The Future Quotes

Study the past if you want to define the future.

Will future ages believe that such stupid bigotry ever existed!

There is a mortal breed most full of futility. In contempt of what is at hand, they strain into the future, hunting impossibilities on the wings of ineffectual hopes.

If your character is not strengthening, your future is weakening.

It often feels like I'm not so much living for the present as I am busy making memories for the future.

I am going into an unknown future, but I'm still all here, and still while there's life, there's hope.

To me, a leader is a visionary that energizes others. This definition of leadership has two key dimensions: a) creating the vision of the future, and b) inspiring others to make the vision a reality.

We must protect our most precious resource, our environment, for future generations.

The error of the past is the wisdom of the future.

Let's escape the past. The past didn't work. All we have is the future, and I'm the one who wrote "no future for you!" Don't let the irony be lost.

Nothing predicts future behavior as much as past impunity.

I can see now a vision emerging how Canada is going to profit in the future from our Arctic resources without destroying the environment on which it is all based.

Fortunately for children, the uncertainties of the present always give way to the enchanted possibilities of the future.

...not all encounters with the world affect the mind equally. Studies have demonstrated that if the brain appraises an event as "meaningful," it will be more likely to be recalled in the future.

Your current situation does not determine your future. Your future is determined by your decision to succeed.

To gain profit is important, but you must invest to build up assets that you can cash in in the future.

In the long run, no matter how good or successful you are or how clever or crafty, your business and its future are in the hands of the people you hire.

Optimism is invaluable for the meaningful life. With a firm belief in a positive future, you can throw yourself into the service of that which is larger than you are.

I feel like I'm a time traveler from the future who has been sent back to be annoyed.

Every action and decision we take – or don’t – ripples into the future. For the first time we have the capability, the technology, and the knowledge to direct these ripples.

The best way to predict the future is to study the past, or prognosticate.

There is nothing God doesn't know about your life. You may know the past and present, but God also knows the future. Choose today to walk securely - not in what you know, but in what you believe.

Impatience makes us get ahead of ourselves, reaching out for something in the future and not really being content with where we are, here and now.

We cannot build the future by avenging the past.

Reach for the heavens, and hope for the future, and all that will be, not what we are.

It is my firm belief that I have a link with the past and a responsibility to the future. I cannot give up. I cannot despair. There's a whole future, generations to come. I have to keep trying.

Rejoice in the things that are present; all else is beyond thee.

There is a future that makes itself and a future we make. The real future is composed of both.

You always have to try to move forward with a positive connotation in the future.

Planning ahead is a measure of class. The rich and even the middle class plan for future generations, but the poor can plan ahead only a few weeks or days.

If possible, forget the past. Look forward to the future.

Together, we will have one great American future. Our potential is unlimited. We will be one people, under one God, saluting one American flag.

Wishes are recollections coming from the future.

Worry is the product of a future that we cannot guarantee and guilt is the product of a past we cannot change.

So much time is currently spent in worrying about the future that the present is allowed to go to hell.

People are all over the world telling their one dramatic story and how their life has turned into getting over this one event. Now their lives are more about the past than their future.

But the future must be met, however stern and iron it be.

My heroes, my dreams, and my future lay in Yankee Stadium. And they can't take that away from me.

The future is up for grabs. It belongs to any and all who will take the risk and accept the responsibility of consciously creating the future they want.

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

Future generations may well have occasion to ask themselves, "What were our parents thinking? Why didn't they wake up when they had a chance?" We have to hear that question from them, now.

May your future be limited only by your dreams!

I'm definitely the first no.1 in the world since Fischer, and probably at least since Kasparov, who probably has the most potential to dominate for the foreseeable future.

The greater our present trials, the louder will our future songs be, and the more intense our joyful gratitude.

If you are in Christ, you are fully and completely forgiven for all your sin-past, present and future.

You can't really predict the future. All you can do is invent it.

It is only by making the past alive again for a person that a true growth in the present is facilitated. If the past is cut off, the future does not exist.

To predict the future we would have to know today what we will learn tomorrow which will shape our future actions

My father gave me some advice when I was very young - whatever someone tells you in the future, don't forget Pele is the best.

Sometimes in a defeat, you can set the stage for future victory.