Future
- All successful people men and women are big dreamers. They imagine what their future could be, ideal in every respect, and then they work every day toward their distant vision, that goal or purpose.--Brian Tracy
- The best thing about the future is that it comes only one day at a time.--Dean Acheson
- The challenges of change are always hard. It is important that we begin to unpack those challenges that confront this nation and realize that we each have a role that requires us to change and become more responsible for shaping our own future.--Hillary Rodham Clinton
- 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
- Commitments to a preferred future do not come randomly. They are intentionally established when you are thinking clearly and are close to God.-–Wayne Cordeiro (Leading on Empty: Refilling Your Tank and Renewing Your Passion)
- Do your duty and a little more and the future will take care of itself.--Andrew Carnegie
- Don't worry about the past and don't try to solve the future.--Garrison Keillor (A Christmas Blizzard)
- Effective managers live in the present - but concentrate on the future.--James L. Hayes
- Every time I see an adult on a bicycle, I no longer despair for the future of the human race.--H. G. Wells
- Forget yesterday - it has already forgotten you. Don't sweat tomorrow - you haven't even met. Instead, open your eyes and your heart to a truly precious gift - today.--Steve Maraboli (Life, the Truth, and Being Free)
- The future belongs to people who see possibilities before they become obvious.--Ted Levitt
- The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.--Eleanor Roosevelt
- The future depends entirely on what each of us does every day.--Gloria Steinem
- The future is called "perhaps," which is the only possible thing to call the future. And the only important thing is not to allow that to scare you.--Tennessee Williams (Orpheus Descending)
- The future is made of the same stuff as the present.--Simone Weil
- The future is not some place we are going, but one we are creating. The paths to it are not found but made, and the activity of making them changes both the maker and the destination.--John Schaar
- The future is something which everyone reaches at the rate of sixty minutes an hour, whatever he does.--C. S. Lewis
- The future should be something we deserve, not something which is merely reached at the rate of 60 minutes per hour.--Anonymous
- The future will belong not only to the educated man, but to the man who is educated to use his leisure wisely.--C. K. Brightbill
- How can the future be molded with hands full of baggage labeled What Was and What Could've Been? Where can you go with all that stuff, and how much fun will you have with it when you get there? Leave those bags behind, and hope they stay lost before you get to your next destination. All right, take a few souvenirs if you must, but just nice stuff. No junk.--Michael Rawls (Friday's Inspiration, 11/21/03)
- I have long considered it one of God's greatest mercies that the future is hidden from us. If it were not, life would surely be unbearable.--Eugene Forsey
- I like the dreams of the future better than the history of the past.--Thomas Jefferson
- I see no hope for the future of our people if they are dependent on the frivolous youth of today, for certainly all youth are reckless beyond words. When I was a boy, we were taught to be discrete and respectful of elders, but the present youth are exceedingly wise and impatient of restraint.--Hesiod (8th century B.C.)
- If we can recognize that change and uncertainty are basic principles, we can greet the future and the transformation we are undergoing with the understanding that we do not know enough to be pessimistic.--Hazel Henderson
- In the future, instead of striving to be right at a high cost, it will be more appropriate to be flexible and plural at a lower cost. If you cannot accurately predict the future then you must flexibly be prepared to deal with various possible futures.--Edward de Bono (Serious Creativity)
- It is change, continuing change, inevitable change, that is the dominant factor in society today. No sensible decision can be made any longer without taking into account not only the world as it is, but the world as it will be.--Isaac Asimov ("My Own View" in The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction ed. by Holdstock)
- It is the business of the future to be dangerous.... The major advances in civilization are processes that all but wreck the societies in which they occur.--Alfred North Whitehead
- It isn't necessary to imagine the world ending in fire or ice. There are two other possibilities: one is paperwork, and the other is nostalgia.--Frank Zappa
- It's not difficult to predict tomorrow when you do the same things today that you did yesterday.--Ralph Womer
- Learn the past, watch the present, and create the future.--Jesse Conrad
- Let others lead small lives, but not you.
Let others argue over small things, but not you.
Let others cry over small hurts, but not you.
Let others leave their future in someone else's hands, but not you.--Jim Rohn
- 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
- Life always comes out of death. The present rises from the ashes of the past. The future is always possible for those who are willing to re-create it.--Joan Chittister (The Gift of Years: Growing Older Gracefully)
- Light tomorrow with today!--Elizabeth Barrett Browning
- Look not mournfully into the past, it comes not back again. Wisely improve the present, it is thine. Go forth to meet the shadowy future without fear and with a manly heart.--Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
- Many mornings I check out the news as soon as I wake up, because if it turns out that the world is coming to an end that day, I am going to eat the frosting off an entire carrot cake; just for a start. Then I will move onto vats of clam dip, pots of crime brûlée, nachos, M & M's etc. Then I will max out both my credit cards.--Anne Lamott (on Facebook July 27, 2014)
- Many of us crucify ourselves between two thieves - regret for the past and fear of the future.--Fulton Oursler
- My interest is in the future because I'm going to spend the rest of my life there.--Charles Kettering
- 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
- Now is the only time. How we relate to it creates the future.--Pema Chödrön
- One problem with gazing too frequently into the past is that we may turn around to find the future has run out on us.--Michael Cibenko
- The only certain thing about the future is that it will surprise even those who have seen furthest into it.--E. J. Hobsbawm
- The only way to predict the future is to have power to shape the future.--Eric Hoffer (The Passionate State of Mind: And Other Aphorisms)
- Our children are our only hope for the future, but we are their only hope for their present and their future.--Zig Ziglar (Zig Ziglar's Little Book of Big Quotes)
- Our past and present are only our means; the future is always our end. Thus we never really live, but only hope to live.--Blaise Pasca
- Predicting the future is easy. It's trying to figure out what's going on now that's hard.--Fritz R. S. Dressler
- Real generosity toward the future lies in giving all to the present.—-Albert Camus
- The sad truth is that opportunity doesn't knock twice. You can put things off until tomorrow but tomorrow may never come.--Gloria Estefan
- The stories that you tell about your past shape your future.--Eric Ransdell (in Fast Company)
- There are two days in the week about which and upon which I never worry. Two carefree days, kept sacredly free from fear and apprehension. One of these days is Yesterday... And the other ... is Tomorrow.--Robert Jones Burdette
- There may be no more pleasing picture in the world than that of a child peering into a book--the past and the future entrancing each other.--Roger Rosenblau
- Those who are unwilling to invest in the future haven't earned one.--H. W. Lewis (Technological Risk)
- To believe in something to yet proved and to underwrite it with our lives; it is the only way we can leave the future open.--Lillian Smith
- To live only for some future goal is shallow. It's the sides of the mountain which sustain life, not the top. Here's where things grow. But of course, without the top you can't have any sides. It's the top that defines the sides.--Robert M. Pirsig (Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance)
- To look back into the past only makes sense if it serves the future.--Konrad Adenauer
- Tomorrow is our permanent address.--E. E. Cummings
- Very strange is this quality of our human nature which decrees that unless we feel a future before us we do not live completely in the present.--Phillips Brooks
- We are called to be architects of the future, not its victims.--Buckminster Fuller
- We cannot always build the future for our youth, but we can build our youth for the future.--Franklin D. Roosevelt
- We fear the past, present and future. We fear the unknown, we fear not having enough, losing what we have, not having what we want. We fear what will become of us and those that we care for. We fear what others think of us and what they don't think of us. We fear, fear, fear and therefore we are controllable through the manipulation of all that we fear.--David Icke
- We know nothing of tomorrow, our business is to be good and happy today.--Sydney Smith
- We know what we are, but know not what we may be.--William Shakespeare
- We must welcome the future, remembering that soon it will be the past; and we must respect the past, knowing that once it was all that was humanly possible.--George Santayana
- We waste so many days waiting for the weekend. So many nights wanting morning. Our lust for future comfort is the biggest thief of life.--Joshua Glenn Clark
- What you believe about the future shapes, informs, and determines how you live now.--Rob Bell (Love Wins)
- When it comes to the future, there are three kinds of people: those who let it happen, those who make it happen, and those who wonder what happened.--John M. Richardson, Jr.
- Why didn't I learn to treat everything like it was the last time. My greatest regret was how much I believed in the future.--Jonathan Safran Foer (Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close)
- The wise man must remember that while he is a descendant of the past, he is a parent of the future.--Herbert Spencer
- You are sowing the flowers of tomorrow in the seeds of today.--Unknown
- You can no longer look to the past in an attempt to predict your future. A large part of the present is obsolete and, for most people, much of the future is beyond comprehension.--Christopher Hegarty
- Your future depends on many things, but mostly on you.--Frank Tyger
- Your future takes precedence over your past. Focus on your future, rather than on the past.--Gary Ryan Blair (Mind Munchies : A Delicious Assortment of Brain Snacks!)
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