Future Quotes

Charles de montesquieu - an author is a fool who, not content with boring...
Bertrand russell - it is because modern education is so seldom...
Whoso neglects learning in his youth, Loses the past and is dead for the future.
Euripides
I predict future happiness for Americans if they can prevent the government from wasting the labors of the people under the pretense of taking care of them.
Thomas Jefferson
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 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
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
He who controls the past commands the future. He who commands the future conquers the past.
George Orwell
We cannot always assure the future of our friends we have a better chance of assuring our future if we remember who our friends are.
Henry Kissinge
Study the past if you would define the future.
Confucius
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
We live in an age when to be young and indifferent can no longer be synonymous. We must prepare for the coming hour. The claims of the Future are represented by suffering millions and the Youth of a Nation are the trustees of Posterity.
Benjamin Disraeli
The future comes one day at a time.
Dean Gooderham Acheson
Those people who develop the ability to continuously acquire new and better forms of knowledge that they can apply to their work and to their lives will be the movers and shakers in our society for the indefinite future.
Brian Tracy
Only a fool walks backwards into the future.
Terry Goodkind
Most people live ninety percent in the past, seven percent in the present, and that only leaves three percent for the future.
John Steinbeck, The Winter of our Discontent
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
Be positive in addressing the envelope to your future, For enclosed are your efforts from the past. Be certain of the postage and double check what class.
Unknown
What happens when the future has come and gone.
Robert Half
The future belongs to those who dare.
Anonymous
My interest is in the future because I am going to spend the rest of my life there.
Charles F. Kettering
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
Enjoy present pleasures in such a way as not to injure future ones.
Seneca
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
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 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
Disconnecting from change does not recapture the past. It loses the future.
Kathleen Norris, O Magazine, January 2004
You can never plan the future by the past.
Edmund Burke
Learn from the past, Hope for the future, Live in the present.
Ken Lancaste
The future will be better tomorrow.
Dan Quayle
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
The empires of the future are the empires of the mind.
Sir Winston Churchill, Speech at Harvard University, September 6, 1943
One day at a time - This is enough. Do not look back and grieve over the past, for it is gone; and do not be troubled about the future, for it has not yet come. Live in the present, and make it so beautiful that it will be worth remembering.
Ida Scott Taylor.
While I take inspiration from the past, like most Americans, I live for the future.
Ronald Reagan
STRATEGY is; A style of thinking, a conscious and deliberate process, an intensive implementation system, the science of insuring FUTURE SUCCESS.
Pete Johnson
Heal the past, Live the present, Dream the future.
Unknown
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".
Only lie about the future.
Johnny Carson
To break a promise is to deny the reality of the past Therefore it is to deny the hope of a real future....
Ursala Lequin