Quotes About Impact

I don't want my past to become anyone else's future.

No matter how complex global problems may seem, it is we ourselves who have given rise to them. They cannot be beyond our power to resolve

I think it's my responsibility, to speak up when something threatens our very future.

The world moves into the future as a result of decisions, not as a result of plans. Plans are significant only insofar as they affect decisions.

The best way to know any future is to cause one.

U.S. has lost a battle more important and greater than Pearl Harbor.

We are the echo of the future.

One must care about a world one will not see.

We can pay our debts to the past by putting the future in debt to ourselves.

It's the little touches that make a future solid enough to destroy.

This is the moral challenge of our generation. Not only are the eyes of the world upon us. More important, succeeding generations depend on us. We cannot rob our children of their future.

What is really momentous and all-important with us is the present, by which the future is shaped and colored.

The world will be saved by one or two people.

There is a possibility that your ability as a player may well be analysed by future generations on your one day statistics. That's the day I dread most.

In choosing Governor Sarah Palin as his running mate, John McCain has chosen for the future.

We know the future will outlast all of us, but I believe that all of us will live on in the future we made.

The people in charge, globally, are maniacs. They are maniacs, and unless we do something about it these people are going to deprive us of a future.

No challenge poses a greater threat to future generations than climate change.

I want to do the most subversive thing I couldn't do as a child: I want to take back the planet's future.

The irony of the matter is that the future generations do not have a vote. In effect, we hold their proxy.

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.

Our choices are going to determine the future for our children, our children's children, and their children. I take that responsibility very seriously.

The older generations have eaten the future of the younger ones.

Whatever the short term clashes between protecting the environment and eradicating poverty, medium term and long term it is clear. Unless we grow sustainably, at some point we face catastrophe