Future Quotes

The future does not belong to those who are content with today, apathetic toward common problems and their fellow man alike, timid and fearful in the face of bold projects and new ideas. Rather, it will belong to those who can blend passion, reason and courage in a personal commitment to the ideals of American society.

Robert Francis Kennedy

The most painful state of living is remembering the future.

Soren Kierkegaard

There is always one moment in childhood when the door opens and lets the future in.

Graham Greene, The Power and the Glory

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

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

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

What happens when the future has come and gone.

Robert Half

Life is divided into three terms - That which was, which is, and which will be. Let us learn from the past to profit by the present, and from the present to live better in the future.

William Wordsworth

Science and technology revolutionize our lives, but memory, tradition and myth frame our response. Expelled from individual consciousness by the rush of change, history finds its revenge by stamping the collective unconsciousness with habits, values, expectations, dreams. The dialectic between past and future will continue to form our lives.

Arthur Schlesinger, Jr.

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

At every crossroads on the path that leads to the future, tradition has placed 10, 000 men to guard the past.

Maurice Masterlinck

In a time of drastic change, it is the learners who inherit the future. The learned find themselves equipped to live in a world which no longer exists.

Eric Hoffe

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

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

Percy Bysshe Shelley

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

The future will be better tomorrow.

Dan Quayle

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

Leonard I. Sweet

Telling the future by looking at the past assumes that conditions remain constant. This is like driving a car by looking in the rearview mirror.

Herb Brody

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

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

When you reliquish the desire to control your future, you can have more happiness.

Nicole Kidman

When you relinquish the desire to control your future, you can have more happiness.

Nicole Kidman, in The Scotsman

The present is the necessary product of all the past, the necessary cause of all the future.

Robert Green Ingersoll

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

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

For I dipped into the future, as far as human eye could see, saw a vision of the world, and all the wonder that would be.

Alfred Lord Tennyson

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

Alvin Toffle

It might be said that Lord Rosebery outlived his future by ten years and his past by more than twenty.

Sir Winston Churchill

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

Jason Kaufmann

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

Orson Scott Card, Xenocide

I have never been able, really, to regret anything in all my life. I have always been far much too absorbed in the present moment or the immediate future to think back.

Albert Camus, The Strange

The future you shall know when it has come before then forget it.

Aeschylus

When it comes to the future, there are three kinds of people those who let it happen, those who make it happen, and those who wonder what happened.

John M. Richardson, Jr.

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".

Language is the armory of the human mind, and at once contains the trophies of its past and the weapons of its future conquests.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge, The Forbes Book of Business Quotations

The future belongs to those who prepare for it today.

Malcolm X