Future Quotes

Heal the past, Live the present, Dream the future.

Unknown

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

Paul Valery

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

Plato, The Republic

Never let a stain from the past put a mark on your future.

Jillian Graham, Chicken Soup for the Preteen Soul

In history as in life it is success that counts. Start a political upheaval and let yourself be caught, and you will hang as a traitor. But place yourself at the head of a rebellion and gain your point, and all future generations will worship you as the Father of their Country.

Hendrik W. Van Loon

In the future everyone will be famous for fifteen minutes.

Andy Warhol

A cynic is not merely one who reads bitter lessons from the past, he is one who is prematurely disappointed in the future.

Sidney J. Harris

Our task is not to fix the blame for the past, but to fix the course for the future.

John Fitzgerald Kennedy

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

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

Now he has departed from this strange world a little ahead of me. That means nothing. People like us, who believe in physics, know that the distinction between past, present, and future is only a stubbornly persistent illusion.

Albert Einstein

Trust no future, however pleasant Let the dead past bury its dead Act, - Act in the living Present Heart within and God overhead.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

History is the ship carrying living memories to the future.

Stephen Spende

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

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

Man has a limited biological capacity for change. When this capacity is overwhelmed, the capacity is in future shock.

Alvin Toffle

We have no right to assume that any physical laws exist, or if they have existed up until now, that they will continue to exist in a similar manner in the future.

Max Karl Ernst Ludwig Planck

Man spends his life in reasoning on the past, in complaining of the present, in fearing future.

Antoine Rivarol

Enjoy present pleasures in such a way as not to injure future ones.

Seneca

In a time of drastic change it is the learners who inherit the future. The learned usually find themselves equipped to live in a world that no longer exists.

Eric Hoffe

The future is not something we enter. The future is something we create.

Leonard I. Sweet

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

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

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

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

The most painful state of living is remembering the future.

Soren Kierkegaard

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

Roger Babson

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

I never think of the future. It comes soon enough.

Albert Einstein

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

Only a scientific people can survive in a scientific future.

Thomas H. Huxley

Educate your children to self - Control, to the habit of holding passion and prejudice and evil tendencies subject to an upright and reasoning will, and you have done much to abolish misery from their future and crimes from society.

Benjamin Franklin

I was taught very early that I would have to depend entirely upon myself that my future lay in my own hands.

Darius Ogden Mills

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

If you will protest courageously, and yet with dignity and Christian love, when the history books are written in future generations, the historians will have to pause and say, There lived a great people - A black people - who injected new meaning and dignity into the veins of civilization.

Martin Luther King, Jr.

Fear not for the future, weep not for the past.

Percy Bysshe Shelley

Most of our future lies ahead.

Denny Crum, Louisville basketball coach