Future Quotes

The future will be better tomorrow.

Dan Quayle

Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past.

George Orwell

We must never allow the future to be weighed down by memory. For children have no past, and that is the whole secret of the magical innocence of their smiles.

Milan Kundera, The Book of Laughter and Forgetting

All human situations have their inconveniences. We feel those of the present but neither see nor feel those of the future; and hence we often make troublesome changes without amendment, and frequently for the worse.

Benjamin Franklin

The rest of the world is sweeping past us. The oil and gas of the Texas future is the well - Educated mind. But we are still worried about whether Midland can beat Odessa at football.

Mark White

Philosophy triumphs easily over past evils and future evils but present evils triumph over it.

La Rochefoucauld

To believe in something to yet proved and to underwrite it with our lives it is the only way we can leave the future open.

Lillian Smith

An author is a fool who, not content with boring those he lives with, insists on boring future generations.

Charles de Montesquieu

The best way to predict the future is to invent it.

Alan Kay

Let him who would enjoy a good future waste none of his present.

Roger Babson

What happens when the future has come and gone?

Robert Half

Change is the law of life; and those who look only to the past or the present are certain to miss the future.

John F. Kennedy

It is important that an aim never be defined in terms of activity or methods. It must always relate directly to how life is better for everyone.... The aim of the system must be clear to everyone in the system. The aim must include plans for the future. The aim is a value judgment.

W. Edwards Deming

The future belongs to those who prepare for it today.

Malcolm X

Those who foresee the future and recognize it as tragic are often seized by a madness which forces them to commit the very acts which made it certain that what they dread shall happen.

Dame Rebecca West

So different are the colours of life, as we look forward to the future, or backward to the past and so different the opinions and sentiments which this contrariety of appearance naturally produces, that the conversation of the old and young ends generally with contempt or pity on either side.

Victor Hugo

Where a calculator on the ENIAC is equipped with 18, 000 vacuum tubes and weighs 30 tons, computers in the future may have only 1, 000 vaccuum tubes and perhaps weigh 1. 5 tons.

Unknown, Popular Mechanics, March 1949

Conservatism discards Prescription, shrinks from Principle, disavows Progress having rejected all respect for antiquity, it offers no redress for the present, and makes no preparation for the future.

Benjamin Disraeli

While I take inspiration from the past, like most Americans, I live for the future.

Ronald Reagan

The past is certain, the future obscure.

Thales

It is difficult to live in the present, ridiculous to live in the future, and impossible to live in the past. Nothing is as far away as one minute ago.

Jim Bishop

The direction in which education starts a man will determine his future life.

Plato, The Republic

Life is divided into three terms - That which was, which is, and which will be. Let us learn from the past to profit by the present, and from the present to live better in the future.

William Wordsworth

We can pay our debt to the past by putting the future in debt to ourselves.

John Buchan

The essence of optimism is that it takes no account of the present, but it is a source of inspiration, of vitality and hope where others have resigned it enables a man to hold his head high, to claim the future for himself and not to abandon it to his enemy.

Dietrich Bonhoeffe

Whoso neglects learning in his youth, Loses the past and is dead for the future.

Euripides

Underlying the whole scheme of civilization is the confidence men have in each other, confidence in their integrity, confidence in their honesty, confidence in their future.

Bourke Cockran

The empires of the future are the empires of the mind.

Sir Winston Churchill, Speech at Harvard University, September 6, 1943

Champions know that success is inevitable that there is no such thing as failure, only feedback. They know that the best way to forecast the future is to create it.

Michael J. Gel

All my children have spoken for themselves since they first learned to speak, and not always with my advance approval, and I expect that to continue in the future.

Gerald R. Ford

We cannot always build the future for our youth, but we can build our youth for the future.

Franklin D. Roosevelt

The best thing about the future is that it comes one day at a time.

Abraham Lincoln

History is the ship carrying living memories to the future.

Stephen Spende

The trouble with our times is that the future is not what it used to be.

Paul Valery

Look not mournfully into the past. It comes not back again. Wisely improve the present. It is thine. Go forth to meet the shadowy future, without fear.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

To make no mistakes is not in the power of man; but from their errors and mistakes the wise and good learn wisdom for the future.

Plutarch

The Future is something which everyone reaches at the rate of sixty minutes an hour, whatever he does, whoever he is.

Clive Staples Lewis

Those who stare at the past have their backs turned to the future.

Unknown

The illiterate of the future will not be the person who cannot read. It will be the person who does not know how to learn.

Alvin Toffle