Future Quotes
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
When you relinquish the desire to control your future, you can have more happiness.Nicole Kidman, in The Scotsman
The future, according to some scientists, will be exactly like the past, only far more expensive.John Sladek
We live in an age when to be young and indifferent can no longer be synonymous. We must prepare for the coming hour. The claims of the Future are represented by suffering millions and the Youth of a Nation are the trustees of Posterity.Benjamin Disraeli
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
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
The doctor of the future will give no medicine, but will educate his patients in the care of the human frame, in diet, and in the cause and prevention of disease.Thomas Edison
Most people live ninety percent in the past, seven percent in the present, and that only leaves three percent for the future.John Steinbeck, The Winter of our Discontent
Science and technology revolutionize our lives, but memory, tradition and myth frame our response. Expelled from individual consciousness by the rush of change, history finds its revenge by stamping the collective unconsciousness with habits, values, expectations, dreams. The dialectic between past and future will continue to form our lives.Arthur Schlesinger, Jr.
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
The secret of health for both mind and body is not to mourn for the past, worry about the future, or anticipate troubles but to live in the present moment wisely and earnestly.Buddha
The mind of man is capable of anything - - Because everything is in it, all the past as well as all the future.Joseph Conrad
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
I never think of the future. It comes soon enough.Albert Einstein
Most of our future lies ahead.Denny Crum, Louisville basketball coach
I believe the future is only the past again, entered through another gate.Arthur Wing Pinero
An author is a fool who, not content with boring those he lives with, insists on boring future generations.Charles de Montesquieu
Disconnecting from change does not recapture the past. It loses the future.Kathleen Norris, O Magazine, January 2004
The future has a way of arriving unannounced.George Will
Man spends his life in reasoning on the past, in complaining of the present, in fearing future.Antoine Rivarol
If we can recognize that change and uncertainty are basic principles, we can greet the future and the transformation we are undergoing with the understanding that we do not know enough to be pessimistic.Hazel Henderson
In early childhood you may lay the foundation of poverty or riches, industry or idleness, good or evil, by the habits to which you train your children. Teach them right habits then, and their future life is safe.Lydia Sigourney
As long as anyone believes that his ideal and purpose is outside him, that it is above the clouds, in the past or in the future, he will go outside himself and seek fulfillment where it cannot be found. He will look for solutions and answers at every point except where they can be found - - In himself.Erich Frohm
I have realized that the past and future are real illusions, that they exist in the present, which is what there is and all there is.Alan Watts
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
We think very little of time present; we anticipate the future, as being too slow, and with a view to hasten it onward, we recall the past to stay it as too swiftly gone. We are so thoughtless, that we thus wander through the hours which are not here, regardless only of the moment that is actually our own.Blaise Pascal
Those people who develop the ability to continuously acquire new and better forms of knowledge that they can apply to their work and to their lives will be the movers and shakers in our society for the indefinite future.Brian Tracy
Sin bravely... We will never have all the facts to make a perfect judgement, but with the aid of basic experience we must leap bravely into the future.Russell R. McIntyre
A preoccupation with the future not only prevents us from seeing the present as it is but often prompts us to rearrange the past.Eric Hoffer, The Passionate State of Mind, 1954
Traditionalists are pessimists about the future and optimists about the past.Lewis Mumford
History is a relentless master. It has no present, only the past rushing into the future. To try to hold fast is to be swept aside.John Fitzgerald Kennedy
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
The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.Eleanor Roosevelt
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
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
Look not mournfully into the Past. It comes not back again. Wisely improve the Present. In is thine. Go forth to meet the shadowy Future, without fear, and a manly heart.Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
The best thing about the future is that it comes one day at a time.Abraham Lincoln