Future Quotes

"I am telling you that I am very grateful and am so proud of you for being a symbolic generation that is calling for change to the better, that is dreaming for a better future, and is making the future"

Hosni Mubarak, Statesman

"With us air people, the future of our nation is indissolubly bound up in the development of air power"

Billy Mitchell, Soldier

"A good education is that which prepares us for our future sphere of action and makes us contented with that situation in life in which God, in his infinite mercy, has seen fit to place us, to be perfectly resigned to our lot in life, whatever it may be"

Ann Plato

"Learn from the past, look to the future, but live in the present"

Petra Nemcova, Model

"We can all be proud of our men and women in the military who are following their orders, carrying out their missions and sacrificing so much to give the Iraqi people a chance for a more peaceful and prosperous future"

Ron Kind, Politician

"Right now, I'm thinking in terms of just having a good band, man. Having a good act for the stage. Being a good performer, you know? Connected to that is future recordings, and future tunes, that kind of stuff"

Dan Hicks, Musician

"The dynamics of capitalism is postponement of enjoyment to the constantly postponed future"

Norman O. Brown, Philosopher

"We cannot turn the clock back nor can we undo the harm caused, but we have the power to determine the future and to ensure that what happened never happens again"

Paul Kagame, Statesman

"America has survived and grown stronger through September 11th and subsequent wars with Afghanistan and Iraq and those who seek to do us harm. We have faced - and met - tremendous challenges ramping up a public health and safety system to protect Americans from future threats"

Christopher Bond, Politician

"The power of noble deeds is to be preserved and passed on to the future"

Joshua Chamberlain, Soldier

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

Mary Pickford, Actress

"I think an old style of addressing environmental problems is ebbing, but the rise of the so-called conservative, political movement in this country is not a trend towards the future but a reaction to this very broad shift that we are undergoing"

Paul Hawken, Environmentalist

"I think it's very clear that the American people are frustrated with this move toward socialism. And so whether you're back or white, if you believe that the conservative construct is in the best interest of our future, than you too would be voting with Republicans, and if you had the opportunity to run you'd join us as well"

Tim Scott, Politician

"What I believe in touches many aspects of religious and spiritual thought. Mainly I'm influenced and inspired by the eastern yogi's aspect of mysticism, Which is, I think, the future"

Dave Davies, Musician

"My entire life has been an attempt to get back to the kind of feelings you have on a field. The sense of brotherhood, the esprit de corps, the focus - there being no past or future, just the ball. As trite as it sounds, I was happiest playing ball"

David Duchovny, Actor

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

Aneurin Bevan, Politician

"Hollywood films have become a cesspool of formula and it's up to us to try to change it... I feel like a preacher! But it's really true. I feel personally responsible for the future of American cinema. Me personally"

Alexander Payne, Director

"In the end, we are part of this region, and we are affected by its developments. What we may do or not do in the future depends on the nature of what happens here in the region"

Hassan Nasrallah, Revolutionary

"If education is always to be conceived along the same antiquated lines of a mere transmission of knowledge, there is little to be hoped from it in the bettering of man's future. For what is the use of transmitting knowledge if the individual's total development lags behind?"

Maria Montessori, Educator

"Whoever neglects the arts when he is young has lost the past and is dead to the future"

Sophocles, Author

"My future is righteousness"

Bob Marley, Musician

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

Bob Marley, Musician

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

Friedrich Nietzsche, Philosopher

"All sciences are now under the obligation to prepare the ground for the future task of the philosopher, which is to solve the problem of value, to determine the true hierarchy of values"

Friedrich Nietzsche, Philosopher

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

Oscar Wilde, Dramatist

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

Ralph Waldo Emerson, Philosopher

"Whoso neglects learning in his youth, loses the past and is dead for the future"

Euripides, Poet

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

Victor Hugo, Author

"There is nothing like a dream to create the future"

Victor Hugo, Author

"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"

Mahatma Gandhi, Leader

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

Ambrose Bierce, Journalist

"We have the power to create a better future for ourselves and for the planet. The question is, what kind of future do we want to create?"

Peter Knights, Activist

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

Abraham Lincoln, President

"The direction in which education starts a man will determine his future in life"

Plato, Philosopher

"The assertion that "all men are created equal" was of no practical use in effecting our separation from Great Britain and it was placed in the Declaration not for that, but for future use"

Abraham Lincoln, President

"I predict future happiness for Americans if they can prevent the government from wasting the labors of the people under the pretense of taking care of them"

Thomas Jefferson, President

"Conservatism discards Prescription, shrinks from Principle, disavows Progress; having rejected all respect for antiquity, it offers no redress for the present, and makes no preparation for the future"

Benjamin Disraeli, Statesman

"Wisdom is the abstract of the past, but beauty is the promise of the future"

Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr., Poet

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

Ronald Reagan, President

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

Winston Churchill, Statesman

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