Future Quotes
I have made good judgements in the Past. I have made good judgements in the Future.Dan Quayle
Conservation is humanity caring for the future.Nancy Newhall
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
The empires of the future are the empires of the mind.Sir Winston Churchill, Speech at Harvard University, September 6, 1943
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
I do not know what the future holds, but I know who holds the future.Oprah Winfrey, "The Oprah Winfrey Show".
Traditionalists are pessimists about the future and optimists about the past.Lewis Mumford
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 greatest loss of time is delay and expectation, which depend upon the future. We let go the present, which we have in our power, and look forward to that which depends upon chance, and so relinquish a certainty for an uncertainty.Seneca
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.
It is important that an aim never be defined in terms of activity or methods. It must always relate directly to how life is better for everyone.... The aim of the system must be clear to everyone in the system. The aim must include plans for the future. The aim is a value judgment.W. Edwards Deming
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
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 concept of progress acts as a protective mechanism to shield us from the terrors of the future.Frank Herbert
Some of the best lessons we ever learn are learned from past mistakes. The error of the past is the wisdom and success of the future.Dr. Dale E. Turne
Change is the law of life; and those who look only to the past or the present are certain to miss the future.John F. Kennedy
A preoccupation with the future not only prevents us from seeing the present as it is but often prompts us to rearrange the past.Eric Hoffer, The Passionate State of Mind, 1954
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
The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.Eleanor Roosevelt
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".
The vast possibilities of our great future will become realities only if we make ourselves responsible for that future.Gifford Pinchot
Andrew is the operating system of the future and always will be.Mary R. Thompson
The only use of a knowledge of the past is to equip us for the present. The present contains all that there is. It is holy ground; for it is the past, and it is the future.Alfred North Whitehead
Do not dwell in the past, do not dream of the future, concentrate the mind on the present moment.Buddha
An election is a bet on the future, not a popularity test of the past.James Barrett Scotty Reston
How to make God laugh: Tell him your future plans.Woody Allen
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
The future you shall know when it has come before then forget it.Aeschylus
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
If you want to imagine the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face forever.George Orwell, 1984
We are at the very beginning of time for the human race. It is not unreasonable that we grapple with problems. But there are tens of thousands of years in the future. Our responsibility is to do what we can, learn what we can, improve the solutions, and pass them on.Richard Feynman
Look not mournfully into the Past. It comes not back again. Wisely improve the Present. In is thine. Go forth to meet the shadowy Future, without fear, and a manly heart.Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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
The secret of health for both mind and body is not to mourn for the past, worry about the future, or anticipate troubles but to live in the present moment wisely and earnestly.Buddha
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
We can pay our debt to the past by putting the future in debt to ourselves.John Buchan
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


