Future Quotes
People like us, who believe in physics, know that the distinction between past, present, and future is only a stubbornly persistent illusion.Albert Einstein
Every small, positive change we make in ourselves repays us in confidence in the future.Alice Walke
The secret of health for both mind and body is not to mourn for the past, nor to worry about the future, but to live the present moment wisely and earnestly.Buddha
We are living beyond our means. As a people we have developed a lifestyle that is draining the earth of its priceless and irreplaceable resources without regard for the future of our children and people all around the world.Margaret Mead
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
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
The future is the past returning through another gate.Arnold Glasgow
To state the facts frankly is not to despair the future nor indict the past. The prudent heir takes careful inventory of his legacies and gives a faithful accounting to those whom he owes an obligation of trust.John Fitzgerald Kennedy
One problem with gazing too frequently into the past is that we may turn around to find the future has run out on us.Michael Cibenko
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
The past is certain, the future obscure.Thales
Live neither in the present nor the future, but in the eternal. The giant weed of evil cannot flower there this blot upon existence is wiped out by the very atmosphere of eternal thought.H Hahn Blavatsky
Educate your children to self - Control, to the habit of holding passion and prejudice and evil tendencies to an upright and reasoning will, and you have done much to abolish misery from their future lives and crimes to society.Daniel Webste
He who controls the past commands the future. He who commands the future conquers the past.George Orwell
While day by day the overzealous student stores up facts for future use, He who has learned to trust nature finds need for ever fewer external directions. He will discard formula after formula, until he reaches the conclusion Let nature take its course. By letting each thing act in accordance with its own nature, everything that needs to be done gets done.Lao Tzu
You need people who can walk their companies into the future rather than back them into the future.Warren Bennis
Never let a stain from the past put a mark on your future.Jillian Graham, Chicken Soup for the Preteen Soul
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 fact is, that civilization requires slaves. The Greeks were quite right there. Unless there are slaves to do the ugly, horrible, uninteresting work, culture, and contemplation become almost impossible. Human slavery is wrong, insecure, and demoralizing. On mechanical slavery, on the slavery of the machine, the future of the world depends.Oscar Wilde
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
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
Be careful that victories do not carry the seed of future defeats.Ralph W. Sockman
Our destiny rules over us, even when we are not yet aware of it it is the future that makes laws for us today.Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche
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
The future is a hundred thousand threads, but the past is a fabric that can never be rewoven.Orson Scott Card, Xenocide
Sin bravely... We will never have all the facts to make a perfect judgement, but with the aid of basic experience we must leap bravely into the future.Russell R. McIntyre
Let him who would enjoy a good future waste none of his present.Roger Babson
We must never allow the future to be weighed down by memory. For children have no past, and that is the whole secret of the magical innocence of their smiles.Milan Kundera, The Book of Laughter and Forgetting
A compassionate government keeps faith with the trust of the people and cherishes the future of their children.Lyndon B. Johnson
The future has a way of arriving unannounced.George Will
In the future everyone will be world - Famous for fifteen minutes.Andy Warhol
I believe the future is only the past again, entered through another gate.Arthur Wing Pinero
Our test of truth is a reference to either a present or imagined future majority in favour of our view.Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.
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
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
Conservatism discards Prescription, shrinks from Principle, disavows Progress having rejected all respect for antiquity, it offers no redress for the present, and makes no preparation for the future.Benjamin Disraeli
The dynamics of capitalism is postponement of enjoyment to the constantly postponed future.Norman O. Brown
In the future everyone will be famous for fifteen minutes.Andy Warhol

