Every great work of art has two faces, one toward its own time and one toward the future, toward eternity.
2 sayings from Lester Bangs
Every man has his own destiny: the only imperative is to follow it, to accept it, no matter where it leads him.
23 sayings from Henry Miller
I am not interested in the past, except as the road to the future.
5 quotes from Gianni Versace
The best preparation for the future is the present well seen to, and the last duty done.
12 more sayings from George MacDonald
The future enters into us, in order to transform itself in us, long before it happens.
9 more wisdom & wit from Rainer Maria Rilke
The future is the worst thing about the present.
30 sayings from Gustave Flaubert
The past is an old armchair in the attic, the present an ominous ticking sound, and the future is anybody's guess.
14 wisdom & wit from James Thurber
Times and conditions change so rapidly that we must keep our aim constantly focused on the future.
23 wisdom & wit from Walt Disney
We live trapped, between the churned-up and examined past and a future that waits for our work.
3 wisdom & wit from Anna Freud
You cannot fight against the future. Time is on our side.
7 other views from William E. Gladstone
An author is a fool who, not content with boring those he lives with, insists on boring future generations.
14 thoughts from Charles de Montesquieu
An expectation is a future object, recognised as belonging to me.
3 quotes from Samuel Alexander
Change your life today. Don't gamble on the future, act now, without delay.
12 more sayings from Simone de Beauvoir
Everything that looks to the future elevates human nature.
9 other quotes from Walter Savage Landor
Fear of the future is worse than one's present fortune.
12 other wisdom & wit from Quintilian
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.
16 quotes from Alan Watts
I look to the future because that's where I'm going to spend the rest of my life.
21 sayings from George Burns
Instead of causing us to remember the past like the old monuments, the new monuments seem to cause us to forget the future.
3 quotes from Robert Smithson
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.
19 views from Edgar Allan Poe
Look to the future, because that is where you'll spend the rest of your life.
21 wisdom & wit from George Burns
No valid plans for the future can be made by those who have no capacity for living now.
16 quotes from Alan Watts
Right actions in the future are the best apologies for bad actions in the past.
8 wisdom & wit from Tryon Edwards
Smiles form the channels of a future tear.
36 quotes from Lord Byron
The girl with a future avoids a man with a past.
6 thoughts from Evan Esar
The present was an egg laid by the past that had the future inside its shell.
12 more thoughts from Zora Neale Hurston
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.
17 sayings from Plutarch
What else does anxiety about the future bring you but sorrow upon sorrow?
12 more quotes from Thomas a Kempis
You can never plan the future by the past.
37 other wisdom & wit from Edmund Burke
A government is invigorated when each of us is willing to participate in shaping the future of this nation.
6 other quotes from Barbara Jordan
Each man should frame life so that at some future hour fact and his dreaming meet.
73 quotes from Victor Hugo
Every man gotta right to decide his own destiny.
11 sayings from Bob Marley
Every one rushes elsewhere and into the future, because no one wants to face one's own inner self.
32 views from Michel de Montaigne
For all of its uncertainty, we cannot flee the future.
6 quotes from Barbara Jordan
How paramount the future is to the present when one is surrounded by children.
8 sayings from Charles Darwin
I am tomorrow, or some future day, what I establish today. I am today what I established yesterday or some previous day.
11 more thoughts from James Joyce
In this bright future you can't forget your past.
11 quotes from Bob Marley
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.
19 thoughts from Alfred North Whitehead
Living in dreams of yesterday, we find ourselves still dreaming of impossible future conquests.
6 wisdom & wit from Charles Lindbergh
My future is righteousness.
11 other thoughts from Bob Marley
Our modern states are preparing for war without even knowing the future enemy.
9 more sayings from Alfred Adler
The best thing about the future is that it comes one day at a time.
47 thoughts from Abraham Lincoln
The future is made of the same stuff as the present.
25 other views from Simone Weil
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.
19 sayings from Alfred North Whitehead
There is nothing like a dream to create the future.
73 more wisdom & wit from Victor Hugo
Upper classes are a nation's past the middle class is its future.
24 other quotes from Ayn Rand
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.
6 quotes from Barbara Jordan
What is history? An echo of the past in the future a reflex from the future on the past.
73 other quotes from Victor Hugo
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.
5 quotes from William Jennings Bryan
Forget the past - the future will give you plenty to worry about.
4 more quotes from George Allen, Sr.
I don't know what the future may hold, but I know who holds the future.
2 quotes from Ralph Abernathy
I go to school the youth to learn the future.
50 quotes from Robert Frost
I never think of the future - it comes soon enough.
105 quotes from Albert Einstein
I try not to worry about the future - so I take each day just one anxiety attack at a time.
5 quotes from Tom Wilson
Only mothers can think of the future - because they give birth to it in their children.
4 quotes from Maxim Gorky
The danger of the past was that men became slaves. The danger of the future is that man may become robots.
16 wisdom & wit from Erich Fromm
The distinction between the past, present and future is only a stubbornly persistent illusion.
105 quotes from Albert Einstein
The past is not dead, it is living in us, and will be alive in the future which we are now helping to make.
6 quotes from William Morris
They gave each other a smile with a future in it.
3 views from Ring Lardner
Always remember that the future comes one day at a time.
4 quotes from Dean Acheson
Depression is the inability to construct a future.
6 other quotes from Rollo May
I like the dreams of the future better than the history of the past.
70 more wisdom & wit from Thomas Jefferson
It is not in the stars to hold our destiny but in ourselves.
81 wisdom & wit from William Shakespeare
Look back over the past, with its changing empires that rose and fell, and you can foresee the future, too.
41 quotes from Marcus Aurelius
Memories are the key not to the past, but to the future.
7 more wisdom & wit from Corrie Ten Boom
Never be afraid to trust an unknown future to a known God.
7 views from Corrie Ten Boom
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.
41 quotes from Marcus Aurelius
That man is prudent who neither hopes nor fears anything from the uncertain events of the future.
20 quotes from Anatole France
The best thing about the future is that it comes only one day at a time.
4 other wisdom & wit from Dean Acheson
The future is hidden by a dark impenetrable veil, and yet we struggle to pierce through it.
7 other thoughts from Joseph Barber Lightfoot
The past cannot be changed. The future is yet in your power.
3 more wisdom & wit from Mary Pickford
The wise man must remember that while he is a descendant of the past, he is a parent of the future.
20 quotes from Herbert Spencer
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.
18 quotes from Emile M. Cioran
What does the future, that half of time, matter to the man who is infatuated with eternity?
18 more quotes from Emile M. Cioran
A mother's happiness is like a beacon, lighting up the future but reflected also on the past in the guise of fond memories.
53 other quotes from Honore de Balzac
But blind to former as to future fate, what mortal knows his pre-existent state?
43 quotes from Alexander Pope
Change is the law of life. And those who look only to the past or present are certain to miss the future.
46 thoughts from John F. Kennedy
Education is the passport to the future, for tomorrow belongs to those who prepare for it today.
21 other sayings from Malcolm X
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.
46 more quotes from John F. Kennedy
I know of no way of judging the future but by the past.
10 more sayings from Patrick Henry
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.
3 more sayings from Miles Davis
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.
4 other sayings from Jose Ortega y Gasset
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.
8 more quotes from Bobby Darin
The country that is more developed industrially only shows, to the less developed, the image of its own future.
21 other wisdom & wit from Karl Marx
The enemies of the future are always the very nicest people.
15 quotes from Christopher Morley
The essence of statesmanship is not a rigid adherence to the past, but a prudent and probing concern for the future.
16 views from Hubert H. Humphrey
The future belongs to those who prepare for it today.
21 more thoughts from Malcolm X
The future is like heaven, everyone exalts it, but no one wants to go there now.
24 other sayings from James A. Baldwin
The future is no more uncertain than the present.
30 other wisdom & wit from Walt Whitman
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.
24 more quotes from James A. Baldwin
Two persons love in one another the future good which they aid one another to unfold.
9 thoughts from Margaret Fuller
We do not know enough about how the present will lead into the future.
4 other thoughts from Gregory Bateson
We must respect the past, and mistrust the present, if we wish to provide for the safety of the future.
14 other quotes from Joseph Joubert
When you forgive, you in no way change the past - but you sure do change the future.
6 quotes from Bernard Meltzer
With the past, I have nothing to do nor with the future. I live now.
135 quotes from Ralph Waldo Emerson
If we examine our thoughts, we shall find them always occupied with the past and the future.
57 thoughts from Blaise Pascal
If you want a vision of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face - forever.
47 wisdom & wit from George Orwell
One faces the future with one's past.
18 wisdom & wit from Pearl S. Buck
The importance of money flows from it being a link between the present and the future.
10 wisdom & wit from John Maynard Keynes
The past, the present and the future are really one: they are today.
7 sayings from Harriet Beecher Stowe
The social object of skilled investment should be to defeat the dark forces of time and ignorance which envelope our future.
10 quotes from John Maynard Keynes
The youth is the hope of our future.
3 quotes from Jose Rizal
Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past.
47 other quotes from George Orwell
A person often meets his destiny on the road he took to avoid it.
15 other quotes from Jean de La Fontaine
Let him who would enjoy a good future waste none of his present.
3 more quotes from Roger Babson
Never make predictions, especially about the future.
12 sayings from Casey Stengel
The future is today.
11 wisdom & wit from William Osler
The future... seems to me no unified dream but a mince pie, long in the baking, never quite done.
14 other quotes from Edward Young
The impressions of the spriritual experiences gave my future life its form and content.
4 sayings from Gustav Mahler
The Internet: transforming society and shaping the future through chat.
27 sayings from Dave Barry
The only way to predict the future is to have power to shape the future.
31 other wisdom & wit from Eric Hoffer
We are made wise not by the recollection of our past, but by the responsibility for our future.
115 more wisdom & wit from George Bernard Shaw
We drive into the future using only our rearview mirror.
19 more wisdom & wit from Marshall McLuhan
We shall be better prepared for the future if we see how terrible, how doomed the present is.
9 quotes from Iris Murdoch
When the past no longer illuminates the future, the spirit walks in darkness.
19 quotes from Alexis de Tocqueville
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.
5 thoughts from Leonard Bernstein
A speculator is a man who observes the future, and acts before it occurs.
12 other thoughts from Bernard Baruch
A women who doesn't wear perfume has no future.
16 wisdom & wit from Coco Chanel
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.
22 quotes from Samuel Richardson
At every crossroads on the path that leads to the future, tradition has placed 10,000 men to guard the past.
10 quotes from Maurice Maeterlinck
Children enjoy the present because they have neither a past nor a future.
26 views from Jean de la Bruyere
Children have neither a past nor a future. Thus they enjoy the present, which seldom happens to us.
26 sayings from Jean de la Bruyere
Fear not for the future, weep not for the past.
19 other quotes from Percy Bysshe Shelley
I object to people running down the future. I am going to live all the rest of my life there.
11 more quotes from Charles Kettering
In every conceivable manner, the family is link to our past, bridge to our future.
3 quotes from Alex Haley
In the future everyone will be famous for 15 minutes.
18 more wisdom & wit from Andy Warhol
My interest is in the future because I am going to spend the rest of my life there.
11 quotes from Charles Kettering
Our imagination is the only limit to what we can hope to have in the future.
11 quotes from Charles Kettering
The world is full of people whose notion of a satisfactory future is, in fact, a return to the idealised past.
3 views from Robertson Davies
There are times when even the most potent governor must wink at transgression, in order to preserve the laws inviolate for the future.
13 wisdom & wit from Herman Melville
We should all be concerned about the future because we will have to spend the rest of our lives there.
11 other quotes from Charles Kettering
Destiny has two ways of crushing us - by refusing our wishes and by fulfilling them.
24 thoughts from Henri Frederic Amiel
Every time I see an adult on a bicycle, I no longer despair for the future of the human race.
19 sayings from H. G. Wells
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.
24 other thoughts from Henri Frederic Amiel
Philosophy finds it an easy matter to vanquish past and future evils, but the present are commonly too hard for it.
90 quotes from Francois de La Rochefoucauld
The future is purchased by the present.
63 more quotes from Samuel Johnson
We know not of the future and cannot plan for it much.
2 other views from Joshua Chamberlain
After the final no there comes a yes and on that yes the future of the world hangs.
16 sayings from Wallace Stevens
Education, therefore, is a process of living and not a preparation for future living.
9 views from John Dewey
Every saint has a past and every sinner has a future.
100 quotes from Oscar Wilde
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.
100 quotes from Mahatma Gandhi
Language is the armory of the human mind, and at once contains the trophies of its past and the weapons of its future conquests.
24 quotes from Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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.
33 quotes from Dwight D. Eisenhower
Prediction is very difficult, especially if it's about the future.
9 views from Niels Bohr
Promises are the uniquely human way of ordering the future, making it predictable and reliable to the extent that this is humanly possible.
9 wisdom & wit from Hannah Arendt
Religion often partakes of the myth of progress that shields us from the terrors of an uncertain future.
8 other quotes from Frank Herbert
The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.
30 views from Eleanor Roosevelt
The future influences the present just as much as the past.
103 quotes from Friedrich Nietzsche
The future, like everything else, is not what it used to be.
16 quotes from Paul Valery
The trouble with our times is that the future is not what it used to be.
16 sayings from Paul Valery
There are certain moments when we might wish the future were built by men of the past.
13 more quotes from Jean Rostand
There is always one moment in childhood when the door opens and lets the future in.
11 quotes from Graham Greene
Traditionalists are pessimists about the future and optimists about the past.
8 more quotes from Lewis Mumford
We can chart our future clearly and wisely only when we know the path which has led to the present.
24 thoughts from Adlai E. Stevenson
Do your duty and a little more and the future will take care of itself.
13 sayings from Andrew Carnegie
Everything that ever happened is still happening. Past, present and future keep happening in the eternity which is Here and Now.
12 other wisdom & wit from James Broughton
Fascism is not in itself a new order of society. It is the future refusing to be born.
11 quotes from Aneurin Bevan
I desire no future that will break the ties with the past.
52 quotes from George Eliot
I knew I could not cope with the future unless I was able to rediscover the past.
12 sayings from Gene Tierney
If we open a quarrel between past and present, we shall find that we have lost the future.
74 other quotes from Winston Churchill
It is said that the present is pregnant with the future.
78 more wisdom & wit from Voltaire
Reactionary: a man walking backwards with his face to the future.
11 more quotes from Aneurin Bevan
Real generosity toward the future lies in giving all to the present.
52 wisdom & wit from Albert Camus
The empires of the future are the empires of the mind.
74 wisdom & wit from Winston Churchill
The future is something which everyone reaches at the rate of 60 minutes an hour, whatever he does, whoever he is.
25 thoughts from C. S. Lewis
We should regret our mistakes and learn from them, but never carry them forward into the future with us.
2 more quotes from Lucy Maud Montgomery