Future Quotes

I am treating you as my friend asking you share my present minuses in the hope I can ask you to share my future pluses.
Katherine Mansfield
Whoso neglects learning in his youth, Loses the past and is dead for the future.
Euripides
The trouble with our times is that the future is not what it used to be.
Paul Valery
The dynamics of capitalism is postponement of enjoyment to the constantly postponed future.
Norman O. Brown
Educate your children to self - Control, to the habit of holding passion and prejudice and evil tendencies to an upright and reasoning will, and you have done much to abolish misery from their future lives and crimes to society.
Daniel Webste
The future is the past returning through another gate.
Arnold Glasgow
Darius ogden mills - i was taught very early that i would have to...
It might be said that Lord Rosebery outlived his future by ten years and his past by more than twenty.
Sir Winston Churchill
And yesterday he would have killed me to get to his foe. But now we serve each other. Only a fool walks into the future backward.
Terry Goodkind, "Stone of Tears".
Robertson davies,
To the wrongs that need resistance, To the right that needs assistance, To the future in the distance, Give yourselves.
Carrie Chapman Catt
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
Books, I found, had the power to make time stand still, retreat or fly into the future.
Jim
The future belongs to those who can rise above the confines of the earth.
Alfred North Whitehead, From the viewbook of Embry - Riddle Aeronautical University
A youth is to be regarded with respect. How do you know that his future will not be equal to our present?
Confucius, Analects
In a time of drastic change it is the learners who inherit the future. The learned usually find themselves equipped to live in a world that no longer exists.
Eric Hoffe
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.
It is by no means an irrational fancy that, in a future existence, we shall look upon what we think our present existence, as a dream.
Edgar Allan Poe
Dietrich bonhoeffe - the essence of optimism is that it takes no...
Heal the past, Live the present, Dream the future.
Unknown
If you want to imagine the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face forever.
George Orwell, 1984
My future starts when I wake up every morning... Every day I find something creative to do with my life.
Miles Davis
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
The true felicity of life is to be free from anxieties and perturbations to understand and do our duties to God and man, and to enjoy the present without any serious dependence on the future.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca
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
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
Philosophy triumphs easily over past evils and future evils; but present evils triumph over it.
Francois De La Rochefoucauld
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
The direction in which education starts a man will determine his future life.
Plato, The Republic
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
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.
Do not dwell in the past, do not dream of the future, concentrate the mind on the present moment.
Buddha
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
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 main goal of the future is to stop violence. The world is addicted to it.
Bill Cosby
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
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
Study the past if you would define the future.
Confucius
At every crossroads on the path that leads to the future, tradition has placed 10, 000 men to guard the past.
Maurice Masterlinck