Future Quotes
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.
Only a scientific people can survive in a scientific future.Thomas H. Huxley
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
In early childhood you may lay the foundation of poverty or riches, industry of idleness, good or evil, by the habits to which you train your children. Teach them right habits then, and their future life is safe.Mrs. Sigourney
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
Never let a stain from the past put a mark on your future.Jillian Graham, Chicken Soup for the Preteen Soul
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
Enjoy present pleasures in such a way as not to injure future ones.Seneca
We must respect the past, and mistrust the present, if we wish to provide for the safety of the future.Jeseph Joubert
The future, according to some scientists, will be exactly like the past, only far more expensive.John Sladek
In the future everyone will be world - Famous for fifteen minutes.Andy Warhol
The present is the necessary product of all the past, the necessary cause of all the future.Robert Green Ingersoll
Now he has departed from this strange world a little ahead of me. That means nothing. People like us, who believe in physics, know that the distinction between past, present, and future is only a stubbornly persistent illusion.Albert Einstein
The future comes one day at a time.Dean Gooderham Acheson
Children have neither a past nor a future. Thus they enjoy the present - - which seldom happens to us.La Bruyere
Man has a limited biological capacity for change. When this capacity is overwhelmed, the capacity is in future shock.Alvin Toffle
What happens when the future has come and gone.Robert Half
Prejudice is a burden that confuses the past, threatens the future and renders the present inaccessible.Maya Angelou
Man spends his life in reasoning on the past, in complaining of the present, in fearing future.Antoine Rivarol
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
The present is theirs the future, for which I really worked, is mine.Nikola Tesla
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
History is the ship carrying living memories to the future.Stephen Spende
If we do not learn from history, we shall be compelled to relive it. True. But if we do not change the future, we shall be compelled to endure it. And that could be worse.Alvin Toffle
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
If we were logical, the future would be bleak indeed. But we are more than logical. We are human beings, and we have faith, and we have hope.Jacques Cousteau
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
Change is the law of life; and those who look only to the past or the present are certain to miss the future.John F. Kennedy
Disconnecting from change does not recapture the past. It loses the future.Kathleen Norris, O Magazine, January 2004
A generation which ignores history has no past and no future.Robert Heinlein, The Notebooks of Lazurus Long
Those who stare at the past have their backs turned to the future.Unknown
Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past.George Orwell
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
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 knowUnknown
The future belongs to those who dare.Anonymous
Learn from the past, Hope for the future, Live in the present.Ken Lancaste
The secret of health for both mind and body is not to mourn for the past, nor to worry about the future, but to live the present moment wisely and earnestly.Buddha
My interest is in the future because I am going to spend the rest of my life there.Charles F. Kettering
