Future Quotes

In the past the man has been first in the future the system must be first... The first object of any good system must be that of developing first class men.

~ Frederick W. Taylor

I'm happy, I'm in a good place, I'm looking forward to my future.

~ Katy Perry

A good education is a foundation for a better future.

~ Elizabeth Warren

Here is the rule to remember in the future, When anything tempts you to be bitter: not, 'This is a misfortune' but 'To bear this worthily is good fortune.'

~ Marcus Aurelius

I have made good judgments in the past. I have made good judgments in the future.

~ Dan Quayle

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.

~ Dwight D. Eisenhower

It all happened so fast. The ghetto. The deportation. The sealed cattle car. The fiery altar upon which the history of our people and the future of mankind were meant to be sacrificed.

~ Elie Wiesel

After the Berlin Wall came down I visited that city and I will never forget it. The abandoned checkpoints. The sense of excitement about the future. The knowledge that a great continent was coming together. Healing those wounds of our history is the central story of the European Union.

~ David Cameron

There are people in every time and every land who want to stop history in its tracks. They fear the future, mistrust the present, and invoke the security of a comfortable past which, in fact, never existed.

~ Robert Kennedy

The past is really almost as much a work of the imagination as the future.

~ Jessamyn West

Racism is an ism to which everyone in the world today is exposed; for or against, we must take sides. And the history of the future will differ according to the decision which we make.

~ Ruth Benedict

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.

~ John F. Kennedy

I'm sure that was the right step, even though, formally speaking, it may seem disadvantageous for a president to resign. But, looking into what is happening today and what is going to happen in the future, I think history will show I made the right decision.

~ Eduard Shevardnadze

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

~ Victor Hugo

For the first time in the history of mankind, one generation literally has the power to destroy the past, the present and the future, the power to bring time to an end.

~ Hubert H. Humphrey

You have reckoned that history ought to judge the past and to instruct the contemporary world as to the future. The present attempt does not yield to that high office. It will merely tell how it really was.

~ Leopold Von Ranke

Children can take lessons in that school via the Internet and can score extra points like e.g. in Geography or History. That sounds very promising and is a fantastic basis for future steps.

~ Anatoly Karpov

But I think it's more that when you're young, you're invincible, you're immortal - or at least you think you are. The possibilities are limitless, you're inventing the future. Then you get older and suddenly you have a history. It's fixed. You can't change anything. I find that a bit disturbing, to be honest.

~ Damien Hirst

Every society in the history of man has upheld the institution of marriage as a bond between a man and a woman. Why? Because society is based on one thing: that society is based on the future of the society. And that's what? Children. Monogamous relationships.

~ Rick Santorum

You can't live in history. You've got to build for the future.

~ Ruud Gullit

After voluntary exertions on the part of our people to which the history of the world furnishes no parallel, is the old root of bitterness still to remain in the ground, to sprout and bear fruit in the future as it has borne fruit in the past?

~ Robert Dale Owen

It states, History should be regarded as a means for understanding the past and solving the challenges of the future. It also suggests that this celebration of the end of slavery is an important and enriching part of the history and heritage of the United States.

~ Mark Foley

Anniversaries are like birthdays: occasions to celebrate and to think ahead, usually among friends with whom one shares not only the past but also the future.

~ Zbigniew Brzeziński

Our fears are an amazing gift of the imagination... a way of glimpsing what might be the future when there's still time to influence how that future will play out.

~ Karen Thompson Walker

To be able to sit in Donald Trump's apartment and talk about the future of corporate real estate was amazing.

~ Shia Labeouf

While politicians may be forgiven for failing to predict the future - who can, alas? - it is amazing that they defiantly ignore the past.

~ Michael Korda

When I turned 25, something changed in me. I see children in my future 100%. Soon. I started thinking I want my kids to look back and say, 'Wasn't Mummy amazing?' I've really started thinking about what I'm leaving for them.

~ Jessie J

Isn't it amazing the way the future succeeds in creating an appropriate past?

~ John Leonard

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

The power to mould the future of the Republic will be in the hands of the journalists of future generations.

~ Joseph Pulitzer

The unleashed power of the atom has changed everything save our modes of thinking and we thus drift toward unparalleled catastrophe.

~ Albert Einstein

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

~ Eric Hoffer

Scientists will eventually stop flailing around with solar power and focus their efforts on harnessing the only truly unlimited source of energy on the planet: stupidity. I predict that in the future, scientists will learn how to convert stupidity into clean fuel.

~ Scott Adams

I really have become convinced that nuclear fusion is our energy future. It's so powerful. I mean, it is the power of the stars. If we could bring that down to the laboratory and to the power plant on Earth, that would be an incredible thing.

~ Taylor Wilson

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

~ Joshua Chamberlain

Our grandkids will lead the lives of the gods of mythology. Zeus could think and move objects around. We'll have that power. Venus had a perfect, timeless body. We'll have that, too. Pegasus was a flying horse. We'll be able to modify life in the future.

~ Michio Kaku

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

~ Billy Mitchell

The future condition of the conquered power depends on the will of the conquerer.

~ Thaddeus Stevens

People respond when you tell them there is a great future in front of you, you can leave your past behind.

~ Joel Osteen

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.

~ William Jennings Bryan