Future Quotes

The fact is, that civilization requires slaves. The Greeks were quite right there. Unless there are slaves to do the ugly, horrible, uninteresting work, culture, and contemplation become almost impossible. Human slavery is wrong, insecure, and demoralizing. On mechanical slavery, on the slavery of the machine, the future of the world depends.

Oscar Wilde

Most of our future lies ahead.

Denny Crum, Louisville basketball coach

The secret of health for both mind and body is not to mourn for the past, worry about the future, or anticipate troubles but to live in the present moment wisely and earnestly.

Buddha

If you want to imagine the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face forever.

George Orwell, 1984

Traditionalists are pessimists about the future and optimists about the past.

Lewis Mumford

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

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

The present is theirs the future, for which I really worked, is mine.

Nikola Tesla

The vast possibilities of our great future will become realities only if we make ourselves responsible for that future.

Gifford Pinchot

The essence of optimism is that it takes no account of the present, but it is a source of inspiration, of vitality and hope where others have resigned it enables a man to hold his head high, to claim the future for himself and not to abandon it to his enemy.

Dietrich Bonhoeffe

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

Conservation is humanity caring for the future.

Nancy Newhall

When you reliquish the desire to control your future, you can have more happiness.

Nicole Kidman

Life is a culmination of the past, an awareness of the present, an indication of a future beyond knowledge, the quality that gives a touch of divinity to matter.

Charles Augustus Lindbergh, Jr.

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

Every small, positive change we make in ourselves repays us in confidence in the future.

Alice Walke

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

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.

Where a calculator on the ENIAC is equpped 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

I know of no way to judge the future but by the past.

Patrick Henry

I have made good judgements in the Past. I have made good judgements in the Future.

Dan Quayle

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

I have never been able, really, to regret anything in all my life. I have always been far much too absorbed in the present moment or the immediate future to think back.

Albert Camus, The Strange

Sin bravely... We will never have all the facts to make a perfect judgement, but with the aid of basic experience we must leap bravely into the future.

Russell R. McIntyre

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

To live in the past or in the future may be less satisfying than to live in the present, but it can never be as disillusioning.

R. D. Laing

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

Euripides, Phrixus

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

Andy Warhol

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

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

Graham Greene, The Power and the Glory

We live in the present, we dream of the future, but we learn eternal truths from the past.

Madame Chiang

The concept of progress acts as a protective mechanism to shield us from the terrors of the future.

Frank Herbert

I am treating you as my friend, asking you to share my present minuses in the hope that I can ask you to share my future pluses.

Katherine Mansfield

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

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

The future is no place to place your better days.

Dave Matthews, "Cry Freedom".

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