Future Quotes

For if Freedom and Communism were to compete for man's allegiance in a world at peace, I would look to the future with ever increasing confidence.
- John Fitzgerald Kennedy

It is difficult to live in the present, ridiculous to live in the future, and impossible to live in the past. Nothing is as far away as one minute ago.
- Jim Bishop

There are certain moments when we might wish the future were built by men of the past.
- Jean Rostand

The future is like heaven. Everyone exalts it, but no one wants to go there now.
- James Baldwin

When you make a mistake, don't look back at it long. Take the reason of the thing into your mind and then look forward. Mistakes are lessons of wisdom. The past cannot be changed. The future is yet in your power.
- Hugh White

A wise God shrouds the future in obscure darkness.
- Horatius Flaccus

Cease to inquire what the future has in store, and to take as a gift whatever the day brings forth.
- Horatius Flaccus

And better skilled in dark events to come.
- Homer

Telling the future by looking at the past assumes that conditions remain constant. This is like driving a car by looking in the rearview mirror.
- Herb Brody

We already have the statistics for the future: the growth percentages of pollution, overpopulation, desertification. The future is already in place.
- Gunther Grass