Future Quotes

My hope for the future, not just in the music industry, but in every young girl I meet…is that they all realize their worth and ask for it.

~ Taylor Swift

Children are the world's most valuable resource and its best hope for the future.

~ John F. Kennedy

A King and Queen cannot support a crown with eyes looking down. Their universe expands as far as you can see.

~ T.f. Hodge

It's a very cheery thing to come into London by any of these lines which run high and allow you to look down upon the houses like this.I thought he was joking, for the view was sordid enough, but he soon explained himself.Look at those big, isolated clumps of buildings rising up above the slates, like brick islands in a lead-coloured sea.The board-schools.Light-houses, my boy! Beacons of the future! Capsules with hundreds of bright little seeds in each, out of which will spring the wiser, better England of the future.

~ Arthur Conan Doyle

Past and Present I know well; each is a friend and sometimes an enemy to me. But it is the quiet, beckoning Future, an absolute stranger, with whom I have fallen madly in love.

~ Richelle E. Goodrich

Your dreamers. You ridiculous children. You dancing grinning fuckups. Here is your bright future. Your earnest, saccharine hope. How does it taste dripping from the neck of everyone you love?

~ Isaac Marion

The future is an infinite succession of presents, and to live now as we think human beings should live, in defiance of all that is bad around us, is itself a marvelous victory.

~ Howard Zinn

I do not think it irresponsible to portray even the direst futures if we are to avoid them we must understand that they are possible. But where are the alternatives Where are the dreams that motivate and inspire We long for realistic maps of a world we can be proud to give to our children. Where are the cartographers of human purpose Where are the visions of hopeful futures of technology as a tool for human betterment and not a gun on hair trigger pointed at our heads

~ Carl Sagan

The thought of only being a creature of the present and the past was troubling. I longed for a future too, with hope in it. The desire to be free, awakened my determination to act, to think , and to speak.

~ Frederick Douglass

If you believe our cause so hopeless, why join us?Because you offered something I had forgotten could be offered, a choice. And I choose to die free.

~ Anthony Ryan

Education is the realization of hope for the future.

~ Victor Tam

She shot out of her seat, tired of waiting, at last ready to create her future.

~ Scott Stabile

I ask, ‘Is the cup half-empty or half-full?’ And when I ask that question, I am amazed at how many people have no cup.

~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

If you're reading this, I hope God opens incredible doors for your life this year. Greatness is upon you. You must believe it though.

~ Germany Kent

No matter how dysfunctional your background, how broke or broken you are, where you are today, or what anyone else says, YOU MATTER, and your life matters!

~ Germany Kent

You're going to make it;You're going to be at peace;You're going to create, and love, and laugh, and live;You're going to do great things.

~ Germany Kent

Our essential humanity is dependent upon humankind’s ability to join the past and the future with the present. Recollections and future projections grant us the ability to cogitate, analyze, and evaluate. Contrasting memories enable us to ascertain what is true and false, and determine what is charming, attractive, stunning, or sublime. Remembrance of the past serves to comfort us, awareness of the future offers us hope, while our dutiful engagement in the present is capable of arresting our complete attention.

~ Kilroy J. Oldster

And I pray that you no longer seek happiness from the past, but rather you set your sails forward, to a land that is pure and wonderful. I pray that you no longer stare into the shallows of empty promises, but that you dive into the depth of an ocean of guarantees. May you feel the winds of hope, and smell the scent of joy, may your heart be alive again as it was meant to be. For you are with a better captain, you are with a true sailor, a true leader; You are sailing with Christ, and He is always sure to lead us home.

~ T.b. Laberge

Somewhere, excitement waited for me like an uncut cake.

~ Lauren Wolk

Carl Schmitt could boast with some justice that the Nazi revolution was orderly and disciplined. But the reason lies not so much within the Nazis themselves as in the lack of an effective opposition. For millions the Nazi ideology did assuage their anxiety, did end their alienation, and did give hope for a better future. Other millions watched passively, not deeply committed to resistance. Let them have a chance was a typical attitude. Hitler took the chance and made the most of it.

~ George L. Mosse

Don't let past mistakes make you lose hope of achieving good. Some of those with the worst past have made a great future for themselves.

~ Mufti Ismail Menk

Living in the moment works sometimes, but when alone, it clouds over your memories and dreams, and those are what I need to survive.

~ D.s. Mixell

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

My fear of endings too often blocks my hope of beginnings.

~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

I do have hope. Nature is enormously resilient, humans are vastly intelligent, the energy and enthusiasm that can be kindled among young people seems without limit, and he human spirit is indomitable. But if we want life, we will have to stop depending on someone else to save the world. It is up to us-you and me, all of us. Myself, I have placed my faith in the children.

~ Jane Goodall

Just keep hope within you and your path will be lit.

~ Isabella Poretsis

You walk by faith and not by sight, because you do not hope for your future; instead, you envision it with detail, clarity, and confidence. Your expectations for what is to come and for other people are built on solid foundations, creating higher standards and greater value in your life, relationships, family, and friends.

~ Farshad Asl

You must have hope in a better future and have faith in this hope. But then you must forget your hope and focus on this moment now.

~ Kamand Kojouri

Lessons from the past create hope for the future and action in the present.

~ Orrin Woodward

This I would wish, that there was no time or sleep. No more past, or future, and everything we did was good the first time, for the day. Without the need of looking back to learn from the past, and no future to hope for the better. No more tiredness, or having a need to dream, and no nightmares to fear. If there was a second time, this is how I would like to start over.

~ Anthony Liccione

If we throw blankets over our children's dreams, we darken their world and extinguish their desire to live.

~ Suzy Kassem

No expensive car can keep life going except, strength for today and bright hope for tomorrow.

~ Bamigboye Olurotimi

We should always hope and expect to see a brand new day filled with hope, love and joy.

~ Bamigboye Olurotimi

Once your soul is awakened, you never return to the sleepwalking state of mind. Some people become complacent in life. They are just going through the motions and not aware of truth. Seek the knowledge, wisdom, and the understandings that vivify your existence.

~ Amaka Imani Nkosazana

We took such care of tomorrow, but died on the way there.

~ Warsan Shire

Today will die tomorrow.

~ Algernon Charles Swinburne

He's waiting for yu, young queen.'Shocked, I stared at Seoras. 'Heath?'The Warrior's look was wise and understanding - his voice gentle. 'Aye, yur Heath probably does await you somewhere in the future, but it is of your Guardian I speak.

~ P.c. Cast

My best day ever. Got up. Had breakfast. Came to school. Bored, as usual. Wishing I wasn't there, like usual. Kids ignoring me, suits me fine. Sitting with the other retards—we’re so special. Wasting my time. Yesterday was the same, and it's gone, anyway. Tomorrow may never come. There is only today. This is the best day and the worst day. Actually it's crap.

~ Rachel Ward

The past attracts me, the present frightens me, because the future is death.

~ Guy De Maupassant

As soon as someone dies, frenzied construction of the future (shifting furniture, etc.): futuromania.

~ Roland Barthes