Future Quotes

If we are to better the future we must disturb the present.

His whole future seemed suddenly to be unrolled before him; and passing down its endless emptiness he saw the dwindling figure of a man to whom nothing was ever to happen.

Most people are prisoners, thinking only about the future or living in the past. They are not in the present, and the present is where everything begins.

The past cannot be changed. The future is yet in your power.

The truth is, wherever you choose to be, it's the wrong place.

I say I'm in love with her. What does that mean? It means I review my future and my past in the light of this feeling. It is as though I wrote in a foreign language that I am suddenly able to read. Wordlessly, she explains me to myself. LIke genius she is ignorant of what she does.

The past doesn't equal the future.

Losers live in the past. Winners learn from the past and enjoy working in the present toward the future.

The future always comes too fast and in the wrong order.

The best way to predict the future is to invent it.

Books, I found, had the power to make time stand still, retreat or fly into the future.

Life is divided into three terms - that which was, which is, and which will be. Let us learn from the past to profit by the present, and from the present, to live better in the future.

Our past, our present, and whatever remains of our future, absolutely depend on what we do now.

Future. That period of time in which our affairs prosper, our friends are true and our happiness is assured.

The past exists only in our memories, the future only in our plans. The present is our only reality.

Whoso neglects learning in his youth, loses the past and is dead for the future.

We have within ourselves Enough to fill the present day with joy, And overspread the future years with hope.

To the wrongs that need resistance, To the right that needs assistance, To the future in the distance, Give yourselves.

Almost every successful person begins with two beliefs: the future can be better than the present, and I have the power to make it so.

We are called to be architects of the future, not its victims.

America's future will be determined by the home and the school. The child becomes largely what he is taught; hence we must watch what we teach, and how we live.

The direction in which education starts a man will determine his future in life.

The future enters into us, in order to transform itself in us, long before it happens.

Always remember that the future comes one day at a time.

Republicans are men of narrow vision, who are afraid of the future.

Man spends his life in reasoning on the past, in complaining of the present, in fearing future.

One faces the future with one's past.

When you forgive, you in no way change the past - but you sure do change the future.

We must welcome the future, remembering that soon it will be the past; and we must respect the past, remembering that it was once all that was humanly possible.

The best of prophets of the future is the past

A time will come when men will stretch out their eyes. They should see planets like our Earth.

We should regret our mistakes and learn from them, but never carry them forward into the future with us.

Whether you are sixteen or sixty, the rest of your life is ahead of you. You cannot change one moment of your past, but you can change your whole future. Now is your time.

Every tomorrow has two handles. We can take hold of it with the handle of anxiety or the handle of faith.

I have memories - but only a fool stores his past in the future.

I’ve learned not to worry about what might come next.

The vast possibilities of our great future will become realities only if we make ourselves responsible for that future.

You may have created my past and screwed up my present, but you have no control over my future.

I don't know what the future may hold, but I know who holds the future.

If the world should blow itself up, the last audible voice would be that of an expert saying it can't be done.

Trying to predict the future is like trying to drive down a country road at night with no lights while looking out the back window.

Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow. The important thing is not to stop questioning.

We not only romanticize the future; we have also made it into a growth industry, a parlor game and a disaster movie all at the same time.

Right actions in the future are the best apologies for bad actions in the past.

Nobody gets to live life backward. Look ahead, that is where your future lies.

Many of us crucify ourselves between two thieves - regret for the past and fear of the future.

America is therefore the land of the future, where, in the ages that lie before us, the burden of the World's History shall reveal itself.

School is practice for the future, and practice makes perfect. But nobody's perfect, so why practice?

We need to ensure the poorest in the planet - who will be hardest hit by the financial crisis - are not forgotten.

Lying makes a problem part of the future; truth makes a problem part of the past.

The future is called 'perhaps,' which is the only possible thing to call the future. And the important thing is not to allow that to scare you.

Community colleges are one of Americas great social inventions a gateway to the future for first time students looking for an affordable college education, and for mid-career students looking to get ahead in the workplace.

The only way to predict the future is to have power to shape the future.

The future hasn't happened yet and the past is gone. So I think the only moment we have is right here and now, and I try to make the best of those moments, the moments that I'm in.

The future of humanity is uncertain, even in the most prosperous countries, and the quality of life deteriorates; and yet I believe that what is being discovered about the infinitely large and infinitely small is sufficient to absolve this end of the century and millennium. What a very few are acquiring in knowledge of the physical world will perhaps cause this period not to be judged as a pure return of barbarism.

The past is not dead, it is living in us, and will be alive in the future which we are now helping to make.

The Christian of the future will be a mystic or he will not exist at all.

The religion of the future will be a cosmic religion. It should transcend a personal God and avoid dogmas and theology. Covering both the natural and the spiritual, it should be based on a religious sense arising from the experience of all things, natural and spiritual, as a meaningful unity. Buddhism answers this description.

We are, perhaps, uniquely among the earth's creatures, the worrying animal. We worry away our lives, fearing the future, discontent with the present, unable to take in the idea of dying, unable to sit still.

Depression is the inability to construct a future.

Let him who would enjoy a good future waste none of his present.

Let your hopes, not your hurts, shape your future.

Bear in mind that the wonderful things you learn in your schools are the work of many generations. All this is put in your hands as your inheritance in order that you may receive it, honor it, add to it, and one day faithfully hand it on to your children.

Because we don't think about future generations, they will never forget us.

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.

There is hope for the future because God has a sense of humor and we are funny to God.

We are living beyond our means. As a people we have developed a life-style 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.

One today is worth two tomorrows.

The future is purchased by the present.

A youth is to be regarded with respect. How do we know that his future will not be equal to our present?

Whatever with the past has gone, The best is always yet to come.

The future of each of us is inter-connected and all of us should work together by following the path laid down by former leaders of the party for the development of the country and its brighter future.

The past, the present and the future are really one: they are today.

Living in dreams of yesterday, we find ourselves still dreaming of impossible future conquests.

I know of no way of judging the future but by the past.

A dream is your creative vision for your life in the future. You must break out of your current comfort zone and become comfortable with the unfamiliar and the unknown.

At every crossroads on the path that leads to the future, tradition has placed 10,000 men to guard the past.

Your past is not your potential. In any hour you can choose to liberate the future.

When all else is lost, the future still remains.

Reactionary: a man walking backwards with his face to the future.

While I take inspiration from the past, like most Americans, I live for the future.

Life is a series of collisions with the future; it is not the sum of what we have been, but what we yearn to be.

The trouble with our times is that the future is not what it used to be.

The world is full of people whose notion of a satisfactory future is, in fact, a return to the idealised past.

Prejudice is a burden that confuses the past, threatens the future and renders the present inaccessible.

Once I knew only darkness and stillness... my life was without past or future... but a little word from the fingers of another fell into my hand that clutched at emptiness, and my heart leaped to the rapture of living.

The philosophy of the school room in one generation will be the philosophy of government in the next.

Fascism, the more it considers and observes the future and the development of humanity, quite apart from political considerations of the moment, believes neither in the possibility nor the utility of perpetual peace.

Our faith in the present dies out long before our faith in the future.

My philosophy is that not only are you responsible for your life, but doing the best at this moment puts you I the best place for the next moment.

The best preparation for the future is the present well seen to, and the last duty done.

We should not fret for what is past, nor should we be anxious about the future; men of discernment deal only with the present moment.

Every great work of art has two faces, one toward its own time and one toward the future, toward eternity.

Nobody can really guarantee the future. The best we can do is size up the chances, calculate the risks involved, estimate our ability to deal with them and then make our plans with confidence.

Progress imposes not only new possibilities for the future but new restrictions.

At some future period, not very distant as measured by centuries, the civilized races of man will almost certainly exterminate, and replace the savage races throughout the world.

You've got to be very careful if you don't know where you are going, because you might not get there.

Do your duty and a little more and the future will take care of itself.

Two persons love in one another the future good which they aid one another to unfold.

It is far better to foresee even without certainty than not to foresee at all.

The future? Like unwritten books and unborn children, you don't talk about it.

There are no limits to our future if we don't put limits on our people.

A speculator is a man who observes the future, and acts before it occurs.

For me chemistry represented an indefinite cloud of future potentialities which enveloped my life to come in black volutes torn by fiery flashes, like those which had hidden Mount Sinai. Like Moses, from that cloud I expected my law, the principle of order in me, around me, and in the world. I would watch the buds swell in spring, the mica glint in the granite, my own hands, and I would say to myself: I will understand this, too, I will understand everything.

If you do not think about the future, you cannot have one.

The atomic bomb made the prospect of future war unendurable. It has led us up those last few steps to the mountain pass; and beyond there is a different country.

In order to plan your future wisely, it is necessary that you understand and appreciate your past.

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.

If we are to teach real peace in this world, and if we are to carry on a real war against war, we shall have to begin with the children.

The first rule of sustainability is to align with natural forces, or at least not try to defy them

Optimists enrich the present, enhance the future,challenge the improbable and attain the impossible

Promises are the uniquely human way of ordering the future, making it predictable and reliable to the extent that this is humanly possible.

If future generations are to remember us more with gratitude than sorrow, we must achieve more than just the miracles of technology. We must also leave them a glimpse of the world as it was created, not just as it looked when we got through with it.

Seize the day, and put the least possible trust in tomorrow.

Governments must give to all those who have hit life's hurdles the chance to rebuild and have a future.

If civilization has risen from the Stone Age, it can rise again from the Wastepaper Age.

Business, more than any other occupation, is a continual dealing with the future; it is a continual calculation, an instinctive exercise in foresight.

Fortunately for children, the uncertainties of the present always give way to the enchanted possibilities of the future.

As one went to Europe to see the living past, so one must visit Southern California to observe the future.

A good education is that which prepares us for our future sphere of action and makes us contented with that situation in life in which God, in his infinite mercy, has seen fit to place us, to be perfectly resigned to our lot in life, whatever it may be.

Existence is no more than the precarious attainment of relevance in an intensely mobile flux of past, present, and future.

Set your sights high, the higher the better. Expect the most wonderful things to happen, not in the future but right now. Realize that nothing is too good. Allow absolutely nothing to hamper you or hold you up in any way.

I have seen the future, and it works.

Learn from the past, set vivid, detailed goals for the future, and live in the only moment of time over which you have any control: now.

Drugs are the enemies of ambition and hope - and when we fight against drugs we are fighting for the future.

Planning is bringing the future into the present so that you can do something about it now.

One of my few shortcomings is that I can't predict the future.

For I dipped into the future, far as human eye could see,Saw the Vision of the world, and all the wonder that would be.

The people gave me the responsibility of building the future of this nation. And I did it with honor.

Upper classes are a nation's past; the middle class is its future.

I believe that Canadians have the common sense to see that a better future cannot be built on fragmentation.

I believe the future is only the past again, entered through another gate.

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.

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.

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.

Carry on any enterprise as if all future success depended on it.

The past is an old armchair in the attic, the present an ominous ticking sound, and the future is anybody's guess

Every time I see an adult on a bicycle, I no longer despair for the future of the human race.

Just what future the Designer of the universe has provided for the souls of men I do not know, I cannot prove. But I find that the whole order of Nature confirms my confidence that, if it is not like our noblest hopes and dreams, it will transcend them.

Your future takes precedence over your past. Focus on your future, rather than on the past.

The present was an egg laid by the past that had the future inside its shell.

Thinking about the future and thinking about the past is really only a way of ignoring the present.

We are confronted with insurmountable opportunities.

It is sound judgment to hope that in the not too distant future we shall be competent to understand so simple a thing as a star.

Make every thought, every fact, that comes into your mind pay you a profit. Make it work and produce for you. Think of things not as they are but as they might be. Don't merely dream - but create!

The girl with a future avoids a man with a past.

Some people are making such thorough preparation for rainy days that they aren't enjoying today's sunshine.

We have to do with the past only as we can make it useful to the present and the future.

There is not any present moment that is unconnected with some future one. The life of every man is a continued chain of incidents, each link of which hangs upon the former. The transition from cause to effect, from event to event, is often carried on by secret steps, which our foresight cannot divine, and our sagacity is unable to trace. Evil may at some future period bring forth good; and good may bring forth evil, both equally unexpected.

I try not to worry about the future - so I take each day just one anxiety attack at a time.

I don't know where I'm going to be in three years. Because I have the feeling that the future is so full of possibilities, to stop being an actress, to do something else... for me, the future is just a huge bunch of discoveries.

I try to learn from the past, but I plan for the future by focusing exclusively on the present. That's where the fun is.

I think the future looks great for music, musicians, bass players, and all we love about music.

If we open a quarrel between past and present, we shall find that we have lost the future.

Life is a culmination of the past, an awareness of the present, an indication of a future beyond knowledge, the quality that gives a touch of divinity to matter.

A man who has never made a woman angry is a failure in life.

The future is religion and commerce, aphrodisiac and Benzedrine, a mother of mysterious comfort and a mistress of familiar ravishments ever on the verge of embracing or destroying us.

Cambodia possesses now the rights to look far into the future and everything for making a future construction is waiting for the Cambodian own efforts.

Everyone's future is, in reality, uncertain and full of unknown treasures from which all may draw unguessed prizes.

Demoralize the enemy from within by surprise, terror, sabotage, assassination. This is the war of the future.

The distinction between the past, present and future is only a stubbornly persistent illusion.

Worry not about the possible troubles of the future; for if they come, you are but anticipating and adding to their weight; and if they do not come, your worry is useless; and in either case it is weak and in vain, and a distrust of God's providence.

To design the future effectively, you must first let go of your past.

The future... seems to me no unified dream but a mince pie, long in the baking, never quite done.

An author is a fool who, not content with boring those he lives with, insists on boring future generations.

I don't know what's coming next and neither does anyone else. It's something that we do have to face but the thing is that a lot of people don't want to face it. And there's denial. If somebody says it, like me, everybody feels a little better that they can discuss it.

Man has a limited biological capacity for change. When this capacity is overwhelmed, the capacity is in future shock.

Our awesome responsibility to ourselves, to our children, and to the future is to create ourselves in the image of goodness, because the future depends on the nobility of our imaginings.

I'm convinced there's a small room in the attic of the Foreign Office where future diplomats are taught to stammer.

Look to the past and remember no empire rises that sooner or later won't fall.

The most reliable way to forecast the future is to try to understand the present.

The future lies in designing and selling computers that people don't realize are computers at all.

Without forgiveness, there's no future.

In a world that is constantly changing, there is no one subject or set of subjects that will serve you for the foreseeable future, let alone for the rest of your life. The most important skill to acquire now is learning how to learn.

The future is much like the present, only longer.

It is my firm belief that I have a link with the past and a responsibility to the future. I cannot give up. I cannot despair. There's a whole future, generations to come. I have to keep trying.

I've seen the future and it's much like the present only longer.

Men are often capable of greater things than they perform - They are sent into the world with bills of credit, and seldom draw to their full extent.

I would not think that philosophy and reason themselves will be man's guide in the foreseeable future; however, they will remain the most beautiful sanctuary they have always been for the select few.

Isn't it a shame that future generations can't be here to see all the wonderful things we're doing with their money?

It is never safe to look into the future with eyes of fear.

The law of humanity ought to be composed of the past, the present, and the future, that we bear within us; whoever possesses but one of these terms, has but a fragment of the law of the moral world.

Children have neither a past nor a future. Thus they enjoy the present, which seldom happens to us.

Effective managers live in the present but concentrate on the future.

The future, according to some scientists, will be exactly like the past, only far more expensive.

Children are the world's most valuable resource and its best hope for the future

Tis easy to see, hard to foresee.

We live in the present, we dream of the future and we learn eternal truths from the past.

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.

The future will be better tomorrow.

Every man is his own ancestor, and every man is his own heir. He devises his own future, and he inherits his own past.

Yet, our achievements also mask many continuing failings and seem to expose more future dangers.

Our real interest starts with our neighbors... the future is about regional economies.

Our history is not our destiny

More and more Emerson recedes grandly into history, as the future he predicted becomes a past.

Finish each day and be done with it. You have done what you could. Some blunders and absurdities no doubt crept in, forget them as soon as you can. Tomorrow is a new day, you shall begin it well and serenely...

The past is really almost as much a work of the imagination as the future.

The future can be anything we want it to be, providing we have the faith and that we realize that peace, no less than war, required "blood and sweat and tears.".

The trouble with worrying so much about your security in the future is that you feel so insecure in the present.

Do not dwell in the past, do not dream of the future, concentrate the mind on the present moment.

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.

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.

If you succumb to the temptation of using violence in the struggle, unborn generations will be the recipients of a long and desolate night of bitterness, and your chief legacy to the future will be an endless reign of meaningless chaos.

Trust no future, however pleasant! Let the dead past bury its dead! Act — act in the living Present! Heart within and God overhead.

Many people think that if they were only in some other place, or had some other job, they would be happy. Well, that is doubtful. So get as much happiness out of what you are doing as you can and don't put off being happy until some future date.

A politician needs the ability to foretell what is going to happen tomorrow, next week, next month, and next year. And to have the ability afterwards to explain why it didn't happen.

The future masters of technology will have to be light-hearted and intelligent. The machine easily masters the grim and the dumb.

For tomorrow belongs to the people who prepare for it today

Stop acting as if life is a rehearsal. Live this day as if it were your last. The past is over and gone. The future is not guaranteed.

My interest is in the future because I am going to spend the rest of my life there

Everything that looks to the future elevates human nature; for never is life so low or so little as when occupied with the present.

Technology is fine. . ., but that popular vision of the future, where you plug somebody in and leave them there and they don't get out and interact with actual flesh-and-blood humans - you know the answer before I say it - that's not good.

Our death is not an end if we can live on in our children and the younger generation. For they are us; our bodies are only wilted leaves on the tree of life.

Cease to inquire what the future has in store, and take as a gift whatever the day brings forth.

The future is made of the same stuff as the present.

Find something you love to do and you'll never have to work a day in your life

Smiles form the channels of a future tear.

The future influences the present just as much as the past.

The main goal of the future is to stop violence. The world is addicted to it.

Our destiny exercises its influence over us even when, as yet, we have not learned its nature: it is our future that lays down the law of our today

With our eyes fixed on the future, but recognizing the realities of today, we will achieve our destiny to be as a shining city on a hill for all mankind to see.

When all is said and done, and statesmen discuss the future of the world, the fact remains that people fight these wars.

The empires of the future are the empires of the mind.

If we were logical, the future would be bleak, indeed. But we are more than logical. We are human beings, and we have faith, and we have hope, and we can work.

I write a lot too, so I would like to write or direct in the future if I can.

I was a peripheral visionary. I could see the future, but only way off to the side.

The source of anxiety lies in the future. If you can keep the future out of mind, you can forget your worries

There is no law of progress. Our future is in our own hands, to make or to mar. It will be an uphill fight to the end, and would we have it otherwise? Let no one suppose that evolution will ever exempt us from struggles. 'You forget,' said the Devil, with a chuckle, 'that I have been evolving too.

The future has a way of arriving unannounced.

The future is hidden even from those who make it.

Go for it now. The future is promised to no one.

There is a case, and a strong case, for that particular form of indolence that allows us to move through life knowing only what immediately concerns us.

There is no justification for present existence other than its expansion into an indefinitely open future.

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.

He who controls the present, controls the past. He who controls the past, controls the future.

Through loyalty to the past, our mind refuses to realize that tomorrow's joy is possible only if today's makes way for it; that each wave owes the beauty of its line only to the withdrawal of the preceding one.

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

Genius is a promontory jutting out into the infinite.

Desire and hope will push us on toward the future.

Think of these things, whence you came, where you are going, and to whom you must account.

I don't try to describe the future. I try to prevent it.

When you can be your own best audience and when your applause is the best applause you know of, youre in good shape.

Very strange is this quality of our human nature which decrees that unless we feel a future before us we do not live completely in the present.

Our imagination is the only limit to what we can hope to have in the future

All sciences are now under the obligation to prepare the ground for the future task of the philosopher, which is to solve the problem of value, to determine the true hierarchy of values.

There are no mistakes, no coincidences. All events are blessings given to us to learn from.

Generations to come will find it difficult to believe that a man such as Gandhi ever walked the face of this earth.

He who is prepared for the future and he who deals cleverly with any situation that may arise are both happy; but the fatalistic man who wholly depends on luck is ruined.

For athletes traditionally it's such a fantastic stepping stone to greater things down the track and in the future. Don't undermine the Commonwealth Games!

The fact that there is a general belief in a future life is no evidence of its truth

When you make a mistake, don't look back at it long. Take the reason of the thing into your mind and then look forward. Mistakes are lessons of wisdom. The past cannot be changed. The future is yet in your power.

There is always one moment in childhood when the door opens and lets the future in.

The danger of the past was that men became slaves. The danger of the future is that men may become robots. True enough, robots do not rebel. But given man's nature, robots cannot live and remain sane, they become ''Golems,'' they will destroy their world and themselves because they cannot stand any longer the boredom of a meaningless life.

The one characteristic more essential than any other is foresight... It should be the growing nation with a future which takes the long look ahead.

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.

You can never plan the future by the past.

We must reinvent a future free of blinders so that we can choose from real options.