Quotes and anectdotes from the wise to the foolish, and the courageous to the drunk

future

Do your duty and a little more and the future will take care of itself. 13 more views from Andrew Carnegie

Everything that ever happened is still happening. Past, present and future keep happening in the eternity which is Here and Now. 12 other views from James Broughton

Fascism is not in itself a new order of society. It is the future refusing to be born. 11 other sayings from Aneurin Bevan

I desire no future that will break the ties with the past. 52 more thoughts from George Eliot

I knew I could not cope with the future unless I was able to rediscover the past. 12 other sayings from Gene Tierney

If we open a quarrel between past and present, we shall find that we have lost the future. 74 sayings from Winston Churchill

It is said that the present is pregnant with the future. 78 more quotes from Voltaire

Reactionary: a man walking backwards with his face to the future. 11 other views from Aneurin Bevan

Real generosity toward the future lies in giving all to the present. 52 quotes from Albert Camus

The empires of the future are the empires of the mind. 74 quotes from Winston Churchill

The future is something which everyone reaches at the rate of 60 minutes an hour, whatever he does, whoever he is. 25 quotes from C. S. Lewis

We should regret our mistakes and learn from them, but never carry them forward into the future with us. 2 views from Lucy Maud Montgomery

Every great work of art has two faces, one toward its own time and one toward the future, toward eternity. 2 quotes from Lester Bangs

Every man has his own destiny: the only imperative is to follow it, to accept it, no matter where it leads him. 23 views from Henry Miller

I am not interested in the past, except as the road to the future. 5 quotes from Gianni Versace

The best preparation for the future is the present well seen to, and the last duty done. 12 wisdom & wit from George MacDonald

The future enters into us, in order to transform itself in us, long before it happens. 9 more wisdom & wit from Rainer Maria Rilke

The future is the worst thing about the present. 30 other quotes from Gustave Flaubert

The past is an old armchair in the attic, the present an ominous ticking sound, and the future is anybody's guess. 14 other quotes from James Thurber

Times and conditions change so rapidly that we must keep our aim constantly focused on the future. 23 quotes from Walt Disney

We live trapped, between the churned-up and examined past and a future that waits for our work. 3 quotes from Anna Freud

You cannot fight against the future. Time is on our side. 7 quotes from William E. Gladstone

An author is a fool who, not content with boring those he lives with, insists on boring future generations. 14 other thoughts from Charles de Montesquieu

An expectation is a future object, recognised as belonging to me. 3 other quotes from Samuel Alexander

Change your life today. Don't gamble on the future, act now, without delay. 12 quotes from Simone de Beauvoir

Everything that looks to the future elevates human nature. 9 more views from Walter Savage Landor

Fear of the future is worse than one's present fortune. 12 more views from Quintilian

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. 16 sayings from Alan Watts

I look to the future because that's where I'm going to spend the rest of my life. 21 quotes from George Burns

Instead of causing us to remember the past like the old monuments, the new monuments seem to cause us to forget the future. 3 quotes from Robert Smithson

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. 19 quotes from Edgar Allan Poe

Look to the future, because that is where you'll spend the rest of your life. 21 quotes from George Burns

No valid plans for the future can be made by those who have no capacity for living now. 16 other quotes from Alan Watts

Right actions in the future are the best apologies for bad actions in the past. 8 other quotes from Tryon Edwards

Smiles form the channels of a future tear. 36 other views from Lord Byron

The girl with a future avoids a man with a past. 6 quotes from Evan Esar

The present was an egg laid by the past that had the future inside its shell. 12 more quotes from Zora Neale Hurston

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. 17 wisdom & wit from Plutarch

What else does anxiety about the future bring you but sorrow upon sorrow? 12 quotes from Thomas a Kempis

You can never plan the future by the past. 37 quotes from Edmund Burke

A government is invigorated when each of us is willing to participate in shaping the future of this nation. 6 other quotes from Barbara Jordan

Each man should frame life so that at some future hour fact and his dreaming meet. 73 thoughts from Victor Hugo

Every man gotta right to decide his own destiny. 11 other views from Bob Marley

Every one rushes elsewhere and into the future, because no one wants to face one's own inner self. 32 other quotes from Michel de Montaigne

For all of its uncertainty, we cannot flee the future. 6 quotes from Barbara Jordan

How paramount the future is to the present when one is surrounded by children. 8 other sayings from Charles Darwin

I am tomorrow, or some future day, what I establish today. I am today what I established yesterday or some previous day. 11 more wisdom & wit from James Joyce

In this bright future you can't forget your past. 11 other thoughts from Bob Marley

It is the business of the future to be dangerous and it is among the merits of science that it equips the future for its duties. 19 wisdom & wit from Alfred North Whitehead

Living in dreams of yesterday, we find ourselves still dreaming of impossible future conquests. 6 wisdom & wit from Charles Lindbergh

My future is righteousness. 11 more views from Bob Marley

Our modern states are preparing for war without even knowing the future enemy. 9 quotes from Alfred Adler

The best thing about the future is that it comes one day at a time. 47 other wisdom & wit from Abraham Lincoln

The future is made of the same stuff as the present. 25 thoughts from Simone Weil

The task of a university is the creation of the future, so far as rational thought and civilized modes of appreciation can affect the issue. 19 more sayings from Alfred North Whitehead

There is nothing like a dream to create the future. 73 sayings from Victor Hugo

Upper classes are a nation's past the middle class is its future. 24 quotes from Ayn Rand

We are a people in a quandary about the present. We are a people in search of our future. We are a people in search of a national community. 6 quotes from Barbara Jordan

What is history? An echo of the past in the future a reflex from the future on the past. 73 views from Victor Hugo

Destiny is no matter of chance. It is a matter of choice. It is not a thing to be waited for, it is a thing to be achieved. 5 other sayings from William Jennings Bryan

Forget the past - the future will give you plenty to worry about. 4 quotes from George Allen, Sr.

I don't know what the future may hold, but I know who holds the future. 2 other quotes from Ralph Abernathy

I go to school the youth to learn the future. 50 quotes from Robert Frost

I never think of the future - it comes soon enough. 105 quotes from Albert Einstein

I try not to worry about the future - so I take each day just one anxiety attack at a time. 5 other thoughts from Tom Wilson

Only mothers can think of the future - because they give birth to it in their children. 4 thoughts from Maxim Gorky

The danger of the past was that men became slaves. The danger of the future is that man may become robots. 16 quotes from Erich Fromm

The distinction between the past, present and future is only a stubbornly persistent illusion. 105 quotes from Albert Einstein

The past is not dead, it is living in us, and will be alive in the future which we are now helping to make. 6 other thoughts from William Morris

They gave each other a smile with a future in it. 3 sayings from Ring Lardner

Always remember that the future comes one day at a time. 4 other sayings from Dean Acheson

Depression is the inability to construct a future. 6 views from Rollo May

I like the dreams of the future better than the history of the past. 70 quotes from Thomas Jefferson

It is not in the stars to hold our destiny but in ourselves. 81 quotes from William Shakespeare

Look back over the past, with its changing empires that rose and fell, and you can foresee the future, too. 41 sayings from Marcus Aurelius

Memories are the key not to the past, but to the future. 7 more quotes from Corrie Ten Boom

Never be afraid to trust an unknown future to a known God. 7 wisdom & wit from Corrie Ten Boom

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. 41 quotes from Marcus Aurelius

That man is prudent who neither hopes nor fears anything from the uncertain events of the future. 20 quotes from Anatole France

The best thing about the future is that it comes only one day at a time. 4 views from Dean Acheson

The future is hidden by a dark impenetrable veil, and yet we struggle to pierce through it. 7 more thoughts from Joseph Barber Lightfoot

The past cannot be changed. The future is yet in your power. 3 quotes from Mary Pickford

The wise man must remember that while he is a descendant of the past, he is a parent of the future. 20 wisdom & wit from Herbert Spencer

To act is to anchor in an imminent future, so imminent it becomes almost tangible to act is to feel you are consubstantial with that future. 18 wisdom & wit from Emile M. Cioran

What does the future, that half of time, matter to the man who is infatuated with eternity? 18 other quotes from Emile M. Cioran

A mother's happiness is like a beacon, lighting up the future but reflected also on the past in the guise of fond memories. 53 more quotes from Honore de Balzac

But blind to former as to future fate, what mortal knows his pre-existent state? 43 quotes from Alexander Pope

Change is the law of life. And those who look only to the past or present are certain to miss the future. 46 quotes from John F. Kennedy

Education is the passport to the future, for tomorrow belongs to those who prepare for it today. 21 more sayings from Malcolm X

History is a relentless master. It has no present, only the past rushing into the future. To try to hold fast is to be swept aside. 46 other quotes from John F. Kennedy

I know of no way of judging the future but by the past. 10 other thoughts from Patrick Henry

I'm always thinking about creating. My future starts when I wake up every morning... Every day I find something creative to do with my life. 3 quotes from Miles Davis

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. 4 quotes from Jose Ortega y Gasset

My philosophy is to take one day at a time. I don't worry about the future. Tomorrow is even out of sight for me. 8 quotes from Bobby Darin

The country that is more developed industrially only shows, to the less developed, the image of its own future. 21 wisdom & wit from Karl Marx

The enemies of the future are always the very nicest people. 15 other wisdom & wit from Christopher Morley

The essence of statesmanship is not a rigid adherence to the past, but a prudent and probing concern for the future. 16 more quotes from Hubert H. Humphrey

The future belongs to those who prepare for it today. 21 quotes from Malcolm X

The future is like heaven, everyone exalts it, but no one wants to go there now. 24 other quotes from James A. Baldwin

The future is no more uncertain than the present. 30 more quotes from Walt Whitman

There is never time in the future in which we will work out our salvation. The challenge is in the moment the time is always now. 24 more views from James A. Baldwin

Two persons love in one another the future good which they aid one another to unfold. 9 more thoughts from Margaret Fuller

We do not know enough about how the present will lead into the future. 4 more quotes from Gregory Bateson

We must respect the past, and mistrust the present, if we wish to provide for the safety of the future. 14 quotes from Joseph Joubert

When you forgive, you in no way change the past - but you sure do change the future. 6 quotes from Bernard Meltzer

With the past, I have nothing to do nor with the future. I live now. 135 thoughts from Ralph Waldo Emerson

If we examine our thoughts, we shall find them always occupied with the past and the future. 57 sayings from Blaise Pascal

If you want a vision of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face - forever. 47 more quotes from George Orwell

One faces the future with one's past. 18 quotes from Pearl S. Buck

The importance of money flows from it being a link between the present and the future. 10 quotes from John Maynard Keynes

The past, the present and the future are really one: they are today. 7 quotes from Harriet Beecher Stowe

The social object of skilled investment should be to defeat the dark forces of time and ignorance which envelope our future. 10 other wisdom & wit from John Maynard Keynes

The youth is the hope of our future. 3 wisdom & wit from Jose Rizal

Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past. 47 thoughts from George Orwell

A person often meets his destiny on the road he took to avoid it. 15 other thoughts from Jean de La Fontaine

Let him who would enjoy a good future waste none of his present. 3 views from Roger Babson

Never make predictions, especially about the future. 12 quotes from Casey Stengel

The future is today. 11 other thoughts from William Osler

The future... seems to me no unified dream but a mince pie, long in the baking, never quite done. 14 sayings from Edward Young

The impressions of the spriritual experiences gave my future life its form and content. 4 other quotes from Gustav Mahler

The Internet: transforming society and shaping the future through chat. 27 wisdom & wit from Dave Barry

The only way to predict the future is to have power to shape the future. 31 sayings from Eric Hoffer

We are made wise not by the recollection of our past, but by the responsibility for our future. 115 wisdom & wit from George Bernard Shaw

We drive into the future using only our rearview mirror. 19 more wisdom & wit from Marshall McLuhan

We shall be better prepared for the future if we see how terrible, how doomed the present is. 9 thoughts from Iris Murdoch

When the past no longer illuminates the future, the spirit walks in darkness. 19 views from Alexis de Tocqueville

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. 5 more quotes from Leonard Bernstein

A speculator is a man who observes the future, and acts before it occurs. 12 quotes from Bernard Baruch

A women who doesn't wear perfume has no future. 16 views from Coco Chanel

As a child is indulged or checked in its early follies, a ground is generally laid for the happiness or misery of the future man. 22 quotes from Samuel Richardson

At every crossroads on the path that leads to the future, tradition has placed 10,000 men to guard the past. 10 wisdom & wit from Maurice Maeterlinck

Children enjoy the present because they have neither a past nor a future. 26 quotes from Jean de la Bruyere

Children have neither a past nor a future. Thus they enjoy the present, which seldom happens to us. 26 thoughts from Jean de la Bruyere

Fear not for the future, weep not for the past. 19 wisdom & wit from Percy Bysshe Shelley

I object to people running down the future. I am going to live all the rest of my life there. 11 other views from Charles Kettering

In every conceivable manner, the family is link to our past, bridge to our future. 3 views from Alex Haley

In the future everyone will be famous for 15 minutes. 18 more wisdom & wit from Andy Warhol

My interest is in the future because I am going to spend the rest of my life there. 11 thoughts from Charles Kettering

Our imagination is the only limit to what we can hope to have in the future. 11 quotes from Charles Kettering

The world is full of people whose notion of a satisfactory future is, in fact, a return to the idealised past. 3 sayings from Robertson Davies

There are times when even the most potent governor must wink at transgression, in order to preserve the laws inviolate for the future. 13 other quotes from Herman Melville

We should all be concerned about the future because we will have to spend the rest of our lives there. 11 sayings from Charles Kettering

Destiny has two ways of crushing us - by refusing our wishes and by fulfilling them. 24 sayings from Henri Frederic Amiel

Every time I see an adult on a bicycle, I no longer despair for the future of the human race. 19 other quotes from H. G. Wells

Everything you need for better future and success has already been written. And guess what? All you have to do is go to the library. 24 quotes from Henri Frederic Amiel

Philosophy finds it an easy matter to vanquish past and future evils, but the present are commonly too hard for it. 90 more wisdom & wit from Francois de La Rochefoucauld

The future is purchased by the present. 63 thoughts from Samuel Johnson

We know not of the future and cannot plan for it much. 2 wisdom & wit from Joshua Chamberlain

After the final no there comes a yes and on that yes the future of the world hangs. 16 more views from Wallace Stevens

Education, therefore, is a process of living and not a preparation for future living. 9 quotes from John Dewey

Every saint has a past and every sinner has a future. 100 other views from Oscar Wilde

I do not want to foresee the future. I am concerned with taking care of the present. God has given me no control over the moment following. 100 more wisdom & wit from Mahatma Gandhi

Language is the armory of the human mind, and at once contains the trophies of its past and the weapons of its future conquests. 24 wisdom & wit from Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Neither a wise man nor a brave man lies down on the tracks of history to wait for the train of the future to run over him. 33 sayings from Dwight D. Eisenhower

Prediction is very difficult, especially if it's about the future. 9 more quotes from Niels Bohr

Promises are the uniquely human way of ordering the future, making it predictable and reliable to the extent that this is humanly possible. 9 views from Hannah Arendt

Religion often partakes of the myth of progress that shields us from the terrors of an uncertain future. 8 other quotes from Frank Herbert

The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams. 30 views from Eleanor Roosevelt

The future influences the present just as much as the past. 103 thoughts from Friedrich Nietzsche

The future, like everything else, is not what it used to be. 16 other quotes from Paul Valery

The trouble with our times is that the future is not what it used to be. 16 other sayings from Paul Valery

There are certain moments when we might wish the future were built by men of the past. 13 quotes from Jean Rostand

There is always one moment in childhood when the door opens and lets the future in. 11 more wisdom & wit from Graham Greene

Traditionalists are pessimists about the future and optimists about the past. 8 views from Lewis Mumford

We can chart our future clearly and wisely only when we know the path which has led to the present. 24 other views from Adlai E. Stevenson