Future Quotes

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.

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

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.

The only difference between the saint and the sinner is that every saint has a past, and every sinner has a future.

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

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

It is not in the stars to hold our destiny but in ourselves.

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

It is always wise to look ahead, but difficult to look further than you can see.

The empires of the future are the empires of the mind.

What matters is to live in the present, live now, for every moment is now. It is your thoughts and acts of the moment that create your future. The outline of your future path already exists, for you created its pattern by your past.

A person who has sympathy for mankind in the lump, faith in its future progress, and desire to serve the great cause of this progress, should be called not a humanist, but a humanitarian, and his creed may be designated as humanitarianism.

Let him who would enjoy a good future waste none of his present.

Pearl Harbor caused our Nation to wholeheartedly commit to winning World War II, changing the course of our Nation's history and the world's future.

Head Start's ability to improve the educational skills and opportunities of Latino children will be an important component of America's future success.

You are always free to change your mind and choose a different future, or a different past.

Poetry is one of the destinies of speech... One would say that the poetic image, in its newness, opens a future to language.

It is a wonderful honor to receive the Audubon Medal from the National Audubon Society, which for more than a century has fought tirelessly to protect and preserve our natural resources and environment for future generations.

We are too quickly losing important landscapes in this country to development - and I worry that if we do not act to protect them now, future generations will grow up in a profoundly different world.

Measured by any standard, white or black, Washington must be regarded today as one of the great men of this country: and in the future he will be so honored.

As to judging our own time, and thereby gaining some basis for a judgment of future possibilities, we are doubtless not only too close to it to appraise it but too much formed by it and enclosed within it to do so.

The future will be determined in part by happenings that it is impossible to foresee; it will also be influenced by trends that are now existent and observable.

The future is like heaven, everyone exalts it, but no one wants to go there now.

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.

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.

The future is going to be boring. The suburbanisation of the planet will continue, and the suburbanisation of the soul will follow soon after.

I came to live in Shepperton in 1960. I thought: the future isn't in the metropolitan areas of London. I want to go out to the new suburbs, near the film studios. This was the England I wanted to write about, because this was the new world that was emerging.

A mother's happiness is like a beacon, lighting up the future but reflected also on the past in the guise of fond memories.

For the cause that lacks assistance, the wrong that needs resistance, for the future in the distance, and the good that I can do.

I think the future stopped looking American when you think back to Blade Runner and Neuromancer, when it started to look more Japanese.

The future ain't what it used to be.

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

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

My business is to prevent the future.

Without libraries what have we? We have no past and no future.

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

You can never plan the future by the past.

I believe that you control your destiny, that you can be what you want to be. You can also stop and say, 'No, I won't do it, I won't behave his way anymore. I'm lonely and I need people around me, maybe I have to change my methods of behaving,' and then you do it.

Smiles form the channels of a future tear.

When my job was attempting to predict future economic developments for the Shell oil company, I was frequently reminded of an Arabic saying: 'Those who claim to foresee the future are lying, even if by chance they are later proved right.'

Set your sights high, the higher the better. Expect the most wonderful things to happen, not in the future but right now. Realize that nothing is too good. Allow absolutely nothing to hamper you or hold you up in any way.

I don't take relationships too seriously, but everyone else seems to. And when you get your heart broken, it's like the end of the world. And I look at it as that was one moment in your life, one chapter. That person helped you grow and figure out what kind of person you want to be with in the future.

I take all of my life lessons, which some people might call 'mistakes,' and apply them to my future so that I keep growing.

I learn from thinking about the future, what hasn't been done yet. That's kind of my constant obsession.

I like what the future holds. I don't like thinking about the past.

Thirdly, as we move through this process of integrating the communications, we will begin to emulate more of the World Wide Web in our work in the future.

We have been working hard to think about what our combined needs are going to be in the way of intelligence capabilities, not today but 15 to 20 years in the future.

After the Berlin Wall came down I visited that city and I will never forget it. The abandoned checkpoints. The sense of excitement about the future. The knowledge that a great continent was coming together. Healing those wounds of our history is the central story of the European Union.

I don't just want a better deal for Britain. I want a better deal for Europe too. So I speak as British prime minister with a positive vision for the future of the European Union. A future in which Britain wants, and should want, to play a committed and active part.

I am through with this body, and what becomes of it will make no difference with me in the future.

Elections are also about the future - the pledges that we are making for this country. For those who care about equality and fairness in the UK, and beyond, Labour really is the only choice.

I believe that Canadians have the common sense to see that a better future cannot be built on fragmentation.

I know Quebecers don't want to relive old battles; they prefer to build for the future.

Children are our future we must take care of them with maximum effort.

There's no artist in this world that doesn't enjoy the dream that if they have bad reviews now, the story of Keats can redeem them, in their fantasy or imagination, in the future. I think Keats' poem 'Endymion' is a really difficult poem, and I'm not surprised that a lot of people pulled it apart in a way.

It is hard to say what the future holds, but this is probable - it won't be just like the past.

Real generosity toward the future lies in giving all to the present.

Without culture, and the relative freedom it implies, society, even when perfect, is but a jungle. This is why any authentic creation is a gift to the future.

I am a firm believer in marriage. In the future I will be married.

The planet's survival has become so uncertain that any effort, any thought that presupposes an assured future amounts to a mad gamble.

I have always had a tremendous amount of energy and any band I was ever in from the age of fourteen, I would always be the one who would describe the future and vibe everyone up.

It is our duty to see that our future citizens are well born; that they are properly nourished, and are reared in that environment most likely to develop in them their full capacity and powers.

Until the people, by amendment, change the constitution, I urge that the counties cooperate with one another, that future road work be more uniform, and done in such a way that it will result in connected and continuous highways.

We have a moral responsibility to save wild places like the arctic refuge for future generations, and that is why our country has remained committed to its protection for nearly 50 years.

The future is as bright as the promises of God.

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

We should not fret for what is past, nor should we be anxious about the future; men of discernment deal only with the present moment.

A women who doesn't wear perfume has no future.

Elegance is not the prerogative of those who have just escaped from adolescence, but of those who have already taken possession of their future.

Study the past, if you would divine the future.

The past is a ghost, the future a dream, and all we ever have is now.

The main goal of the future is to stop violence. The world is addicted to it.

Run to meet the future or it's going to run you down.

Nicaragua is a World Bank and International Monetary Fund designated 'heavily indebted poor country,' with little legal ability to control its economic future: Everything is for sale. And once Nicaraguans decide to cash in and sell their houses or farms, they have to look far inland for anything affordable.

There has been enough blood in the Balkans. Serbia is offering its hand. Let us turn to the future and not deal with the past.