Future Quotes

Children have neither a past nor a future. Thus they enjoy the present - - which seldom happens to us.

La Bruyere

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

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

Alan Kay

In the future everyone will be famous for fifteen minutes.

Andy Warhol

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

Educate your children to self - Control, to the habit of holding passion and prejudice and evil tendencies to an upright and reasoning will, and you have done much to abolish misery from their future lives and crimes to society.

Daniel Webste

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

My future starts when I wake up every morning... Every day I find something creative to do with my life.

Miles Davis

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

Aeschylus

It is only by striving for beauty and love In all our relationships, That we can hope to become Guardians of our individual and collective futures.

Roland Stahle

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

We must respect the past, and mistrust the present, if we wish to provide for the safety of the future.

Jeseph Joubert

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

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

I never think of the future - It comes soon enough.

Albert Einstein

We can pay our debt to the past by putting the future in debt to ourselves.

John Buchan

To live in the past or in the future may be less satisfying than to live in the present, but it can never be as disillusioning.

R. D. Laing

Most people live ninety percent in the past, seven percent in the present, and that only leaves three percent for the future.

John Steinbeck, The Winter of our Discontent

The fact is, that civilization requires slaves. The Greeks were quite right there. Unless there are slaves to do the ugly, horrible, uninteresting work, culture, and contemplation become almost impossible. Human slavery is wrong, insecure, and demoralizing. On mechanical slavery, on the slavery of the machine, the future of the world depends.

Oscar Wilde

I would feel more optimistic about a bright future for man if he spent less time proving that he can outwit Nature and more time tasting her sweetness and respecting her seniority.

E. B. White

The ability to think straight, some knowledge of the past, some vision of the future, some skill to do useful service, some urge to fit that service into the well - Being of the community - These are the most vital things education must try to produce.

Virginia Crocheron Gildersleeve

Deem not life a thing of consequence. For look at the yawning void of the future, and at that other limitless space, the past.

Marcus Aurelius Antoninus

The future, according to some scientists, will be exactly like the past, only far more expensive.

John Sladek

The empires of the future are the empires of the mind.

Sir Winston Churchill, Speech at Harvard University, September 6, 1943

What happens when the future has come and gone?

Robert Half

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

Lyndon B. Johnson

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

When you reliquish the desire to control your future, you can have more happiness.

Nicole Kidman

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

There are many methods for predicting the future. For example, you can read horoscopes, tea leaves, tarot cards, or crystal balls. Collectively, these methods are known as nutty methods. Or you can put well - Researched facts into sophisticated computer models, more commonly referred to as a complete waste of time.

Scott Adams, The Dilbert Future

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

Language is the armory of the human mind, and at once contains the trophies of its past and the weapons of its future conquests.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge, The Forbes Book of Business Quotations

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

H. G. Wells

Sin bravely... We will never have all the facts to make a perfect judgement, but with the aid of basic experience we must leap bravely into the future.

Russell R. McIntyre

Man spends his life in reasoning on the past, in complaining of the present, in fearing future.

Antoine Rivarol

History is the ship carrying living memories to the future.

Stephen Spende

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

It might be said that Lord Rosebery outlived his future by ten years and his past by more than twenty.

Sir Winston Churchill

It is impossible to live in the past, difficult to live in the present and a waste to live in the future.

Frank Herbert, Dune