Future Quotes

Ken lancaste - learn from the past, hope for the future, live in...
Hazel henderson - if we can recognize that change and uncertainty...
A generation which ignores history has no past and no future.
Robert Heinlein, The Notebooks of Lazurus Long
Andr gide - in order to be utterly happy the only thing...
The best thing about the future is that it comes one day at a time.
Abraham Lincoln
What happens when the future has come and gone?
Robert Half
I know of no way to judge the future but by the past.
Patrick Henry
I have made good judgements in the Past. I have made good judgements in the Future.
Dan Quayle
When it comes to the future, there are three kinds of people those who let it happen, those who make it happen, and those who wonder what happened.
John M. Richardson, Jr.
The present is theirs the future, for which I really worked, is mine.
Nikola Tesla
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
Disconnecting from change does not recapture the past. It loses the future.
Kathleen Norris, O Magazine, January 2004
We can pay our debt to the past by putting the future in debt to ourselves.
John Buchan
Our test of truth is a reference to either a present or imagined future majority in favour of our view.
Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.
For the ordinary man is passive. Within a narrow circle home life, and perhaps the trade unions or local politics he feels himself master of his fate, but against major events he is as helpless as against the elements. So far from endeavouring to influence the future, he simply lies down and lets things happen to him.
George Orwell
Education a debt due from present to future generations.
George Peabody
The speciality of the future is generalism.
Wayne Van Dyck
The future is like heaven, everyone exalts it, but no one wants to go there now.
James Arthur Baldwin
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
Our destiny rules over us, even when we are not yet aware of it it is the future that makes laws for us today.
Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche
If we were logical, the future would be bleak indeed. But we are more than logical. We are human beings, and we have faith, and we have hope.
Jacques Cousteau
We cannot always assure the future of our friends we have a better chance of assuring our future if we remember who our friends are.
Henry Kissinge
A compassionate government keeps faith with the trust of the people and cherishes the future of their children.
Lyndon B. Johnson
The most painful state of living is remembering the future.
Soren Kierkegaard
I have never been able, really, to regret anything in all my life. I have always been far much too absorbed in the present moment or the immediate future to think back.
Albert Camus, The Strange
History repeats itself and history never repeats itself are about equally trueWe never know enough about the infinitely complex circumstances of any past event to prophesy the future by analogy.
George Macaulay Trevelyan
While I take inspiration from the past, like most Americans, I live for the future.
Ronald Reagan
Telling the future by looking at the past assumes that conditions remain constant. This is like driving a car by looking in the rearview mirror.
Herb Brody
The concept of progress acts as a protective mechanism to shield us from the terrors of the future.
Frank Herbert
A youth is to be regarded with respect. How do you know that his future will not be equal to our present?
Confucius, Analects
STRATEGY is; A style of thinking, a conscious and deliberate process, an intensive implementation system, the science of insuring FUTURE SUCCESS.
Pete Johnson
The greatest loss of time is delay and expectation, which depend upon the future. We let go the present, which we have in our power, and look forward to that which depends upon chance, and so relinquish a certainty for an uncertainty.
Seneca
It is impossible to live in the past, difficult to live in the present and a waste to live in the future.
Frank Herbert, Dune
Change is the law of life. And those who look only to the past or present are certain to miss the future.
John Fitzgerald Kennedy
In the future everyone will be famous for fifteen minutes.
Andy Warhol
The American lives even more for his goals, for the future, than the European. Life for him is always becoming, never being.
Albert Einstein
Those who stare at the past have their backs turned to the future.
Unknown
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
My past is my wisdom to use today... my future is my wisdom yet to experience. Be in the present because that is where life resides.
Gene Oliver, Life and the Artistry of Change
Heal the past, Live the present, Dream the future.
Unknown