Future Quotes
One problem with gazing too frequently into the past is that we may turn around to find the future has run out on us.Michael Cibenko
Whoso neglects learning in his youth, Loses the past and is dead for the future.Euripides, Phrixus
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
My future starts when I wake up every morning... Every day I find something creative to do with my life.Miles Davis
Some of the best lessons we ever learn are learned from past mistakes. The error of the past is the wisdom and success of the future.Dr. Dale E. Turne
Philosophy triumphs easily over past evils and future evils; but present evils triumph over it.Francois De La Rochefoucauld
While I take inspiration from the past, like most Americans, I live for the future.Ronald Reagan
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
Never let a stain from the past put a mark on your future.Jillian Graham, Chicken Soup for the Preteen Soul
He who controls the past controls the future.George Orwell, "Nineteen Eighty - Four".
I have never seen the slightest scientific proof of the religious idea of heaven and hell, of future life for individuals, or of a personal God.Thomas A. Edison
Enjoy present pleasures in such a way as not to injure future ones.Seneca
Stop acting as if life is a rehearsal. Live this day as if it were your last. The past is over and gone. The future is not guaranteed.Wayne W Dye
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
Children have neither a past nor a future. Thus they enjoy the present - which seldom happens to us.Jean De La Bruyere
Traditionalists are pessimists about the future and optimists about the past.Lewis Mumford
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
The future, according to some scientists, will be exactly like the past, only far more expensive.John Sladek
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
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
I never think of the future. It comes soon enough.Albert Einstein
The crippling of individuals I consider the worst evil of capitalism. Our whole educational system suffers from this evil. An exaggerated competitive attitude is inculcated into the student, who is trained to worship acquisitive success as a perparation for his future career.Albert Einstein
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]
The only use of a knowledge of the past is to equip us for the present. The present contains all that there is. It is holy ground; for it is the past, and it is the future.Alfred North Whitehead
My interest is in the future because I am going to spend the rest of my life there.Charles F. Kettering
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.
There is always one moment in childhood when the door opens and lets in the future.Graham Green
A compassionate government keeps faith with the trust of the people and cherishes the future of their children.Lyndon B. Johnson
In order to be utterly happy the only thing necessary is to refrain from comparing this moment with other moments in the past, which I often did not fully enjoy because I was comparing them with other moments of the future.Andr Gide
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
In early childhood you may lay the foundation of poverty or riches, industry of idleness, good or evil, by the habits to which you train your children. Teach them right habits then, and their future life is safe.Mrs. Sigourney
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
If you want to imagine the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face forever.George Orwell, 1984
Life is a culmination of the past, an awareness of the present, an indication of a future beyond knowledge, the quality that gives a touch of divinity to matter.Charles Augustus Lindbergh, Jr.
The future is not something we enter. The future is something we create.Leonard I. Sweet
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
Children have neither a past nor a future. Thus they enjoy the present - - which seldom happens to us.La Bruyere
