Future Quotes

Let him who would enjoy a good future waste none of his present.

Roger Babson

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

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 future is much like the present, only longer.

Don Quisenberry

Prediction is very difficult, especially about the future.

Niels Boh

Every time I see an adult on a bicycle, I no longer despair for the future of the human race.

H. G. Wells

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

What happens when the future has come and gone.

Robert Half

The future is no place to place your better days.

Dave Matthews, "Cry Freedom".

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

Lyndon B. Johnson

There is always one moment in childhood when the door opens and lets in the future.

Graham Green

Where a calculator on the ENIAC is equpped with 18, 000 vaccuum tubes and weighs 30 tons, computers in the future may have only 1, 000 vaccuum tubes and perhaps weigh 1 1 2 tons.

Popular Mechanics, March 1949

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

Only lie about the future.

Johnny Carson

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

Frank Herbert

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

What happens when the future has come and gone?

Robert Half

Every man is his own ancestor, and every man is his own heir. He devises his own future, and he inherits his own past.

Frederick Henry Hedge

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

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

John Sladek

I know of no way to judge the future but by the past.

Patrick Henry

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

Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.

Never let a stain from the past put a mark on your future.

Jillian Graham, Chicken Soup for the Preteen Soul

History is the ship carrying living memories to the future.

Stephen Spende

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

The rest of the world is sweeping past us. The oil and gas of the Texas future is the well - Educated mind. But we are still worried about whether Midland can beat Odessa at football.

Mark White

Our imagination is the only limit to what we can hope to have in the future.

Charles F. Kettering

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

If we do not learn from history, we shall be compelled to relive it. True. But if we do not change the future, we shall be compelled to endure it. And that could be worse.

Alvin Toffle

My specific goal is to revolutionize the future of the species. Mathematics is just another way of predicting the future.

Ralph Abraham

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

Be positive in addressing the envelope to your future, For enclosed are your efforts from the past. Be certain of the postage and double check what class.

Unknown

As I sit I see a dove And think of our deep, dear true love Think not about our future lives Except perhaps our growing size Keep all your thoughts alive, aglow, All will be well, no fear, I know

Unknown

In early childhood you may lay the foundation of poverty or riches, industry or idleness, good or evil, by the habits to which you train your children. Teach them right habits then, and their future life is safe.

Lydia Sigourney

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

Study the past if you would define the future.

Confucius

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

An author is a fool who, not content with boring those he lives with, insists on boring future generations.

Charles de Montesquieu

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