Future Quotes

Be careful that victories do not carry the seed of future defeats.
Ralph W. Sockman
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
The dynamics of capitalism is postponement of enjoyment to the constantly postponed future.
Norman O. Brown
STRATEGY is; A style of thinking, a conscious and deliberate process, an intensive implementation system, the science of insuring FUTURE SUCCESS.
Pete Johnson
Our test of truth is a reference to either a present or imagined future majority in favour of our view.
Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.
I do not know what the future holds, but I know who holds the future.
Oprah Winfrey, "The Oprah Winfrey Show".
Margaret mead - we are living beyond our means. as a people we...
The past is certain, the future obscure.
Thales
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
Buddha - do not dwell in the past, do not dream of the...
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
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
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
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 reliquish the desire to control your future, you can have more happiness.
Nicole Kidman
In order to be utterly happy the only thing necessary is to refrain from comparing this moment with other moments in the past, which I often did not fully enjoy because I was comparing them with other moments of the future.
Andr Gide
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.
History is the ship carrying living memories to the future.
Stephen Spende
Life can be found only in the present moment. The past is gone, the future is not yet here, and if we do not go back to ourselves in the present moment, we cannot be in touch with life.
Thich Nhat Hanh
Albert einstein - now he has departed from this strange world a...
The future comes one day at a time.
Dean Gooderham Acheson
The vast possibilities of our great future will become realities only if we make ourselves responsible for that future.
Gifford Pinchot
Children have neither a past nor a future. Thus they enjoy the present - - which seldom happens to us.
La Bruyere
The best way to predict the future is to create it.
Jason Kaufmann
There is always one moment in childhood when the door opens and lets in the future.
Graham Green
The world is full of people whose notion of a satisfactory future is, in fact, a return to the idealised past.
Robertson Davies, "A Voice from the Attic", 1960
I believe the future is only the past again, entered through another gate.
Arthur Wing Pinero
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
If we do not learn from history, we shall be compelled to relive it. True. But if we do not change the future, we shall be compelled to endure it. And that could be worse.
Alvin Toffle
The trouble with our times is that the future is not what it used to be.
Paul Valery
A Church without Youth is a Church without a future. Moreover, Youth without a Church is Youth without a future.
Pope Shenouda III, Pope & Patriach of Alexandria
Do not look back. And do not dream about the future, either. It will neither give you back the past, nor satisfy your other daydreams. Your duty, your reward - Your destiny - Are here and now.
Dag Hammarskjold, newpaper quote of the day
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
The future is no place to place your better days.
Dave Matthews, "Cry Freedom".
Let him who would enjoy a good future waste none of his present.
Roger Babson
Life is a culmination of the past, an awareness of the present, an indication of a future beyond knowledge, the quality that gives a touch of divinity to matter.
Charles Augustus Lindbergh, Jr.
Our imagination is the only limit to what we can hope to have in the future.
Charles F. Kettering
If you want to imagine the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face forever.
George Orwell, 1984
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
Whoso neglects learning in his youth, Loses the past and is dead for the future.
Euripides