Quotes About Change

We are what the past has made us. We are what the future will make us. Live now. Right now.

I looked at my father and looked at those dry fields [in Malawi]. It was the future I couldn't accept.

We are prophets of a future not our own.

Activism is not a journey to the corner store. It is a plunge into the unknown. The future is always dark.

The future is always changing. If we had no choices, there'd be no point in living.

Tomorrow has always been better than today, and it always will be.

The future belongs to socialism

The unleashed power of the atom has changed everything save our modes of thinking and we thus drift toward unparalleled catastrophe.

Too many marketers assume that future will hold back and wait until they're ready for it. It won't.

I could not imagine that the future I was walking toward could compare in any way to the past that I was leaving behind.

Can one make the future a substitute for the present? And what guarantee have we that the future will be any better if we neglect the present?

I don't see the future as bright, language-wise. I see it as a glass half empty - and evaporating quickly.

As the future ripens in the past, so the past rots in the future -- a terrible festival of dead leaves.

Future comes by itself, progress does not.

The day we fret about the future is the day we leave our childhood behind.

It is hard to say what the future holds, but this is probable - it won't be just like the past.

The future is not really the future. It's just a present that looks good.

The past will continue to be your future if you drag it along with you.

We work day after day, not to finish things; but to make the future better ... because we will spend the rest of our lives there.

The past is always triple-A. We can all remember what the past was. But if we try to make the future triple-A, we have no future. The future is always single-B.

Insisting on living in your past will kill your future. Let it go.

What I believe is that, by proper effort, we make the future almost anything we want to make it.

If you know you can do it - if you can already chart every day in your future - then why bother? Choose to do something you have more trouble imagining. Take a chance.

Everybody's got a past. The past does not equal the future unless you live there.