Future Quotes
A youth is to be regarded with respect. How do you know that his future will not be equal to our present?Confucius, Analects
We cannot always build the future for our youth, but we can build our youth for the future.Franklin D. Roosevelt
We are made wise not by the recollection of our past, but by the responsibility for our future.George Bernard Shaw
As long as anyone believes that his ideal and purpose is outside him, that it is above the clouds, in the past or in the future, he will go outside himself and seek fulfillment where it cannot be found. He will look for solutions and answers at every point except where they can be found - - In himself.Erich Frohm
It is difficult to live in the present, ridiculous to live in the future, and impossible to live in the past. Nothing is as far away as one minute ago.Jim Bishop
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
Our test of truth is a reference to either a present or imagined future majority in favour of our view.Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.
People like us, who believe in physics, know that the distinction between past, present, and future is only a stubbornly persistent illusion.Albert Einstein
Every man is his own ancestor, and every man is his own heir. He devises his own future, and he inherits his own past.Frederick Henry Hedge
Andrew is the operating system of the future and always will be.Mary R. Thompson
The direction in which education starts a man will determine his future life.Plato, The Republic
Some of the best lessons we ever learn are learned from past mistakes. The error of the past is the wisdom and success of the future.Dr. Dale E. Turne
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
There is always one moment in childhood when the door opens and lets in the future.Graham Green
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
I have never seen the slightest scientific proof of the religious idea of heaven and hell, of future life for individuals, or of a personal God.Thomas A. Edison
Books, I found, had the power to make time stand still, retreat or fly into the future.Jim
Let him who would enjoy a good future waste none of his present.Roger Babson
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
The best way to predict the future is to invent it.Alan Kay
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
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
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
Philosophy triumphs easily over past evils and future evils but present evils triumph over it.La Rochefoucauld
I do not know what the future holds, but I know who holds the future.Oprah Winfrey, "The Oprah Winfrey Show".
The speciality of the future is generalism.Wayne Van Dyck
A liberal is a man or a woman or a child who looks forward to a better day, a more tranquil night, and a bright, infinite future.Leonard Bernstein
Deem not life a thing of consequence. For look at the yawning void of the future, and at that other limitless space, the past.Marcus Aurelius Antoninus
Man spends his life in reasoning on the past, in complaining of the present, in fearing future.Antoine Rivarol
Those who stare at the past have their backs turned to the future.Unknown
The future is like heaven, everyone exalts it, but no one wants to go there now.James Arthur Baldwin
I never think of the future. It comes soon enough.Albert Einstein
Live neither in the present nor the future, but in the eternal. The giant weed of evil cannot flower there this blot upon existence is wiped out by the very atmosphere of eternal thought.H Hahn Blavatsky
When you relinquish the desire to control your future, you can have more happiness.Nicole Kidman, in The Scotsman
My future starts when I wake up every morning... Every day I find something creative to do with my life.Miles Davis
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
