Future Quotes

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

Winston Churchill, Statesman

"The empires of the future are the empires of the mind"

Winston Churchill, Statesman

"Smiles form the channels of a future tear"

Lord Byron, Poet

"All endeavor calls for the ability to tramp the last mile, shape the last plan, endure the last hours toil. The fight to the finish spirit is the one... characteristic we must posses if we are to face the future as finishers"

Henry David Thoreau, Author

"I have never been able to grasp the meaning of time. I don't believe it exists. I've felt this again and again, when alone and out in nature. On such occasions, time does not exist. Nor does the future exist"

Thor Heyerdahl, Explorer

"For every minute, the future is becoming the past"

Thor Heyerdahl, Explorer

"The mind that is anxious about the future is miserable"

Seneca the Younger, Statesman

"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, Philosopher

"True happiness is... to enjoy the present, without anxious dependence upon the future"

Seneca the Younger, Statesman

"Every one rushes elsewhere and into the future, because no one wants to face one's own inner self"

Michel de Montaigne, Philosopher

"The mind is never satisfied with the objects immediately before it, but is always breaking away from the present moment, and losing itself in schemes of future felicity... The natural flights of the human mind are not from pleasure to pleasure, but from hope to hope"

Samuel Johnson, Author

"Our most basic common link is that we all inhabit this planet. We all breathe the same air. We all cherish our children's future. And we are all mortal"

John F. Kennedy, President

"Let us not seek the Republican answer or the Democratic answer, but the right answer. Let us not seek to fix the blame for the past. Let us accept our own responsibility for the future"

John F. Kennedy, President

"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"

John F. Kennedy, President

"For time and the world do not stand still. Change is the law of life. And those who look only to the past or the present are certain to miss the future"

John F. Kennedy, President

"Change is the law of life. And those who look only to the past or present are certain to miss the future"

John F. Kennedy, President

"To state the facts frankly is not to despair the future nor indict the past. The prudent heir takes careful inventory of his legacies and gives a faithful accounting to those whom he owes an obligation of trust"

John F. Kennedy, President

"I look forward to a great future for America - a future in which our country will match its military strength with our moral restraint, its wealth with our wisdom, its power with our purpose"

John F. Kennedy, President

"Don't forget what I discovered that over ninety percent of all national deficits from 1921 to 1939 were caused by payments for past, present, and future wars"

Franklin D. Roosevelt, President

"Not only our future economic soundness but the very soundness of our democratic institutions depends on the determination of our government to give employment to idle men"

Franklin D. Roosevelt, President

"Study the past, if you would divine the future"

Confucius, Philosopher

"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, Soldier

"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, Politician

"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"

Miles Davis, Musician

"It is extraordinary that whole populations have no projects for the future, none at all. It certainly is extraordinary, but it is certainly true"

Gertrude Stein, Author

"There's no present. There's only the immediate future and the recent past"

George Carlin, Comedian

"If we examine our thoughts, we shall find them always occupied with the past and the future"

Blaise Pascal, Philosopher

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

Bill Cosby, Comedian

"In each action we must look beyond the action at our past, present, and future state, and at others whom it affects, and see the relations of all those things. And then we shall be very cautious"

Blaise Pascal, Philosopher

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

Maya Angelou, Poet

"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, Dramatist

"But blind to former as to future fate, what mortal knows his pre-existent state?"

Alexander Pope, Poet

"The future is something which everyone reaches at the rate of 60 minutes an hour, whatever he does, whoever he is"

C. S. Lewis, Author

"We can chart our future clearly and wisely only when we know the path which has led to the present"

Adlai E. Stevenson, Politician

"If you want a vision of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face - forever"

George Orwell, Author

"Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past"

George Orwell, Author

"All political thinking for years past has been vitiated in the same way. People can foresee the future only when it coincides with their own wishes, and the most grossly obvious facts can be ignored when they are unwelcome"

George Orwell, Author

"Taste refers to the past, imagination to the future"

Mason Cooley, Writer

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

Jean de la Bruyere, Philosopher

"Children enjoy the present because they have neither a past nor a future"

Jean de la Bruyere, Philosopher

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