Future Quotes

For I dipped into the future, as far as human eye could see, saw a vision of the world, and all the wonder that would be.

Alfred Lord Tennyson

The present is the necessary product of all the past, the necessary cause of all the future.

Robert Green Ingersoll

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 main goal of the future is to stop violence. The world is addicted to it.

Bill Cosby

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

Jean De La Bruyere

Fear not for the future, weep not for the past.

Percy Bysshe Shelley

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

Enjoy present pleasures in such a way as not to injure future one.

Seneca

In a time of drastic change, it is the learners who inherit the future. The learned find themselves equipped to live in a world which no longer exists.

Eric Hoffe

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

Roger Babson

The thing to remember is that that the future comes one day at a time.

Dean Acheson, Communication Bulletin for Managers & Supervisors, June 2004

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

Alice Walke

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

Frank Herbert

Traditionalists are pessimists about the future and optimists about the past.

Lewis Mumford

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

George Orwell, 1984

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

Albert Einstein

Champions know that success is inevitable that there is no such thing as failure, only feedback. They know that the best way to forecast the future is to create it.

Michael J. Gel

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.

I believe the future is only the past again, entered through another gate.

Arthur Wing Pinero

An election is a bet on the future, not a popularity test of the past.

James Barrett Scotty Reston

People like us, who believe in physics, know that the distinction between past, present, and future is only a stubbornly persistent illusion.

Albert Einstein

Real generosity toward the future consists in giving all to what is present.

Albert Camus

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

Woody Allen

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

Only the flexibly creative person can really manage the future, Only the one who can face novelty with confidence and without fear.

Abraham Maslow

Philosophy triumphs easily over past evils and future evils; but present evils triumph over it.

Francois De La Rochefoucauld

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

Mrs. Sigourney

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

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

Maurice Masterlinck

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

I shall soon be six - And - Twenty. Is there anything in the future that can possibly console us for not being always twenty - Five.

George Gordon Byron

I like the dreams of the future better than the history of the past.

Thomas Jefferson

The past is a source of knowledge, and the future is a source of hope. Love of the past implies faith in the future.

Stephen Ambrose, in Fast Company

I do not know what the future holds, but I know who holds the future.

Oprah Winfrey, "The Oprah Winfrey Show".

Science and technology revolutionize our lives, but memory, tradition and myth frame our response. Expelled from individual consciousness by the rush of change, history finds its revenge by stamping the collective unconsciousness with habits, values, expectations, dreams. The dialectic between past and future will continue to form our lives.

Arthur Schlesinger, Jr.

The illiterate of the future will not be the person who cannot read. It will be the person who does not know how to learn.

Alvin Toffle

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

Only a fool walks backwards into the future.

Terry Goodkind

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

Pete Johnson