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Quotes About Change

To be hopeful means to be uncertain about the future, to be tender toward possibilities, to be dedicated to change all the way down to the bottom of your heart.
~ Rebecca Solnit
We should try to be the parents of our future rather than the offspring of our past.
~ Miguel de Unamuno
The trouble with our times is that the future is not what it used to be.
~ Paul Valery
Nothing ever gets anywhere. The earth keeps turning round and gets nowhere. The moment is the only thing that counts.
~ Jean Cocteau
Takes a long time to happen so fast... To realize that your future is somebody else's past
~ Lupe Fiasco
The future begins today.
~ Wayne Gerard Trotman
If we want to create a different future, we must have the courage to look at the past.
~ Dan B. Allender
We are too quickly losing important landscapes in this country to development - and I worry that if we do not act to protect them now, future generations will grow up in a profoundly different world.
~ Louis Bacon
There's only two types of manager. Those who've been sacked and those who will be sacked in then future
~ Howard Wilkinson
For progressive people the present is the beginning of the future. For conservative people the present is the end of the past.
~ Karl Mannheim
It's not enough what I did in the past - there is also the future.
~ Rita Levi-Montalcini
The only certain thing about the future is that it will surprise even those who have seen furthest into it.
~ Eric Hobsbawm
It takes far less courage to cling to the past than it does to face the future".
~ Sandra Brown
You can't pick when you're touched. You can't pick the time. It just is. It's the reality. What it is, is. I can't change the past. I can only deal with the present and the future.
~ Paul Mooney
I believe it is essential for our planetary future to develop tools that can change the consciousness which has created the crisis that we are in.
~ Stanislav Grof
Real change comes when people are enabled to use their thinking and their energy in a new way, using a different system of thought, different language, and having fresh visions of the future.
~ Scilla Elworthy
Map out your future, but do it in pencil.
~ Jon Bon Jovi
The past is necessarily inferior to the future. That is how we wish it to be. How could we acknowledge any merit in our most dangerous enemy: the past, gloomy prevaricator, execrable tutor?
~ Filippo Tommaso Marinetti
The past is over; the present is fleeting; we live in the future.
~ Ray Kurzweil
Fascism is not in itself a new order of society. It is the future refusing to be born.
~ Aneurin Bevan
Optimism is a strategy for making a better future. Because unless you believe that the future can be better, you are unlikely to step up and take responsibility for making it so.
~ Noam Chomsky
The future projects light, the past only clouds
~ Eileen Gray
For the sake of our children and our future, we must do more to combat climate change.
~ Barack Obama
I can't change the past, but one person can change the future - anything can happen.
~ Paul Mooney