Future Quotes
The American lives even more for his goals, for the future, than the European. Life for him is always becoming, never being.Albert Einstein
I have made good judgements in the Past. I have made good judgements in the Future.Dan Quayle
History is a relentless master. It has no present, only the past rushing into the future. To try to hold fast is to be swept aside.John Fitzgerald Kennedy
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
I have realized that the past and future are real illusions, that they exist in the present, which is what there is and all there is.Alan Watts
The challenges of change are always hard. It is important that we begin to unpack those challenges that confront this nation and realize that we each have a role that requires us to change and become more responsible for shaping our own future.Hillary Rodham Clinton
We cannot always build the future for our youth, but we can build our youth for the future.Franklin D. Roosevelt
Only a scientific people can survive in a scientific future.Thomas H. Huxley
Until divinity decides to reveal the future to human kind, the sum of all human wisdom is contained in these two words: Wait and Hope.Alexandre Dumas, Translation from "The Count of Monte Cristo".
Children have neither a past nor a future. Thus they enjoy the present - - which seldom happens to us.La Bruyere
All my children have spoken for themselves since they first learned to speak, and not always with my advance approval, and I expect that to continue in the future.Gerald R. Ford
The only use of a knowledge of the past is to equip us for the present. The present contains all that there is. It is holy ground; for it is the past, and it is the future.Alfred North Whitehead
For I dipt into the future, as far as human eye can see, saw the vision of the world, and the wonder that would be.Lord Alfred Tennyson, Ulysses
My past is my wisdom to use today... my future is my wisdom yet to experience. Be in the present because that is where life resides.Gene Oliver, Life and the Artistry of Change
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
The trouble with our times is that the future is not what it used to be.Paul Valery
I like the dreams of the future better than the history of the past.Thomas Jefferson
The world is full of people whose notion of a satisfactory future is, in fact, a return to the idealised past.Robertson Davies, "A Voice from the Attic", 1960
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
I never think of the future. It comes soon enough.Albert Einstein
When I see an adult on a bicycle, I do not despair for the future of the human race.H. G. Wells
We are made wise not by the recollection of our past, but by the responsibility for our future.George Bernard Shaw
Only a fool walks backwards into the future.Terry Goodkind
A guidance counselor who has made a fetish of security, or who has unwittingly surrendered his thinking to economic determinism, may steer a youth away from his dream of becoming a poet, an artist, a musician or any other of thousands of things, because it offers no security, it does not pay well, there are no vacancies, it has no future.Henry M. Wriston
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
Children have neither a past nor a future. Thus they enjoy the present - which seldom happens to us.Jean De La Bruyere
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
I shall soon be six - And - Twenty. Is there anything in the future that can possibly console us for not being always twenty - Five.George Gordon Byron
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
Educate your children to self - Control, to the habit of holding passion and prejudice and evil tendencies subject to an upright and reasoning will, and you have done much to abolish misery from their future and crimes from society.Benjamin Franklin
An election is a bet on the future, not a popularity test of the past.James Barrett Scotty Reston
I believe the future is only the past again, entered through another gate.Arthur Wing Pinero
Those who foresee the future and recognize it as tragic are often seized by a madness which forces them to commit the very acts which made it certain that what they dread shall happen.Dame Rebecca West
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
Our test of truth is a reference to either a present or imagined future majority in favour of our view.Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.
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
Never let the future disturb you. You will meet it, if you have to, with the same weapons of reason which today arm you against the present.Marcus Aurelius Antoninus, Meditations, 200 A. D.
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
Deem not life a thing of consequence. For look at the yawning void of the future, and at that other limitless space, the past.Marcus Aurelius Antoninus
