Quotes about the-future

The future comes one day at a time.

— Dean Acheson

The future is... black.

— James Baldwin

I would sum up my fear about the future in one word: boring. And that's my one fear: that everything has happened; nothing exciting or new or interesting is ever going to happen again... the future is just going to be a vast, conforming suburb of the soul.

— J. G. Ballard

It's tough to make predictions, especially about the future.

— Yogi Berra

I have a Vision of the Future, chum. The workers flats in fields of soya beans tower up like silver pencils, score on score.

— John Betjeman

Take no thought for tomorrow; for tomorrow shall take thought for the things of itself. [Matthew 6:34]

— Bible

Future: That period of time in which our affairs prosper, our friends are true and our happiness is assured.

— Ambrose Bierce

All futurity seems teeming with endless destruction never to be repelled; Desperate remorse swallows the present in a quenchless rage.

— William Blake

The future destiny of the child is always the work of the mother.

— Napoleon Bonaparte

Never be afraid to trust an unknown future to a known God.

— Corrie Ten Boom

When all else is lost, the future still remains.

— Christian Nevell Bovee

I don't try to describe the future. I try to prevent it.

— Ray Bradbury

The future is as bright as the promises of God.

— William Carey

By the street of by-and-by, one arrives at the house of never.

— Miguel De Cervantes

Failure is unimportant. It takes courage to make a fool of yourself.

— Charlie Chaplin

our day will come is another way of saying you get yours.

— Merelene Cornish

Ignorance of God's prophetic outline, failure to know God's program for the Church, the nations, and Israel, is the cause of the overwhelming amount of error and misunderstanding of the events of the future.

— M. R. Dehaan

Predicting the future is easy. It's trying to figure out what's going on now that's hard.

— Fritz R. S. Dressler

The best way to predict the future is to create it.

— Peter F. Drucker

I never think of the future. It comes soon enough.

— Albert Einstein

I desire no future that will break the ties with the past.

— George Eliot

Create your future from your future not your past.

— Werner Erhard

The future? Like unwritten books and unborn children, you don't talk about it.

— Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau

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

— Anatole France

The danger of the past was that men became slaves. The danger of the future is that men may become robots. True enough, robots do not rebel. But given man's nature, robots cannot live and remain sane, they become Golems, they will destroy their world and themselves because they cannot stand any longer the boredom of a meaningless life.

— Erich Fromm

If you do not think about your future, you cannot have one.

— John Galsworthy

Yesterday is but today's memory, and tomorrow is today's dream.

— Kahlil Gibran

The trouble with the future is that is usually arrives before we're ready for it.

— Arnold H. Glasgow

I don't ever look back. I look forward.

— Steffi Graf

I've read the last page of the Bible. It's all going to turn out all right.

— Billy Graham

We already have the statistics for the future: the growth percentages of pollution, overpopulation, desertification. The future is already in place.

— Gunther Grass

The cradle of the future is the grave of the past.

— Franz Grillparzer

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

— Patrick Henry

The good days weren't really so good, and tomorrow ain't as bad as it seems.

— Billy Joel

The future is purchased by the present.

— Samuel Johnson

Tomorrow is an old deceiver, and his cheat never grows stale.

— Samuel Johnson

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

— Charles F. Kettering

My interest is in the future because I am going to spend the rest of my life there.

— Charles F. Kettering

There was a door to which I found no key: There was the veil through which I might not see.

— Omar Khayyam

People are always shouting they want to create a better future. It's not true. The future is an apathetic void of no interest to anyone. The past is full of life, eager to irritate us, provoke and insult us, tempt us to destroy or repaint it. The only reason people want to be masters of the future is to change the past.

— Milan Kundera

Everything that looks to the future elevates human nature. Never is life so low or so little as when occupied with the present.

— Walter Savage Landor

They gave each other a smile with a future in it.

— Ring Lardner

The future looks extremely bright indeed, with lots of possibilities ahead -- big possibilities. Like the song says, We've just begun.

— Bruce Lee

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

— Abraham Lincoln

America, which has the most glorious present still existing in the world today, hardly stops to enjoy it, in her insatiable appetite for the future.

— Anne Morrow Lindbergh

The wave of the future is coming and there is no fighting it.

— Anne Morrow Lindbergh

It is not the cares of today, but the cares of tomorrow that weigh a man down. For the needs of today we have corresponding strength given. For the morrow we are told to trust. It is not ours yet.

— George Macdonald

The future will one day be the present and will seem as unimportant as the present does now.

— W. Somerset Maugham

Tomorrow, you promise yourself, will be different, yet, tomorrow is too often a repetition of today.

— James T. Mccay

A fixed image of the future is in the worst sense a historical.

— Juliet Mitchell

The future influences the present just as much as the past.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

The child is not to be educated for the present, but for the remote future, and often is opposition to the immediate future.

— Jean Paul

The past cannot be changed. The future is yet in your power.

— Mary Pickford

I have always been delighted at the prospect of a new day, a fresh try, one more start, with perhaps a bit of magic waiting somewhere behind the morning...

— J. B. Priestley

Tomorrow never comes.

— Proverb

Those who foretell the future lies, even if he tells the truth.

— Arabian Proverb

When men speak of the future, the Gods laugh.

— Chinese Proverb

Upper classes are a nation's past, the middle class its future.

— Ayn Rand

The more unpredictable the world is the more we rely on predictions.

— Steve Rivkin

We have always held to the hope, the belief, the conviction that there is a better life, a better world, beyond the horizon.

— Franklin D. Roosevelt

There are certain moments when we might wish the future were built by men of the past.

— Jean Rostand

The future comes slowly, the present flies and the past stands still forever.

— Johann Friedrich Von Schiller

We know what we are, but know not what we may be.

— William Shakespeare

We are made wise not by the recollection of our past, but by the responsibility for our future.

— George Bernard Shaw

The gigantic shadows which futurity casts upon the present.

— Percy Bysshe Shelley

You don't just stumble into the future. You create your own future.

— Roger Smith

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

Imagine a baseball thrown thru the air. A high speed camera takes pictures of it showing very great detail -- names, laces, etc. Someone shows you a picture -- can you tell what direction it is travelling? or even if it is moving? NO. You would have to know where it was thrown FROM to know what direction it is going. In times of high change, it's good to know a little bit about the PAST to understand the present freeze frame of the NOW and project to some degree of accuracy where we are GOING (The Future).

— Source Unknown

Whatever your past has been your future is spotless.

— Source Unknown

We all need to take great interest in the future because we will spend the rest of our life there.

— Source Unknown

The future lies before you, like paths of pure white snow. Be careful how you tread it, for every step will show.

— Source Unknown

We have inherited the past; we can create the future.

— Source Unknown

The young sailor at sea was ordered to climb a mast to adjust a sail during a violent storm. He got halfway up, looked down, got dizzy and sick. An old sailor on deck shouted up to him Look up, son, look up. Young sailor looked up, regained his composure, and completed his mission. Moral: Look ahead, not back.

— Source Unknown

The trouble with our times is that the future is not what it used to be.

— Paul Valery

The future is made of the same stuff as the present.

— Simone Weil

It is possible to believe that all the past is but the beginning of a beginning, and that all that is and has been is but the twilight of the dawn. It is possible to believe that all the human mind has ever accomplished is but the dream before the awakening.

— H.G. Wells

I am not afraid of tomorrow, for I have seen yesterday and I love today.

— William Allen White

The past is of no importance. The present is of no importance. It is with the future that we have to deal. For the past is what man should not have been. The present is what man ought not to be. The future is what artists are.

— Oscar Wilde

When I look into the future, it is so bright it burns my eyes.

— Oprah Winfrey

Occasionally in life there are those moments of unutterable fulfillment which cannot be completely explained by those symbols called words. Their meaning can only be articulated by the inaudible language of the heart. Such is the moment I am presently experiencing. I experience this high and joyous moment not for myself alone but for those devotees of nonviolence who have moved so courageously against the ramparts of racial injustice and who in the process have acquired a new estimate of their own human worth. Many of them are young and cultured. Others are middle aged and middle class. The majority are poor and untutored. But they are all united in the quiet conviction that it is better to suffer in dignity than to accept segregation in humiliation. These are the real heroes of the freedom struggle: they are the noble people for whom I accept the Nobel Peace Prize.

— King Jr. Martin Luther