John Green Quotes

To most of us the future seems unsure. But then it always has been; and we who have seen great changes must have great hopes.

You see things; and you say 'Why?' But I dream things that never were; and I say 'Why not?'

As I've always said: The future lies ahead.

Is there nothing to sing about to-day? Then borrow a song from tomorrow; sing of what is yet to be. Is this world dreary? Then think of the next.

The manger dares us to believe the best is yet to be. And it could all begin today.

Many people remember that spirit that President Kennedy summoned forth. Many people look to me as somebody who embodies that sense of possibility.

The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.

If we were logical, the future would be bleak, indeed. But we are more than logical. We are human beings, and we have faith, and we have hope, and we can work.

We have always held to the hope, the belief, the conviction that there is a better life, a better world, beyond the horizon.

The purpose of thinking about the future is not to predict it but to raise people's hopes.

Man is a creature of hope and invention, both of which belie the idea that things cannot be changed.

I'm very much an optimist. I don't think I could do my work if I didn't believe there was some kind of hope for humanity.

Every pessimist who ever lived has been buried in an unmarked grave. Tomorrow has always been better than today, and it always will be.

Another world is not only possible, she is on her way. On a quiet day, I can hear her breathing.

Hope is the cordial that keeps life from stagnating.

I remember being young in the 1960s... we had a great sense of the future, a great big hope. This is what is missing in the youth today. This being able to dream and to change the world.

Life's like a movie, write your own ending. Keep believing, keep pretending.

Courage, my friends; 'tis not too late to build a better world.

An interest in ideas is a sign of human life. People are fascinated by what the future is going to be - and the future is going to be an accumulation of ideas.

Wisdom is the abstract of the past, but beauty is the promise of the future.

Look at things... as they can be.

The problems of the world cannot possibly be solved by skeptics or cynics whose horizons are limited by the obvious realities. We need men who can dream of things that never were.

Followers need to see how things will get better and what that future might look like. Leaders need to build that foundation of stability, and hope sits on top of that.

If you can see the magic in a fairytale, you can face the future.

I try to give people hope. Even though life is bleak, there's hope out there.