Eleanor Roosevelt Quotes

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

You can analyse the past, but you have to design the future

It is today that we create the world of the future.

Times and conditions change so rapidly that we must keep our aim constantly focused on the future.

We need to open up the future. We also need to keep everything valuable from the past.

Today's shocks are tomorrow's conventions.

We should not be afraid to go into a new era, to leave the old beyond.

Success follows those adept at preserving the substance of the past by clothing it in the forms of the future.

Conservation destroys the present. If we are only busy preserving the past, we are not living in the present and unable to look forward. I am against conservation. We should let young people move forward, whether we agree with them or not. We should let new things happen.

I am not nostalgic about things. When you have a kind of improvement, I am not nostalgic about the past.

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.

We live in a quickly changing world, therefore we must foretell developments, and reforms should respond to these changes

We have to look for opportunities if we're going to survive the next 50 years. We can't depend on what we have now.

Many people repeat the past. I'm not interested. I prefer evolution.

I get asked all the time, What do you do differently than 10 years ago, or what will you do differently in the years to come?' In the years to come, I have no idea.

Luxembourg has always been a country that has tried to reinvent its own future.

The people who live in the past must yield to the people who live in the future. Otherwise the world would begin to turn the other way round.

If we are to make the most of the opportunities ahead we need a bold break with the past.

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

But genius looks forward: the eyes of men are set in his forehead, not in his hindhead: man hopes: genius creates.

The past does not equal the future.

We make the future better than the past. We don't hide from history. We make history.

What got us to where we are today is not going to get us to where we need to go tomorrow.

The secret of change consists in concentrating one's energy to create the new, and not to fight against the old.

We are shaping the world faster than we can change ourselves, and we are applying to the present the habits of the past.