Future Quotes
Look not mournfully into the past. It comes not back again. Wisely improve the present. It is thine. Go forth to meet the shadowy future, without fear.Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
We can pay our debt to the past by putting the future in debt to ourselves.John Buchan
I never think of the future - It comes soon enough.Albert Einstein
Change is the law of life. And those who look only to the past or present are certain to miss the future.John Fitzgerald Kennedy
As long as anyone believes that his ideal and purpose is outside him, that it is above the clouds, in the past or in the future, he will go outside himself and seek fulfillment where it cannot be found. He will look for solutions and answers at every point except where they can be found - - In himself.Erich Frohm
The future belongs to those who prepare for it today.Malcolm X
Books, I found, had the power to make time stand still, retreat or fly into the future.Jim
The direction in which education starts a man will determine his future life.Plato, The Republic
The future belongs to those who can rise above the confines of the earth.Alfred North Whitehead, From the viewbook of Embry - Riddle Aeronautical University
It is because modern education is so seldom inspired by a great hope that it so seldom achieves great results. The wish to preserve the past rather that the hope of creating the future dominates the minds of those who control the teaching of the young.Bertrand Russell
The present is the necessary product of all the past, the necessary cause of all the future.Robert Green Ingersoll
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
We must never allow the future to be weighed down by memory. For children have no past, and that is the whole secret of the magical innocence of their smiles.Milan Kundera, The Book of Laughter and Forgetting
To believe in something to yet proved and to underwrite it with our lives it is the only way we can leave the future open.Lillian Smith
It is by no means an irrational fancy that, in a future existence, we shall look upon what we think our present existence, as a dream.Edgar Allan Poe
An author is a fool who, not content with boring those he lives with, insists on boring future generations.Charles de Montesquieu
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
Be positive in addressing the envelope to your future, For enclosed are your efforts from the past. Be certain of the postage and double check what class.Unknown
The dynamics of capitalism is postponement of enjoyment to the constantly postponed future.Norman O. Brown
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
Most people live ninety percent in the past, seven percent in the present, and that only leaves three percent for the future.John Steinbeck, The Winter of our Discontent
There is always one moment in childhood when the door opens and lets the future in.Graham Greene, The Power and the Glory
I am treating you as my friend asking you share my present minuses in the hope I can ask you to share my future pluses.Katherine Mansfield
We are made wise not by the recollection of our past, but by the responsibility for our future.George Bernard Shaw
The trouble with our times is that the future is not what it used to be.Paul Valery
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
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
He who controls the past commands the future. He who commands the future conquers the past.George Orwell
When you relinquish the desire to control your future, you can have more happiness.Nicole Kidman, in The Scotsman
These days people seek knowledge, not wisdom. Knowledge is of the past, wisdom is of the future.Vernon Coope
We must respect the past, and mistrust the present, if we wish to provide for the safety of the future.Jeseph Joubert
I shall soon be six - And - Twenty. Is there anything in the future that can possibly console us for not being always twenty - Five.George Gordon Byron
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
The main goal of the future is to stop violence. The world is addicted to it.Bill Cosby
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
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.
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
I have made good judgements in the Past. I have made good judgements in the Future.Dan Quayle
