Future Quotes

Unknown - those who stare at the past have their backs...
John fitzgerald kennedy - to state the facts frankly is not to despair the...
Education a debt due from present to future generations.
George Peabody
Jeseph joubert - we must respect the past, and mistrust the...
In the future everyone will be famous for fifteen minutes.
Andy Warhol
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
Let him who would enjoy a good future waste none of his present.
Roger Babson
You can never plan the future by the past.
Edmund Burke
The ability to think straight, some knowledge of the past, some vision of the future, some skill to do useful service, some urge to fit that service into the well - Being of the community - These are the most vital things education must try to produce.
Virginia Crocheron Gildersleeve
There is always one moment in childhood when the door opens and lets the future in.
Graham Greene, The Power and the Glory
Disconnecting from change does not recapture the past. It loses the future.
Kathleen Norris, O Magazine, January 2004
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
It is important that an aim never be defined in terms of activity or methods. It must always relate directly to how life is better for everyone.... The aim of the system must be clear to everyone in the system. The aim must include plans for the future. The aim is a value judgment.
W. Edwards Deming
You need people who can walk their companies into the future rather than back them into the future.
Warren Bennis
The speciality of the future is generalism.
Wayne Van Dyck
Traditionalists are pessimists about the future and optimists about the past.
Lewis Mumford
If you do not think about the future, you cannot have one.
John Galsworthy
In early childhood you may lay the foundation of poverty or riches, industry of idleness, good or evil, by the habits to which you train your children. Teach them right habits then, and their future life is safe.
Mrs. Sigourney
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
Man spends his life in reasoning on the past, in complaining of the present, in fearing future.
Antoine Rivarol
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
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
The best way to predict the future is to invent it.
Alan Kay
Prediction is very difficult, especially about the future.
Niels Boh
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
A compassionate government keeps faith with the trust of the people and cherishes the future of their children.
Lyndon B. Johnson
Philosophy triumphs easily over past evils and future evils; but present evils triumph over it.
Francois De La Rochefoucauld
A Church without Youth is a Church without a future. Moreover, Youth without a Church is Youth without a future.
Pope Shenouda III, Pope & Patriach of Alexandria
We live in an age when to be young and indifferent can no longer be synonymous. We must prepare for the coming hour. The claims of the Future are represented by suffering millions and the Youth of a Nation are the trustees of Posterity.
Benjamin Disraeli
One problem with gazing too frequently into the past is that we may turn around to find the future has run out on us.
Michael Cibenko
The future depends on what we do in the present.
Mahatma Gandhi
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
The concept of progress acts as a protective mechanism to shield us from the terrors of the future.
Frank Herbert
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
Man has a limited biological capacity for change. When this capacity is overwhelmed, the capacity is in future shock.
Alvin Toffle
The crippling of individuals I consider the worst evil of capitalism. Our whole educational system suffers from this evil. An exaggerated competitive attitude is inculcated into the student, who is trained to worship acquisitive success as a perparation for his future career.
Albert Einstein
Prejudice is a burden that confuses the past, threatens the future and renders the present inaccessible.
Maya Angelou
The dynamics of capitalism is postponement of enjoyment to the constantly postponed future.
Norman O. Brown
Sin bravely... We will never have all the facts to make a perfect judgement, but with the aid of basic experience we must leap bravely into the future.
Russell R. McIntyre
When you relinquish the desire to control your future, you can have more happiness.
Nicole Kidman, in The Scotsman