Best Future Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“When you realize the value of all life, you dwell less on what is past and concentrate more on the preservation of the future.”

Life Inspirational Past Values Realizing Future Witty Preservation Dwelling Concentrating Forget The Past Value Of Life Zoologist

Author:Dian Fossey

“That man is prudent who neither hopes nor fears anything from the uncertain events of the future.”

Men Fear Events Future Uncertain Prudent Uncertain Future

Book:Golden Tales of Anatole France

Source: Golden Tales of Anatole France

“It may be far in the future, but there's some kind of logical way to get from where we are to where the science fiction is.”

Way Kind May Fiction Future Science Fiction Logical

Author:Elizabeth Moon

“The karate that has been introduced to Tokyo is actually just a part of the whole. The fact that those who have learnt karate there feel it only consists of kicks & punches, and that throws & locks are only to be found in judo or jujutsu, can only be put down to a lack of understanding ... Those who are thinking of the future of karate should have an open mind and strive to study the complete art”

“Future leaders will be less concerned with saying what they will deliver and more concerned with delivering what they have said they would.”

Said Leadership Leader Future Concerned Delivering Future Leaders Leaders Of Tomorrow

Author:Dave Ulrich

“Happiness or misfortune are prescribed by law of Heaven, but their source comes from ourselves.”

Law Heaven Source Future Misfortunes

Author:Nguyen Du

“Architecture should be rooted in the past, and yet be part of our own time and forward looking.”

Should Past Future Architecture Rooted Looking Forward Past Present Future

Author:Moshe Safdie

“Tomorrow is our permanent address.”

Tomorrow Future Permanent Addresses

Author:e. e. cummings

“The Doctrine of Evolution states the fact that the present is the child of the past and the parent of the future.”

Children States Facts Past Science Parent Evolution Future Doctrine

Book:The Outline of Science, First Volume

Source: The Outline of Science, First Volume

“The danger of the past was that men became slaves. The danger of the future is that man may become robots.”

Men May Past Society Danger Future Anger Slave Sane Robots Meaningless Life

Author:Erich Fromm

“We are vulnerable to fear only when we leave the present. If I drift into the past, my regrets surge up, my memories of failing and forsaking. If I shift into the future, I meet with doubt and delusion, fear of what's to come, what I'm not capable of controlling. It's in the present moment that I belong.”

Ifs Moments Past Fear Memories Doubt Failing Regret Future Capable Vulnerable Delusion Present Moment

Author:Jan Phillips

“Every generation enjoys the use of a vast hoard bequeathed to it by antiquity, and transmits that hoard, augmented by fresh acquisitions, to future ages.”

Use Age Enjoy Generations Future Acquisition Antiquity Transmit

Author:Thomas B. Macaulay

“I would rather die standing than live kneeling”

Life Dies Attitude Future Standing Knees Positive Attitude Kneeling

Author:Charb

“"Science," of course, replaced "God" as a guiding concept for many people after Darwin. Or, really, the two were rolled up into a sticky ball. To some degree this was mindless worship of a miracle future, the pursuit of which has landed us in the fix we now inhabit.”

People Two Courses Future Degrees Worship Concepts Balls Miracle Pursuit Replaced Mindless Sticky

Author:Bill McKibben

“...our societies appear to be intent on immediate consumption rather than on investment for the future. We are piling up enormous debts and exploiting the natural environment in a manner which suggests that we have no real sense of any worthwhile future. Just as a society which believes in the future saves in the present in order to invest in the future, so a society without belief spends everything now and piles up debts for future generations to settle. "Spend now and someone else will pay later."”

Believe Real Order Belief Natural Pay Environment Generations Future Investment Debt Enormous Settling Our Society Worthwhile Consumption Future Generation Natural Environment

Author:Lesslie Newbigin

“A society which believes in a worthwhile future saves in the present so as to invest in the future. Contemporary Western society spends in the present and piles up debts for the future, ravages the environment, and leaves its grandchildren to cope with the results as best they can.”

Believe Results Environment Future Western Debt Contemporary Worthwhile Grandchildren Western Society

Book:The Gospel in a Pluralist Society: SPCK Classic

Source: The Gospel in a Pluralist Society: SPCK Classic

“Desperate remorse swallows the present in a quenchless rage.”

Future Rage Desperate Remorse

Book:Complete writings: with variant readings

Source: Complete writings: with variant readings

“But the only possible guarantee of the future is responsible behavior in the present.”

Future Behavior Responsible Environmental Guarantees Sustainability

Book:The Unsettling of America: Culture & Agriculture

Source: The Unsettling of America: Culture & Agriculture

“Doomsday is quite within our reach, if we will only stretch for it.”

Ifs Future Doomsday

Author:Loudon Wainwright III

“Every human action gains in honor, in grace, in all true magnificence, by its regard to things that are to come. It is the far sight, the quiet and confident patience, that, above all other attributes, separate man from man, and near him to his Maker; and there is no action nor art, whose majesty we may not measure by this test.”

Men Humans May Art Action Grace Honor Future Quiet Gains Tests Sight Regard Makers Attributes Majesty Magnificence Human Actions

Book:The seven lamps of architecture

Source: The seven lamps of architecture

“If they survive, today's children will inherit a world that our fathers and grandfathers have ravaged, where the seas are acidic cesspools that the whales have fled, where rain forests are Indian memories never to return, and where human greed has plundered Mother Earth's innards and turned human genes into factories for profit. They will inherit a diminished planet where fresh water is increasingly rare, and where fresh air is a commodity... We live in a world that fears and hates its young. How else can one explain the bequest of such a foul, polluted, and hollow inheritance?”

“If we continue...to consume the world until there's no more to consume, then there's going to come a day, sure as hell, when our children or their children or their children's children are going to look back on us - on you and me - and say to themselves, "My God, what kind of monsters were these people?"”

People Ifs World Looks Kind Children Hell Future Our Children Monsters

Author:Daniel Quinn

“It is time to understand the environment for what it is: the national security issue of the early twenty-first century.”

Firsts Issues Environment Century Security Future Twenties National Security

Book:The Coming Anarchy: Shattering the Dreams of the Post Cold War

Source: The Coming Anarchy: Shattering the Dreams of the Post Cold War

“It may be observed in general that the future is purchased by the present. It is not possible to secure distant or permanent happiness but by the forbearance of some immediate gratification.”

May Future Secure Permanent Gratification Forbearance Immediate Gratification

Book:The Rambler: In Four Volumes..

Source: The Rambler: In Four Volumes..

“No one "discovers" the future. The future is not a discovery. The future is not a destiny. The future is a decision, an intervention. Do nothing and we drift fatalistically into a future not driven by technology alone, but by other people's need, greed, and creed. The future is not some dim and distant region out there in time. The future is a reality that is coming to pass with each passing day, with each passing decision.”

People Needs Reality Decision Destiny Technology Future Discovery Greed Driven Passing Passings Regions Creeds Intervention

Book:Soultsunami: Sink or Swim in New Millennium Culture

Source: Soultsunami: Sink or Swim in New Millennium Culture

“The dark aftermath of the frontier, of the vast promise of possibility this country first offered, is an inflated sense of American entitlement today. We want what we want, and we want it now. Easy credit. Fast food. A straight shot down the interstate from point A to point B. The endless highway is crowded with the kinds of cars large enough to take a mountain pass in high snow. Instead they are used to take children from soccer practice to Pizza Hut. In the process they burn fuel like there's no tomorrow. Tomorrow's coming.”

“The end of nature sours all my material pleasures. The prospect of living in a genetically engineered world sickens me. And yet it is toward such a world that our belief in endless material advancement hurries us. As long as that desire drives us, here is no way to set limits.”

World Way Long Ends Desire Belief Pleasure Materials Future Limits Endless Advancement

Author:Bill McKibben

“Thoughtful people are concerned with the future because that is the only area of experience about which anything can be done. We cannot change the past, and the present is gone as soon as it is reported, but the future is that in which we can make a difference.”

People Done Past Differences Gone Future Areas Concerned Thoughtful Making A Difference

Author:D. Elton Trueblood

“What we have been told is how we men can be drawn into Christ-can become part of that wonderful present which the young Prince of the universe wants to offer to His Father-that present which is Himself and therefore us in Him. It is the only thing we were made for. And there are strange, exciting hints in the Bible that when we are drawn in, a great many other things in Nature will begin to come right. The bad dream will be over: it will be morning.”

Men Want Has Beens Made Dream Young Universe Father Christ Morning Wonderful Strange Future Offers Exciting Great Men Over It Hints Bad Dream

Book:Mere Christianity

Source: Mere Christianity

“Ethical and moral questions and how we answer them may determine whether primal scenes will continue to be a source of joy and comfort to future generations. The decisions are ours and we have to search our minds and souls for the right answers... We must be eternally vigilant, embrace the broad concept of an environmental ethic to survive.”

“If you break your neck, if you have nothing to eat, if your house is on fire, then you got a problem. Everything else is inconvenience.”

Source: Uh-Oh: Some Observations from Both Sides of the Refrigerator Door

“Life is short - while we speak it flies; enjoy, then, the present, and forget the future; such is the moral of ancient poetry, a graceful and a wise moral - indulged beneath a southern sky, and all deserving, the phrase applied to it - the philosophy of the garden.”

Life Philosophy Life Is Speak Enjoy Forget Moral Wise Sky Future Garden Ancient Phrases Southern Life Is Short Deserving

Author:Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

“We are called to be architects of the future, not its victims.”

Inspirational Wisdom Future Victim Architecture Afterlife Architect Modern Architecture

Author:R. Buckminster Fuller

“It is absurd to say that the age of miracles is past. It has not yet begun.”

Age Past Future Miracle Absurd

Book:The Wit and Humor of Oscar Wilde

Source: The Wit and Humor of Oscar Wilde

“Very strange is this quality of our human nature which decrees that unless we feel a future before us we do not live completely in the present.”

Feels Humans Quality Human Nature Strange Future Decree

Book:Sermons: Visions and tasks, and other sermons

Source: Sermons: Visions and tasks, and other sermons

“So our future is in our own hands. What greater free will do we need?”

Needs Hands Greater Future Free Will Our Future

Book:Dzogchen: The Heart Essence of the Great Perfection

Source: Dzogchen: The Heart Essence of the Great Perfection

“To me there is no past or future in art. If a work of art does not live in the present, it must not be considered at all.”

Ifs Doe Art Past Future Works Of Art Live In The Present

Book:Picasso, Braque, Léger: masterpieces from Swiss collections

Source: Picasso, Braque, Léger: masterpieces from Swiss collections

“Don't worry about the past and don't try to solve the future.”

Trying Past Worry Future Solve

Book:A Christmas Blizzard: A Novel

Source: A Christmas Blizzard: A Novel

“Now I come to you full of future. And from habit we begin to live our past.”

Past Habit Future Our Past

Author:Rainer Maria Rilke

“I don't know what's coming next and neither does anyone else. It's something that we do have to face but the thing is that a lot of people don't want to face it. And there's denial. If somebody says it, like me, everybody feels a little better that they can discuss it.”

People Ifs Knows Want Feels Littles Doe Faces Next Future Like Me Denial

Author:Art Buchwald

“Forget the future. I'd worship someone who could do that.”

Forget Future Worship

Book:The Rumi Collection: An Anthology of Translations of Mevlâna Jalâluddin Rumi

Source: The Rumi Collection: An Anthology of Translations of Mevlâna Jalâluddin Rumi

“Tomorrow has always been better than today, and it always will be.”

Today Tomorrow Future Buried Pessimist

Author:Paul Harvey

“One must have a high opinion of a work of art - not the work one is creating at the moment, but of that which one desires to achieve one day. Without this it is not worthwhile working.”

Art Moments Desire Opinion Achieve Future One Day Creating Works Of Art Worthwhile Desire To Achieve

Book:Edgar Degas: Paintings

Source: Edgar Degas: Paintings

“Whatever may happen the sun will rise tomorrow as it rose to-day, beneficent and serene.”

May Happens Sun Tomorrow Future Rose Serene

Author:Paul Gauguin

“You can tell the date of an old science fiction novel by every word on the page. Nothing dates harder and faster and more strangely than the future.”

Fiction Novel Future Pages Harder Science Fiction Faster Fiction Novels

Book:Adventures in the Dream Trade

Source: Adventures in the Dream Trade

“Many mornings I check out the news as soon as I wake up, because if it turns out that the world is coming to an end that day, I am going to eat the frosting off an entire carrot cake; just for a start. Then I will move onto vats of clam dip, pots of crime brûlée, nachos, M & M's etc. Then I will max out both my credit cards.”

Ifs World Ends Moving Turns Morning Crime Future News Wake Up Credit Checks Cards Etc Pot Cake Max Credit Card Dip Carrots Coming To An End Clams Vat Nachos

Author:Anne Lamott

“It is difficult to predict, especially the future.”

Difficult Future

Author:Niels Bohr

“Future art that is based on appearances won't look like the art that's gone before. Even revivals of a period are not the same.”

Looks Art Gone Periods Future Appearance Revival

Author:David Hockney

“It is an old cliche to say that the future is in the hands of the young. This is no longer true. The quality of life to be enjoyed or the existence to be survived by our children and future generations is in our hands now.”

Children Hands Young Existence Quality Generations Future Our Children Enjoyed Survived Future Generation Quality Of Life Cliche

Author:Prince Philip

“Humans are the only animals that try to dwell in the future. You don't have to purely live in the present situation without a plan, but the future plans you make can only be based on the aspects of the future that manifest within the present situation.”

Trying Humans Animal Situation Plans Future Aspect Manifest Live In The Present Future Plans Present Situation

Book:Ocean of Dharma: The Everyday Wisdom of Chogyam Trungpa

Source: Ocean of Dharma: The Everyday Wisdom of Chogyam Trungpa

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