Future Quotes

It is only by striving for beauty and love In all our relationships, That we can hope to become Guardians of our individual and collective futures.

Roland Stahle

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

A compassionate government keeps faith with the trust of the people and cherishes the future of their children.

Lyndon B. Johnson

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

Children have neither a past nor a future. Thus they enjoy the present - - which seldom happens to us.

La Bruyere

He who controls the past controls the future.

George Orwell, "Nineteen Eighty - Four".

The main goal of the future is to stop violence. The world is addicted to it.

Bill Cosby

Our imagination is the only limit to what we can hope to have in the future.

Charles F. Kettering

Education a debt due from present to future generations.

George Peabody

Philosophy triumphs easily over past evils and future evils; but present evils triumph over it.

Francois De La Rochefoucauld

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

In the future everyone will be famous for fifteen minutes.

Andy Warhol

It is because modern education is so seldom inspired by a great hope that it so seldom achieves great results. The wish to preserve the past rather that the hope of creating the future dominates the minds of those who control the teaching of the young.

Bertrand Russell

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

James Barrett Scotty Reston

In order to be utterly happy the only thing necessary is to refrain from comparing this moment with other moments in the past, which I often did not fully enjoy because I was comparing them with other moments of the future.

Andr Gide

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

Vernon Coope

Strategy is a style of thinking, a conscious and deliberate process, an intensive implementation system, the science of insuring future success.

Pete Johnson

Those who foresee the future and recognize it as tragic are often seized by a madness which forces them to commit the very acts which made it certain that what they dread shall happen.

Dame Rebecca West

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

When it comes to the future, there are three kinds of people those who let it happen, those who make it happen, and those who wonder what happened.

John M. Richardson, Jr.

Every time I see an adult on a bicycle, I no longer despair for the future of the human race.

H. G. Wells

The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.

Eleanor Roosevelt

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

I have but one lamp by which my feet are guided, and that is the lamp of experience. I know no way of judging the future but by the past.

Unknown

I like the dreams of the future better than the history of the past.

Thomas Jefferson

I believe the future is only the past again, entered through another gate.

Arthur Wing Pinero

Do not dwell in the past, do not dream of the future, concentrate the mind on the present moment.

Buddha

The greatest loss of time is delay and expectation, which depend upon the future. We let go the present, which we have in our power, and look forward to that which depends upon chance, and so relinquish a certainty for an uncertainty.

Seneca

The future is much like the present, only longer.

Don Quisenberry

We can pay our debt to the past by putting the future in debt to ourselves.

John Buchan

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

Paul Valery

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

John Fitzgerald Kennedy

A generation which ignores history has no past and no future.

Robert Heinlein, The Notebooks of Lazurus Long

We say that the hour of death cannot be forecast, but when we say this we imagine that hour as placed in an obscure and distant future. It never occurs to us that it has any connection with the day already begun or that death could arrive this same afternoon, this afternoon which is so certain and which has every hour filled in advance.

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

We must respect the past, and mistrust the present, if we wish to provide for the safety of the future.

Jeseph Joubert

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

For I dipt into the future, as far as human eye can see, saw the vision of the world, and the wonder that would be.

Lord Alfred Tennyson, Ulysses

Never let a stain from the past put a mark on your future.

Jillian Graham, Chicken Soup for the Preteen Soul