Future Quotes

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The fact is, that civilization requires slaves. The Greeks were quite right there. Unless there are slaves to do the ugly, horrible, uninteresting work, culture, and contemplation become almost impossible. Human slavery is wrong, insecure, and demoralizing. On mechanical slavery, on the slavery of the machine, the future of the world depends.
Oscar Wilde
I have but one lamp by which my feet are guided, and that is the lamp of experience. I know no way of judging the future but by the past.
Unknown
The future is an opaque mirror. Anyone who tries to look into it sees nothing but the dim outlines of an old and worried face.
Jim Bishop, New York Journal - American, March 14, 1959
Let him who would enjoy a good future waste none of his present.
Roger Babson
The future you shall know when it has come before then forget it.
Aeschylus
The rest of the world is sweeping past us. The oil and gas of the Texas future is the well - Educated mind. But we are still worried about whether Midland can beat Odessa at football.
Mark White
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]
If we were logical, the future would be bleak indeed. But we are more than logical. We are human beings, and we have faith, and we have hope.
Jacques Cousteau
Our task is not to fix the blame for the past, but to fix the course for the future.
John Fitzgerald Kennedy
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
The essence of optimism is that it takes no account of the present, but it is a source of inspiration, of vitality and hope where others have resigned it enables a man to hold his head high, to claim the future for himself and not to abandon it to his enemy.
Dietrich Bonhoeffe
The future belongs to those who dare.
Anonymous
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
The best way to predict the future is to create it.
Jason Kaufmann
The past is certain, the future obscure.
Thales
The doctor of the future will give no medicine, but will educate his patients in the care of the human frame, in diet, and in the cause and prevention of disease.
Thomas Edison
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
STRATEGY is; A style of thinking, a conscious and deliberate process, an intensive implementation system, the science of insuring FUTURE SUCCESS.
Pete Johnson
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
I do not know what the future holds, but I know who holds the future.
Oprah Winfrey, "The Oprah Winfrey Show".
The future will be better tomorrow.
Dan Quayle
Only a fool walks backwards into the future.
Terry Goodkind
An election is a bet on the future, not a popularity test of the past.
James Barrett Scotty Reston
My specific goal is to revolutionize the future of the species. Mathematics is just another way of predicting the future.
Ralph Abraham
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
The best thing about the future is that it comes one day at a time.
Abraham Lincoln
Enjoy present pleasures in such a way as not to injure future ones.
Seneca
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
Prejudice is a burden that confuses the past, threatens the future and renders the present inaccessible.
Maya Angelou
The Future is something which everyone reaches at the rate of sixty minutes an hour, whatever he does, whoever he is.
Clive Staples Lewis
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
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
What happens when the future has come and gone.
Robert Half
Learn from the past, Hope for the future, Live in the present.
Ken Lancaste
Those who foresee the future and recognize it as tragic are often seized by a madness which forces them to commit the very acts which made it certain that what they dread shall happen.
Dame Rebecca West
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
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
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