Quotes and anectdotes from the wise to the foolish, and the courageous to the drunk

future

Do your duty and a little more and the future will take care of itself.

Everything that ever happened is still happening. Past, present and future keep happening in the eternity which is Here and Now.

Fascism is not in itself a new order of society. It is the future refusing to be born.

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

I knew I could not cope with the future unless I was able to rediscover the past.

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

It is said that the present is pregnant with the future.

Reactionary: a man walking backwards with his face to the future.

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

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

The future is something which everyone reaches at the rate of 60 minutes an hour, whatever he does, whoever he is.

We should regret our mistakes and learn from them, but never carry them forward into the future with us.

Every great work of art has two faces, one toward its own time and one toward the future, toward eternity.

Every man has his own destiny: the only imperative is to follow it, to accept it, no matter where it leads him.

I am not interested in the past, except as the road to the future.

The best preparation for the future is the present well seen to, and the last duty done.

The future enters into us, in order to transform itself in us, long before it happens.

The future is the worst thing about the present.

The past is an old armchair in the attic, the present an ominous ticking sound, and the future is anybody's guess.

Times and conditions change so rapidly that we must keep our aim constantly focused on the future.

We live trapped, between the churned-up and examined past and a future that waits for our work.

You cannot fight against the future. Time is on our side.

An author is a fool who, not content with boring those he lives with, insists on boring future generations.

An expectation is a future object, recognised as belonging to me.

Change your life today. Don't gamble on the future, act now, without delay.

Everything that looks to the future elevates human nature.

Fear of the future is worse than one's present fortune.

I have realized that the past and future are real illusions, that they exist in the present, which is what there is and all there is.

I look to the future because that's where I'm going to spend the rest of my life.

Instead of causing us to remember the past like the old monuments, the new monuments seem to cause us to forget the future.

It is by no means an irrational fancy that, in a future existence, we shall look upon what we think our present existence, as a dream.

Look to the future, because that is where you'll spend the rest of your life.

No valid plans for the future can be made by those who have no capacity for living now.

Right actions in the future are the best apologies for bad actions in the past.

Smiles form the channels of a future tear.

The girl with a future avoids a man with a past.

The present was an egg laid by the past that had the future inside its shell.

To make no mistakes is not in the power of man but from their errors and mistakes the wise and good learn wisdom for the future.

What else does anxiety about the future bring you but sorrow upon sorrow?

You can never plan the future by the past.

A government is invigorated when each of us is willing to participate in shaping the future of this nation.

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

Every man gotta right to decide his own destiny.

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

For all of its uncertainty, we cannot flee the future.

How paramount the future is to the present when one is surrounded by children.

I am tomorrow, or some future day, what I establish today. I am today what I established yesterday or some previous day.

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

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.

Living in dreams of yesterday, we find ourselves still dreaming of impossible future conquests.

My future is righteousness.

Our modern states are preparing for war without even knowing the future enemy.

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

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

The task of a university is the creation of the future, so far as rational thought and civilized modes of appreciation can affect the issue.

There is nothing like a dream to create the future.

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

We are a people in a quandary about the present. We are a people in search of our future. We are a people in search of a national community.

What is history? An echo of the past in the future a reflex from the future on the past.

Destiny is no matter of chance. It is a matter of choice. It is not a thing to be waited for, it is a thing to be achieved.

Forget the past - the future will give you plenty to worry about.

I don't know what the future may hold, but I know who holds the future.

I go to school the youth to learn the future.

I never think of the future - it comes soon enough.

I try not to worry about the future - so I take each day just one anxiety attack at a time.

Only mothers can think of the future - because they give birth to it in their children.

The danger of the past was that men became slaves. The danger of the future is that man may become robots.

The distinction between the past, present and future is only a stubbornly persistent illusion.

The past is not dead, it is living in us, and will be alive in the future which we are now helping to make.

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

Always remember that the future comes one day at a time.

Depression is the inability to construct a 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.

Look back over the past, with its changing empires that rose and fell, and you can foresee the future, too.

Memories are the key not to the past, but to the future.

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

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.

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

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

The future is hidden by a dark impenetrable veil, and yet we struggle to pierce through it.

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

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

To act is to anchor in an imminent future, so imminent it becomes almost tangible to act is to feel you are consubstantial with that future.

What does the future, that half of time, matter to the man who is infatuated with eternity?

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

But blind to former as to future fate, what mortal knows his pre-existent state?

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

Education is the passport to the future, for tomorrow belongs to those who prepare for it today.

History is a relentless master. It has no present, only the past rushing into the future. To try to hold fast is to be swept aside.

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

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.

Life is a series of collisions with the future it is not the sum of what we have been, but what we yearn to be.

My philosophy is to take one day at a time. I don't worry about the future. Tomorrow is even out of sight for me.

The country that is more developed industrially only shows, to the less developed, the image of its own future.

The enemies of the future are always the very nicest people.

The essence of statesmanship is not a rigid adherence to the past, but a prudent and probing concern for the future.

The future belongs to those who prepare for it today.

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

The future is no more uncertain than the present.

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.

Two persons love in one another the future good which they aid one another to unfold.

We do not know enough about how the present will lead into the future.

We must respect the past, and mistrust the present, if we wish to provide for the safety of the future.

When you forgive, you in no way change the past - but you sure do change the future.

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

If we examine our thoughts, we shall find them always occupied with the past and the future.

If you want a vision of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face - forever.

One faces the future with one's past.

The importance of money flows from it being a link between the present and the future.

The past, the present and the future are really one: they are today.

The social object of skilled investment should be to defeat the dark forces of time and ignorance which envelope our future.

The youth is the hope of our future.

Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past.

A person often meets his destiny on the road he took to avoid it.

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

Never make predictions, especially about the future.

The future is today.

The future... seems to me no unified dream but a mince pie, long in the baking, never quite done.

The impressions of the spriritual experiences gave my future life its form and content.

The Internet: transforming society and shaping the future through chat.

The only way to predict the future is to have power to shape the future.

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

We drive into the future using only our rearview mirror.

We shall be better prepared for the future if we see how terrible, how doomed the present is.

When the past no longer illuminates the future, the spirit walks in darkness.

A liberal is a man or a woman or a child who looks forward to a better day, a more tranquil night, and a bright, infinite future.

A speculator is a man who observes the future, and acts before it occurs.

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

As a child is indulged or checked in its early follies, a ground is generally laid for the happiness or misery of the future man.

At every crossroads on the path that leads to the future, tradition has placed 10,000 men to guard the past.

Children enjoy the present because they have neither a past nor a future.

Children have neither a past nor a future. Thus they enjoy the present, which seldom happens to us.

Fear not for the future, weep not for the past.

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

In every conceivable manner, the family is link to our past, bridge to our future.

In the future everyone will be famous for 15 minutes.

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

Our imagination is the only limit to what we can hope to have in the future.

The world is full of people whose notion of a satisfactory future is, in fact, a return to the idealised past.

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

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

Destiny has two ways of crushing us - by refusing our wishes and by fulfilling them.

Every time I see an adult on a bicycle, I no longer despair for the future of the human race.

Everything you need for better future and success has already been written. And guess what? All you have to do is go to the library.

Philosophy finds it an easy matter to vanquish past and future evils, but the present are commonly too hard for it.

The future is purchased by the present.

We know not of the future and cannot plan for it much.

After the final no there comes a yes and on that yes the future of the world hangs.

Education, therefore, is a process of living and not a preparation for future living.

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

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.

Language is the armory of the human mind, and at once contains the trophies of its past and the weapons of its future conquests.

Neither a wise man nor a brave man lies down on the tracks of history to wait for the train of the future to run over him.

Prediction is very difficult, especially if it's about the future.

Promises are the uniquely human way of ordering the future, making it predictable and reliable to the extent that this is humanly possible.

Religion often partakes of the myth of progress that shields us from the terrors of an uncertain future.

The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.

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

The future, like everything else, is not what it used to be.

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

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

There is always one moment in childhood when the door opens and lets the future in.

Traditionalists are pessimists about the future and optimists about the past.

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