Future Quotes
The thing to remember is that that the future comes one day at a time.Dean Acheson, Communication Bulletin for Managers & Supervisors, June 2004
It is because modern education is so seldom inspired by a great hope that it so seldom achieves great results. The wish to preserve the past rather than the hope of creating the future dominates the minds of those who control the teaching of the young.Bertrand Russell
To the wrongs that need resistance, To the right that needs assistance, To the future in the distance, Give yourselves.Carrie Chapman Catt
If you want to imagine the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face forever.George Orwell, 1984
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
Everyone should free their mind and soul. Some are ready to free them now, and some will be ready to free them in the future. Some will never be ready and that is what makes their lives not worth living.Emad Hasan
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
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
I know of no way to judge the future but by the past.Patrick Henry
I am treating you as my friend asking you share my present minuses in the hope I can ask you to share my future pluses.Katherine Mansfield
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 a hundred thousand threads, but the past is a fabric that can never be rewoven.Orson Scott Card, Xenocide
Exile, for no other motive than ease, would be the last defeat, with no seed of future victory in it.Lois McMaster Bujold, "Shards of Honor", 1986
There is always one moment in childhood when the door opens and lets in the future.Graham Green
Prejudice is a burden that confuses the past, threatens the future and renders the present inaccessible.Maya Angelou
The world is full of people whose notion of a satisfactory future is, in fact, a return to the idealised past.Robertson Davies, "A Voice from the Attic", 1960
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
The essence of optimism is that it takes no account of the present, but it is a source of inspiration, of vitality and hope where others have resigned it enables a man to hold his head high, to claim the future for himself and not to abandon it to his enemy.Dietrich Bonhoeffe
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".
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
Children have neither a past nor a future. Thus they enjoy the present - which seldom happens to us.Jean De La Bruyere
The vast possibilities of our great future will become realities only if we make ourselves responsible for that future.Gifford Pinchot
Let him who would enjoy a good future waste none of his present.Roger Babson
Prediction is very difficult, especially about the future.Niels Boh
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
While I take inspiration from the past, like most Americans, I live for the future.Ronald Reagan
I like the dreams of the future better than the history of the past.Thomas Jefferson
Education a debt due from present to future generations.George Peabody
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
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 direction in which education starts a man will determine his future life.Plato, The Republic
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
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 empires of the future are the empires of the mind.Sir Winston Churchill, Speech at Harvard University, September 6, 1943
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
Conservatism discards Prescription, shrinks from Principle, disavows Progress having rejected all respect for antiquity, it offers no redress for the present, and makes no preparation for the future.Benjamin Disraeli
We are at the very beginning of time for the human race. It is not unreasonable that we grapple with problems. But there are tens of thousands of years in the future. Our responsibility is to do what we can, learn what we can, improve the solutions, and pass them on.Richard Feynman
Every small, positive change we make in ourselves repays us in confidence in the future.Alice Walke
