future quotes

“Exile, for no other motive than ease, would be the last defeat, with no seed of future victory in it.”

— Lois McMaster Bujold

“The direction in which education starts a man will determine his future in life.”

“You can't connect the dots looking forward you can only connect them looking backwards. So you have to trust that the dots will somehow connect in your future. You have to trust in something: your gut, destiny, life, karma, whatever. Because believing that the dots will connect down the road will give you the confidence to follow your heart, even when it leads you off the well worn path.”

“The doctor of the future will give no medicine, but will interest her or his patients in the care of the human frame, in a proper diet, and in the cause and prevention of disease.”

— Thomas Alva Edison

“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.”

— Benjamin Franklin

“Educate your children to self-control, to the habit of holding passion and prejudice and evil tendencies subject to an upright and reasoning will, and you have done much to abolish misery from their future and crimes from society.”

— Benjamin Franklin

“The concept of progress acts as a protective mechanism to shield us from the terrors of the future.”

— Frank Herbert

“The function of science fiction is not always to predict the future but sometimes to prevent it.”

— Frank Herbert

“I don't try to describe the future. I try to prevent it.”

— Ray Bradbury

“Without libraries what have we? We have no past and no future.”

— Ray Bradbury

“Study the past, if you would divine the future.”

“I like the dreams of the future better than the history of the past.”

— Thomas Jefferson

“Always remember that the future comes one day at a time.”

— Dean Acheson

“Do not dwell in the past, do not dream of the future, concentrate the mind on the present moment.”

“When you forgive, you in no way change the past - but you sure do change the future.”

— Bernard Meltzer

“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

“A women who doesn't wear perfume has no future. ”

— Coco Chanel

“Elegance is not the prerogative of those who have just escaped from adolescence, but of those who have already taken possession of their future. ”

— Coco Chanel

“Whoso neglects learning in his youth, loses the past and is dead for the future. ”

“In love, unlike most other passions, the recollection of what you have had and lost is always better than what you can hope for in the future.”

“A mother's happiness is like a beacon, lighting up the future but reflected also on the past in the guise of fond memories.”

— Honore de Balzac

“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

“I welcome and seek your ideas, but do not bring me small ideas; bring me big ideas to match our future.”

— Arnold Schwarzenegger

“You know, nothing is more important than education, because nowhere are our stakes higher; our future depends on the quality of education of our children today.”

— Arnold Schwarzenegger

“When the people become involved in their government, government becomes more accountable, and our society is stronger, more compassionate, and better prepared for the challenges of the future.”

— Arnold Schwarzenegger

“Whoever neglects the arts when he is young has lost the past and is dead to the future.”

“Fortune raises up and fortune brings low both the man who fares well and the one who fares badly; and there is no prophet of the future for mortal men.”

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

— Victor Hugo

“There is nothing like a dream to create the future. ”

— Victor Hugo

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

— Victor Hugo

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