Future Quotes

The trouble with our times is that the future is not what it used to be.

Paul Valery

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

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

Albert Camus

Those who stare at the past have their backs turned to the future.

Unknown

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

Stop acting as if life is a rehearsal. Live this day as if it were your last. The past is over and gone. The future is not guaranteed.

Wayne W Dye

In history as in life it is success that counts. Start a political upheaval and let yourself be caught, and you will hang as a traitor. But place yourself at the head of a rebellion and gain your point, and all future generations will worship you as the Father of their Country.

Hendrik W. Van Loon

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

Bill Cosby

Life is a culmination of the past, an awareness of the present, an indication of a future beyond knowledge, the quality that gives a touch of divinity to matter.

Charles Augustus Lindbergh, Jr.

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

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

Patrick Henry

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

Benjamin Franklin

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

He who controls the past controls the future.

George Orwell, "Nineteen Eighty - Four".

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

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

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

Roger Babson

The future belongs to those who dare.

Anonymous

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

Graham Green

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

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

If we can recognize that change and uncertainty are basic principles, we can greet the future and the transformation we are undergoing with the understanding that we do not know enough to be pessimistic.

Hazel Henderson

Life can be found only in the present moment. The past is gone, the future is not yet here, and if we do not go back to ourselves in the present moment, we cannot be in touch with life.

Thich Nhat Hanh

A cynic is not merely one who reads bitter lessons from the past, he is one who is prematurely disappointed in the future.

Sidney J. Harris

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

James Barrett Scotty Reston

What happens when the future has come and gone.

Robert Half

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

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

La Bruyere

Trust no future, however pleasant Let the dead past bury its dead Act, - Act in the living Present Heart within and God overhead.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Look not mournfully into the Past. It comes not back again. Wisely improve the Present. In is thine. Go forth to meet the shadowy Future, without fear, and a manly heart.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

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

Frank Herbert

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

Mary R. Thompson

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

Jillian Graham, Chicken Soup for the Preteen Soul

I sometimes think of what future historians will say of us. A single sentence will suffice for modern man he fornicated and read the papers.

Albert Camus

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

Jeseph Joubert

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

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

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

Abraham Maslow