and geography so that all may know and appreciate China's civilization of five thousand years and the far-flung boundaries of our ancient race. This will engender a greater faith in our own future.

~ Chiang Kai-Shek

Pakistan is heir to an intellectual tradition of which the illustrious exponent was the poet and philosopher Mohammad Iqbal. He saw the future course for Islamic societies in a synthesis between adherence to the faith and adjustment to the modern age.

~ Benazir Bhutto

The future of Conservatism lies in our beliefs and values, not by throwing them away. We need to shed associations that bind us to past failures, but hold faith with those things that make us Conservatives.

~ Iain Duncan Smith

For my future I have no concern, and as a true philosopher, I never would have any, for I know not what it may be: as a Christian, on the other hand, faith must believe without discussion, and the stronger it is, the more it keeps silent.

~ Giacomo Casanova

Our faith in the present dies out long before our faith in the future.

~ Ruth Benedict

I ask you, people who care about the soul of Ukraine, those who want to preserve the heart, the spirit and the faith of our country for future generations, to please defend it.

~ Yulia Tymoshenko

As an architect, you design for the present, with an awareness of the past, for a future which is essentially unknown.

~ Norman Foster

By coincidence and not design, 'Everstar' is written and drawn by an all-female creative team, and it makes me smile to think that there may be young female readers out there, future writers and artists, who get to see that comics doesn't have to be a 'boys' club.'

~ Mark Waid

When you think of all the things that are made from oil or in the chemical industry, if in the future we could find cells to replace most of those processes, the ideal way would be to do it by direct design.

~ Craig Venter

Sometime in the future, I am a hundred percent certain scientists will sit down at a computer terminal, design what they want the organism to do, and build it.

~ Craig Venter

I want to have all that scientific information that we're building be used in designing the future so that people who make geographic decisions - and here it's not just land-use planners, but it's everyone: foresters, transportation engineers, people who buy a house - can analyze all of these information layers and design a future.

~ Jack Dangermond

I am passionate about what design can do - how far it can support the new ideas and the new ways of living of this 21st Century. Good design accelerates this exciting future where manufacturing is local, materials and processes are cradle to cradle, business models are both socially and financially driven.

~ Yves Behar

Same-sex marriage is not the future.

~ Maggie Gallagher

You can't connect the dots looking forward; you can only connect them looking backwards. So you have to trust that the dots will somehow connect in your future. You have to trust in something - your gut, destiny, life, karma, whatever. This approach has never let me down, and it has made all the difference in my life.

~ Steve Jobs

To state the facts frankly is not to despair the future nor indict the past. The prudent heir takes careful inventory of his legacies and gives a faithful accounting to those whom he owes an obligation of trust.

~ John F. Kennedy

The future which we hold in trust for our own children will be shaped by our fairness to other people's children.

~ Marian Wright Edelman

The barometer for judging the character of people, in regard human rights, is now those who consider themselves gay, homosexual, lesbian. The judgment as to whether you can trust the future, the social advancement - depending on people - will be judged on where they come out on that question.

~ Bayard Rustin

We're risking the future of the net. People are already losing their trust. Once you get burned once - somebody steals your credit card, or makes a purchase on your account - people tend to stay away from online commerce and from trusting online services.

~ Mikko Hypponen

Young men, trust God, and make the future bright with blessing. Old men, trust God, and magnify him for all the mercies of the past.

~ Charles Spurgeon

While day by day the overzealous student stores up facts for future use, he who has learned to trust nature finds need for ever fewer external directions. He will discard formula after formula, until he reaches the conclusion: Let nature take its course.

~ Larry Bird

Up against the corporate government, voters find themselves asked to choose between look-alike candidates from two parties vying to see who takes the marching orders from their campaign paymasters and their future employers. The money of vested interest nullifies genuine voter choice and trust.

~ Ralph Nader

I do not trust technology. I mean, I don't think we're in any danger of kids, you know, doing without video games in the future, but I am saying that their lives are largely out of balance.

~ Richard Louv

I don't want the United States to be in a global economy where our economic future is bound to that of Zimbabwe. We can't necessarily trust the decisions that are being made financially in other countries.

~ Michele Bachmann

In an ecology of love, people can relate in trust and face the future without fear. They do not need to play it safe. They can take uncertainty in their stride.

~ Jonathan Sacks

Unlike most government programs, Social Security and, in part, Medicare are funded by payroll taxes dedicated specifically to them. Some of the tax revenue pays for current benefits; anything that's left over goes into trust funds for the future. The programs were designed this way for political reasons.

~ James Surowiecki

Hope is trust in God's promises, faith that if we act now, the desired blessings will be fulfilled in the future.

~ James E. Faust

For future geopolitical stability and global prosperity, we need to build a culture of greater trust and understanding between China, America and the rest of the world.

~ Stephen A. Schwarzman

When you forgive, you in no way change the past - but you sure do change the future.

~ Bernard Meltzer

Without forgiveness, there's no future.

~ Desmond Tutu

If Jesus Christ was who He claimed to be, and He did die on a cross at a point of time in history, then, for all history past and all history future it is relevant because that is the very focal point for forgiveness and redemption.

~ Josh Mcdowell

I believe that children are our future. Teach them well and let them lead the way. Show them all the beauty they possess inside.

~ Whitney Houston

Have you not noticed that love is silence? It may be while holding the hand of another, or looking lovingly at a child, or taking in the beauty of an evening. Love has no past or future, and so it is with this extraordinary state of silence.

~ Jiddu Krishnamurti

Wisdom is the abstract of the past, but beauty is the promise of the future.

~ Oliver Wendell Holmes

The value of beauty and inspiration is very much underrated, no question. But I want to be clear: I'm not trying to be anyone's savior. I'm just trying to think about the future and not be sad.

~ Elon Musk

What I loved about 'Summer' was that they were these four bright kids with a wonderful future. In a way, she was the one with the brains, and then you have the beauty queen and the jock and the introvert.

~ Kevin Williamson

If you want a vision of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face - forever.

~ George Orwell

Imagination is the only key to the future. Without it none exists - with it all things are possible.

~ Ida Tarbell

In rising financial markets, the world is forever new. The bull or optimist has no eyes for past or present, but only for the future, where streams of revenue play in his imagination.

~ James Buchan