Future Quotes

Since God knows our future, our personalities, and our capacity to listen, He isn't ever going to say more to us than we can deal with at the moment.
– Charles Stanley
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
School is practice for the future, and practice makes perfect. But nobody's perfect, so why practice?
– Billie Joe Armstrong
School is practice for the future, and practice makes perfect and nobody's perfect so why bother.
– Tre Cool
Ryan Leaf is doing great now. If he progresses the way he is now, we're going to have a quarterback that's going to be reckoned with in the near future. And that's not political.
– Junior Seau
Run to meet the future or it's going to run you down.
– Anthony J. D'Angelo
Reactionary: a man walking backwards with his face to the future.
– Aneurin Bevan
Rather than waiting for future trials to determine rules that will impact every citizen, Congress should step in and write a law that takes every American's rights into consideration.
– Ron Wyden
Propaganda must appeal to mankind's better judgment and to the necessary belief in a better future. For this belief, the valley of the shadow of death is but a war station on the road to the blessed summit.
– Christian Lous Lange
Projecting a persuasive image of a desirable and practical future is extremely important to high morale, to dynamism, to consensus, and in general to help the wheels of society turn smoothly.
– Herman Kahn
President Obama has offered a plan with 4 trillion dollars in debt reduction over a decade, with two and a half dollars of spending reductions for every one dollar of revenue increases, and tight controls on future spending. It's the kind of balanced approach proposed by the bipartisan Simpson-Bowles commission.
– William J. Clinton
Plato's philosophy is a dignified preface to future religion.
– Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
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.
– Gloria Steinem
Philosophy finds it an easy matter to vanquish past and future evils, but the present are commonly too hard for it.
– Francois de La Rochefoucauld
People's - most people's job is talking about the future or like money not even in the present tense. It's not even paper.
– Colin Quinn
People who own property feel a sense of ownership in their future and their society. They study, save, work, strive and vote. And people trapped in a culture of tenancy do not.
– Henry Louis Gates
People talk about doom-laden scenarios happening in the future: they are happening in Africa now. You can see it perfectly clearly. Periodic famines are due to too many people living on land that can't sustain them.
– David Attenborough
People respond when you tell them there is a great future in front of you, you can leave your past behind.
– Joel Osteen
People like us are afraid to leave ball. What else is there to do? When baseball has been your whole life, you can't think about a future without it, so you hang on as long as you can.
– Willie Stargell
People always want to pin yesterday's news on you, as opposed to asking you what you're going to do for the future, what you're doing today.
– Corey Feldman
People always ask me, 'What is it that you regret?' And I say, 'nothing, because I could not buy what I've learned.' And I apply those things to my life I learn. And hopefully, hopefully it helps me to be a better human in the future and make better choices.
– Katy Perry
Pearl Harbor caused our Nation to wholeheartedly commit to winning World War II, changing the course of our Nation's history and the world's future.
– Joe Baca
Parents are like shuttles on a loom. They join the threads of the past with threads of the future and leave their own bright patterns as they go.
– Fred Rogers
Our human compassion binds us the one to the other - not in pity or patronizingly, but as human beings who have learnt how to turn our common suffering into hope for the future.
– Nelson Mandela
Our combat mission is ending, but our commitment to Iraq's future is not.
– Barack Obama
Our choices are going to determine the future for our children, our children's children, and their children. I take that responsibility very seriously.
– Maggie Q
Our challenge for the future is that we realize we are very much a part of the earth's ecosystem, and we must learn to respect and live according to the basic biological laws of nature.
– Jim Fowler
Only through acknowledgment of the erasure and void of Jewish life can the history of Berlin and Europe have a human future.
– Daniel Libeskind
One of the matters that must be addressed is that Rwanda and Uganda have to leave the Democratic Republic of the Congo. We're also supporting processes to ensure that the political dialogue among the Congolese themselves takes place so that the people there can decide their future.
– Thabo Mbeki
One of the functions of an organization, of any organism, is to anticipate the future, so that those relationships can persist over time.
– Kevin Kelly
On Australia Day 2010, as we enter this second decade of the 21st century, Australians can be optimistic about our future, but we cannot afford to mistake optimism for complacency.
– Kevin Rudd
Of course there are critics who believe that no matter what we do, the Florida dream is over. They claim that we must accept the idea that inevitably our future is one of high taxes and big government.
– Marco Rubio
Of course I am political. You 'ave to be don't you? Every day it is about your future, your right to that future. 'Ow can people ignore this? We 'ave to leave a good world for our children, n'est-ce pas?
– Emmanuelle Beart
Not only our future economic soundness but the very soundness of our democratic institutions depends on the determination of our government to give employment to idle men.
– Franklin D. Roosevelt
Not many people give you a vision of what the future will bring.
– will.i.am
Not even the brightest future can make up for the fact that no roads lead back to what came before - to the innocence of childhood or the first time we fell in love.
– Jo Nesbo
No, I think the future of humanity will be like the past, we'll do what we've always done and there will still be human beings. Granted, there will always be people doing something different and there are a lot of possibilities.
– Octavia Butler
No one's played on the moon yet. No one's played in zero gravity. Some bands have played at the Pyramids of Giza, but we'd very much like to do that in the near future.
– Brandon Boyd
No one is going to try to fill my mother's shoes, what she did was fantastic. It's about making your own future and your own destiny and Kate will do a very good job of that.
– Prince William
Never make predictions, especially about the future.
– Casey Stengel
Never be afraid to trust an unknown future to a known God.
– Corrie Ten Boom
My wish for the new millennium is for all children... to grow up wiser, and stronger and more prosperous for the future than ever before.
– Hillary Clinton
My thoughts will be taken up with the future or the past, with what is to come or what has been. Of the present there is necessarily no image.
– William Godwin
My theme is going to be: Together we can win the future. The right policies lead to the right results. And I'm going to argue that President Obama will lose the future because the wrong policies lead to the wrong results.
– Newt Gingrich
My purpose... to go on with my heart and soul, devoting all my energies to Girl Scouts, and heart and hand with them, we will make our lives and the lives of the future girls happy, healthy and holy.
– Juliette Gordon Low
My philosophy is to take one day at a time. I don't worry about the future. Tomorrow is even out of sight for me.
– Bobby Darin
My parents taught me to never give up and to always believe that my future could be whatever I dreamt it to be.
– Susana Martinez
My own nature hovers between neurotic and paranoid. I've developed the habit of mentally listing things that make me optimistic about the future. I do it every day.
– Martha Beck
My idea in terms of managing a narrative, or in thinking in my creative life, is that you could easily argue that the past, the present and the future all occur simultaneously, and if you can postulate that, then you're not strictly bound to a linear narrative.
– Tommy Lee Jones
My goal is more to be remembered. They'll remember this thing and like it in the future. The trick is to stay remembered long enough for that to happen.
– Chuck Palahniuk
My future is righteousness.
– Bob Marley
My future's about trying to be a better man.
– Terrence Howard
My future daughter is not going to go through what I did.
– Christina Aguilera
My first film as an actor was 'Fast Times at Ridgemont High,' a glorious experience that spoiled me for future films.
– Eric Stoltz
My duty as a teacher is to train, educate future programmers.
– Niklaus Wirth
Most people should be talking about how Floyd Mayweather is a great undefeated future Hall of Famer that's his own promoter and that works extremely hard to get to where he's at. Instead, all you hear is hate and jealous remarks from critics who criticize me and, you know, most of the time, the people that criticize me can't do what I can do.
– Floyd Mayweather, Jr.
Most people are prisoners, thinking only about the future or living in the past. They are not in the present, and the present is where everything begins.
– Carlos Santana
More is required of public officials than slogans and handshakes and press releases. More is required. We must hold ourselves strictly accountable. We must provide the people with a vision of the future.
– Barbara Jordan
Mitt Romney has never been resigned to what someone else said was possible. He cut his own path. That's why he believes in his heart that America has a future full of opportunity and hope. And that's why when Mitt Romney looks down the road, he sees a country that's ready for a comeback.
– Mitch McConnell
Memories are the key not to the past, but to the future.
– Corrie Ten Boom
Map out your future - but do it in pencil. The road ahead is as long as you make it. Make it worth the trip.
– Jon Bon Jovi
Los Angeles gives one the feeling of the future more strongly than any city I know of. A bad future, too, like something out of Fritz Lang's feeble imagination.
– Henry Miller
Looking ahead, future generations may learn their social skills from robots in the first place. The cute yellow Keepon robot from Carnegie Mellon University has shown the ability to facilitate social interactions with autistic children. Morphy at the University of Washington happily teaches gestures to children by demonstration.
– Daniel H. Wilson
Look how many millions of people are underemployed or have lost their jobs. The last thing I'm going to do is play politics with their future.
– Lindsey Graham
Live life to the fullest, for the future is scarce.
– Nick Carter
Like many other touchstones of twenty-first-century pop culture, 'The Sopranos' was hatched in the late Nineties, predicting a future that never arrived. It was designed for a decade that would be just like the Nineties, except more so, in an America that enjoyed seeing itself as smarter and braver and freer than ever before.
– Rob Sheffield
Life is hopefully long, so I don't know what the future will bring.
– Bethenny Frankel
Life is an operation which is done in a forward direction. One lives toward the future, because to live consists inexorably in doing, in each individual life making itself.
– Jose Ortega y Gasset
Let your hopes, not your hurts, shape your future.
– Robert H. Schuller
Let them look to the past, but let them also look to the future let them look to the land of their ancestors, but let them look also to the land of their children.
– Wilfrid Laurier
Let the future tell the truth, and evaluate each one according to his work and accomplishments. The present is theirs the future, for which I have really worked, is mine.
– Nikola Tesla
Language is the armory of the human mind, and at once contains the trophies of its past and the weapons of its future conquests.
– Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Knowledge about the economy, ideas about capitalism and government, the future of the world and geopolitics were things I was never really interested in.
– Shia LaBeouf
Kids feel so strongly about what's going on today and what's happening to the world, and that's very inspiring. I feel more hopeful than ever before about the future.
– Carl Hiaasen
Kids are meeting in coffee shops and basements figuring out what's unsustainable in their communities. That's the future.
– Ian Somerhalder
Keep all special thoughts and memories for lifetimes to come. Share these keepsakes with others to inspire hope and build from the past, which can bridge to the future.
– Mattie Stepanek
Just, you never know what the next day is going to bring. That goes for football, goes for off the field, and I gave up a long time ago trying to predict the future and trying to deal with things I couldn't deal with.
– Brett Favre
John wrote with a very deep love for the human race and a concern for its future.
– Yoko Ono
Italy has piled up huge public debt because the successive governments were too close to the life of ordinary citizens, too willing to please the requests of everybody, thereby acting against the interests of future generations.
– Mario Monti
Italy even in the future will not need aid from the European Financial Stability Fund.
– Mario Monti
It's just really hard to work and get better, building and planning for the future with the new Monte Carlo and keeping the race team intact and keeping them healthy.
– Dale Earnhardt
It's been a difficult thing because some great opportunities have come and I've just been holding my breath and praying... I'm basically gambling hoping something will come along this season and if not, I don't know what the future holds.
– Charisma Carpenter
It's about time we make the well-being of our young people more important than ideology and politics. As a country, we benefit from investing in their future by investing in teen pregnancy prevention.
– Jane Fonda
It would be wonderful to think that the future is unknown and sort of surprising.
– Alan Rickman
It took the madmen of yesterday for us to be able to act with extreme clarity today. I want to be one of those madmen. We must dare to invent the future.
– Thomas Sankara
It seems like the studios are either making giant blockbusters, or really super-small indies. And the mid-level films I grew up on, like 'Back to the Future' and all those John Hughes movies, the studios aren't doing. It's hard to get them on their feet.
– Chris Evans
It looks like the future's really bright.
– Michael P. Anderson
It is, I claim, nonsense to say that it does not matter which individual man acted as the nucleus for the change. It is precisely this that makes history unpredictable into the future.
– Gregory Bateson
It is the child's understanding that teaches the adults the way of the future. They're still doing it today with modern technology.
– Michael Morpurgo
It is strange. I see all the privileges and greatness of the future. It already looks grand, beautiful. Tell them I went lovingly, trustfully, peacefully.
– Thomas Starr King
It is our job, as members of parliament, to legislate with an eye to the long term future, to look over the horizon beyond the next election and ensure that as far as we can what we do today will make Australia a better place, a safer place, for future generations to live in.
– Malcolm Turnbull
It is not in the stars to hold our destiny but in ourselves.
– William Shakespeare
It is hard to say what the future holds, but this is probable - it won't be just like the past.
– Tony Campolo
It is extraordinary that whole populations have no projects for the future, none at all. It certainly is extraordinary, but it is certainly true.
– Gertrude Stein
It also allows you to look as though you're not particularly from the present, future or past, either.
– Doug Coupland
It all comes down to interest rates. As an investor, all you're doing is putting up a lump-sump payment for a future cash flow.
– Ray Dalio
Isn't it a shame that future generations can't be here to see all the wonderful things we're doing with their money?
– Earl Wilson
Invest three percent of your income in yourself (self-development) in order to guarantee your future.
– Brian Tracy
Internationally, President Obama has adopted an appeasement strategy. He believes America's role as leader in the world is a thing of the past. I believe a strong America must - and will - lead the future.
– Mitt Romney
Instead of seeing these children for the blessings that they are, we are measuring them only by the standard of whether they will be future deficits or assets for our nation's competitive needs.
– Jonathan Kozol