Future Quotes - Page 9

The way to healthy living is to shift from quantitative economic growth to quality of life, food, water and air - to shift from craving to contentment and from greed to gratitude

My vision of the future is no longer of people taking exams and proceeding from secondary school to University but of passing from one stage of independence to a higher, by means of their own activity and effort of will.

I reserve the right to evolve. What I think and feel today is subject to revision tomorrow.

And we danced, on the brink of an unknown future, to an echo from a vanished past.

We all have an obligation as citizens of this earth to leave the world a healthier, cleaner, and better place for our children and future generations.

I guess short films have a bright future... The advantage is budget.

These days people seek knowledge, not wisdom. Knowledge is of the past, wisdom is of the future.

Positive deviance means doing the right thing for sustainability, despite being surrounded by the wrong institutional structures, the wrong processes and stubbornly uncooperative people. That is what sustainability-literate leadership means today. Surrounded by evidence of rampant unsustainability it is not possible to say 'I did not know'

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.

No matter what a man's past may have been, his future is spotless.

The danger of the past was that men became slaves. The danger of the future is that man may become robots.

I would rather die standing than live kneeling

Energy Policy will be and should be driven by environmental policy in the future.

You don’t create your future. You create your daily habits, and they create your future.

Peace, non-violence, human rights and the environment - if only everybody saw these as the seamless whole that they are

Happiness is not a future event.

The future is an opaque mirror. Anyone who tries to look into it sees nothing but the dim outlines of an old and worried face.

Race is the great taboo in our society. We are afraid to talk about it. White folks fear their unspoken views will be deemed racist. People of color are filled with sorrow and rage at unrighted wrongs. Drowning in silence, we are brothers and sisters drowning each other. Once we decide to transform ourselves from fearful caterpillars into courageous butterflies, we will be able to bridge the racial gulf and move forward together towards a bright and colorful future.

Do battle with the challenges of your present, and you will unlock the prizes of your future.

I'm blessed, because of my faith, that I don't have to worry about the future because I know who holds my future.

While I was sleeping, I had a beautiful dream that all the people of the world got together on the same wavelength and began helping each other.

What politician ever thinks beyond 4 or 5 years? But such thinking is hopelessly inadequate for the big questions that involve the fabric of the world we live in

The forecast today is love all around.

We have much to contribute to the world; ways of knowing and being that are going to be essential to everyone's survival on our planet. As true citizens of Australia, properly acknowledged in our constitution, we can look forward not only to improving our own lot, but helping Australia contribute to the well-being of all the world's peoples.

Be the designer of your own destiny.