Future Quotes
Man has a limited biological capacity for change. When this capacity is overwhelmed, the capacity is in future shock.Alvin Toffle
All successful people men and women are big dreamers. They imagine what their future could be, ideal in every respect, and then they work every day toward their distant vision, that goal or purpose.Brian Tracy
The present is theirs the future, for which I really worked, is mine.Nikola Tesla
At every crossroads on the path that leads to the future, tradition has placed 10, 000 men to guard the past.Maurice Masterlinck
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
Children have neither a past nor a future. Thus they enjoy the present - which seldom happens to us.Jean De La Bruyere
We say that the hour of death cannot be forecast, but when we say this we imagine that hour as placed in an obscure and distant future. It never occurs to us that it has any connection with the day already begun or that death could arrive this same afternoon, this afternoon which is so certain and which has every hour filled in advance.Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
We are at the very beginning of time for the human race. It is not unreasonable that we grapple with problems. But there are tens of thousands of years in the future. Our responsibility is to do what we can, learn what we can, improve the solutions, and pass them on.Richard Feynman
The future is much like the present, only longer.Don Quisenberry
Change is the law of life; and those who look only to the past or the present are certain to miss the future.John F. Kennedy
I would feel more optimistic about a bright future for man if he spent less time proving that he can outwit Nature and more time tasting her sweetness and respecting her seniority.E. B. White
The illiterate of the future will not be the person who cannot read. It will be the person who does not know how to learn.Alvin Toffle
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 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.
To make no mistakes is not in the power of man; but from their errors and mistakes the wise and good learn wisdom for the future.Plutarch
Real generosity toward the future consists in giving all to what is present.Albert Camus
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
The direction in which education starts a man will determine his future life.Plato, The Republic
The secret of health for both mind and body is not to mourn for the past, worry about the future, or anticipate troubles but to live in the present moment wisely and earnestly.Buddha
The crippling of individuals I consider the worst evil of capitalism. Our whole educational system suffers from this evil. An exaggerated competitive attitude is inculcated into the student, who is trained to worship acquisitive success as a perparation for his future career.Albert Einstein
The speciality of the future is generalism.Wayne Van Dyck
Underlying the whole scheme of civilization is the confidence men have in each other, confidence in their integrity, confidence in their honesty, confidence in their future.Bourke Cockran
I have never seen the slightest scientific proof of the religious idea of heaven and hell, of future life for individuals, or of a personal God.Thomas A. Edison
And yesterday he would have killed me to get to his foe. But now we serve each other. Only a fool walks into the future backward.Terry Goodkind, "Stone of Tears".
Who can tell who will be the President a year from now? - - John F. Kennedy, speaking to the president of Harvard about why he did not want to delay signing documents relating to a future JFK Presidential Library, 2 October 1963.John F. Kennedy, "A Thousand Days, " by Arthur Schlesinger Jr. [1965]
A preoccupation with the future not only prevents us from seeing the present as it is but often prompts us to rearrange the past.Eric Hoffer, The Passionate State of Mind, 1954
Telling the future by looking at the past assumes that conditions remain constant. This is like driving a car by looking in the rearview mirror.Herb Brody
The most decisive actions of our life - - I mean those that are most likely to decide the whole course of our future - - Are, more often than not, unconsidered.Andre Gide
We live in the present, we dream of the future, but we learn eternal truths from the past.Madame Chiang
A compassionate government keeps faith with the trust of the people and cherishes the future of their children.Lyndon B. Johnson
These days people seek knowledge, not wisdom. Knowledge is of the past, wisdom is of the future.Vernon Coope
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
You can never plan the future by the past.Edmund Burke
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
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
The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.Eleanor Roosevelt
Look not mournfully into the past. It comes not back again. Wisely improve the present. It is thine. Go forth to meet the shadowy future, without fear.Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Until divinity decides to reveal the future to human kind, the sum of all human wisdom is contained in these two words: Wait and Hope.Alexandre Dumas, Translation from "The Count of Monte Cristo".
