Future Quotes
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
An author is a fool who, not content with boring those he lives with, insists on boring future generations.Charles de Montesquieu
Change is the law of life. And those who look only to the past or present are certain to miss the future.John Fitzgerald Kennedy
I was taught very early that I would have to depend entirely upon myself that my future lay in my own hands.Darius Ogden Mills
Books, I found, had the power to make time stand still, retreat or fly into the future.Jim
A liberal is a man or a woman or a child who looks forward to a better day, a more tranquil night, and a bright, infinite future.Leonard Bernstein
There is always one moment in childhood when the door opens and lets in the future.Graham Green
The future belongs to those who prepare for it today.Malcolm X
Be careful that victories do not carry the seed of future defeats.Ralph W. Sockman
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
People like us, who believe in physics, know that the distinction between past, present, and future is only a stubbornly persistent illusion.Albert Einstein
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
The most painful state of living is remembering the future.Soren Kierkegaard
Philosophy triumphs easily over past evils and future evils; but present evils triumph over it.Francois De La Rochefoucauld
It might be said that Lord Rosebery outlived his future by ten years and his past by more than twenty.Sir Winston Churchill
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
I do not know what the future holds, but I know who holds the future.Oprah Winfrey, "The Oprah Winfrey Show".
The future is the past returning through another gate.Arnold Glasgow
For I dipped into the future, as far as human eye could see, saw a vision of the world, and all the wonder that would be.Alfred Lord Tennyson
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
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
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
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
Life is no brief candle to me. It is a sort of splendid torch which I have got a hold of for the moment, and I want to make it burn as brightly as possible before handing it on to future generations.George Bernard Shaw
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
The American lives even more for his goals, for the future, than the European. Life for him is always becoming, never being.Albert Einstein
Strategy is a style of thinking, a conscious and deliberate process, an intensive implementation system, the science of insuring future success.Pete Johnson
The mind of man is capable of anything - - Because everything is in it, all the past as well as all the future.Joseph Conrad
As long as anyone believes that his ideal and purpose is outside him, that it is above the clouds, in the past or in the future, he will go outside himself and seek fulfillment where it cannot be found. He will look for solutions and answers at every point except where they can be found - - In himself.Erich Frohm
A Church without Youth is a Church without a future. Moreover, Youth without a Church is Youth without a future.Pope Shenouda III, Pope & Patriach of Alexandria
A youth is to be regarded with respect. How do you know that his future will not be equal to our present?Confucius, Analects
I never think of the future. It comes soon enough.Albert Einstein
Traditionalists are pessimists about the future and optimists about the past.Lewis Mumford
A compassionate government keeps faith with the trust of the people and cherishes the future of their children.Lyndon B. Johnson
Only a scientific people can survive in a scientific future.Thomas H. Huxley
The trouble with our times is that the future is not what it used to be.Paul Valery
We have no right to assume that any physical laws exist, or if they have existed up until now, that they will continue to exist in a similar manner in the future.Max Karl Ernst Ludwig Planck
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.
