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Best Quotes About Future (Top 100)
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We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.
Oscar Wilde -
Every saint has a past, and every sinner has a future.
Oscar Wilde -
What lies behind you and what lies in front of you, pales in comparison to what lies inside of you.
Ralph Waldo Emerson -
I've learned that no matter what happens, or how bad itseems today, life does go on, and it will be better tomorrow. I've learned thatyou can tell a lot about a person by the way he/she handles these three things:a rainy day, lost luggage, and tangled Christmas tree lights. I've learned thatregardless of your relationship with your parents, you'll miss them when they'regone from your life. I've learned that making a living is not the same thing asmaking a life. I've learned that life sometimes gives you a second chance. I've learned that you shouldn't go through life with a catcher's mitt on bothhands; you need to be able to throw some things back. I've learned that wheneverI decide something with an open heart, I usually make the right decision. I'velearned that even when I have pains, I don't have to be one. I've learned thatevery day you should reach out and touch someone. People love a warm hug, orjust a friendly pat on the back. I've learned that I still have a lot to learn. I've learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what youdid, but people will never forget how you made them feel.
Maya Angelou -
The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.
Eleanor Roosevelt -
Never be afraid to trust an unknown future to a known God.
Corrie Ten Boom -
Today was good. Today was fun. Tomorrow is another one.
Dr. Seuss -
The future depends on what you do today.
Mahatma Gandhi -
Real generosity toward the future lies in giving all to the present.
Albert Camus -
If you want a vision of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face - forever.
George Orwell -
Expose yourself to your deepest fear; after that, fear has no power, and the fear of freedom shrinks and vanishes. You are free.
Jim Morrison -
If we can but prevent the government from wasting the labours of the people, under the pretence of taking care of them, they must become happy.
Thomas Jefferson -
Forget your personal tragedy. We are all bitched from the start and you especially have to be hurt like hell before you can write seriously. But when you get the damned hurt, use it-don't cheat with it.
Ernest Hemingway -
Wherever you go, go with all your heart.
Confucius -
Happiness is the meaning and the purpose of life, the whole aim and end of human existence.
Aristotle -
If you are sad, you are living in the past. If you are anxious, you are living the future. If you are at peace, you are living in the present.
Lao Tzu -
Education is the passport to the future, for tomorrow belongs to those who prepare for it today.
Malcolm X -
I like men who have a future and women who have a past.
Oscar Wilde -
When did the future switch from being a promise to being a threat?
Chuck Palahniuk -
There's gon' be some stuff you gon' see that's gon' make it hard to smile in the future. But through whatever you see, through all the rain and the pain, you gotta keep your sense of humor. You gotta be able to smile through all this bullshit. Remember that.
Tupac Shakur -
The more you praise and celebrate your life, the more there is in life to celebrate.
Oprah Winfrey -
People are always shouting they want to create a better future. It's not true. The future is an apathetic void of no interest to anyone. The past is full of life, eager to irritate us, provoke and insult us, tempt us to destroy or repaint it. The only reason people want to be masters of the future is to change the past.
Milan Kundera -
A good friend is a connection to life - a tie to the past, a road to the future, the key to sanity in a totally insane world.
Lois Wyse -
We cannot always build the future for our youth, but we can build our youth for the future.
Franklin D. Roosevelt -
What's in store for me in the direction I don't take?
Jack Kerouac -
Study the past, if you would divine the future.
Confucius -
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 -
The illiterate of the 21st century will not be those who cannot read and write, but those who cannot learn, unlearn, and relearn.
Alvin Toffler -
I never think of the future - it comes soon enough.
Albert Einstein -
A women who doesn't wear perfume has no future.
Coco Chanel -
Change your life today. Don't gamble on the future, act now, without delay.
Simone de Beauvoir -
I see in the near future a crisis approaching that unnerves me and causes me to tremble for the safety of my country... corporations have been enthroned and an era of corruption in high places will follow, and the money power of the country will endeavor to prolong its reign by working upon the prejudices of the people until all wealth is aggregated in a few hands and the Republic is destroyed.
Abraham Lincoln -
The only thing that makes life possible is permanent, intolerable uncertainty; not knowing what comes next.
Ursula K. Le Guin -
Prediction is very difficult, especially if it's about the future.
Niels Bohr -
There is nothing like a dream to create the future.
Victor Hugo -
There comes a point in your life when you realize: Who matters, Who never did, Who won't anymore, And who always will. So, don't worry about people from your past, there's a reason why they didn't make it to your future.
Adam Lindsay Gordon -
The best thing about the future is that it comes one day at a time.
Abraham Lincoln -
I don't see much future for the Americans ... it's a decayed country. And they have their racial problem, and the problem of social inequalities ... my feelings against Americanism are feelings of hatred and deep repugnance ... everything about the behaviour of American society reveals that it's half Judaised, and the other half negrified. How can one expect a State like that to hold together?
Adolf Hitler -
The past is a ghost, the future a dream, and all we ever have is now.
Bill Cosby -
In this bright future you can't forget your past.
Bob Marley -
You cannot escape the responsibility of tomorrow by evading it today.
Abraham Lincoln -
Today is your day! Your mountain is waiting. So... get on your way.
Dr. Seuss -
Here is the rule to remember in the future, When anything tempts you to be bitter: not, 'This is a misfortune' but 'To bear this worthily is good fortune.'
Marcus Aurelius -
In times of change learners inherit the earth; while the learned find themselves beautifully equipped to deal with a world that no longer exists.
Eric Hoffer -
To live for some future goal is shallow. It's the sides of the mountain that sustain life, not the top.
Robert M. Pirsig -
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 and with a manly heart.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow -
I can feel guilty about the past, Apprehensive about the future,but only in the present can I act.The ability to be in the present moment is a major component of mental wellness.
Abraham Maslow -
If we are to create peace in our world, we must begin with our children.
Mahatma Gandhi -
Yesterday is but today's memory, tomorrow is today's dream.
Kahlil Gibran -
A revolution is not a bed of roses. A revolution is a struggle between the future and the past.
Fidel Castro -
Without libraries what have we? We have no past and no future.
Ray Bradbury -
The future ain't what it used to be.
Yogi Berra -
In the blink of an eye, something happens by chance - when you least expect it - sets you on a course that you never planned, into a future you never imagined.
Nicholas Sparks -
I am tomorrow, or some future day, what I establish today. I am today what I established yesterday or some previous day.
James Joyce -
Unless you try to do something beyond what you have already mastered, you will never grow.
Ralph Waldo Emerson -
You are always free to change your mind and choose a different future, or a different past.
Richard Bach -
The future doesn't belong to the light-hearted. It belongs to the brave.
Ronald Reagan -
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 -
My future is righteousness.
Bob Marley -
The trick to forgetting the big picture is to look at everything close-up.
Chuck Palahniuk -
The reason people find it so hard to be happy is that they always see the past better than it was, the present worse than it is, and the future less resolved than it will be.
Marcel Pagnol -
The human race is challenged more than ever before to demonstrate our mastery, not over nature but of ourselves.
Rachel Carson -
The future belongs to crowds.
Don DeLillo -
In every conceivable manner, the family is link to our past, bridge to our future.
Alex Haley -
If you believe that feeling bad or worrying long enough will change a past or future event, then you are residing on another planet with a different reality system.
William James -
Do not anticipate trouble, or worry about what may never happen. Keep in the sunlight.
Benjamin Franklin -
Each of us has the right and the responsibility to assess the roads which lie ahead, and those over which we have traveled, and if the future road looms ominous or unpromising, and the roads back uninviting, then we need to gather our resolve and, carrying only the necessary baggage, step off that road into another direction. If the new choice is also unpalatable, without embarrassment, we must be ready to change that as well.
Maya Angelou -
Forgiving does not erase the bitter past. A healed memory is not a deleted memory. Instead, forgiving what we cannot forget creates a new way to remember. We change the memory of our past into a hope for our future.
Lewis B. Smedes -
Do something worth remembering.
Elvis Presley -
You can't learn in school what the world is going to do next year.
Henry Ford -
The greatest discovery of all time is that a person can change his future by merely changing his attitude.
Oprah Winfrey -
It's tough to make predictions, especially about the future.
Yogi Berra -
Human relationships always help us to carry on because they always presuppose further developments, a future - and also because we live as if our only task was precisely to have relationships with other people.
Albert Camus -
Fear not for the future, weep not for the past.
Percy Bysshe Shelley -
He alone, who owns the youth, gains the future.
Adolf Hitler -
I am not afraid of tomorrow, for I have seen yesterday and I love today!
William Allen White -
This is the first age that's ever paid much attention to the future, which is a little ironic since we may not have one.
Arthur C. Clarke -
The future is just wasted on some people.
Chuck Palahniuk -
When I look into the future, it's so bright it burns my eyes.
Oprah Winfrey -
Every thought we think is creating our future.
Louise L. Hay -
The future is unwritten.
Joe Strummer -
The future is no more uncertain than the present.
Walt Whitman -
I see no hope for the future of our people if they are dependent on the frivolous youth of today, for certainly all youth are reckless beyond words. When I was a boy, we were taught to be discrete and respectful of elders, but the present youth are exceedingly wise and impatient of restraint.
Hesiod -
There is no present or future-only the past, happening over and over again-now.
Eugene O'Neill -
There's no present. There's only the immediate future and the recent past.
George Carlin -
The local church is the hope of the world, and its future rests primarily in the hands of its leaders
Bill Hybels -
Someday, in the distant future, our grandchildren's grandchildren will develop a new equivalent of our classrooms. They will spend many hours in front of boxes with fires glowing within. May they have the wisdom to know the difference between light and knowledge
Plato -
Enjoy present pleasures in such a way as not to injure future ones.
Seneca -
Our moral responsibility is not to stop future, but to shape it...to channel our destiny in humane directions and to ease the trauma of transition.
Alvin Toffler -
We are made wise not by the recollection of our past, but by the responsibility for our future.
George Bernard Shaw -
The future belongs to those who prepare for it today.
Malcolm X -
As for the future, your task is not to foresee it, but to enable it.
Antoine de Saint-Exupery -
A statesman is he who thinks in the future generations, and a politician is he who thinks in the upcoming elections.
Abraham Lincoln -
The farther backward you can look, the farther forward you can see.
Winston Churchill -
Happiness is not something you postpone for the future; it is something you design for the present.
Jim Rohn -
Only mothers can think of the future - because they give birth to it in their children.
Maxim Gorky -
Each man should frame life so that at some future hour fact and his dreaming meet.
Victor Hugo -
There was a door to which I found no key: There was the veil through which I might not see.
Omar Khayyam -
Future shock is the shattering stress and disorientation that we induce in individuals by subjecting them to too much change in too short a time.
Alvin Toffler -
I sometimes seem to myself to wander around the world merely accumulating material for future nostalgias.
Vikram Seth
Even More Future Quotes
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If we are to better the future we must disturb the present.
Catherine Booth -
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.
Edith Wharton -
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.
Carlos Santana -
The truth is, wherever you choose to be, it's the wrong place.
Chuck Palahniuk -
The past cannot be changed. The future is yet in your power.
Mary Pickford -
The past doesn't equal the future.
Anthony Robbins -
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.
Jeanette Winterson -
Losers live in the past. Winners learn from the past and enjoy working in the present toward the future.
Denis Waitley -
The future always comes too fast and in the wrong order.
Alvin Toffler -
The best way to predict the future is to invent it.
Alan Kay -
Books, I found, had the power to make time stand still, retreat or fly into the future.
Jim Bishop -
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.
William Wordsworth -
Our past, our present, and whatever remains of our future, absolutely depend on what we do now.
Sylvia Earle -
Future. That period of time in which our affairs prosper, our friends are true and our happiness is assured.
Ambrose Bierce -
The past exists only in our memories, the future only in our plans. The present is our only reality.
Robert M. Pirsig -
Whoso neglects learning in his youth, loses the past and is dead for the future.
Euripides -
We have within ourselves Enough to fill the present day with joy, And overspread the future years with hope.
William Wordsworth -
To the wrongs that need resistance, To the right that needs assistance, To the future in the distance, Give yourselves.
Carrie Chapman Catt -
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.
David Brooks -
We are called to be architects of the future, not its victims.
R. Buckminster Fuller -
The future enters into us, in order to transform itself in us, long before it happens.
Rainer Maria Rilke -
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.
Jane Addams -
The direction in which education starts a man will determine his future in life.
Plato -
Always remember that the future comes one day at a time.
Dean Acheson -
Man spends his life in reasoning on the past, in complaining of the present, in fearing future.
Antoine Rivarol -
One faces the future with one's past.
Pearl S. Buck -
Republicans are men of narrow vision, who are afraid of the future.
Jimmy Carter -
When you forgive, you in no way change the past - but you sure do change the future.
Bernard Meltzer -
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.
George Santayana -
The best of prophets of the future is the past
Lord Byron -
A time will come when men will stretch out their eyes. They should see planets like our Earth.
Christopher Wren -
We should regret our mistakes and learn from them, but never carry them forward into the future with us.
Lucy Maud Montgomery -
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.
Matthew Kelly -
Every tomorrow has two handles. We can take hold of it with the handle of anxiety or the handle of faith.
Henry Ward Beecher -
I’ve learned not to worry about what might come next.
Oprah Winfrey -
I have memories - but only a fool stores his past in the future.
David Gerrold -
The vast possibilities of our great future will become realities only if we make ourselves responsible for that future.
Gifford Pinchot -
I don't know what the future may hold, but I know who holds the future.
Ralph Abernathy -
You may have created my past and screwed up my present, but you have no control over my future.
David Klass -
If the world should blow itself up, the last audible voice would be that of an expert saying it can't be done.
Peter Ustinov -
Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow. The important thing is not to stop questioning.
Albert Einstein -
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.
Peter F. Drucker -
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.
Eugene Kennedy -
Right actions in the future are the best apologies for bad actions in the past.
Tryon Edwards -
Nobody gets to live life backward. Look ahead, that is where your future lies.
Ann Landers -
Many of us crucify ourselves between two thieves - regret for the past and fear of the future.
Fulton Oursler -
School is practice for the future, and practice makes perfect. But nobody's perfect, so why practice?
Billie Joe Armstrong -
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.
Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel -
We need to ensure the poorest in the planet - who will be hardest hit by the financial crisis - are not forgotten.
Kofi Annan -
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.
Barbara Mikulski -
Lying makes a problem part of the future; truth makes a problem part of the past.
Rick Pitino -
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.
Tennessee Williams -
The only way to predict the future is to have power to shape the future.
Eric Hoffer -
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.
Annie Lennox -
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.
Primo Levi -
The Christian of the future will be a mystic or he will not exist at all.
Karl Rahner -
The past is not dead, it is living in us, and will be alive in the future which we are now helping to make.
William Morris -
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.
Albert Einstein -
Let him who would enjoy a good future waste none of his present.
Roger Babson -
Depression is the inability to construct a future.
Rollo May -
Let your hopes, not your hurts, shape your future.
Robert H. Schuller -
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.
Lewis Thomas -
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.
Albert Einstein -
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.
Jim Bishop -
Because we don't think about future generations, they will never forget us.
Henrik Tikkanen -
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.
Margaret Mead -
There is hope for the future because God has a sense of humor and we are funny to God.
Bill Cosby -
One today is worth two tomorrows.
Benjamin Franklin -
The future is purchased by the present.
Samuel Johnson -
A youth is to be regarded with respect. How do we know that his future will not be equal to our present?
Confucius -
Whatever with the past has gone, The best is always yet to come.
Lucy Larcom -
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.
Sonia Gandhi -
The past, the present and the future are really one: they are today.
Harriet Beecher Stowe -
Living in dreams of yesterday, we find ourselves still dreaming of impossible future conquests.
Charles Lindbergh -
I know of no way of judging the future but by the past.
Patrick Henry -
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.
Denis Waitley -
At every crossroads on the path that leads to the future, tradition has placed 10,000 men to guard the past.
Maurice Maeterlinck -
Your past is not your potential. In any hour you can choose to liberate the future.
Marilyn Ferguson -
When all else is lost, the future still remains.
Christian Nestell Bovee -
Reactionary: a man walking backwards with his face to the future.
Aneurin Bevan -
While I take inspiration from the past, like most Americans, I live for the future.
Ronald Reagan -
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.
Jose Ortega y Gasset -
The trouble with our times is that the future is not what it used to be.
Paul Valery -
The world is full of people whose notion of a satisfactory future is, in fact, a return to the idealised past.
Robertson Davies -
Prejudice is a burden that confuses the past, threatens the future and renders the present inaccessible.
Maya Angelou -
The philosophy of the school room in one generation will be the philosophy of government in the next.
Abraham Lincoln -
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.
Helen Keller -
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.
Benito Mussolini -
Our faith in the present dies out long before our faith in the future.
Ruth Benedict -
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.
Chanakya -
The best preparation for the future is the present well seen to, and the last duty done.
George MacDonald -
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.
Oprah Winfrey -
Every great work of art has two faces, one toward its own time and one toward the future, toward eternity.
Daniel Barenboim -
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.
Henry Ford II -
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.
Charles Darwin -
Progress imposes not only new possibilities for the future but new restrictions.
Norbert Wiener -
You've got to be very careful if you don't know where you are going, because you might not get there.
Yogi Berra -
Two persons love in one another the future good which they aid one another to unfold.
Margaret Fuller -
Do your duty and a little more and the future will take care of itself.
Andrew Carnegie -
It is far better to foresee even without certainty than not to foresee at all.
Henri Poincare -
The future? Like unwritten books and unborn children, you don't talk about it.
Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau -
If you do not think about the future, you cannot have one.
John Galsworthy -
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.
Primo Levi -
A speculator is a man who observes the future, and acts before it occurs.
Bernard Baruch -
There are no limits to our future if we don't put limits on our people.
Jack Kemp -
In order to plan your future wisely, it is necessary that you understand and appreciate your past.
Jo Coudert -
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.
J. Robert Oppenheimer -
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.
Jim Bishop -
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.
Mahatma Gandhi -
The first rule of sustainability is to align with natural forces, or at least not try to defy them
Paul Hawken -
Promises are the uniquely human way of ordering the future, making it predictable and reliable to the extent that this is humanly possible.
Hannah Arendt -
Optimists enrich the present, enhance the future,challenge the improbable and attain the impossible
William Arthur Ward -
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.
Lyndon B. Johnson -
Seize the day, and put the least possible trust in tomorrow.
Horace -
Governments must give to all those who have hit life's hurdles the chance to rebuild and have a future.
Pauline Hanson -
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.
Ann Plato -
If civilization has risen from the Stone Age, it can rise again from the Wastepaper Age.
Jacques Barzun -
As one went to Europe to see the living past, so one must visit Southern California to observe the future.
Alison Lurie -
Fortunately for children, the uncertainties of the present always give way to the enchanted possibilities of the future.
Gelsey Kirkland -
Business, more than any other occupation, is a continual dealing with the future; it is a continual calculation, an instinctive exercise in foresight.
Henry R. Luce -
Drugs are the enemies of ambition and hope - and when we fight against drugs we are fighting for the future.
Bob Riley -
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.
Denis Waitley -
Existence is no more than the precarious attainment of relevance in an intensely mobile flux of past, present, and future.
Susan Sontag -
I have seen the future, and it works.
Lincoln Steffens -
Planning is bringing the future into the present so that you can do something about it now.
Alan Lakein -
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.
Eileen Caddy -
The people gave me the responsibility of building the future of this nation. And I did it with honor.
Hosni Mubarak -
One of my few shortcomings is that I can't predict the future.
Lars Ulrich -
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.
Alfred, Lord Tennyson -
Upper classes are a nation's past; the middle class is its future.
Ayn Rand -
I believe the future is only the past again, entered through another gate.
Arthur Wing Pinero -
I believe that Canadians have the common sense to see that a better future cannot be built on fragmentation.
Kim Campbell -
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 -
Carry on any enterprise as if all future success depended on it.
Cardinal Richelieu -
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 -
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. Gelb -
The past is an old armchair in the attic, the present an ominous ticking sound, and the future is anybody's guess
James Thurber -
Thinking about the future and thinking about the past is really only a way of ignoring the present.
Billy Corgan -
Your future takes precedence over your past. Focus on your future, rather than on the past.
Gary Ryan Blair -
Every time I see an adult on a bicycle, I no longer despair for the future of the human race.
H. G. Wells -
We are confronted with insurmountable opportunities.
Walt Kelly -
The present was an egg laid by the past that had the future inside its shell.
Zora Neale Hurston -
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.
Henry Norris Russell -
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.
Arthur Eddington -
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!
Robert Collier -
We have to do with the past only as we can make it useful to the present and the future.
Frederick Douglass -
The girl with a future avoids a man with a past.
Evan Esar -
Some people are making such thorough preparation for rainy days that they aren't enjoying today's sunshine.
William Feather -
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.
Joseph Addison -
If we open a quarrel between past and present, we shall find that we have lost the future.
Winston Churchill -
I try not to worry about the future - so I take each day just one anxiety attack at a time.
Tom Wilson -
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.
Donald Trump -
I think the future looks great for music, musicians, bass players, and all we love about music.
Billy Sheehan -
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.
Audrey Tautou -
A man who has never made a woman angry is a failure in life.
Christopher Morley -
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.
Eugene Kennedy -
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.
Hun Sen -
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.
Charles Lindbergh -
Everyone's future is, in reality, uncertain and full of unknown treasures from which all may draw unguessed prizes.
Lord Dunsany -
Demoralize the enemy from within by surprise, terror, sabotage, assassination. This is the war of the future.
Adolf Hitler -
To design the future effectively, you must first let go of your past.
Charles J. Givens -
The distinction between the past, present and future is only a stubbornly persistent illusion.
Albert Einstein -
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.
Hugh Blair -
The future... seems to me no unified dream but a mince pie, long in the baking, never quite done.
Edward Young -
An author is a fool who, not content with boring those he lives with, insists on boring future generations.
Charles de Montesquieu -
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.
Art Buchwald -
Man has a limited biological capacity for change. When this capacity is overwhelmed, the capacity is in future shock.
Alvin Toffler -
I'm convinced there's a small room in the attic of the Foreign Office where future diplomats are taught to stammer.
Peter Ustinov -
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.
Barbara Grizzuti Harrison -
The most reliable way to forecast the future is to try to understand the present.
John Naisbitt -
The future lies in designing and selling computers that people don't realize are computers at all.
Adam Osborne -
Without forgiveness, there's no future.
Desmond Tutu -
Look to the past and remember no empire rises that sooner or later won't fall.
Al Stewart -
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.
John Naisbitt -
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.
King Hussein -
I've seen the future and it's much like the present only longer.
Dan Quisenberry -
The future is much like the present, only longer.
Dan Quisenberry -
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.
Horace Walpole -
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.
Albert Einstein -
Isn't it a shame that future generations can't be here to see all the wonderful things we're doing with their money?
Earl Wilson -
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.
Edgar Quinet -
It is never safe to look into the future with eyes of fear.
Edward H. Harriman -
Children have neither a past nor a future. Thus they enjoy the present, which seldom happens to us.
Jean de la Bruyere -
Children are the world's most valuable resource and its best hope for the future
John Fitzgerald Kennedy -
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.
Seneca -
Tis easy to see, hard to foresee.
Benjamin Franklin -
The future, according to some scientists, will be exactly like the past, only far more expensive.
John Sladek -
Effective managers live in the present but concentrate on the future.
James L. Hayes -
We live in the present, we dream of the future and we learn eternal truths from the past.
Madame Chiang Kai-Shek -
The future will be better tomorrow.
Dan Quayle -
Every man is his own ancestor, and every man is his own heir. He devises his own future, and he inherits his own past.
Frederick Henry Hedge -
Our history is not our destiny
Alan Cohen -
Yet, our achievements also mask many continuing failings and seem to expose more future dangers.
Hun Sen -
Our real interest starts with our neighbors... the future is about regional economies.
Jean Charest -
Do not dwell in the past, do not dream of the future, concentrate the mind on the present moment.
Buddha -
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 -
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 -
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...
Ralph Waldo Emerson -
The past is really almost as much a work of the imagination as the future.
Jessamyn West -
More and more Emerson recedes grandly into history, as the future he predicted becomes a past.
Robert Penn Warren -
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.".
Charles F. Kettering -
The trouble with worrying so much about your security in the future is that you feel so insecure in the present.
Harlan Miller -
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.
Wayne Dyer -
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.
Dale Carnegie -
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.
Winston Churchill -
Trust no future, however pleasant! Let the dead past bury its dead! Act — act in the living Present! Heart within and God overhead.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow -
The future masters of technology will have to be light-hearted and intelligent. The machine easily masters the grim and the dumb.
Marshall McLuhan -
For tomorrow belongs to the people who prepare for it today
African Proverb -
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.
Martin Luther King Jr. -
There are no mistakes, no coincidences. All events are blessings given to us to learn from.
Elisabeth Kubler-Ross -
Generations to come will find it difficult to believe that a man such as Gandhi ever walked the face of this earth.
Albert Einstein -
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.
Hugh White -
Find something you love to do and you'll never have to work a day in your life
Harvey Mackay -
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
Friedrich Nietzsche -
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.
Chanakya -
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!
Cathy Freeman -
There is no justification for present existence other than its expansion into an indefinitely open future.
Simone de Beauvoir -
Think of these things, whence you came, where you are going, and to whom you must account.
Benjamin Franklin -
The source of anxiety lies in the future. If you can keep the future out of mind, you can forget your worries
Milan Kundera -
The main goal of the future is to stop violence. The world is addicted to it.
Bill Cosby -
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.
Jacques Cousteau -
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.
Alec Waugh -
I write a lot too, so I would like to write or direct in the future if I can.
Alexis Bledel -
There is always one moment in childhood when the door opens and lets the future in.
Deepak Chopra -
My interest is in the future because I am going to spend the rest of my life there
Charles F. Kettering -
Our imagination is the only limit to what we can hope to have in the future
Charles F. Kettering -
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.
Andre Gide -
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.
Theodore Roosevelt -
Desire and hope will push us on toward the future.
Michel de Montaigne -
Genius is a promontory jutting out into the infinite.
Victor Hugo -
We must reinvent a future free of blinders so that we can choose from real options.
David Suzuki -
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.
William Ralph Inge -
You can never plan the future by the past.
Edmund Burke -
The future is made of the same stuff as the present.
Simone Weil -
The empires of the future are the empires of the mind.
Winston Churchill -
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.
Ronald Reagan -
When you can be your own best audience and when your applause is the best applause you know of, youre in good shape.
L. Ron Hubbard -
I don't try to describe the future. I try to prevent it.
Ray Bradbury -
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.
Dennis Miller -
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.
Erich Fromm -
Smiles form the channels of a future tear.
Lord Byron -
Cease to inquire what the future has in store, and take as a gift whatever the day brings forth.
Horace -
The fact that there is a general belief in a future life is no evidence of its truth
Clarence Darrow -
Everything that looks to the future elevates human nature; for never is life so low or so little as when occupied with the present.
Walter Savage Landor -
He who controls the present, controls the past. He who controls the past, controls the future.
George Orwell -
The future has a way of arriving unannounced.
George F. Will -
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.
Marcel Proust -
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.
Phillips Brooks -
The future influences the present just as much as the past.
Friedrich Nietzsche -
The future is like heaven - everyone exalts it, but no one wants to go there now.
James Arthur Baldwin -
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.
Friedrich Nietzsche -
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.
Albert Einstein -
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 future is hidden even from those who make it.
Anatole France -
Go for it now. The future is promised to no one.
Wayne Dyer -
When all is said and done, and statesmen discuss the future of the world, the fact remains that people fight these wars.
Eleanor Roosevelt -
I was a peripheral visionary. I could see the future, but only way off to the side.
Steven Wright