Future Quotes

Books, I found, had the power to make time stand still, retreat or fly into the future.

Jim

We live in the present, we dream of the future, but we learn eternal truths from the past.

Madame Chiang

The most painful state of living is remembering the future.

Soren Kierkegaard

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

Frank Herbert

A youth is to be regarded with respect. How do you know that his future will not be equal to our present?

Confucius, Analects

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

Vernon Coope

If you want to imagine the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face forever.

George Orwell, 1984

Neither a wise man nor a brave man lies down on the tracks of history to wait for the train of the future to run over him.

Dwight D Eisenhowe

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

When you relinquish the desire to control your future, you can have more happiness.

Nicole Kidman, in The Scotsman

In the future everyone will be famous for fifteen minutes.

Andy Warhol

Learn from the past, Hope for the future, Live in the present.

Ken Lancaste

You need people who can walk their companies into the future rather than back them into the future.

Warren Bennis

The future will be better tomorrow.

Dan Quayle

To believe in something to yet proved and to underwrite it with our lives it is the only way we can leave the future open.

Lillian Smith

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

Underlying the whole scheme of civilization is the confidence men have in each other, confidence in their integrity, confidence in their honesty, confidence in their future.

Bourke Cockran

The trouble with our times is that the future is not what it used to be.

Paul Valery

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

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

Aeschylus

To the wrongs that need resistance, To the right that needs assistance, To the future in the distance, Give yourselves.

Carrie Chapman Catt

Our task is not to fix the blame for the past, but to fix the course for the future.

John Fitzgerald Kennedy

I have made good judgements in the Past. I have made good judgements in the Future.

Dan Quayle

The future belongs to those who dare.

Anonymous

The future depends on what we do in the present.

Mahatma Gandhi

I know of no way to judge the future but by the past.

Patrick Henry

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

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

The future is the past returning through another gate.

Arnold Glasgow

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

While I take inspiration from the past, like most Americans, I live for the future.

Ronald Reagan

There is nothing like dream to create the future. Utopia to - Day, flesh and blood tomorrow.

Victor Hugo, Les Miserables, 1862

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

An election is a bet on the future, not a popularity test of the past.

James Barrett Scotty Reston

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

Exile, for no other motive than ease, would be the last defeat, with no seed of future victory in it.

Lois McMaster Bujold, "Shards of Honor", 1986

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