Future Quotes
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
He who controls the past commands the future. He who commands the future conquers the past.George Orwell
The future depends on what we do in the present.Mahatma Gandhi
Heal the past, Live the present, Dream the future.Unknown
The Future is something which everyone reaches at the rate of sixty minutes an hour, whatever he does, whoever he is.Clive Staples Lewis
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
Traditionalists are pessimists about the future and optimists about the past.Lewis Mumford
In the future everyone will be famous for fifteen minutes.Andy Warhol
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
We cannot always assure the future of our friends we have a better chance of assuring our future if we remember who our friends are.Henry Kissinge
A youth is to be regarded with respect. How do you know that his future will not be equal to our present?Confucius, Analects
Until divinity decides to reveal the future to human kind, the sum of all human wisdom is contained in these two words: Wait and Hope.Alexandre Dumas, Translation from "The Count of Monte Cristo".
To live in the past or in the future may be less satisfying than to live in the present, but it can never be as disillusioning.R. D. Laing
Look not mournfully into the past. It comes not back again. Wisely improve the present. It is thine. Go forth to meet the shadowy future, without fear.Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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
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
If you want to imagine the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face forever.George Orwell, 1984
The vast possibilities of our great future will become realities only if we make ourselves responsible for that future.Gifford Pinchot
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
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
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
Life is divided into three terms - That which was, which is, and which will be. Let us learn from the past to profit by the present, and from the present to live better in the future.William Wordsworth
Prejudice is a burden that confuses the past, threatens the future and renders the present inaccessible.Maya Angelou
In a time of drastic change, it is the learners who inherit the future. The learned find themselves equipped to live in a world which no longer exists.Eric Hoffe
If you will protest courageously, and yet with dignity and Christian love, when the history books are written in future generations, the historians will have to pause and say, There lived a great people - A black people - who injected new meaning and dignity into the veins of civilization.Martin Luther King, Jr.
In the future everyone will be world - Famous for fifteen minutes.Andy Warhol
Be careful that victories do not carry the seed of future defeats.Ralph W. Sockman
Strategy is a style of thinking, a conscious and deliberate process, an intensive implementation system, the science of insuring future success.Pete Johnson
We live in the present, we dream of the future, but we learn eternal truths from the past.Madame Chiang
The future is a hundred thousand threads, but the past is a fabric that can never be rewoven.Orson Scott Card, Xenocide
Andrew is the operating system of the future and always will be.Mary R. Thompson
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 rest of the world is sweeping past us. The oil and gas of the Texas future is the well - Educated mind. But we are still worried about whether Midland can beat Odessa at football.Mark White
I would feel more optimistic about a bright future for man if he spent less time proving that he can outwit Nature and more time tasting her sweetness and respecting her seniority.E. B. White
At every crossroads on the path that leads to the future, tradition has placed 10, 000 men to guard the past.Maurice Masterlinck
All successful people men and women are big dreamers. They imagine what their future could be, ideal in every respect, and then they work every day toward their distant vision, that goal or purpose.Brian Tracy
