Future Quotes

Dean acheson, communication bulletin for managers & supervisors, june 2004 - the thing to remember is that that the future...
My interest is in the future because I am going to spend the rest of my life there.
Charles F. Kettering
The future belongs to those who prepare for it today.
Malcolm X
We must respect the past, and mistrust the present, if we wish to provide for the safety of the future.
Jeseph Joubert
Books, I found, had the power to make time stand still, retreat or fly into the future.
Jim
When you relinquish the desire to control your future, you can have more happiness.
Nicole Kidman, in The Scotsman
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 best way to predict the future is to invent it.
Alan Kay
A youth is to be regarded with respect. How do you know that his future will not be equal to our present?
Confucius, Analects
There is always one moment in childhood when the door opens and lets the future in.
Graham Greene, The Power and the Glory
So different are the colours of life, as we look forward to the future, or backward to the past and so different the opinions and sentiments which this contrariety of appearance naturally produces, that the conversation of the old and young ends generally with contempt or pity on either side.
Victor Hugo
The future belongs to those who can rise above the confines of the earth.
Alfred North Whitehead, From the viewbook of Embry - Riddle Aeronautical University
In the future everyone will be world - Famous for fifteen minutes.
Andy Warhol
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 future has a way of arriving unannounced.
George Will
An author is a fool who, not content with boring those he lives with, insists on boring future generations.
Charles de Montesquieu
Fear not for the future, weep not for the past.
Percy Bysshe Shelley
Those who stare at the past have their backs turned to the future.
Unknown
Disconnecting from change does not recapture the past. It loses the future.
Kathleen Norris, O Magazine, January 2004
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
Only a scientific people can survive in a scientific future.
Thomas H. Huxley
All my children have spoken for themselves since they first learned to speak, and not always with my advance approval, and I expect that to continue in the future.
Gerald R. Ford
Champions know that success is inevitable that there is no such thing as failure, only feedback. They know that the best way to forecast the future is to create it.
Michael J. Gel
If you will protest courageously, and yet with dignity and Christian love, when the history books are written in future generations, the historians will have to pause and say, There lived a great people - A black people - who injected new meaning and dignity into the veins of civilization.
Martin Luther King, Jr.
Heal the past, Live the present, Dream the future.
Unknown
I never think of the future - It comes soon enough.
Albert Einstein
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
While I take inspiration from the past, like most Americans, I live for the future.
Ronald Reagan
I predict future happiness for Americans if they can prevent the government from wasting the labors of the people under the pretense of taking care of them.
Thomas Jefferson
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
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
There are many methods for predicting the future. For example, you can read horoscopes, tea leaves, tarot cards, or crystal balls. Collectively, these methods are known as nutty methods. Or you can put well - Researched facts into sophisticated computer models, more commonly referred to as a complete waste of time.
Scott Adams, The Dilbert Future
To live in the past or in the future may be less satisfying than to live in the present, but it can never be as disillusioning.
R. D. Laing
What happens when the future has come and gone?
Robert Half
Education a debt due from present to future generations.
George Peabody
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
The future is a hundred thousand threads, but the past is a fabric that can never be rewoven.
Orson Scott Card, Xenocide
Our task is not to fix the blame for the past, but to fix the course for the future.
John Fitzgerald Kennedy
The mind of man is capable of anything - - Because everything is in it, all the past as well as all the future.
Joseph Conrad
Prediction is very difficult, especially about the future.
Niels Boh