Quotes About Change

If we can change our priorities, achieve balance and understanding in our roles as human beings in a complex world, the coming era can well be that of a richer civilization, not its end.

You can't change the past, but you can ruin the present by worrying about the future.

Our past, our present, and whatever remains of our future, absolutely depend on what we do now.

Give young people a greater voice. They are the future and they are much wiser than we give them credit for.

With my eyes turned to the past, I walk backwards into the future.

I've always been more interested in the future than in the past.

Losing the future is the best thing that ever happened to me.

There is no improving the future without disturbing the present.

Hold fast to the best of the past and move fast to the best of the future.

In the past the man has been first; in the future the system must be first.

You are always free to change your mind and choose a different future, or a different past.

Conservatism... offers no redress for the present, and makes no preparation for the future.

If you want to change the future, you must change what you're doing in the present.

History is a relentless master. It has no present, only the past rushing into the future. To try to hold fast is to be swept aside.

We look at the present through a rear view mirror. We march backwards into the future.

The future depends on what we do in the present.

The future happens. No matter how much we scream.

We must turn the greatest collective challenge facing humankind today – climate change – into the greatest opportunity for common progress towards a sustainable future.

Remember how far you've come, not just how far you have to go. You are not where you want to be, but neither are you where you used to be.

The past is only the future with the lights on

I write with my past, about the future, for the present

Forget the past. You can never predict what the future is going to be. Live for the moment.

To look back into the past only makes sense if it serves the future.

No one person has to do it all but if each one of us follow our heart and our own inclinations we will find the small things that we can do to create a sustainable future and a healthy environment.