Better Future Quotes - Page 4

• A child in India grows up with the idea that you have to make choices that will create a better future. In fact, your whole life is a continuum of choices, so the more conscious you are, the greater your life will be.

  Deepak Chopra

  Children, Growing Up, Ideas

  "What’s the Secret to a Happy Life?". Interview with Oprah, www.oprah.com. May 15, 2012.

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• I can't change the past, but I can try to make a better future for me.

  Ozzy Osbourne

  Past, Trying, Can't Change

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• We have learned how to develop five-minute and even one-minute managers. But we would do better to ask ourselves what it takes to be an executive who helps build a better future.

  Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

  Helping, Improvement, Minutes

  Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi (2004). “Good Business: Leadership, Flow, and the Making of Meaning”, p.15, Penguin

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• We believe that no matter where you live - whether a village in Punjab or the bylanes of Chandni Chowk, an old section of Kolkata or a new high-rise in Bangalore - every person deserves the same chance to live in security and dignity, to get an education, to find work, and to give their children a better future.

  Barack Obama

  Inspiring, Children, Believe

  Remarks to the Joint Session of the Indian Parliament in New Delhi, India, obamawhitehouse.archives.gov. November 08, 2010.

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• Sustainable energy + food security + healthy environment = full employment + better future.

  Phil Harding

  Healthy, Energy, Employment

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• Secrets are hard but solvable problems and we should talk about them. It's hard to work toward a radically better future if you don't believe in secrets.

  Peter Thiel

  Believe, Secret, Problem

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• Millennials expect to create a better future, using the collaborative power of digital technology.

  Mal Fletcher

  Technology, Millennials, Digital

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• Everywhere I go, I meet people ready for change. People who are fed up with the exhaustion that comes from devoting one's life to the work-watch-spend treadmill. People who know in their hearts that it's wrong to treat the planet and whole groups of people as disposable. People who are challenging the bogus stories we've been fed for years and are writing their own about hope and love and working together to build a better future for everyone.

  Annie Leonard

  Writing, Heart, Years

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• Hillary Clinton is a bigot who sees people of color only as votes, not as human beings worthy of a better future. She's going to do nothing for African-Americans. She's going to do nothing for the Hispanics.

  Donald Trump

  Color, People, African American

  Source: abcnews.go.com

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• As a society becomes more enlightened, it realizes that it is responsible not to transmit and conserve the whole of its existing achievements, but only such as make for a better future society. The school is its chief agency for the accomplishment of this end.

  John Dewey

  School, Agency, Accomplishment

  John Dewey (2012). “Democracy and Education”, p.25, Courier Corporation

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• The United States was proud to stand with the people of Germany as this nation and this continent reunited and rebuilt and reached for a better future.

  Barack Obama

  People, United States, Germany

  Remarks by President Obama and Chancellor Merkel of Germany in a Joint Press Conference, obamawhitehouse.archives.gov. November 17, 2016.

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• Sometimes it may seem as if progress is stalled but what history of post-war Germany shows is that strength and determination and focus and adherence to the values that we care about will result in a better future for our children and our grandchildren.

  Barack Obama

  Determination, Children, War

  Source: time.com

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• The values that we share - freedom of speech, freedom of religious practice, freedom for civil society, free and fair elections, all the innovation that's been created through a market-based economy - those things are ultimately going to be the path for us to continue into a better future. I hope that, despite some of the challenges we have, that people appreciate that.

  Barack Obama

  Religious, Practice, People

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• I've met dedicated people from all sectors of society who are committed to giving children the tools they need for a better future. I'm always impressed by the passionate young leaders I meet. As the pace of change accelerates, so do the challenges we face. However, the chances to solve them increase too.

  Shakira

  Children, Giving, People

  Source: www.americasquarterly.org

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• Contemporary nations such as Sweden, Norway, and Finland, where women are half of the national legislatures, have more caring policies, less violence, and more environmentally sustainable policies. These are connections we must pay attention to if we are to build a better future for us all.

  Riane Eisler

  Caring, Connections, Attention

  Source: www.psychologytoday.com

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• All the most powerful speeches ever made point to a better future.

  Patrick Dixon

  Powerful, Speech, Made

  "Building a Better Business". Book by Patrick Dixon, 2005.

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• Not to Learn Irish is to miss the opportunity of understanding what life in this country has meant and could mean in a better future. It is to cut oneself off from ways of being at home. If we regard self-understanding, mutual understanding, imaginative enhancement, cultural diversity and a tolerant political atmosphereas a desirable attainments, we should remember that a knowledge of the Irish language is an essential element in their realisation.

  Seamus Heaney

  Country, Mean, Home

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• Leadership is about setting a direction. It's about creating a vision, empowering and inspiring people to want to achieve the vision, and enabling them to do so with energy and speed through an effective strategy. In its most basic sense, leadership is about mobilizing a group of people to jump into a better future.

  John P. Kotter

  Creating, People, Empowering

  John P. Kotter (2014). “Accelerate: Building Strategic Agility for a Faster-Moving World”, p.60, Harvard Business Review Press

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• Our eventual aim is simply stated - that there should be no safe haven for terrorists anywhere in the world. We say to the people of Afghanistan: 'You have been ill served by those who have made your country a centre for terrorism across the world. As soon as this stops, the world will work with you to build a better future for you and for your children.

  Jack Straw

  Country, Children, Safe Haven

  "Key quotes from the Commons debate" by Matthew Tempest, www.theguardian.com. October 4, 2001.

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• Corporation 2020 is an indispensable contribution to the global transformation of finance and corporations as humanity re-integrates centuries of knowledge and continues its inevitable transition from the first Industrial Era... Pavan Sukhdev is a powerful standard-bearer leading us to the cleaner, knowledge-rich Green Economy globally, and this book provides a benchmark and guide to this better future for humanity.

  Achim Steiner

  Powerful, Book, Humanity

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• The Christian... imagines the better future of the human species... in the image of heavenly joy... We, on the other hand, will have this heaven on earth.

  Moses Hess

  Christian, Hands, Joy

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• Every product and service is sold on the promise of a better future. The purpose of business is to deliver on the promise, and profit is the reward for doing so.

  Patrick Dixon

  Promise, Purpose, Rewards

  "Building a Better Business". Book by Patrick Dixon, 2005.

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• Business strategy is the battleplan for a better future.

  Patrick Dixon

  Strategy, Business Strategy

  Patrick Dixon (2005). “Building a Better Business: The Key to Future Marketing, Management and Motivation”, p.233, Profile Books

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• The path to a better future goes directly through our public schools. I have nothing against private schools, parochial schools and home schooling, and I think that parents with the means and inclination should choose whatever they believe is best for their children. But those choices cannot compete, and cannot come at the expense of what has been -- and what must always be -- the great equalizer in our society, a free and equal public education.

  Howard Dean

  Children, Believe, Home

  Howard Dean's speech on the Future of the Democratic Party at The George Washington University in Washington, D.C., www.c-span.org. December 8, 2004.

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• What I know for sure is that all the sacrifice and challenges we face are worth it if we're creating a better future for our kids. I just think if the adults are always thinking about the world we want to leave for our kids, we're going to make the right choices every single time.

  Michelle Obama

  Kids, Sacrifice, Thinking

  Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

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