Future Quotes

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The future depends on what we do in the present.
Mahatma Gandhi
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
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
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
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
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
There are many methods for predicting the future. For example, you can read horoscopes, tea leaves, tarot cards, or crystal balls. Collectively, these methods are known as nutty methods. Or you can put well - Researched facts into sophisticated computer models, more commonly referred to as a complete waste of time.
Scott Adams, The Dilbert Future
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
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 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
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
When you relinquish the desire to control your future, you can have more happiness.
Nicole Kidman, in The Scotsman
I know of no way to judge the future but by the past.
Patrick Henry
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
Every time I see an adult on a bicycle, I no longer despair for the future of the human race.
H. G. Wells
Our task is not to fix the blame for the past, but to fix the course for the future.
John Fitzgerald Kennedy
You need people who can walk their companies into the future rather than back them into the future.
Warren Bennis
STRATEGY is; A style of thinking, a conscious and deliberate process, an intensive implementation system, the science of insuring FUTURE SUCCESS.
Pete Johnson
The future is no place to place your better days.
Dave Matthews, "Cry Freedom".
We say that the hour of death cannot be forecast, but when we say this we imagine that hour as placed in an obscure and distant future. It never occurs to us that it has any connection with the day already begun or that death could arrive this same afternoon, this afternoon which is so certain and which has every hour filled in advance.
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
An election is a bet on the future, not a popularity test of the past.
James Barrett Scotty Reston
He who controls the past controls the future.
George Orwell, "Nineteen Eighty - Four".
The speciality of the future is generalism.
Wayne Van Dyck
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
The future belongs to those who prepare for it today.
Malcolm X
I have made good judgements in the Past. I have made good judgements in the Future.
Dan Quayle
The best way to predict the future is to invent it.
Alan Kay
Only lie about the future.
Johnny Carson
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
The ability to think straight, some knowledge of the past, some vision of the future, some skill to do useful service, some urge to fit that service into the well - Being of the community - These are the most vital things education must try to produce.
Virginia Crocheron Gildersleeve
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
You can never plan the future by the past.
Edmund Burke
Enjoy present pleasures in such a way as not to injure future one.
Seneca
A compassionate government keeps faith with the trust of the people and cherishes the future of their children.
Lyndon B. Johnson
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
The future has a way of arriving unannounced.
George Will
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