Future Quotes

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

The function of science fiction is not always to predict the future but sometimes to prevent it.

Frank Herbert

The American lives even more for his goals, for the future, than the European. Life for him is always becoming, never being.

Albert Einstein

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

Be positive in addressing the envelope to your future, For enclosed are your efforts from the past. Be certain of the postage and double check what class.

Unknown

He who controls the past commands the future. He who commands the future conquers the past.

George Orwell

The future is like heaven, everyone exalts it, but no one wants to go there now.

James Arthur Baldwin

The future is much like the present, only longer.

Don Quisenberry

We have no right to assume that any physical laws exist, or if they have existed up until now, that they will continue to exist in a similar manner in the future.

Max Karl Ernst Ludwig Planck

My past is my wisdom to use today... my future is my wisdom yet to experience. Be in the present because that is where life resides.

Gene Oliver, Life and the Artistry of Change

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

What happens when the future has come and gone?

Robert Half

Strategy is a style of thinking, a conscious and deliberate process, an intensive implementation system, the science of insuring future success.

Pete Johnson

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

Real generosity toward the future consists in giving all to what is present.

Albert Camus

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

Never let a stain from the past put a mark on your future.

Jillian Graham, Chicken Soup for the Preteen Soul

A Church without Youth is a Church without a future. Moreover, Youth without a Church is Youth without a future.

Pope Shenouda III, Pope & Patriach of Alexandria

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

There is nothing like dream to create the future. Utopia to - Day, flesh and blood tomorrow.

Victor Hugo, Les Miserables, 1862

I know of no way to judge the future but by the past.

Patrick Henry

I have realized that the past and future are real illusions, that they exist in the present, which is what there is and all there is.

Alan Watts

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

The concept of progress acts as a protective mechanism to shield us from the terrors of the future.

Frank Herbert

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".

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

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

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

You can never plan the future by the past.

Edmund Burke

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

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

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

The best thing about the future is that it comes one day at a time.

Abraham Lincoln

If you want to imagine the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face forever.

George Orwell, 1984

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

You need people who can walk their companies into the future rather than back them into the future.

Warren Bennis

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

Our test of truth is a reference to either a present or imagined future majority in favour of our view.

Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.