Charles Handy Quotes

The future is fluid. Each act, each decision, and each development creates new possibilities and eliminates others. The future is ours to direct.

So what it means is when you don't believe in the inevitable, it means you don't expect that that's how things have to turn out. You can change them.

What happens next is up to you.

When we get to the future, I'll determine the future.

You are always free to change your mind and choose a different future, or a different past.

My fate cannot be mastered; it can only be collaborated with and thereby, to some extent, directed. Nor am I the captain of my soul; I am only its noisiest passenger.

What is past cannot be rewritten, but it is within our power to rewrite the future.

History need not be our destiny.

We try to separate the world into the stuff we can control and the stuff we can't.

While we cannot predict the future, we will most surely live it. Every action and decision we take - or don't - ripples into the future. For the first time, we have the capability, the technology, and the knowledge to direct those ripples.

The future is unwritten.

There is absolutely no inevitability, so long as there is a willingness to contemplate what is happening.

We can influence the future but not see it.

The past is dead. Tomorrow will become whatever decision you make it. ~ Acheron.

Before you leave, the fortune teller reminds you that the future is never set in stone.

Decision is the ultimate power. Decisions shape destiny.

The future is not laid out on a track. It is something that we can decide, and to the extent that we do not violate any known laws of the universe, we can probably make it work the way that we want to.

The future is not set. There is no fate but what we make.

I hate the word "inevitable" because I feel like things don't have to be the way they are.

Wherever human beings are concerned, trend is not destiny.

There are two futures, the future of desire and the future of fate, and man's reason has never learned to separate them.

I did not know what my future was going to hold.

It is in your moments of decision that your destiny is shaped.

If you do not create your destiny, you will have your fate inflicted upon you.

I don't know what's in store for me. I don't know what tomorrow is going to bring.