Bill McKibben Quotes

In exile, I have tried to profit by the past and prepare for the future.

I am living proof that youth possess a unique capacity to grow and change - that the child who seems hopeless today could go on to change the world.

I always say kids are the future and if we can inspire them, the world will be a much better place.

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.

When we were growing up, we were so poor that our heritage was the only thing we had. Mama would say, 'Kids, pour more water in the soup. Better days are coming.'

Let the future say of our generation that we sent forth mighty currents of hope and that we worked together to heal the world.

Children are our crop, our fields, our earth. They are birds let loose into darkness. They are errors renewed. Still, they are the only source from which may be drawn a life more successful, more knowing than our own. Somehow they will do one thing, take one step further, they will see the summit. We believe in it, the radiance that streams from the future, from days we will not see. Children must live, must triumph. Children must die; that is an idea we cannot accept.

Tania, there is so much still ahead of you. Be patient with life

I talk to a lot of women who have difficult times who are suffering. I really want women to be encouraged and to have hope because things can get better. Make good decisions, stop making bad ones, because we have to take responsibility too. But make good decisions and really the future will be a lot better for your kids - and yourself.

I love women. I love their hearts. There are a lot of women who are suffering. A lot of women who have been disappointed, have been let down. One thing I'd like women to know is the message: Hold on. Hold on. Be faithful to your kids. Hold on for the future because life doesn't always necessarily stay the way that it is. It will get better.

The point of life was to press on, to do the best you can, to make the world a better place.

Things will get easier, people's minds will change, and you should be alive to see it.

Let's keep refusing to accept the world as it is and insisting on building the world we dream of. Don't let the haters have the last word.

Life must go on, even if it's no joke...just pretend to believe in the future.

I can't change the past, but I can try to make a better future for me.

To make the future demands courage. It demands work. But it also demands faith.

In the treatment of the child the world foreshadows its own future and faith. All words and all thinking lead to the child, - to that vast immortality and wide sweep of infinite possibility which the child represents.

Skateistan's not just about skating. It’s giving people life skills and hope for the future.

I believe in process. I believe in four seasons. I believe that winter's tough, but spring's coming. I believe that there's a growing season. And I think that you realize that in life, you grow. You get better.

Let your hopes, not your hurts, shape your future.

You realize you can't change the world but it shouldn't stop you from trying.

Kids are our future.

I feel that its our children who do give us hope because they are the ones who are going to save the world.

Each child brings so much joy and hope into the world, and that is reason enough for being here. As you grow older, you will contribute something else to this world, and only you can discover what that is.

Give yourself a chance to see how much better life will get. And it will get better.