Future Quotes

The true felicity of life is to be free from anxieties and perturbations to understand and do our duties to God and man, and to enjoy the present without any serious dependence on the future.

Lucius Annaeus Seneca

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

Sir Winston Churchill

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

Antoine Rivarol

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

Albert Einstein

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

Jeseph Joubert

History is a relentless master. It has no present, only the past rushing into the future. To try to hold fast is to be swept aside.

John Fitzgerald Kennedy

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

Paul Valery

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

To make no mistakes is not in the power of man; but from their errors and mistakes the wise and good learn wisdom for the future.

Plutarch

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

Francois De La Rochefoucauld

Man has a limited biological capacity for change. When this capacity is overwhelmed, the capacity is in future shock.

Alvin Toffle

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

To break a promise is to deny the reality of the past Therefore it is to deny the hope of a real future....

Ursala Lequin

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

Charles F. Kettering

There is nothing like dream to create the future. Utopia to - Day, flesh and blood tomorrow.

Victor Hugo, Les Miserables, 1862

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

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

George Orwell, 1984

The most decisive actions of our life - - I mean those that are most likely to decide the whole course of our future - - Are, more often than not, unconsidered.

Andre Gide

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

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

So different are the colours of life, as we look forward to the future, or backward to the past and so different the opinions and sentiments which this contrariety of appearance naturally produces, that the conversation of the old and young ends generally with contempt or pity on either side.

Victor Hugo

What happens when the future has come and gone?

Robert Half

My interest is in the future because I am going to spend the rest of my life there.

Charles F. Kettering

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

Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past.

George Orwell

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

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

Maurice Masterlinck

The future depends on what we do in the present.

Mahatma Gandhi

Life is divided into three terms - That which was, which is, and which will be. Let us learn from the past to profit by the present, and from the present to live better in the future.

William Wordsworth

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

Jillian Graham, Chicken Soup for the Preteen Soul

When clouds form in the skies we know that rain will follow but we must not wait for it. Nothing will be achieved by attempting to interfere with the future before the time is ripe. Patience is needed.

I Ching

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

Abraham Maslow

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

Nicole Kidman, in The Scotsman

We live in the present, we dream of the future, but we learn eternal truths from the past.

Madame Chiang

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

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

H. G. Wells

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

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