Quotes About Future

We in ancient countries have our past--we obsess over the past. They, the Americans, have a dream: they feel nostalgia about the promise of the future.

Where you are right now doesn't have to determine where you'll end up

A nation that can't control its energy sources can't control its future.

You know, sometimes I'll go to an 8th-grade graduation and there's all that pomp and circumstance and gowns and flowers. And I think to myself, it's just 8th grade ... An 8th-grade education doesn't cut it today. Let's give them a handshake and tell them to get their butts back in the library!

This is the moment we must come together to save this planet. Let us resolve that we will not leave our children a world where the oceans rise and famine spreads and terrible storms devastate our lands.

America, this is our moment. This is our time. Our time to turn the page on the policies of the past. Our time to bring new energy and new ideas to the challenges we face. Our time to offer a new direction for the country we love.

In the end, that's what this election is about. Do we participate in a politics of cynicism or a politics of hope?

Life doesn't count for much unless you're willing to do your small part to leave our children – all of our children – a better world. Even if it's difficult. Even if the work seems great. Even if we don't get very far in our lifetime.

Today we begin in earnest the work of making sure that the world we leave our children is just a little bit better than the one we inhabit today.

It's been a long time coming, but tonight, because of what we did on this day, in this election, at this defining moment, change has come to America.

All of us - we should do everything we can to make sure this country lives up to our children's expectations.

America, we have come so far. We have seen so much. But there is so much more to do.

Negara yang tidak bisa mengendalikan sumber energinya, tidak bisa mengendalikan masa depannya.

trying to trace out my future in the lives of the people

America will rise again. And hope will rise again.

To the furniture worker's child in North Carolina who wants to become a doctor or a scientist, an engineer or an entrepreneur, a diplomat or even a president -- that's the future we hope for. That's the vision we share. That's where we need to go -- forward

Rather than subsidize the past, we should invest in the future.

We say we value the legacy we leave the next generation and then saddle that generation with mountains of debt.

As president, I believe that robotics can inspire young people to pursue science and engineering. And I also want to keep an eye on those robots in case they try anything.

I'm not yet ready to abandon the possibility of America—not just for the sake of future generations of Americans but for all of humankind.

to truly guarantee that we didn't have another catastrophic oil spill in the future was to stop drilling entirely; but that wasn't going to happen because at the end of the day we Americans loved our cheap gas and big cars more than we cared about the environment, except when a complete disaster was staring us in the face;

I realized that justifying the past mattered less than planning what to do next.

We did not come here to fear the future. We came here to shape it.

Then Elie spoke, describing how in 1945—paradoxically—he had emerged from the camp feeling hopeful about the future. Hopeful, he said, because he assumed that the world had surely learned once and for all that hatred was useless and racism stupid and "the will to conquer other people's minds or territories or aspirations…is meaningless.