Future Quotes

For the ordinary man is passive. Within a narrow circle home life, and perhaps the trade unions or local politics he feels himself master of his fate, but against major events he is as helpless as against the elements. So far from endeavouring to influence the future, he simply lies down and lets things happen to him.

George Orwell

The mind of man is capable of anything - - Because everything is in it, all the past as well as all the future.

Joseph Conrad

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 know

Unknown

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

A cynic is not merely one who reads bitter lessons from the past, he is one who is prematurely disappointed in the future.

Sidney J. Harris

Business more than any other occupation is a continual dealing with the future it is a continual calculation, an instinctive exercise in foresight.

Henry Robinson Luce

Children have neither a past nor a future. Thus they enjoy the present - which seldom happens to us.

Jean De La Bruyere

Real generosity toward the future consists in giving all to what is present.

Albert Camus

The best way to predict the future is to create it.

Jason Kaufmann

Man has a limited biological capacity for change. When this capacity is overwhelmed, the capacity is in future shock.

Alvin Toffle

Fear not for the future, weep not for the past.

Percy Bysshe Shelley

The future is a hundred thousand threads, but the past is a fabric that can never be rewoven.

Orson Scott Card, Xenocide

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

Our destiny rules over us, even when we are not yet aware of it it is the future that makes laws for us today.

Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

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 would feel more optimistic about a bright future for man if he spent less time proving that he can outwit Nature and more time tasting her sweetness and respecting her seniority.

E. B. White

While day by day the overzealous student stores up facts for future use, He who has learned to trust nature finds need for ever fewer external directions. He will discard formula after formula, until he reaches the conclusion Let nature take its course. By letting each thing act in accordance with its own nature, everything that needs to be done gets done.

Lao Tzu

The past is a source of knowledge, and the future is a source of hope. Love of the past implies faith in the future.

Stephen Ambrose, in Fast Company

The future belongs to those who prepare for it today.

Malcolm X

You need people who can walk their companies into the future rather than back them into the future.

Warren Bennis

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

Only a scientific people can survive in a scientific future.

Thomas H. Huxley

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

The function of science fiction is not always to predict the future but sometimes to prevent it.

Frank Herbert

Only the flexibly creative person can really manage the future, Only the one who can face novelty with confidence and without fear.

Abraham Maslow

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 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

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]

The crippling of individuals I consider the worst evil of capitalism. Our whole educational system suffers from this evil. An exaggerated competitive attitude is inculcated into the student, who is trained to worship acquisitive success as a perparation for his future career.

Albert Einstein

The best thing about the future is that it comes one day at a time.

Abraham Lincoln

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 past is certain, the future obscure.

Thales

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

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

The future is not something we enter. The future is something we create.

Leonard I. Sweet

The dynamics of capitalism is postponement of enjoyment to the constantly postponed future.

Norman O. Brown

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