Future Quotes
The empires of the future are the empires of the mind.Sir Winston Churchill, Speech at Harvard University, September 6, 1943
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
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
The future belongs to those who dare.Anonymous
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
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
I have realized that the past and future are real illusions, that they exist in the present, which is what there is and all there is.Alan Watts
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
The best way to predict the future is to invent it.Alan Kay
Prejudice is a burden that confuses the past, threatens the future and renders the present inaccessible.Maya Angelou
The most painful state of living is remembering the future.Soren Kierkegaard
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.
In early childhood you may lay the foundation of poverty or riches, industry or idleness, good or evil, by the habits to which you train your children. Teach them right habits then, and their future life is safe.Lydia Sigourney
Children have neither a past nor a future. Thus they enjoy the present - which seldom happens to us.Jean De La Bruyere
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
Where a calculator on the ENIAC is equipped with 18, 000 vacuum tubes and weighs 30 tons, computers in the future may have only 1, 000 vaccuum tubes and perhaps weigh 1. 5 tons.Unknown, Popular Mechanics, March 1949
The future depends on what we do in the present.Mahatma Gandhi
Enjoy present pleasures in such a way as not to injure future one.Seneca
I know of no way to judge the future but by the past.Patrick Henry
Children have neither a past nor a future. Thus they enjoy the present - - which seldom happens to us.La Bruyere
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
My interest is in the future because I am going to spend the rest of my life there.Charles F. Kettering
To state the facts frankly is not to despair the future nor indict the past. The prudent heir takes careful inventory of his legacies and gives a faithful accounting to those whom he owes an obligation of trust.John Fitzgerald Kennedy
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
The greatest loss of time is delay and expectation, which depend upon the future. We let go the present, which we have in our power, and look forward to that which depends upon chance, and so relinquish a certainty for an uncertainty.Seneca
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
If you will protest courageously, and yet with dignity and Christian love, when the history books are written in future generations, the historians will have to pause and say, There lived a great people - A black people - who injected new meaning and dignity into the veins of civilization.Martin Luther King, Jr.
Life is no brief candle to me. It is a sort of splendid torch which I have got a hold of for the moment, and I want to make it burn as brightly as possible before handing it on to future generations.George Bernard Shaw
Disconnecting from change does not recapture the past. It loses the future.Kathleen Norris, O Magazine, January 2004
The secret of health for both mind and body is not to mourn for the past, worry about the future, or anticipate troubles but to live in the present moment wisely and earnestly.Buddha
History repeats itself and history never repeats itself are about equally trueWe never know enough about the infinitely complex circumstances of any past event to prophesy the future by analogy.George Macaulay Trevelyan
A guidance counselor who has made a fetish of security, or who has unwittingly surrendered his thinking to economic determinism, may steer a youth away from his dream of becoming a poet, an artist, a musician or any other of thousands of things, because it offers no security, it does not pay well, there are no vacancies, it has no future.Henry M. Wriston
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
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
All successful people men and women are big dreamers. They imagine what their future could be, ideal in every respect, and then they work every day toward their distant vision, that goal or purpose.Brian Tracy
Let him who would enjoy a good future waste none of his present.Roger Babson
