Future Quotes

Seneca - enjoy present pleasures in such a way as not to...
Don quisenberry - the future is much like the present, only longer....
The Future is something which everyone reaches at the rate of sixty minutes an hour, whatever he does, whoever he is.
Clive Staples Lewis
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.
If we do not learn from history, we shall be compelled to relive it. True. But if we do not change the future, we shall be compelled to endure it. And that could be worse.
Alvin Toffle
The future you shall know when it has come before then forget it.
Aeschylus
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
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
We are living beyond our means. As a people we have developed a lifestyle that is draining the earth of its priceless and irreplaceable resources without regard for the future of our children and people all around the world.
Margaret Mead
People like us, who believe in physics, know that the distinction between past, present, and future is only a stubbornly persistent illusion.
Albert Einstein
A compassionate government keeps faith with the trust of the people and cherishes the future of their children.
Lyndon B. Johnson
Prediction is very difficult, especially about the future.
Niels Boh
An author is a fool who, not content with boring those he lives with, insists on boring future generations.
Charles de Montesquieu
The best way to predict the future is to create it.
Jason Kaufmann
We must respect the past, and mistrust the present, if we wish to provide for the safety of the future.
Jeseph Joubert
For the ordinary man is passive. Within a narrow circle home life, and perhaps the trade unions or local politics he feels himself master of his fate, but against major events he is as helpless as against the elements. So far from endeavouring to influence the future, he simply lies down and lets things happen to him.
George Orwell
Philosophy triumphs easily over past evils and future evils but present evils triumph over it.
La Rochefoucauld
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
Philosophy triumphs easily over past evils and future evils; but present evils triumph over it.
Francois De La Rochefoucauld
My past is my wisdom to use today... my future is my wisdom yet to experience. Be in the present because that is where life resides.
Gene Oliver, Life and the Artistry of Change
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
Children have neither a past nor a future. Thus they enjoy the present - - which seldom happens to us.
La Bruyere
I would feel more optimistic about a bright future for man if he spent less time proving that he can outwit Nature and more time tasting her sweetness and respecting her seniority.
E. B. White
Our destiny rules over us, even when we are not yet aware of it it is the future that makes laws for us today.
Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche
We cannot always assure the future of our friends we have a better chance of assuring our future if we remember who our friends are.
Henry Kissinge
I know of no way to judge the future but by the past.
Patrick Henry
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.
The future belongs to those who prepare for it today.
Malcolm X
The present is theirs the future, for which I really worked, is mine.
Nikola Tesla
In the future everyone will be world - Famous for fifteen minutes.
Andy Warhol
The trouble with our times is that the future is not what it used to be.
Paul Valery
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
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
The concept of progress acts as a protective mechanism to shield us from the terrors of the future.
Frank Herbert
While day by day the overzealous student stores up facts for future use, He who has learned to trust nature finds need for ever fewer external directions. He will discard formula after formula, until he reaches the conclusion Let nature take its course. By letting each thing act in accordance with its own nature, everything that needs to be done gets done.
Lao Tzu
Exile, for no other motive than ease, would be the last defeat, with no seed of future victory in it.
Lois McMaster Bujold, "Shards of Honor", 1986
The best way to predict the future is to invent it.
Alan Kay
Live neither in the present nor the future, but in the eternal. The giant weed of evil cannot flower there this blot upon existence is wiped out by the very atmosphere of eternal thought.
H Hahn Blavatsky
Books, I found, had the power to make time stand still, retreat or fly into the future.
Jim