Future Quotes

"Education is not only a ladder of opportunity, but it is also an investment in our future"

"My entire life has been an attempt to get back to the kind of feelings you have on a field. The sense of brotherhood, the esprit de corps, the focus - there being no past or future, just the ball. As trite as it sounds, I was happiest playing ball"

David Duchovny, Actor

"Hollywood films have become a cesspool of formula and it's up to us to try to change it... I feel like a preacher! But it's really true. I feel personally responsible for the future of American cinema. Me personally"

Alexander Payne, Director

"Accordingly, globalization is not only something that will concern and threaten us in the future, but something that is taking place in the present and to which we must first open our eyes"

Ulrich Beck, Sociologist

"In the end, we are part of this region, and we are affected by its developments. What we may do or not do in the future depends on the nature of what happens here in the region"

Hassan Nasrallah, Revolutionary

"If education is always to be conceived along the same antiquated lines of a mere transmission of knowledge, there is little to be hoped from it in the bettering of man's future. For what is the use of transmitting knowledge if the individual's total development lags behind?"

Maria Montessori, Educator

"Whoever neglects the arts when he is young has lost the past and is dead to the future"

Sophocles, Author

"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, Philosopher

"My future is righteousness"

Bob Marley, Musician

"In this bright future you can't forget your past"

Bob Marley, Musician

"Every saint has a past and every sinner has a future"

Oscar Wilde, Dramatist

"With the past, I have nothing to do; nor with the future. I live now"

Ralph Waldo Emerson, Philosopher

"Whoso neglects learning in his youth, loses the past and is dead for the future"

Euripides, Poet

"Each man should frame life so that at some future hour fact and his dreaming meet"

Victor Hugo, Author

"There is nothing like a dream to create the future"

Victor Hugo, Author

"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"

Mahatma Gandhi, Leader

"I predict future happiness for Americans if they can prevent the government from wasting the labors of the people under the pretense of taking care of them"

Thomas Jefferson, President

"The direction in which education starts a man will determine his future in life"

Plato, Philosopher

"The best thing about the future is that it comes one day at a time"

Abraham Lincoln, President

"The assertion that "all men are created equal" was of no practical use in effecting our separation from Great Britain and it was placed in the Declaration not for that, but for future use"

Abraham Lincoln, President

"To apologize is to lay the foundation for a future offense"

Ambrose Bierce, Journalist

"Conservatism discards Prescription, shrinks from Principle, disavows Progress; having rejected all respect for antiquity, it offers no redress for the present, and makes no preparation for the future"

Benjamin Disraeli, Statesman

"Wisdom is the abstract of the past, but beauty is the promise of the future"

Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr., Poet

"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

"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

"While I take inspiration from the past, like most Americans, I live for the future"

Ronald Reagan, President

"We have the power to create a better future for ourselves and for the planet. The question is, what kind of future do we want to create?"

Peter Knights, Activist

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

Winston Churchill, Statesman

"Smiles form the channels of a future tear"

Lord Byron, Poet

"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

"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

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

Michel de Montaigne, Philosopher

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

Bill Cosby, Comedian

"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

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

Confucius, Philosopher

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

Adlai E. Stevenson, Politician

"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

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