Quotes on Future

The future is made of the same stuff as the present.

Salvation lies in an energetic march onward towards a brighter and clearer future.

The future belongs to those who understand that doing more with less is compassionate, prosperous, and enduring, and thus more intelligent, even competitive.

No one person has to do it all but if each one of us follow our heart and our own inclinations we will find the small things that we can do to create a sustainable future and a healthy environment.

Enjoy present pleasures in such a way as not to injure future ones.

I don't think anybody anywhere can talk about the future of their people or of an organization without talking about education. Whoever controls the education of our children controls our future.

I don't know who my grandfather was; I am much more concerned to know what his grandson will be.

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

The metaphysical doctrine of determinism simply asserts that all events in this world are fixed, or unalterable, or predetermined. It does not assert that they are known to anybody, or predictable by scientific means. But it asserts that the future is as little changeable as is the past. Everybody knows what we mean when we say that the past cannot be changed. It is in precisely the same sense that the future cannot be changed, according to metaphysical determinism.

All human situations have their inconveniences. We feel those of the present but neither see nor feel those of the future; and hence we often make troublesome changes without amendment, and frequently for the worse.

Our task is to educate their (our students) whole being so they can face the future. We may not see the future, but they will and our job is to help them make something of it.

Intellectual beauty is sufficient unto itself, and only for it rather than for the future good of humanity does the scholar condemn himself to arduous and painful labors.

Live in the present, forget the past. Give up hopes of future.

Take as a gift whatever the day brings forth.

Be not discouraged. There is a future for you. . . . The resistance encountered now predicates hope. . .

When we build ... let it not be for present delights nor for present use alone. Let it be such work as our descendants will thank us for, and let us think ... that a time is to come when these stones will be held sacred because our hands have touched them, and that men will say as they look upon the labor, and the wrought substance of them, See! This our fathers did for us!

I neither complain of the past, nor do I fear the future.

I have always sought to guide the future-but it is very lonely sometimes trying to play God.

The man least dependent upon the morrow goes to meet the morrow most cheerfully.

It is the business of future to be dangerous.... The major advances in civilization are processes that all but wreck the societies in which they occur.

Never make forecasts, especially about future.