Future Quotes

Friedrich wilhelm nietzsche - our destiny rules over us, even when we are not...
The Future is something which everyone reaches at the rate of sixty minutes an hour, whatever he does, whoever he is.
Clive Staples Lewis
Conservation is humanity caring for the future.
Nancy Newhall
He who controls the past commands the future. He who commands the future conquers the past.
George Orwell
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
Every time I see an adult on a bicycle, I no longer despair for the future of the human race.
H. G. Wells
If you do not think about the future, you cannot have one.
John Galsworthy
To believe in something to yet proved and to underwrite it with our lives it is the only way we can leave the future open.
Lillian Smith
A generation which ignores history has no past and no future.
Robert Heinlein, The Notebooks of Lazurus Long
When clouds form in the skies we know that rain will follow but we must not wait for it. Nothing will be achieved by attempting to interfere with the future before the time is ripe. Patience is needed.
I Ching
I like the dreams of the future better than the history of the past.
Thomas Jefferson
For I dipt into the future, as far as human eye can see, saw the vision of the world, and the wonder that would be.
Lord Alfred Tennyson, Ulysses
The rest of the world is sweeping past us. The oil and gas of the Texas future is the well - Educated mind. But we are still worried about whether Midland can beat Odessa at football.
Mark White
Erich frohm - as long as anyone believes that his ideal and...
It is difficult to live in the present, ridiculous to live in the future, and impossible to live in the past. Nothing is as far away as one minute ago.
Jim Bishop
A liberal is a man or a woman or a child who looks forward to a better day, a more tranquil night, and a bright, infinite future.
Leonard Bernstein
Everyone should free their mind and soul. Some are ready to free them now, and some will be ready to free them in the future. Some will never be ready and that is what makes their lives not worth living.
Emad Hasan
The future is like heaven, everyone exalts it, but no one wants to go there now.
James Arthur Baldwin
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
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
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
The future is the past returning through another gate.
Arnold Glasgow
I am treating you as my friend, asking you to share my present minuses in the hope that I can ask you to share my future pluses.
Katherine Mansfield
The future belongs to those who dare.
Anonymous
Where a calculator on the ENIAC is equpped 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
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
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
To the wrongs that need resistance, To the right that needs assistance, To the future in the distance, Give yourselves.
Carrie Chapman Catt
I shall soon be six - And - Twenty. Is there anything in the future that can possibly console us for not being always twenty - Five.
George Gordon Byron
How to make God laugh: Tell him your future plans.
Woody Allen
It is impossible to live in the past, difficult to live in the present and a waste to live in the future.
Frank Herbert, Dune
The future is not something we enter. The future is something we create.
Leonard I. Sweet
Study the past if you would define the future.
Confucius
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
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
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
The empires of the future are the empires of the mind.
Sir Winston Churchill, Speech at Harvard University, September 6, 1943
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
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
Every small, positive change we make in ourselves repays us in confidence in the future.
Alice Walke