Future Quotes

Henry wadsworth longfellow - look not mournfully into the past. it comes not...
Terry goodkind - only a fool walks backwards into the future....
In a time of drastic change, it is the learners who inherit the future. The learned find themselves equipped to live in a world which no longer exists.
Eric Hoffe
John steinbeck, the winter of our discontent - most people live ninety percent in the past,...
In order to be utterly happy the only thing necessary is to refrain from comparing this moment with other moments in the past, which I often did not fully enjoy because I was comparing them with other moments of the future.
Andr Gide
A guidance counselor who has made a fetish of security, or who has unwittingly surrendered his thinking to economic determinism, may steer a youth away from his dream of becoming a poet, an artist, a musician or any other of thousands of things, because it offers no security, it does not pay well, there are no vacancies, it has no future.
Henry M. Wriston
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
The future, according to some scientists, will be exactly like the past, only far more expensive.
John Sladek
The future is a hundred thousand threads, but the past is a fabric that can never be rewoven.
Orson Scott Card, Xenocide
We live in the present, we dream of the future, but we learn eternal truths from the past.
Madame Chiang
The speciality of the future is generalism.
Wayne Van Dyck
The future is an opaque mirror. Anyone who tries to look into it sees nothing but the dim outlines of an old and worried face.
Jim Bishop, New York Journal - American, March 14, 1959
He who controls the past commands the future. He who commands the future conquers the past.
George Orwell
Never let the future disturb you. You will meet it, if you have to, with the same weapons of reason which today arm you against the present.
Marcus Aurelius Antoninus, Meditations, 200 A. D.
I believe the future is only the past again, entered through another gate.
Arthur Wing Pinero
Prediction is very difficult, especially about the future.
Niels Boh
I shall soon be six - And - Twenty. Is there anything in the future that can possibly console us for not being always twenty - Five.
George Gordon Byron
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
The world is full of people whose notion of a satisfactory future is, in fact, a return to the idealised past.
Robertson Davies, "A Voice from the Attic", 1960
Our imagination is the only limit to what we can hope to have in the future.
Charles F. Kettering
A generation which ignores history has no past and no future.
Robert Heinlein, The Notebooks of Lazurus Long
It might be said that Lord Rosebery outlived his future by ten years and his past by more than twenty.
Sir Winston Churchill
A Church without Youth is a Church without a future. Moreover, Youth without a Church is Youth without a future.
Pope Shenouda III, Pope & Patriach of Alexandria
Whoso neglects learning in his youth, Loses the past and is dead for the future.
Euripides, Phrixus
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
I would feel more optimistic about a bright future for man if he spent less time proving that he can outwit Nature and more time tasting her sweetness and respecting her seniority.
E. B. White
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
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
My future starts when I wake up every morning... Every day I find something creative to do with my life.
Miles Davis
People like us, who believe in physics, know that the distinction between past, present, and future is only a stubbornly persistent illusion.
Albert Einstein
Deem not life a thing of consequence. For look at the yawning void of the future, and at that other limitless space, the past.
Marcus Aurelius Antoninus
The future is like heaven, everyone exalts it, but no one wants to go there now.
James Arthur Baldwin
Life is a series of collisions with the future it is not the sum of what we have been, but what we yearn to be.
Jose Ortega y Gasset
I never think of the future. It comes soon enough.
Albert Einstein
We can pay our debt to the past by putting the future in debt to ourselves.
John Buchan
How to make God laugh: Tell him your future plans.
Woody Allen
Education a debt due from present to future generations.
George Peabody
Prejudice is a burden that confuses the past, threatens the future and renders the present inaccessible.
Maya Angelou
Business more than any other occupation is a continual dealing with the future it is a continual calculation, an instinctive exercise in foresight.
Henry Robinson Luce
The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.
Eleanor Roosevelt