Future Quotes

Life is no brief candle to me. It is a sort of splendid torch which I have got a hold of for the moment, and I want to make it burn as brightly as possible before handing it on to future generations.
George Bernard Shaw
Disconnecting from change does not recapture the past. It loses the future.
Kathleen Norris, O Magazine, January 2004
When clouds form in the skies we know that rain will follow but we must not wait for it. Nothing will be achieved by attempting to interfere with the future before the time is ripe. Patience is needed.
I Ching
I never think of the future. It comes soon enough.
Albert Einstein
An election is a bet on the future, not a popularity test of the past.
James Barrett Scotty Reston
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
Thomas jefferson - i like the dreams of the future better than the...
And yesterday he would have killed me to get to his foe. But now we serve each other. Only a fool walks into the future backward.
Terry Goodkind, "Stone of Tears".
If you want to imagine the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face forever.
George Orwell, 1984
Alan kay - the best way to predict the future is to invent...
When you relinquish the desire to control your future, you can have more happiness.
Nicole Kidman, in The Scotsman
Every small, positive change we make in ourselves repays us in confidence in the future.
Alice Walke
The future will be better tomorrow.
Dan Quayle
The future depends on what we do in the present.
Mahatma Gandhi
We are living beyond our means. As a people we have developed a lifestyle that is draining the earth of its priceless and irreplaceable resources without regard for the future of our children and people all around the world.
Margaret Mead
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
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 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
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
Ronald reagan - while i take inspiration from the past, like most...
The past is certain, the future obscure.
Thales
All successful people men and women are big dreamers. They imagine what their future could be, ideal in every respect, and then they work every day toward their distant vision, that goal or purpose.
Brian Tracy
Underlying the whole scheme of civilization is the confidence men have in each other, confidence in their integrity, confidence in their honesty, confidence in their future.
Bourke Cockran
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
Until divinity decides to reveal the future to human kind, the sum of all human wisdom is contained in these two words: Wait and Hope.
Alexandre Dumas, Translation from "The Count of Monte Cristo".
Philosophy triumphs easily over past evils and future evils; but present evils triumph over it.
Francois De La Rochefoucauld
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
When you reliquish the desire to control your future, you can have more happiness.
Nicole Kidman
Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past.
George Orwell
The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.
Eleanor Roosevelt
A liberal is a man or a woman or a child who looks forward to a better day, a more tranquil night, and a bright, infinite future.
Leonard Bernstein
There is nothing like dream to create the future. Utopia to - Day, flesh and blood tomorrow.
Victor Hugo, Les Miserables, 1862
The main goal of the future is to stop violence. The world is addicted to it.
Bill Cosby
Traditionalists are pessimists about the future and optimists about the past.
Lewis Mumford
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 decisive actions of our life - - I mean those that are most likely to decide the whole course of our future - - Are, more often than not, unconsidered.
Andre Gide
The American lives even more for his goals, for the future, than the European. Life for him is always becoming, never being.
Albert Einstein
To state the facts frankly is not to despair the future nor indict the past. The prudent heir takes careful inventory of his legacies and gives a faithful accounting to those whom he owes an obligation of trust.
John Fitzgerald Kennedy
We are made wise not by the recollection of our past, but by the responsibility for our future.
George Bernard Shaw
The past is a source of knowledge, and the future is a source of hope. Love of the past implies faith in the future.
Stephen Ambrose, in Fast Company