Future Quotes

Fear keeps us focused on the past or worried about the future. If we can acknowledge our fear, we can realize that right now we are okay. Right now, today, we are still alive, and our bodies are working marvelously. Our eyes can still see the beautiful sky. Our ears can still hear the voices of our loved ones.

~ Thich Nhat Hanh

Human spirit is the ability to face the uncertainty of the future with curiosity and optimism. It is the belief that problems can be solved, differences resolved. It is a type of confidence. And it is fragile. It can be blackened by fear and superstition.

~ Bernard Beckett

Fear not for the future, weep not for the past.

~ Percy Bysshe Shelley

Pick the day. Enjoy it - to the hilt. The day as it comes. People as they come... The past, I think, has helped me appreciate the present - and I don't want to spoil any of it by fretting about the future.

~ Audrey Hepburn

An exciting and inspiring future awaits you beyond the noise in your mind, beyond the guilt, doubt, fear, shame, insecurity and heaviness of the past you carry around.

~ Debbie Ford

Fear paralyses you - fear of flying, fear of the future, fear of leaving a rubbish marriage, fear of public speaking, or whatever it is.

~ Annie Lennox

'Dream Act' kids are like all other American kids, with the exception that they have to work harder to excel in school, they live in fear of deportation, and they worry about their future.

~ Jeff Hawkins

Dread, which is closely related to fear, steals the ability to enjoy ordinary life and makes people anxious about the future. It keeps them from looking forward to the next day, the next month, or the next decade.

~ Joyce Meyer

We should not fret for what is past, nor should we be anxious about the future; men of discernment deal only with the present moment.

~ Chanakya

We can fear things into existence. Fear looks into the future and imagines the worst that can happen.

~ Joyce Meyer

I would sum up my fear about the future in one word: boring. And that's my one fear: that everything has happened; nothing exciting or new or interesting is ever going to happen again... the future is just going to be a vast, conforming suburb of the soul.

~ J. G. Ballard

That man is prudent who neither hopes nor fears anything from the uncertain events of the future.

~ Anatole France

We have to forget the past. History is something that even today we are paying the consequences, and the future is integration. We all as a people, as citizens, as the leadership of both countries should be looking in that direction.

~ Atifete Jahjaga

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

Democrats have no agenda, no plan for the future, and no sense of leadership.

~ Jeff Miller

Individual and corporate support is vital to building on London's leadership in the arts, and I hope others will join me in wanting to build on the National's role at the heart of modern theatre and sustaining it long into the future.

~ Lloyd Dorfman

Leaders of the future will have to be visionary and be able to bring people in - real communicators. These are things that women bring to leadership and executive positions, and it's going to be incredibly valuable and incredibly in demand.

~ Anita Borg

Your future health can be predicted by the nutrient density of your diet.

~ Joel Fuhrman

American cities are not scaled to the energy diet of the future. They have become too large. They're over-scaled.

~ James Howard Kunstler

In 1977, when I started my first job at the Federal Reserve Board as a staff economist in the Division of International Finance, it was an article of faith in central banking that secrecy about monetary policy decisions was the best policy: Central banks, as a rule, did not discuss these decisions, let alone their future policy intentions.

~ Janet Yellen

Banks were once places to hold money and were very careful in lending to finance families as they built a future - bought homes, bought cars, took out student loans.

~ Elizabeth Warren

Money you won't need to use for at least seven years is money for investing. The goal here is to have your account grow over time to help you finance a distant goal, such as building a retirement fund. Since your goal is in the future, money for investing belongs in stocks.

~ Suze Orman

In the finance world, we used to spend all of our time looking backwards, reporting on what happened. Can I book it? What are the numbers? Now it's about looking into the future. It's about planning and integration. The role of finance is now that of a partner in the business.

~ Safra A. Catz

This time, instead of moving oceans and healing planets, let's get our bills in order and pay down the debt so we control our own future.

~ Artur Davis

I keep dreaming of a future, a future with a long and healthy life, not lived in the shadow of cancer but in the light.

~ Patrick Swayze

There are many plant medicines that are available to us that have a lot of stigma around them that I hope, in the future, our medical community can look at, because I would absolutely go to those alternatives first before I went back to Western medicine.

~ Melissa Etheridge

In the future, it's going to become more and more impossible for the economy to support how expensive medical care is and the number of sick people we have. Why don't we just get our population healthier so we don't need medical care?

~ Joel Fuhrman

I'd visit the near future, close enough that someone might want to talk to Larry Niven and can figure out the language; distant enough to get me decent medical techniques and a ticket to the Moon.

~ Larry Niven

When families save, they can get through emergencies like a bad harvest or a medical emergency. But it's more than that. They can also plan for the future, gradually saving up for a small business or for their children's school tuition.

~ Jeff Raikes

To live in the light of a new day and an unimaginable and unpredictable future, you must become fully present to a deeper truth - not a truth from your head, but a truth from your heart; not a truth from your ego, but a truth from the highest source.

~ Debbie Ford

The immediate future is going to be tragic for all of us unless we find a way of making the vast educational resources of this country serve the true purpose of education, truth and justice.

~ Anne Sullivan

Unemployment is sky-rocketing; deflation is in our future for the first time since the Great Depression. I don't care whose fault it is, it's the truth.

~ John Mellencamp

What makes America amazing is that there have always been men and women of courage who were willing to think more about the future of their children and grandchildren than they did about their own political careers.

~ Scott Walker

The power of youth is the common wealth for the entire world. The faces of young people are the faces of our past, our present and our future. No segment in the society can match with the power, idealism, enthusiasm and courage of the young people.

~ Kailash Satyarthi

Such decisions will be far reaching and difficult. But you never lacked courage in the past. Your courage is now needed for the future.

~ Gerry Adams

California is a place of invention, a place of courage, a place of vision, a place of the future. People who made California what it is were willing to take risks, think outside convention and build.

~ Nicolas Berggruen

Just two weeks ago, millions of Iraqis defied the threats of terrorists and went to the polls to determine their own future. I congratulate the Iraqi people for the courage they've shown in making these elections so successful.

~ Bill Frist

No dream is too big. No challenge is too great. Nothing we want for our future is beyond our reach.

~ Donald Trump

I plant a lot of trees. I am a great believer in planting things for future generations. I loathe the now culture where you just live for today.

~ Penelope Keith

We've had great successes, but our future is not about our past success. It's going to be about whether we will invent things that are really going to drive our future.

~ Satya Nadella