Future Quotes
Who can tell who will be the President a year from now? - - John F. Kennedy, speaking to the president of Harvard about why he did not want to delay signing documents relating to a future JFK Presidential Library, 2 October 1963.John F. Kennedy, "A Thousand Days, " by Arthur Schlesinger Jr. [1965]
The future is not something we enter. The future is something we create.Leonard I. Sweet
Some of the best lessons we ever learn are learned from past mistakes. The error of the past is the wisdom and success of the future.Dr. Dale E. Turne
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
Only a scientific people can survive in a scientific future.Thomas H. Huxley
We are at the very beginning of time for the human race. It is not unreasonable that we grapple with problems. But there are tens of thousands of years in the future. Our responsibility is to do what we can, learn what we can, improve the solutions, and pass them on.Richard Feynman
Strategy is a style of thinking, a conscious and deliberate process, an intensive implementation system, the science of insuring future success.Pete Johnson
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
Our test of truth is a reference to either a present or imagined future majority in favour of our view.Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.
The future depends on what we do in the present.Mahatma Gandhi
Do not look back. And do not dream about the future, either. It will neither give you back the past, nor satisfy your other daydreams. Your duty, your reward - Your destiny - Are here and now.Dag Hammarskjold, newpaper quote of the day
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.
An author is a fool who, not content with boring those he lives with, insists on boring future generations.Charles de Montesquieu
A liberal is a man or a woman or a child who looks forward to a better day, a more tranquil night, and a bright, infinite future.Leonard Bernstein
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
Study the past if you would define the future.Confucius
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
I was taught very early that I would have to depend entirely upon myself that my future lay in my own hands.Darius Ogden Mills
The crippling of individuals I consider the worst evil of capitalism. Our whole educational system suffers from this evil. An exaggerated competitive attitude is inculcated into the student, who is trained to worship acquisitive success as a perparation for his future career.Albert Einstein
What happens when the future has come and gone?Robert Half
When it comes to the future, there are three kinds of people those who let it happen, those who make it happen, and those who wonder what happened.John M. Richardson, Jr.
Children have neither a past nor a future. Thus they enjoy the present - which seldom happens to us.Jean De La Bruyere
You need people who can walk their companies into the future rather than back them into the future.Warren Bennis
Philosophy triumphs easily over past evils and future evils but present evils triumph over it.La Rochefoucauld
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
Books, I found, had the power to make time stand still, retreat or fly into the future.Jim
Man spends his life in reasoning on the past, in complaining of the present, in fearing future.Antoine Rivarol
Change is the law of life; and those who look only to the past or the present are certain to miss the future.John F. Kennedy
Enjoy present pleasures in such a way as not to injure future ones.Seneca
To the wrongs that need resistance, To the right that needs assistance, To the future in the distance, Give yourselves.Carrie Chapman Catt
Every time I see an adult on a bicycle, I no longer despair for the future of the human race.H. G. Wells
The thing to remember is that that the future comes one day at a time.Dean Acheson, Communication Bulletin for Managers & Supervisors, June 2004
We say that the hour of death cannot be forecast, but when we say this we imagine that hour as placed in an obscure and distant future. It never occurs to us that it has any connection with the day already begun or that death could arrive this same afternoon, this afternoon which is so certain and which has every hour filled in advance.Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
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
Most of our future lies ahead.Denny Crum, Louisville basketball coach
In the future everyone will be famous for fifteen minutes.Andy Warhol
One day at a time - This is enough. Do not look back and grieve over the past, for it is gone; and do not be troubled about the future, for it has not yet come. Live in the present, and make it so beautiful that it will be worth remembering.Ida Scott Taylor.
I have never seen the slightest scientific proof of the religious idea of heaven and hell, of future life for individuals, or of a personal God.Thomas A. Edison
