Future Quotes
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
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
The main goal of the future is to stop violence. The world is addicted to it.Bill Cosby
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
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
The past is certain, the future obscure.Thales
My specific goal is to revolutionize the future of the species. Mathematics is just another way of predicting the future.Ralph Abraham
Stop acting as if life is a rehearsal. Live this day as if it were your last. The past is over and gone. The future is not guaranteed.Wayne W Dye
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
The American lives even more for his goals, for the future, than the European. Life for him is always becoming, never being.Albert Einstein
Trust no future, however pleasant Let the dead past bury its dead Act, - Act in the living Present Heart within and God overhead.Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
The future has a way of arriving unannounced.George Will
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 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 than the hope of creating the future dominates the minds of those who control the teaching of the young.Bertrand Russell
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
Life is a series of collisions with the future it is not the sum of what we have been, but what we yearn to be.Jose Ortega y Gasset
It is only by striving for beauty and love In all our relationships, That we can hope to become Guardians of our individual and collective futures.Roland Stahle
Those who stare at the past have their backs turned to the future.Unknown
Every small, positive change we make in ourselves repays us in confidence in the future.Alice Walke
The illiterate of the future will not be the person who cannot read. It will be the person who does not know how to learn.Alvin Toffle
The Future is something which everyone reaches at the rate of sixty minutes an hour, whatever he does, whoever he is.Clive Staples Lewis
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
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 doctor of the future will give no medicine, but will educate his patients in the care of the human frame, in diet, and in the cause and prevention of disease.Thomas Edison
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
Every time I see an adult on a bicycle, I no longer despair for the future of the human race.H. G. Wells
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 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
We must never allow the future to be weighed down by memory. For children have no past, and that is the whole secret of the magical innocence of their smiles.Milan Kundera, The Book of Laughter and Forgetting
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
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
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
Education a debt due from present to future generations.George Peabody
Be careful that victories do not carry the seed of future defeats.Ralph W. Sockman
When you relinquish the desire to control your future, you can have more happiness.Nicole Kidman, in The Scotsman
When clouds form in the skies we know that rain will follow but we must not wait for it. Nothing will be achieved by attempting to interfere with the future before the time is ripe. Patience is needed.I Ching
Strategy is a style of thinking, a conscious and deliberate process, an intensive implementation system, the science of insuring future success.Pete Johnson
Where a calculator on the ENIAC is equipped 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, Popular Mechanics, March 1949
