Future Quotes

The true felicity of life is to be free from anxieties and perturbations to understand and do our duties to God and man, and to enjoy the present without any serious dependence on the future.

Lucius Annaeus Seneca

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

Every small, positive change we make in ourselves repays us in confidence in the future.

Alice Walke

History repeats itself and history never repeats itself are about equally trueWe never know enough about the infinitely complex circumstances of any past event to prophesy the future by analogy.

George Macaulay Trevelyan

The vast possibilities of our great future will become realities only if we make ourselves responsible for that future.

Gifford Pinchot

While I take inspiration from the past, like most Americans, I live for the future.

Ronald Reagan

It is important that an aim never be defined in terms of activity or methods. It must always relate directly to how life is better for everyone.... The aim of the system must be clear to everyone in the system. The aim must include plans for the future. The aim is a value judgment.

W. Edwards Deming

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

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

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

The future is much like the present, only longer.

Don Quisenberry

When I see an adult on a bicycle, I do not despair for the future of the human race.

H. G. Wells

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

Victor Hugo, Les Miserables, 1862

My interest is in the future because I am going to spend the rest of my life there.

Charles F. Kettering

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

Do not dwell in the past, do not dream of the future, concentrate the mind on the present moment.

Buddha

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".

The future you shall know when it has come before then forget it.

Aeschylus

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

George Orwell, 1984

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

Alvin Toffle

We cannot always assure the future of our friends we have a better chance of assuring our future if we remember who our friends are.

Henry Kissinge

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 best way to predict the future is to invent it.

Alan Kay

Whoso neglects learning in his youth, Loses the past and is dead for the future.

Euripides

The future comes one day at a time.

Dean Gooderham Acheson

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

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

Maurice Masterlinck

The future does not belong to those who are content with today, apathetic toward common problems and their fellow man alike, timid and fearful in the face of bold projects and new ideas. Rather, it will belong to those who can blend passion, reason and courage in a personal commitment to the ideals of American society.

Robert Francis Kennedy

The dynamics of capitalism is postponement of enjoyment to the constantly postponed future.

Norman O. Brown

Change is the law of life. And those who look only to the past or present are certain to miss the future.

John Fitzgerald Kennedy

Those people who develop the ability to continuously acquire new and better forms of knowledge that they can apply to their work and to their lives will be the movers and shakers in our society for the indefinite future.

Brian Tracy

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

A compassionate government keeps faith with the trust of the people and cherishes the future of their children.

Lyndon B. Johnson

The American lives even more for his goals, for the future, than the European. Life for him is always becoming, never being.

Albert Einstein

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.

Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past.

George Orwell

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

All my children have spoken for themselves since they first learned to speak, and not always with my advance approval, and I expect that to continue in the future.

Gerald R. Ford

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

Vernon Coope