937 private quotes tagged future

“Let your hopes, not your hurts, shape your future.” — Robert H. Schuller

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“Access to books and the encouragement of the habit of reading: these two things are the first and most necessary steps in education and librarians, teachers and parents all over the country know it. It is our children's right and it is also our best hope and their best hope for the future.” — Michael Morpurgo

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“As I have said for many years throughout this land, we're borrowing money from China to buy oil from the Persian Gulf to burn it in ways that destroy the future of human civilization. Every bit of that has to change.” — Al Gore

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“Some of the best lessons we ever learn are learned from past mistakes. The error of the past is the wisdom and success of the future.” — Dale Turner

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“Hold fast to the Bible. To the influence of this Book we are indebted for all the progress made in true civilization and to this we must look as our guide in the future.” — Ulysses S. Grant

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“Through first-class education, a generation marches down the long uncertain road of the future with confidence.” — Wynton Marsalis

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“There is never time in the future in which we will work out our salvation. The challenge is in the moment the time is always now.” — James A. Baldwin

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“Let the future tell the truth, and evaluate each one according to his work and accomplishments. The present is theirs the future, for which I have really worked, is mine.” — Nikola Tesla

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“A good education is that which prepares us for our future sphere of action and makes us contented with that situation in life in which God, in his infinite mercy, has seen fit to place us, to be perfectly resigned to our lot in life, whatever it may be.” — Ann Plato

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“The future is not Big Government. Self-serving politicians. Powerful bureaucrats. This has been tried, tested throughout history. The result has always been disaster. President Obama, your agenda is not new. It's not change, and it's not hope.” — Rush Limbaugh

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“Trying to predict the future is like trying to drive down a country road at night with no lights while looking out the back window.” — Peter Drucker

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“A person often meets his destiny on the road he took to avoid it.” — Jean de La Fontaine

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“With Michigan's economic future on the line, we can't afford to have our 500 local school districts marching in different directions. Instead, we need a high standards, mandatory curriculum to get all our students on the road to higher education and a good paying job.” — Jennifer Granholm

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“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

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“Every man has his own destiny: the only imperative is to follow it, to accept it, no matter where it leads him.” — Henry Miller

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“No other investment yields as great a return as the investment in education. An educated workforce is the foundation of every community and the future of every economy.” — Brad Henry

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“As human beings, we are vulnerable to confusing the unprecedented with the improbable. In our everyday experience, if something has never happened before, we are generally safe in assuming it is not going to happen in the future, but the exceptions can kill you and climate change is one of those exceptions.” — Al Gore

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“The future hasn't happened yet and the past is gone. So I think the only moment we have is right here and now, and I try to make the best of those moments, the moments that I'm in.” — Annie Lennox

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“I haven't been faithful to my own advice in the past. I will in the future.” — Billy Graham

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“The most glorious moments in your life are not the so-called days of success, but rather those days when out of dejection and despair you feel rise in you a challenge to life, and the promise of future accomplishments.” — Gustave Flaubert

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“Our youth deserve the opportunity to complete their high school and college education, free of early parenthood. Their future children deserve the opportunity to grow up in financially and emotionally stable homes. Our communities benefit from healthy, productive, well-prepared young people.” — Jane Fonda

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“God is more interested in your future and your relationships than you are.” — Billy Graham

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“Ensuring quality higher education is one of the most important things we can do for future generations.” — Ron Lewis

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“Times and conditions change so rapidly that we must keep our aim constantly focused on the future.” — Walt Disney

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“The youth is the hope of our future.” — Jose Rizal

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