Future Quotes

You practice mindfulness, on the one hand, to be calm and peaceful. On the other hand, as you practice mindfulness and live a life of peace, you inspire hope for a future of peace.

~ Thich Nhat Hanh

Drugs are the enemies of ambition and hope - and when we fight against drugs we are fighting for the future.

~ Bob Riley

Hope makes people good, a lot of the time. You hope for a brighter future, and resentment is outweighed.

~ Daisy Ridley

There are hurdles, there are handicaps, hardships you have to face in life, but you hope for a great future.

~ Anil Kapoor

The essence of optimism is that it takes no account of the present, but it is a source of inspiration, of vitality and hope where others have resigned; it enables a man to hold his head high, to claim the future for himself and not to abandon it to his enemy.

~ Dietrich Bonhoeffer

Feminism is, I hope, a way to a better future for everyone who inhabits this world. Feminism should not be something that needs a seductive marketing campaign. The idea of women moving through the world as freely as men should sell itself.

~ Roxane Gay

Our imagination is the only limit to what we can hope to have in the future.

~ Charles Kettering

There are people who are able to plan their career, their future, but I've never had any talent for that. I just do things and hope for the best. Say yes, take a chance, and sometimes it's terrific and sometimes it's not.

~ Christopher Walken

Solitude is not something you must hope for in the future. Rather, it is a deepening of the present, and unless you look for it in the present you will never find it.

~ Thomas Merton

If we were logical, the future would be bleak, indeed. But we are more than logical. We are human beings, and we have faith, and we have hope, and we can work.

~ Jacques-Yves Cousteau

My hope is that in the future, women stop referring to themselves as 'the only woman' in their physics lab or 'only one of two' in their computer science jobs.

~ Kirsten Gillibrand

Our best hope for the future is not to get people to think of all humanity as family - that's impossible. It lies, instead, in an appreciation of the fact that, even if we don't empathize with distant strangers, their lives have the same value as the lives of those we love.

~ Paul Bloom

Creativity has always depended on openness and flexibility, so let us hope for more of both in the future.

~ Siri Hustvedt

We must vote for hope, vote for life, vote for a brighter future for all of our loved ones.

~ Ed Markey

Brown v. Board is the foundation by which all Americans can look for hope - hope for their children, hope for their families, and hope for a better future.

~ Mike Rogers

To communicate the truths of history is an act of hope for the future.

~ Daisaku Ikeda

The people of Liberia know what it means to be deprived of clean water, but we also know what it means to see our children to begin to smile again with a restoration of hope and faith in the future.

~ Ellen Johnson Sirleaf

Japan's beautiful seas and its territory are under threat, and young people are having trouble finding hope in the future amid economic slump. I promise to protect Japan's land and sea, and the lives of the Japanese people no matter what.

~ Shinzo Abe

The fundamentalist religions simply seem to offer more hope for a brighter future than do the more liberal, humanistic ones.

~ Martin Seligman

Pregnancy is something that I always love. It's about hope and the future and a new baby.

~ Carine Roitfeld

Sabotage did not involve loss of life, and it offered the best hope for future race relations. Bitterness would be kept to a minimum and, if the policy bore fruit, democratic government could become a reality.

~ Nelson Mandela

Solidarity and interdependence, a sense of worth, a pride and hope in the future: these are positive gains for those who believe in progressive politics and the beneficial role of government, rather than a detriment.

~ David Blunkett

The worst thing that can happen in a democracy - as well as in an individual's life - is to become cynical about the future and lose hope.

~ Hillary Clinton

I begin my reign with profound emotion at the honour of accepting the Crown, aware of the responsibility it entails and with the greatest hope for the future of Spain.

~ Felipe Vi Of Spain

The mind is never satisfied with the objects immediately before it, but is always breaking away from the present moment, and losing itself in schemes of future felicity... The natural flights of the human mind are not from pleasure to pleasure, but from hope to hope.

~ Samuel Johnson

These are tough times, and the New Yorkers I have met are facing economic adversity with grace and dignity. They worry about their future, care about their neighbors and hope this storm will pass so they can focus on better days ahead.

~ Harold Ford

In love, unlike most other passions, the recollection of what you have had and lost is always better than what you can hope for in the future.

~ Stendhal

To many, peace is what enables development and is critical in providing opportunities to young people. To some - especially those from regions involved in conflict - peacekeeping and efforts to preserve peace are absolutely vital in bringing prosperity and hope for the future.

~ Kim Yuna

I think and hope and believe that the Japanese government and the people of Japan will be happy and content with the progress of justice in this case and that it will not become a great issue in the future.

~ Howard Baker

It is my hope that as we commemorate Black History Month in the future, we will continue to celebrate the many achievements and rich culture of African-Americans.

~ Eliot Engel

The way you remember the past depends upon your hope for the future. And if what you see in your future has no hope, it has no potential, then you view the past that brought you to here as not very good.

~ Story Musgrave

If you begin to give people hope that there is a brighter future, there is a new tomorrow, then the people who were yesterday's terrorists become tomorrow's elected officials and they're part of the system.

~ John Shelby Spong

On every front there are clear answers out there that can make this country stronger, but we're going to break through the fear and the frustration people are feeling. Our job is to make sure that even as we make progress, that we are also giving people a sense of hope and vision for the future.

~ Barack Obama

I can never say that I will never return to musical theatre. There may be a part in the future that I really want to do. I love plays as well. I am very open to ideas. I hope to do many things in the future.

~ Sarah Brightman

Now you can get artisanal everything - pickles, coffees, house-cured meats, mustard. The pendulum has swung back to this kind of food, and it gives me the greatest hope for the future, especially because we're living in a time with issues like polluted Gulf Coast seafood and food labeled organic that may not really be organic.

~ Adam Richman

We don't need mandatory, non-sectarian prayers read over the loudspeaker to 'put God back in schools.' God never left the schools. God is still at work through the hundreds of thousands of gifted teachers and administrators, committed parents, and passionate volunteers who seek to help give our children 'a future with hope.'

~ Adam Hamilton

I hope I have a long career, but I really don't think about the future like that. I live, like, for right now, honestly. I take it however it comes.

~ Action Bronson

There's a widespread cultural barrenness across art and political culture. But there are some pockets of resistance on the extreme margins, like the techno-savvy protest movements, small press, the creator-owned comics, that seem to be getting some signs of hope for the future.

~ Alan Moore

When you deprive people of their right to live in dignity, to hope for a better future, to have control over their lives, when you deprive them of that choice, then you expect them to fight for these rights.

~ Queen Rania Of Jordan

Armageddon is not around the corner. This is only what the people of violence want us to believe. The complexity and diversity of the world is the hope for the future.

~ Michael Palin