Future Quotes
In early childhood you may lay the foundation of poverty or riches, industry or idleness, good or evil, by the habits to which you train your children. Teach them right habits then, and their future life is safe.Lydia Sigourney
I never think of the future - It comes soon enough.Albert Einstein
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
I believe the future is only the past again, entered through another gate.Arthur Wing Pinero
He who controls the past controls the future.George Orwell, "Nineteen Eighty - Four".
Never let the future disturb you. You will meet it, if you have to, with the same weapons of reason which today arm you against the present.Marcus Aurelius Antoninus, Meditations, 200 A. D.
The future comes one day at a time.Dean Gooderham Acheson
Children have neither a past nor a future. Thus they enjoy the present - - which seldom happens to us.La Bruyere
The challenges of change are always hard. It is important that we begin to unpack those challenges that confront this nation and realize that we each have a role that requires us to change and become more responsible for shaping our own future.Hillary Rodham Clinton
The main goal of the future is to stop violence. The world is addicted to it.Bill Cosby
The past is certain, the future obscure.Thales
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.
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
The thing to remember is that that the future comes one day at a time.Dean Acheson, Communication Bulletin for Managers & Supervisors, June 2004
In history as in life it is success that counts. Start a political upheaval and let yourself be caught, and you will hang as a traitor. But place yourself at the head of a rebellion and gain your point, and all future generations will worship you as the Father of their Country.Hendrik W. Van Loon
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
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
In a time of drastic change it is the learners who inherit the future. The learned usually find themselves equipped to live in a world that no longer exists.Eric Hoffe
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
Whoso neglects learning in his youth, Loses the past and is dead for the future.Euripides, Phrixus
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
In the future everyone will be famous for fifteen minutes.Andy Warhol
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
We cannot always build the future for our youth, but we can build our youth for the future.Franklin D. Roosevelt
Learn from the past, Hope for the future, Live in the present.Ken Lancaste
We must respect the past, and mistrust the present, if we wish to provide for the safety of the future.Jeseph Joubert
History repeats itself and history never repeats itself are about equally trueWe never know enough about the infinitely complex circumstances of any past event to prophesy the future by analogy.George Macaulay Trevelyan
The trouble with our times is that the future is not what it used to be.Paul Valery
These days people seek knowledge, not wisdom. Knowledge is of the past, wisdom is of the future.Vernon Coope
The future has a way of arriving unannounced.George Will
Prejudice is a burden that confuses the past, threatens the future and renders the present inaccessible.Maya Angelou
A youth is to be regarded with respect. How do you know that his future will not be equal to our present?Confucius, Analects
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
It is by no means an irrational fancy that, in a future existence, we shall look upon what we think our present existence, as a dream.Edgar Allan Poe
The future is an opaque mirror. Anyone who tries to look into it sees nothing but the dim outlines of an old and worried face.Jim Bishop, New York Journal - American, March 14, 1959
While I take inspiration from the past, like most Americans, I live for the future.Ronald Reagan
Disconnecting from change does not recapture the past. It loses the future.Kathleen Norris, O Magazine, January 2004
If we can recognize that change and uncertainty are basic principles, we can greet the future and the transformation we are undergoing with the understanding that we do not know enough to be pessimistic.Hazel Henderson
