Future Quotes - Page 4

• Our human compassion binds us the one to the other - not in pity or patronizingly, but as human beings who have learnt how to turn our common suffering into hope for the future.

  Nelson Mandela

  Compassion, Suffering, Common

  Nelson Mandela (2012). “Notes to the Future: Words of Wisdom”, p.84, Simon and Schuster

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  I'm always thinking about creating. My future starts when I wake up every morning... Every day I find something creative to do with my life.

  Miles Davis

  Good Morning, Creativity, Good Day

  Miles Davis, Quincy Troupe (1990). “Miles”, p.408, Simon and Schuster

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• Change your life today. Don't gamble on the future, act now, without delay.

  Simone de Beauvoir

  Change, Positive, Inspirational Life

  Alice Schwarzer, Simone de Beauvoir (1984). “Simone De Beauvoir Today”, Not Avail

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• Just handle what is in front of you now and the future will take care of itself. Otherwise, you'll spend most of your life wondering which foot you'll use to step off the curb when you're still only halfway to the corner.

  Dan Millman

  Feet, Use, Care

  Dan Millman (2004). “Sacred Journey of the Peaceful Warrior”, p.70, H J Kramer

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• We must be careful not to let our current appetites steal away any chance we might have for a future feast

  Jim Rohn

  Patience, Perseverance, Goal

  FaceBook post by Jim Rohn from Jan 26, 2012

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• Do not dwell in the past, do not dream of the future, concentrate the mind on the present moment.

  Gautama Buddha

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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• The brain is the organ of destiny. It holds within its humming mechanism secrets that will determine the future of the human race.

  Wilder Penfield

  Destiny, Anatomy And Physiology, Race

  Wilder Penfield (1963). “The second career: with other essays and addresses”

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• History belongs to the intercessors - those who believe and pray the future into being.

  Walter Wink

  Prayer, Believe, History

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• That's the funny thing about life. We're rarely aware of the bullets we dodge. The just-misses. The almost-never-happeneds. We spend so much time worrying about how the future is going to play out and not nearly enough time admiring the precious perfection of the present.

  Lauren Miller

  Funny, Life, Time

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• If you want to do your best for future generations of humanity, for your friends and family, you must begin by taking good care of yourself.

  Tarthang Tulku

  Family, Compassion, Humanity

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• Our task is to educate their (our students) whole being so they can face the future. We may not see the future, but they will and our job is to help them make something of it.

  Ken Robinson

  Education, Jobs, Responsibility

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• A failure is like fertilizer; it stinks to be sure, but it makes things grow faster in the future.

  Denis Waitley

  Inspirational, Funny, Success

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• Live for today, but hold your hands open to tomorrow. Anticipate the future and its changes with joy. There is a seed of God's love in every event, every unpleasant situation in which you may find yourself.

  Barbara Johnson

  Love, Change, God

  Barbara Johnson (2000). “Boomerang Joy: Joy That Goes Around, Comes Around”, p.123, Zondervan

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• To build up a future, you have to know the past.

  Otto Frank

  Knowledge, Past, Knowing

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• If the past is not resolved, future relationships will suffer. Let your heart heal, before you open the door to another.

  Leon Brown

  Life, Relationship, Baseball

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• I see no hope for the future of our people if they are dependent on the frivolous youth of today, for certainly all youth are reckless beyond words. When I was a boy, we were taught to be discrete and respectful of elders, but the present youth are exceedingly wise and impatient of restraint.

  Hesiod

  Wise, Patience, Hope

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• It is only in revolutionary struggle against the capitalists of every country, and only in union with the working women and men of the whole world, that we will achieve a new and brighter future-the socialist brotherhood of the workers.

  Alexandra Kollontai

  Inspirational, Country, Struggle

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• I am intrigued with combining the remnant of memories, fragments of relics and ordinary objects, with the components of technology. It's a way of delving into the past and reaching into the future simultaneously.

  Betye Saar

  Art, Memories, Past

  Betye Saar, James Christen Steward, University of Michigan. Museum of Art, Norton Museum of Art (2005). “Betye Saar: extending the frozen moment”, University of California Press

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• If we want to find safe alternatives to obstetrics, we must rediscover midwifery. To rediscover midwifery is the same as giving back childbirth to women. And imagine the future if surgical teams were at the service of the midwives and the women instead of controlling them.

  Michel Odent

  Inspiring, Children, Team

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• Do you realize that the 850 billion dollar bank bailout, that sum of money is greater than the entire 50 year running budget of NASA. And so when someone says, 'We don't have enough money for this space probe.' No, it's not that you don't have enough money. It's that the distribution of money that you're spending is warped in some way that you are removing the only thing that gives people something to dream about tomorrow.

  Neil deGrasse Tyson

  Running, Dream, Years

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• My vision is a future for humanity where we will be completely free to pursue activities outside of our planet.

  Franklin Chang Diaz

  Freedom, Humanity, Vision

  "Rocket Scientist". Interview with Josh Seftel, www.pbs.org. May 1, 2009.

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• Marriage orients men and women toward the future, asking them not just to commit to each
  other but to plan, to earn, to save, and to devote themselves to advancing their children's prospects.

  Daniel Patrick Moynihan

  Family, Marriage, Children

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• If we stop and look over the past and then into the future, we can see that the possibilities are growing greater and greater every day; that we have scarcely begun to reach the proper results from the field we have before us.

  David H. McConnell

  Past, Entrepreneur, Growth

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• When you have a problem, if you tell the truth, the problem becomes part of your past. If you lie, it becomes part of your future.

  Rick Pitino

  Inspirational, Basketball, Cheating

  "Pitino Sorry for 'Indiscretion,' Gets to Keep His Job" by Mark Mooney, Michael James, abcnews.go.com. August 12, 2009.

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• If you want to be financially-free, you need to become a different person than you are today and let go of whatever has held you back in the past.

  Robert Kiyosaki

  Inspirational, Motivational, Change

  FaceBook post by Robert Kiyosaki from Nov 19, 2012

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