Future Quotes
We can pay our debt to the past by putting the future in debt to ourselves.John Buchan
Where a calculator on the ENIAC is equpped 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
If you do not think about the future, you cannot have one.John Galsworthy
Those who stare at the past have their backs turned to the future.Unknown
Who can tell who will be the President a year from now? - - John F. Kennedy, speaking to the president of Harvard about why he did not want to delay signing documents relating to a future JFK Presidential Library, 2 October 1963.John F. Kennedy, "A Thousand Days, " by Arthur Schlesinger Jr. [1965]
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.
The future you shall know when it has come before then forget it.Aeschylus
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
Our task is not to fix the blame for the past, but to fix the course for the future.John Fitzgerald Kennedy
The future is not something we enter. The future is something we create.Leonard I. Sweet
Neither a wise man nor a brave man lies down on the tracks of history to wait for the train of the future to run over him.Dwight D Eisenhowe
Do not dwell in the past, do not dream of the future, concentrate the mind on the present moment.Buddha
The direction in which education starts a man will determine his future life.Plato, The Republic
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
One day at a time - This is enough. Do not look back and grieve over the past, for it is gone; and do not be troubled about the future, for it has not yet come. Live in the present, and make it so beautiful that it will be worth remembering.Ida Scott Taylor.
The future has a way of arriving unannounced.George Will
How to make God laugh: Tell him your future plans.Woody Allen
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
Educate your children to self - Control, to the habit of holding passion and prejudice and evil tendencies to an upright and reasoning will, and you have done much to abolish misery from their future lives and crimes to society.Daniel Webste
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
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
The dynamics of capitalism is postponement of enjoyment to the constantly postponed future.Norman O. Brown
Enjoy present pleasures in such a way as not to injure future one.Seneca
The fact is, that civilization requires slaves. The Greeks were quite right there. Unless there are slaves to do the ugly, horrible, uninteresting work, culture, and contemplation become almost impossible. Human slavery is wrong, insecure, and demoralizing. On mechanical slavery, on the slavery of the machine, the future of the world depends.Oscar Wilde
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
The present is theirs the future, for which I really worked, is mine.Nikola Tesla
The concept of progress acts as a protective mechanism to shield us from the terrors of the future.Frank Herbert
In the future everyone will be famous for fifteen minutes.Andy Warhol
A generation which ignores history has no past and no future.Robert Heinlein, The Notebooks of Lazurus Long
The thing to remember is that that the future comes one day at a time.Dean Acheson, Communication Bulletin for Managers & Supervisors, June 2004
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
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
It is by no means an irrational fancy that, in a future existence, we shall look upon what we think our present existence, as a dream.Edgar Allan Poe
The future is a hundred thousand threads, but the past is a fabric that can never be rewoven.Orson Scott Card, Xenocide
He who controls the past commands the future. He who commands the future conquers the past.George Orwell
Enjoy present pleasures in such a way as not to injure future ones.Seneca
In the future everyone will be world - Famous for fifteen minutes.Andy Warhol
