Future Quotes

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

The best way to predict the future is to create it.

Jason Kaufmann

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

Real generosity toward the future consists in giving all to what is present.

Albert Camus

The empires of the future are the empires of the mind.

Sir Winston Churchill, Speech at Harvard University, September 6, 1943

As I sit I see a dove And think of our deep, dear true love Think not about our future lives Except perhaps our growing size Keep all your thoughts alive, aglow, All will be well, no fear, I know

Unknown

Andrew is the operating system of the future and always will be.

Mary R. Thompson

There is always one moment in childhood when the door opens and lets in the future.

Graham Green

Those people who develop the ability to continuously acquire new and better forms of knowledge that they can apply to their work and to their lives will be the movers and shakers in our society for the indefinite future.

Brian Tracy

A preoccupation with the future not only prevents us from seeing the present as it is but often prompts us to rearrange the past.

Eric Hoffer, The Passionate State of Mind, 1954

What happens when the future has come and gone?

Robert Half

The future is not something we enter. The future is something we create.

Leonard I. Sweet

With our eyes fixed on the future, but recognizing the realities of today. ... we will achieve our destiny to be as a shining city on a hill for all mankind to see.

Ronald Reagan

We must never allow the future to be weighed down by memory. For children have no past, and that is the whole secret of the magical innocence of their smiles.

Milan Kundera, The Book of Laughter and Forgetting

The future comes one day at a time.

Dean Gooderham Acheson

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

Life can be found only in the present moment. The past is gone, the future is not yet here, and if we do not go back to ourselves in the present moment, we cannot be in touch with life.

Thich Nhat Hanh

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

The Future is something which everyone reaches at the rate of sixty minutes an hour, whatever he does, whoever he is.

Clive Staples Lewis

The future belongs to those who dare.

Anonymous

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

Aeschylus

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

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.

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

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

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

Frank Herbert

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

Robert Heinlein, The Notebooks of Lazurus Long

The future is a hundred thousand threads, but the past is a fabric that can never be rewoven.

Orson Scott Card, Xenocide

Whoso neglects learning in his youth, Loses the past and is dead for the future.

Euripides

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

Conservatism discards Prescription, shrinks from Principle, disavows Progress having rejected all respect for antiquity, it offers no redress for the present, and makes no preparation for the future.

Benjamin Disraeli

Business more than any other occupation is a continual dealing with the future it is a continual calculation, an instinctive exercise in foresight.

Henry Robinson Luce

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

Fear not for the future, weep not for the past.

Percy Bysshe Shelley

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

Carrie Chapman Catt

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".

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

In the future everyone will be world - Famous for fifteen minutes.

Andy Warhol