Eleanor Roosevelt Quotes

I hold that man in the right who is most closely in league with the future.

The visionaries of yesterday are the realists of today.

Anyone who fights for the future, lives in it today.

For me, being an innovator doesn't mean being more intelligent, more rich, it's not a word, it's an action.

Politics is about moving forward, looking forward.

We face the future fortified with the lessons we have learned from the past. It is today that we must create the world of the future.

Nothing we do can change the past, but everything we do changes the future.

Let's go invent tomorrow...

We must dare to invent the future

The future is today.

I'm always interested in looking forward toward the future. Carving out new ways of looking at things.

People used to define me as a futurist designer, but, you know, the future is now for me.

The future isn't just a place you'll go. It's a place you will invent.

Historic opportunities are missed because we fixate on what folks say they want. And what folks say they want in business and politics is limited to what they believe is possible.

The future begins today.

You cannot rely upon what you have been taught. All you have learned from history is old ways of making mistakes. There is nothing that history can tell you about what we must do tomorrow. Only what we must not do.

The American Dream can no more remain static than can the American nation.... We cannot any longer take an old approach to world problems. They aren't the same problems. It isn't the same world. We must not adopt the methods of our ancestors; instead, we must emulate that pioneer quality in our ancestors that made them attempt new methods for a New World.

My government's aim for Fiji is not to return to where we once were but to journey forward together to a place we have not yet been

Leaders must go ahead even when moving ahead is controversial. You must be ahead of time, because if you want to represent the status quo, what do you need leaders for?

We must be headlights and not taillights.

Leaders don't look backwards to condemn what has already been done; they look forward to create a better future.

I like to see the present, to work for the present, and to try to improve for the future.

As a society, we can't hide from the future; we have to build and own it.

We have to imagine change before we can begin to move toward it.

It's what you do and not what you say. If you're not part of the future, then get out of the way!