Future Quotes
The past is certain, the future obscure.Thales
I believe the future is only the past again, entered through another gate.Arthur Wing Pinero
What happens when the future has come and gone.Robert Half
Fear not for the future, weep not for the past.Percy Bysshe Shelley
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
I have made good judgements in the Past. I have made good judgements in the Future.Dan Quayle
The world is full of people whose notion of a satisfactory future is, in fact, a return to the idealised past.Robertson Davies, "A Voice from the Attic", 1960
Enjoy present pleasures in such a way as not to injure future one.Seneca
With our eyes fixed on the future, but recognizing the realities of today. ... we will achieve our destiny to be as a shining city on a hill for all mankind to see.Ronald Reagan
It is only by striving for beauty and love In all our relationships, That we can hope to become Guardians of our individual and collective futures.Roland Stahle
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
For I dipt into the future, as far as human eye can see, saw the vision of the world, and the wonder that would be.Lord Alfred Tennyson, Ulysses
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
Conservatism discards Prescription, shrinks from Principle, disavows Progress having rejected all respect for antiquity, it offers no redress for the present, and makes no preparation for the future.Benjamin Disraeli
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
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
Those people who develop the ability to continuously acquire new and better forms of knowledge that they can apply to their work and to their lives will be the movers and shakers in our society for the indefinite future.Brian Tracy
The illiterate of the future will not be the person who cannot read. It will be the person who does not know how to learn.Alvin Toffle
Prediction is very difficult, especially about the future.Niels Boh
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
The future is like heaven, everyone exalts it, but no one wants to go there now.James Arthur Baldwin
The future is much like the present, only longer.Don Quisenberry
A generation which ignores history has no past and no future.Robert Heinlein, The Notebooks of Lazurus Long
Champions know that success is inevitable that there is no such thing as failure, only feedback. They know that the best way to forecast the future is to create it.Michael J. Gel
The empires of the future are the empires of the mind.Sir Winston Churchill, Speech at Harvard University, September 6, 1943
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.
Andrew is the operating system of the future and always will be.Mary R. Thompson
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
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
Those who stare at the past have their backs turned to the future.Unknown
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
If you do not think about the future, you cannot have one.John Galsworthy
A cynic is not merely one who reads bitter lessons from the past, he is one who is prematurely disappointed in the future.Sidney J. Harris
We can pay our debt to the past by putting the future in debt to ourselves.John Buchan
Education a debt due from present to future generations.George Peabody
Every time I see an adult on a bicycle, I no longer despair for the future of the human race.H. G. Wells
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
