Future Quotes
The true felicity of life is to be free from anxieties and perturbations to understand and do our duties to God and man, and to enjoy the present without any serious dependence on the future.Lucius Annaeus Seneca
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
Every man is his own ancestor, and every man is his own heir. He devises his own future, and he inherits his own past.Frederick Henry Hedge
Look not mournfully into the past. It comes not back again. Wisely improve the present. It is thine. Go forth to meet the shadowy future, without fear.Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
And yesterday he would have killed me to get to his foe. But now we serve each other. Only a fool walks into the future backward.Terry Goodkind, "Stone of Tears".
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 future is a hundred thousand threads, but the past is a fabric that can never be rewoven.Orson Scott Card, Xenocide
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
Learn from the past, Hope for the future, Live in the present.Ken Lancaste
Those who stare at the past have their backs turned to the future.Unknown
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
I believe the future is only the past again, entered through another gate.Arthur Wing Pinero
The thing to remember is that that the future comes one day at a time.Dean Acheson, Communication Bulletin for Managers & Supervisors, June 2004
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
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
Books, I found, had the power to make time stand still, retreat or fly into the future.Jim
Traditionalists are pessimists about the future and optimists about the past.Lewis Mumford
He who controls the past controls the future.George Orwell, "Nineteen Eighty - Four".
I never think of the future - It comes soon enough.Albert Einstein
The future belongs to those who dare.Anonymous
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 that the hope of creating the future dominates the minds of those who control the teaching of the young.Bertrand Russell
To the wrongs that need resistance, To the right that needs assistance, To the future in the distance, Give yourselves.Carrie Chapman Catt
The present is theirs the future, for which I really worked, is mine.Nikola Tesla
The American lives even more for his goals, for the future, than the European. Life for him is always becoming, never being.Albert Einstein
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
Never let a stain from the past put a mark on your future.Jillian Graham, Chicken Soup for the Preteen Soul
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
The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.Eleanor Roosevelt
The past is certain, the future obscure.Thales
The main goal of the future is to stop violence. The world is addicted to it.Bill Cosby
The future belongs to those who can rise above the confines of the earth.Alfred North Whitehead, From the viewbook of Embry - Riddle Aeronautical University
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
Life is no brief candle to me. It is a sort of splendid torch which I have got a hold of for the moment, and I want to make it burn as brightly as possible before handing it on to future generations.George Bernard Shaw
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
Champions know that success is inevitable that there is no such thing as failure, only feedback. They know that the best way to forecast the future is to create it.Michael J. Gel
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
The mind of man is capable of anything - - Because everything is in it, all the past as well as all the future.Joseph Conrad
People like us, who believe in physics, know that the distinction between past, present, and future is only a stubbornly persistent illusion.Albert Einstein
