Future Quotes

Edmund burke - you can never plan the future by the past....
The most decisive actions of our life - - I mean those that are most likely to decide the whole course of our future - - Are, more often than not, unconsidered.
Andre Gide
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
History repeats itself and history never repeats itself are about equally trueWe never know enough about the infinitely complex circumstances of any past event to prophesy the future by analogy.
George Macaulay Trevelyan
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
Educate your children to self - Control, to the habit of holding passion and prejudice and evil tendencies to an upright and reasoning will, and you have done much to abolish misery from their future lives and crimes to society.
Daniel Webste
At every crossroads on the path that leads to the future, tradition has placed 10, 000 men to guard the past.
Maurice Masterlinck
Only a fool walks backwards into the future.
Terry Goodkind
In the future everyone will be famous for fifteen minutes.
Andy Warhol
The concept of progress acts as a protective mechanism to shield us from the terrors of the future.
Frank Herbert
We cannot always build the future for our youth, but we can build our youth for the future.
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Look not mournfully into the Past. It comes not back again. Wisely improve the Present. In is thine. Go forth to meet the shadowy Future, without fear, and a manly heart.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
The present is the necessary product of all the past, the necessary cause of all the future.
Robert Green Ingersoll
Heal the past, Live the present, Dream the future.
Unknown
Everyone should free their mind and soul. Some are ready to free them now, and some will be ready to free them in the future. Some will never be ready and that is what makes their lives not worth living.
Emad Hasan
We are at the very beginning of time for the human race. It is not unreasonable that we grapple with problems. But there are tens of thousands of years in the future. Our responsibility is to do what we can, learn what we can, improve the solutions, and pass them on.
Richard Feynman
To make no mistakes is not in the power of man; but from their errors and mistakes the wise and good learn wisdom for the future.
Plutarch
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
To state the facts frankly is not to despair the future nor indict the past. The prudent heir takes careful inventory of his legacies and gives a faithful accounting to those whom he owes an obligation of trust.
John Fitzgerald Kennedy
Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past.
George Orwell
It is impossible to live in the past, difficult to live in the present and a waste to live in the future.
Frank Herbert, Dune
I sometimes think of what future historians will say of us. A single sentence will suffice for modern man he fornicated and read the papers.
Albert Camus
The future will be better tomorrow.
Dan Quayle
We think very little of time present; we anticipate the future, as being too slow, and with a view to hasten it onward, we recall the past to stay it as too swiftly gone. We are so thoughtless, that we thus wander through the hours which are not here, regardless only of the moment that is actually our own.
Blaise Pascal
We are made wise not by the recollection of our past, but by the responsibility for our future.
George Bernard Shaw
You need people who can walk their companies into the future rather than back them into the future.
Warren Bennis
In a time of drastic change it is the learners who inherit the future. The learned usually find themselves equipped to live in a world that no longer exists.
Eric Hoffe
Who can tell who will be the President a year from now? - - John F. Kennedy, speaking to the president of Harvard about why he did not want to delay signing documents relating to a future JFK Presidential Library, 2 October 1963.
John F. Kennedy, "A Thousand Days, " by Arthur Schlesinger Jr. [1965]
Disconnecting from change does not recapture the past. It loses the future.
Kathleen Norris, O Magazine, January 2004
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.
When you reliquish the desire to control your future, you can have more happiness.
Nicole Kidman
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
Where a calculator on the ENIAC is equpped with 18, 000 vaccuum tubes and weighs 30 tons, computers in the future may have only 1, 000 vaccuum tubes and perhaps weigh 1 1 2 tons.
Popular Mechanics, March 1949
If we can recognize that change and uncertainty are basic principles, we can greet the future and the transformation we are undergoing with the understanding that we do not know enough to be pessimistic.
Hazel Henderson
STRATEGY is; A style of thinking, a conscious and deliberate process, an intensive implementation system, the science of insuring FUTURE SUCCESS.
Pete Johnson
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
He who controls the past controls the future.
George Orwell, "Nineteen Eighty - Four".
The best way to predict the future is to create it.
Jason Kaufmann
We are living beyond our means. As a people we have developed a lifestyle that is draining the earth of its priceless and irreplaceable resources without regard for the future of our children and people all around the world.
Margaret Mead