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future

Every great work of art has two faces, one toward its own time and one toward the future, toward eternity. 2 thoughts 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 wisdom & wit 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 other quotes from Rainer Maria Rilke

The future is the worst thing about the present. 30 thoughts 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 thoughts from James Thurber

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

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

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

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

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

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

Everything that looks to the future elevates human nature. 9 other quotes from Walter Savage Landor

Fear of the future is worse than one's present fortune. 12 sayings 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 other sayings from Alan Watts

I look to the future because that's where I'm going to spend the rest of my life. 21 more thoughts 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 sayings 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 more quotes from Edgar Allan Poe

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

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

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

Smiles form the channels of a future tear. 36 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 thoughts 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 other quotes 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 other quotes from Edmund Burke

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

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

Every man gotta right to decide his own destiny. 11 wisdom & wit from Bob Marley

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

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

How paramount the future is to the present when one is surrounded by children. 8 other quotes 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 sayings from James Joyce

In this bright future you can't forget your past. 11 quotes 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 thoughts from Alfred North Whitehead

Living in dreams of yesterday, we find ourselves still dreaming of impossible future conquests. 6 other quotes from Charles Lindbergh

My future is righteousness. 11 more quotes from Bob Marley

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

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

The future is made of the same stuff as the present. 25 quotes 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 quotes from Alfred North Whitehead

There is nothing like a dream to create the future. 73 thoughts 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 views from Barbara Jordan

What is history? An echo of the past in the future a reflex from the future on the past. 73 wisdom & wit 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 wisdom & wit from William Jennings Bryan

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

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

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

I never think of the future - it comes soon enough. 105 other 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 sayings from Tom Wilson

Only mothers can think of the future - because they give birth to it in their children. 4 other sayings 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 other views from Erich Fromm

The distinction between the past, present and future is only a stubbornly persistent illusion. 105 wisdom & wit 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 more 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 more views from Dean Acheson

Depression is the inability to construct a future. 6 quotes 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 other thoughts from Marcus Aurelius

Memories are the key not to the past, but to the future. 7 wisdom & wit from Corrie Ten Boom

Never be afraid to trust an unknown future to a known God. 7 more sayings 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 more quotes from Marcus Aurelius

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

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

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

The past cannot be changed. The future is yet in your power. 3 thoughts 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 other quotes 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 views from Emile M. Cioran

What does the future, that half of time, matter to the man who is infatuated with eternity? 18 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 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 wisdom & wit 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 more sayings from John F. Kennedy

I know of no way of judging the future but by the past. 10 more quotes 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 sayings 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 other sayings 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 more sayings from Bobby Darin

The country that is more developed industrially only shows, to the less developed, the image of its own future. 21 sayings 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 other 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 views from James A. Baldwin

The future is no more uncertain than the present. 30 other 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 other quotes from James A. Baldwin

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

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

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

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

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

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

If you want a vision of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face - forever. 47 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 wisdom & wit 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 quotes from John Maynard Keynes

The youth is the hope of our future. 3 quotes from Jose Rizal

Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past. 47 more quotes from George Orwell

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

Let him who would enjoy a good future waste none of his present. 3 more wisdom & wit from Roger Babson

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

The future is today. 11 quotes from William Osler

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

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

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

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

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

We drive into the future using only our rearview mirror. 19 more sayings 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 other thoughts 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 other 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 more thoughts 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 other views 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 views from Maurice Maeterlinck

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

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

Fear not for the future, weep not for the past. 19 sayings 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 more thoughts from Charles Kettering

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

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

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

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

Destiny has two ways of crushing us - by refusing our wishes and by fulfilling them. 24 wisdom & wit 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 thoughts 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 other wisdom & wit 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 quotes from Francois de La Rochefoucauld

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

We know not of the future and cannot plan for it much. 2 other thoughts from Joshua Chamberlain

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

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

Every saint has a past and every sinner has a future. 100 sayings 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 quotes 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 more quotes 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 other quotes from Dwight D. Eisenhower

Prediction is very difficult, especially if it's about the future. 9 thoughts 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 more views from Hannah Arendt

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

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

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

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

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

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

There is always one moment in childhood when the door opens and lets the future in. 11 other quotes from Graham Greene

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

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

Do your duty and a little more and the future will take care of itself. 13 sayings 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 quotes from James Broughton

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

The empires of the future are the empires of the mind. 74 thoughts 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 wisdom & wit from C. S. Lewis

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