Future Quotes

When I see an adult on a bicycle, I do not despair for the future of the human race.

H. G. Wells

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

There is always one moment in childhood when the door opens and lets the future in.

Graham Greene, The Power and the Glory

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

Language is the armory of the human mind, and at once contains the trophies of its past and the weapons of its future conquests.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge, The Forbes Book of Business Quotations

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.

Our imagination is the only limit to what we can hope to have in the future.

Charles F. Kettering

History is a relentless master. It has no present, only the past rushing into the future. To try to hold fast is to be swept aside.

John Fitzgerald Kennedy

Traditionalists are pessimists about the future and optimists about the past.

Lewis Mumford

The best way to predict the future is to create it.

Jason Kaufmann

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]

I am treating you as my friend, asking you to share my present minuses in the hope that I can ask you to share my future pluses.

Katherine Mansfield

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

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

I predict future happiness for Americans if they can prevent the government from wasting the labors of the people under the pretense of taking care of them.

Thomas Jefferson

Real generosity toward the future consists in giving all to what is present.

Albert Camus

Look not mournfully into the Past. It comes not back again. Wisely improve the Present. In is thine. Go forth to meet the shadowy Future, without fear, and a manly heart.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

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

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

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

Where a calculator on the ENIAC is equpped 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

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

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 best thing about the future is that it comes one day at a time.

Abraham Lincoln

These days people seek knowledge, not wisdom. Knowledge is of the past, wisdom is of the future.

Vernon Coope

The future will be better tomorrow.

Dan Quayle

We can pay our debt to the past by putting the future in debt to ourselves.

John Buchan

The future does not belong to those who are content with today, apathetic toward common problems and their fellow man alike, timid and fearful in the face of bold projects and new ideas. Rather, it will belong to those who can blend passion, reason and courage in a personal commitment to the ideals of American society.

Robert Francis Kennedy

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 future you shall know when it has come before then forget it.

Aeschylus

Conservation is humanity caring for the future.

Nancy Newhall

The empires of the future are the empires of the mind.

Sir Winston Churchill, Speech at Harvard University, September 6, 1943

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

I sometimes think of what future historians will say of us. A single sentence will suffice for modern man he fornicated and read the papers.

Albert Camus

So different are the colours of life, as we look forward to the future, or backward to the past and so different the opinions and sentiments which this contrariety of appearance naturally produces, that the conversation of the old and young ends generally with contempt or pity on either side.

Victor Hugo

For I dipped into the future, as far as human eye could see, saw a vision of the world, and all the wonder that would be.

Alfred Lord Tennyson

The function of science fiction is not always to predict the future but sometimes to prevent it.

Frank Herbert