Future Quotes

But bid life seize the present? It lives less in the present Than in the future always, And less in both together Than in the past. The present Is too much for the senses, Too crowding, too confusing— Too present to imagine.

~ Robert Frost

Each age selects its own geniuses from the past to suit its own needs. It's always been that way.

~ Seb Kirby

Present, rather than past, is the mother of future. So, your future must take after your present. But if it resembles more your past, the granny must be a slut!

~ Raheel Farooq

It wasn't that I wanted to know her now. I wanted to have already known her. I wanted her fears and her desires to have shaped my life. I know this is not love, of course. What it is is a queer feeling of nostalgia for an impossible future, for what can never be. That's fantasy. Love is different.

~ John Dufresne

Elisabeth had not had her future and her parents had not had theirs, there was nothing to this so-called future which was always promised to the young.

~ Ingeborg Bachmann

None of These Will Come Easy.

~ Barack Obama

Lastly, and doubtless always, but particularly at the end of the last century, certain scholars considered that since the appearances on our scale were finally the only important ones for us, there was no point in seeking what might exist in an inaccessible domain. I find it very difficult to understand this point of view since what is inaccessible today may become accessible tomorrow (as has happened by the invention of the microscope), and also because coherent assumptions on what is still invisible may increase our understanding of the visible.

~ Jean Baptiste Perrin

Life's all about balance. To move on in life you have to strike a balance between your past, present, and your future; you may either be jerked off or left behind.

~ Richmond Akhigbe

History tells Us It’s Possible.

~ Behnam Rajabpoor

I Have No Illusion These Will Come Easy.

~ Behnam Rajabpoor

In regards to climbing the ladder of success, there is a better future, with a greater purpose. One can find it, only if he or she searches for it.

~ Ellen J. Barrier

Sure we could replace war with paintball battles. But it would escalate to paint grenades, paint bombs, weapons of mass paint. I don’t want to live in a world where my kids have to worry about what color they will be in the morning.

~ Dan Florence

There is a better future, with a greater purpose. We can find it, only when we search for it.

~ Ellen J. Barrier

I am only doing this because I was asked. They tell me that, sometime in the future, I will thank them for pushing me this way. They say that one day, when all this is over, I will come to terms with who I am and where I came from. Not gonna happen.

~ Leigh Hershkovich

Future will always remember the heroes, its because of them there exist a future.

~ Amit Kalantri

How Long We Should Wait?

~ Behnam Rajabpoor

Consider One Thing Always, We Are Just Selected.

~ Behnam Rajabpoor

That's the funny thing about life. We're rarely aware of the bullets we dodge. The just-misses. The almost-never-happeneds. We spend so much time worrying about how the future is going to play out and not nearly enough time admiring the precious perfection of the present.

~ Lauren Miller

There is not past, no future; everything flows in an eternal present.

~ James Joyce

People who take a long view of their lives and careers always seem to make much better decisions about their time and activities than people who give very little thought to the future.

~ Brian Tracy

Ah, how quickly the hands on the clock circle toward the future we thought was far away! And how soon we become our mothers.

~ Peggy Toney Horton

The future is all around us, waiting in moments of transition to be born in moments of revelation. No one knows the shape of the future or where it will take us. We know only that it is always born in pain.

~ J. Michael Straczynski

Pride is nothing more than false courage without long term solutions.

~ Shannon L. Alder

Stupidity is letting your pride rob you of God’s blessings.

~ Shannon L. Alder

Science is the one human activity that is truly progressive. The body of positive knowledge is transmitted from generation to generation.

~ Edwin Powell Hubble

People are so busy polishing their past, that they forget to paint their future.

~ Himanshu Vassanpal

Her true hope was that something would happen in the course of her time abroad that would mean she need never take the place. What that 'something' was she had no idea.

~ Kate Atkinson

The main goal of the future is to stop violence. The world is addicted to it.

~ Bill Cosby

Nature  …   has made it impossible for us to have any communication from this earth with the other great bodies of the universe, in our present state; and it is highly possible that he has likewise cut off all communication betwixt the other planets, and betwixt the different systems.… We observe, in all of them, enough to raise our curiosity, but not to satisfy it  …   It does not appear to be suitable to the wisdom that shines throughout all nature, to suppose that we should see so far, and have our curiosity so much raised  …   only to be disappointed at the end  …   This, therefore, naturally leads us to consider our present state as only the dawn or beginning of our existence, and as a state of preparation or probation for farther advancement.…

~ Colin Maclaurin

Now comes the reign of iron — and cased sloops are to take the place of wooden ships.

~ John Adolphus Bernard Dahlgren

We both knew the place we were at and what that meant. We both felt the regret and the loss. We both knew that without me, none of it would have been possible. Without me, everything would be different. Without me, we wouldn't have been there... lying in that bed in the first place.

~ Megan Duke

Let me dream so I can shape the world, let me dream so I can make others dream as well, but do not let me dream my days away; lest I sleep my years away too.

~ Dave Guerrero

A single obscure decision of prophecy, perhaps the choice of one word over another, could change the entire aspect of the future. He tells us The vision of time is broad, but when you pass through it, time becomes a narrow door.

~ Frank Herbert

I thought that a fairer era of life was beginning for me, one that was to have its flowers and pleasures, as well as its thorns and toils. My faculties, roused by the change of scene, the new field offered to hope, seemed all astir. I cannot precisely define what they expected, but it was something pleasant: not perhaps that day or month, but at an indefinite future period.

~ Charlotte Brontë

As evolutionary time is measured, we have only just turned up and have hardly had time to catch breath, still marveling at our thumbs, still learning to use the brand-new gift of language. Being so young, we can be excused all sorts of folly and can permit ourselves the hope that someday, as a species, we will begin to grow up.

~ Lewis Thomas

I always found it so ironic, how the people from the past would do anything to see what happened everywhere else in the world that they lost so much of their own life watching this little screen.

~ Silje Jensen

Instead of writing backwards over what had happened, giving structure and meaning to his story, he wrote forwards, slipping into troubling futures.

~ Alan Mccluskey

Not scared.But excited in thatjiggering-on-too-much-hot-saucekind of waythat it's time tostep outof my old framework,raw and amorphous,to become something I've never thought of before.

~ Thalia Chaltas

Because sometimes people expect more, they expect their desires to be met, they fancy a future built on the pillars of their faith. But love is weak and impermanent and thus when the time comes, the pillars begin to crumble.Then again that doesn’t mean they can’t be built again. They can, they surely can, when the times are favorable and the state of affairs, sound.

~ Chirag Tulsiani

Sometimes people have to compensate for the past, forgetting about the future.

~ Alen Sargsyan