Future Quotes

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 belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.

Eleanor Roosevelt

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

How to make God laugh: Tell him your future plans.

Woody Allen

There is nothing like dream to create the future. Utopia to - Day, flesh and blood tomorrow.

Victor Hugo, Les Miserables, 1862

Strategy is a style of thinking, a conscious and deliberate process, an intensive implementation system, the science of insuring future success.

Pete Johnson

Disconnecting from change does not recapture the past. It loses the future.

Kathleen Norris, O Magazine, January 2004

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

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

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

Only a fool walks backwards into the future.

Terry Goodkind

If you want to imagine the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face forever.

George Orwell, 1984

For I dipt into the future, as far as human eye can see, saw the vision of the world, and the wonder that would be.

Lord Alfred Tennyson, Ulysses

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

Alvin Toffle

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

The best way to predict the future is to create it.

Jason Kaufmann

The challenges of change are always hard. It is important that we begin to unpack those challenges that confront this nation and realize that we each have a role that requires us to change and become more responsible for shaping our own future.

Hillary Rodham Clinton

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

At every crossroads on the path that leads to the future, tradition has placed 10, 000 men to guard the past.

Maurice Masterlinck

All human situations have their inconveniences. We feel those of the present but neither see nor feel those of the future; and hence we often make troublesome changes without amendment, and frequently for the worse.

Benjamin Franklin

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

Our destiny rules over us, even when we are not yet aware of it it is the future that makes laws for us today.

Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

Our test of truth is a reference to either a present or imagined future majority in favour of our view.

Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.

We cannot always build the future for our youth, but we can build our youth for the future.

Franklin D. Roosevelt

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

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]

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

These days people seek knowledge, not wisdom. Knowledge is of the past, wisdom is of the future.

Vernon Coope

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

The secret of health for both mind and body is not to mourn for the past, nor to worry about the future, but to live the present moment wisely and earnestly.

Buddha

The function of science fiction is not always to predict the future but sometimes to prevent it.

Frank Herbert

Never let the future disturb you. You will meet it, if you have to, with the same weapons of reason which today arm you against the present.

Marcus Aurelius Antoninus, Meditations, 200 A. D.

As long as anyone believes that his ideal and purpose is outside him, that it is above the clouds, in the past or in the future, he will go outside himself and seek fulfillment where it cannot be found. He will look for solutions and answers at every point except where they can be found - - In himself.

Erich Frohm

While day by day the overzealous student stores up facts for future use, He who has learned to trust nature finds need for ever fewer external directions. He will discard formula after formula, until he reaches the conclusion Let nature take its course. By letting each thing act in accordance with its own nature, everything that needs to be done gets done.

Lao Tzu

Be careful that victories do not carry the seed of future defeats.

Ralph W. Sockman

I have but one lamp by which my feet are guided, and that is the lamp of experience. I know no way of judging the future but by the past.

Unknown

To believe in something to yet proved and to underwrite it with our lives it is the only way we can leave the future open.

Lillian Smith

With our eyes fixed on the future, but recognizing the realities of today. ... we will achieve our destiny to be as a shining city on a hill for all mankind to see.

Ronald Reagan