Future Quotes
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
The present is the necessary product of all the past, the necessary cause of all the future.Robert Green Ingersoll
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
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
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
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
Most people live ninety percent in the past, seven percent in the present, and that only leaves three percent for the future.John Steinbeck, The Winter of our Discontent
When you reliquish the desire to control your future, you can have more happiness.Nicole Kidman
We are living beyond our means. As a people we have developed a lifestyle that is draining the earth of its priceless and irreplaceable resources without regard for the future of our children and people all around the world.Margaret Mead
I have never been able, really, to regret anything in all my life. I have always been far much too absorbed in the present moment or the immediate future to think back.Albert Camus, The Strange
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
All my children have spoken for themselves since they first learned to speak, and not always with my advance approval, and I expect that to continue in the future.Gerald R. Ford
Business more than any other occupation is a continual dealing with the future it is a continual calculation, an instinctive exercise in foresight.Henry Robinson Luce
The direction in which education starts a man will determine his future life.Plato, The Republic
I shall soon be six - And - Twenty. Is there anything in the future that can possibly console us for not being always twenty - Five.George Gordon Byron
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
There is nothing like dream to create the future. Utopia to - Day, flesh and blood tomorrow.Victor Hugo, Les Miserables, 1862
Real generosity toward the future consists in giving all to what is present.Albert Camus
He who controls the past commands the future. He who commands the future conquers the past.George Orwell
The challenges of change are always hard. It is important that we begin to unpack those challenges that confront this nation and realize that we each have a role that requires us to change and become more responsible for shaping our own future.Hillary Rodham Clinton
The most painful state of living is remembering the future.Soren Kierkegaard
Science and technology revolutionize our lives, but memory, tradition and myth frame our response. Expelled from individual consciousness by the rush of change, history finds its revenge by stamping the collective unconsciousness with habits, values, expectations, dreams. The dialectic between past and future will continue to form our lives.Arthur Schlesinger, Jr.
The vast possibilities of our great future will become realities only if we make ourselves responsible for that future.Gifford Pinchot
Prejudice is a burden that confuses the past, threatens the future and renders the present inaccessible.Maya Angelou
Most of our future lies ahead.Denny Crum, Louisville basketball coach
I know of no way to judge the future but by the past.Patrick Henry
We are made wise not by the recollection of our past, but by the responsibility for our future.George Bernard Shaw
The future you shall know when it has come before then forget it.Aeschylus
Telling the future by looking at the past assumes that conditions remain constant. This is like driving a car by looking in the rearview mirror.Herb Brody
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
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
One day at a time - This is enough. Do not look back and grieve over the past, for it is gone; and do not be troubled about the future, for it has not yet come. Live in the present, and make it so beautiful that it will be worth remembering.Ida Scott Taylor.
All human situations have their inconveniences. We feel those of the present but neither see nor feel those of the future; and hence we often make troublesome changes without amendment, and frequently for the worse.Benjamin Franklin
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
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
We live in the present, we dream of the future, but we learn eternal truths from the past.Madame Chiang
To break a promise is to deny the reality of the past Therefore it is to deny the hope of a real future....Ursala Lequin
