Future Quotes

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

Patrick Henry

Study the past if you would define the future.

Confucius

What happens when the future has come and gone.

Robert Half

The concept of progress acts as a protective mechanism to shield us from the terrors of the future.

Frank Herbert

History is the ship carrying living memories to the future.

Stephen Spende

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

Those who foresee the future and recognize it as tragic are often seized by a madness which forces them to commit the very acts which made it certain that what they dread shall happen.

Dame Rebecca West

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

Alice Walke

The future will be better tomorrow.

Dan Quayle

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

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

And yesterday he would have killed me to get to his foe. But now we serve each other. Only a fool walks into the future backward.

Terry Goodkind, "Stone of Tears".

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

Albert Einstein

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

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

Learn from the past, Hope for the future, Live in the present.

Ken Lancaste

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

Abraham Maslow

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

Only a scientific people can survive in a scientific future.

Thomas H. Huxley

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

Education a debt due from present to future generations.

George Peabody

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

We think very little of time present; we anticipate the future, as being too slow, and with a view to hasten it onward, we recall the past to stay it as too swiftly gone. We are so thoughtless, that we thus wander through the hours which are not here, regardless only of the moment that is actually our own.

Blaise Pascal

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

Pete Johnson

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

Ralph W. Sockman

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

Albert Camus

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

Percy Bysshe Shelley

We live in an age when to be young and indifferent can no longer be synonymous. We must prepare for the coming hour. The claims of the Future are represented by suffering millions and the Youth of a Nation are the trustees of Posterity.

Benjamin Disraeli

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

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

The future has a way of arriving unannounced.

George Will

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

We have no right to assume that any physical laws exist, or if they have existed up until now, that they will continue to exist in a similar manner in the future.

Max Karl Ernst Ludwig Planck

Only a fool walks backwards into the future.

Terry Goodkind

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

Andrew is the operating system of the future and always will be.

Mary R. Thompson

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

Maurice Masterlinck

I have never been able, really, to regret anything in all my life. I have always been far much too absorbed in the present moment or the immediate future to think back.

Albert Camus, The Strange

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

James Barrett Scotty Reston