Vera Stanley Alder (1898–1984) British artist
Source: Humanity Comes of Age, A study of Individual and World Fulfillment (1950), Introduction p. I - XII
"The Future is What We Choose to Make", World Maker Faire, New York (September 2013) http://fora.tv/2013/09/21/the_future_is_what_we_choose_to_make <br class="br">Context: We want to make things. We want to make things with our hands. We crave it. It sparks something in us, feeds our urge to create. That's why were here.<br>The future will be what we choose to build. We choose to build what we believe in. It's always been that way. A small group of people choose to believe in something, and then they make it so. In that order. They choose to believe in something, and then they make it so. That's the power of makers — the power to choose a new future, by believing, and making.
Vera Stanley Alder (1898–1984) British artist
Source: Humanity Comes of Age, A study of Individual and World Fulfillment (1950), Introduction p. I - XII
“Always choose the future over the past. What do we do now?”
Brian Tracy (1944) American motivational speaker and writer
Source: Create Your Own Future: How to Master the 12 Critical Factors of Unlimited Success
“We're building a house of the future together.
(What would we do without you?)”
Kate Bush (1958) British recording artist; singer, songwriter, musician and record producer
Song lyrics, The Sensual World (1989)
“We cannot build our own future without helping others to build theirs.”
Bill Clinton (1946) 42nd President of the United States
Hillary Clinton (1947) American politician, senator, Secretary of State, First Lady
Presidential campaign (April 12, 2015 – 2016), (July 28, 2016)
“We have failed to bring justice. We cannot build the future on injustice.”
F. W. de Klerk (1936) South African politician
On The Washington Journal of C-SPAN https://www.c-span.org/video/?124979-1/the-trek-beginning (11 June 1999) <br class="br">1990s, 1999
“We can believe what we choose. We are answerable for what we choose to believe.”
John Henry Newman (1801–1890) English cleric and cardinal
Letter to Mrs William Froude, 27 June 1848.
“It is not on the ruin of liberty that we may (in the future… - "pourra", Fr.) build justice.”
African Spir (1837–1890) Russian philosopher
Source: Words of a Sage : Selected thoughts of African Spir (1937), p. 46.
“Search in your past for what is good and beautiful. Build your future from there.”
Paul Kruger (1825–1904) President of the South African Republic
From his last letter. As reported in: They Made this Land Donker, 1981, p. 164
“What is the past but what we choose to remember?”
Amy Tan book The Bonesetter's Daughter
Variant: After all, Bao Bomu says, what is the past but what we choose to remember?
Source: The Bonesetter's Daughter