Future Quotes

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

"Map out your future - but do it in pencil. The road ahead is as long as you make it. Make it worth the trip"

"We can reach our potential, but to do so, we must reach within ourselves. We must summon the strength, the will, and the faith to move forward - to be bold - to invest in our future"

John Hoeven, Politician

"This ought to be a season for cooperation in terms of pushing our economy forward, job creation, steadying the middle class, and laying the groundwork for a better future. And that's what we want to work on with Republicans and Democrats"

David Axelrod, Public Servant

"Every educated person is a future enemy"

Martin Bormann, Soldier

"When you realize the value of all life, you dwell less on what is past and concentrate more on the preservation of the future"

Dian Fossey, Scientist

"I like the dreams of the future better than the history of the past"

Thomas Jefferson, President

"We live in an age when to be young and to be indifferent can be no longer synonymous. We must prepare for the coming hour. The claims of the Future are represented by suffering millions; and the Youth of a Nation are the trustees of Posterity"

Benjamin Disraeli, Statesman

"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, Soldier

"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, 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

"I claim for Canada this, that in future Canada shall be at liberty to act or not act, to interfere or not interfere, to do just as she pleases, and that she shall reserve to herself the right to judge whether or not there is cause for her to act"

Wilfrid Laurier, Statesman

"I object to people running down the future. I am going to live all the rest of my life there"

Charles F. Kettering, Inventor

"You can never plan the future by the past"

Edmund Burke, Statesman

"The future has a way of arriving unannounced"

George Will, Journalist

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

Robert H. Schuller, Clergyman

"The future is no more uncertain than the present"

Walt Whitman, Poet

"The future of Conservatism lies in our beliefs and values, not by throwing them away. We need to shed associations that bind us to past failures, but hold faith with those things that make us Conservatives"

Iain Duncan Smith, Politician

"The road to the future leads us smack into the wall. We simply ricochet off the alternatives that destiny offers. Our survival is no more than a question of 25, 50 or perhaps 100 years"

Jacques Yves Cousteau, Explorer

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

Patrick Henry, Politician

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

Patrick Henry, Politician

"The wars of the future will be fought by computer technicians and by lawyers and high-altitude specialists, and that may mean war will be increasingly abstract, hard to think about and hard to control"

Michael Ignatieff, Politician

"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"

Alfred North Whitehead, Mathematician

"Guantanamo allows us to secure dangerous detainees without the risk of escape, while at the same time providing us with valuable intelligence information on how best to proceed in the war against terror and prevent future attacks"

Jim Ryun, Athlete

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

R. Buckminster Fuller, Inventor

"Girls are the future mothers of our society, and it is important that we focus on their well-being"

Miriam Makeba, Musician

"I shall soon be six-and-twenty. Is there anything in the future that can possibly console us for not being always twenty-five?"

George Byron, Poet

"For the first time in the history of mankind, one generation literally has the power to destroy the past, the present and the future, the power to bring time to an end"

Hubert H. Humphrey, Politician

"The ultimate function of prophecy is not to tell the future, but to make it. Your successful past will block your visions of the future"

Joel A. Barker, Author

"We are excited about the music, past and present and future, and are really looking forward to playing"

Graham Nash, Musician

"There are times when even the most potent governor must wink at transgression, in order to preserve the laws inviolate for the future"

Herman Melville, Novelist

"I never think too far into the future. I'm too busy thinking about tomorrow's news"

Matt Drudge, Journalist

"The wise man must remember that while he is a descendant of the past, he is a parent of the future"

Herbert Spencer, Philosopher

"Frontiersmen good and bad, gunmen as well as inspired prophets of the future, have been my camp companions. Thus, I know the country of which I am about to write as few men now living have known it"

Buffalo Bill, Celebrity

"One of the interesting things here is that the people who should be shaping the future are politicians. But the political framework itself is so dead and closed that people look to other sources, like artists, because art and music allow people a certain freedom"

Thom Yorke, Musician

"The Fuhrer alone is the present and future German reality and its law. Learn to know ever more deeply: from now on every single thing demands decision, and every action responsibility"

Martin Heidegger, Philosopher

"So foolish is the heart of man that he ever puts his hope in the future, learning nothing from his past errors and fancying that tomorrow must be better than today"

Mika Waltari, Author

"Future orientation is combined with a notion and expectation of progress, and nothing is impossible"

Alan Dundes, Educator

"Americans have a penchant for the future and tend to disregard the past"

Alan Dundes, Educator

"What should be the future of Israel? Is the land the most important choice, and for that reason to keep the whole of the land at any cost, or to have a partition and build the Jewish state on part of the land? And the other part?"

Shimon Peres, Statesman

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