Future-Oriented Quotes

The world of tomorrow belongs to the person who has the vision for today.

To hope is to give yourself to the future - and that commitment to the future is what makes the present inhabitable.

Tomorrow belongs to those who can hear it coming.

We ought to remember the past, yes -- but we shouldn't allow it to consume us. We live in the present moment, and some people are too tied to the ideals of that period to fully move forward. We'll never work through the future unless we accept the present. We must fill the twenty-first century with dreams.

The digitally native vertical brand (DNVB) is born on the Internet. It is aimed squarely at millennials and digital natives. It doesn't have to adapt to the future; it is the future. It doesn't need to get younger customers. It starts with younger customers.

Around here, however, we don't look backwards for very long.

We don't want to go back to tomorrow, we want to move forward.

The great French Marshall Lyautey once asked his gardener to plant a tree. The gardner objected that the tree was slow growing and wouldn't reach maturity for 100 years. The Marshall replied, "In that case, there is no time to lose; plant it this afternoon!

The problem with me is that I am fifty or one hundred years ahead of my time. My speed is very fast. Some ministers have had to drop out of my government because they could not keep up.

If you don't look ahead, you'll always be behind.

A leader should be a visionary and have more foresight than an employee.

While you have a future do not live too much in contemplation of your past: unless you are content to walk backward the mirror is a poor guide.

I have always been fascinated with those who try to look over the horizon and see things that are coming at us.

We need to be able to answer not yesterday's challenges but to tomorrow's challenges.

Everything that looks to the future elevates human nature; for never is life so low or so little as when occupied with the present.

I NEVER LOOK BACK AT WHAT I HAVE ACHIEVED BECAUSE I AM ALWAYS LOOKING AT THE FUTURE. I CAN LOOK BACK AT WHAT I HAVE ACHIEVED WHEN I AM RETIRED - BUT UNTIL THEN IT IS ALL ABOUT FOCUS.

There must be what Mr. Gladstone many years ago called a blessed act of oblivion. We must all turn our backs upon the horrors of the past. We must look to the future. We cannot afford to drag forward across the years that are to come the hatreds and revenges which have sprung from the injuries of the past.

Vision rarely require immediate action. It requires patience.

Genius always looks forward, and not only sees what is, but what necessarily will be.

It behooves everyone to move forward, think forward.

My life is not just about the past.

I'm not living in the past, I don't want to go back - I don't want to "Make America Great Again." No, no, no.

I don't look at my life too much. I'm always looking forward, not backward.

I don't live in the past. And besides, there are too many times in my career to remember specific events, because I played so many games.

I'm not the type of person who likes to look backwards. I've always felt compelled to move forward and I've never been one to dwell in the past. All the people I've met, all the places I've been, and all the things that I've done have simply been part of who I am.