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Quotations about future

Friedrich NietzscheThe future influences the present just as much as the past.

 - Friedrich Nietzsche

Tags:   future  past  present  

Elon MuskThere's a fundamental difference, if you look into the future, between a humanity that is a space-faring civilization, that's out there exploring the stars, compared with one where we are forever confined to Earth until some eventual extinction event.

 - Elon Musk

Tags:   earth  exploration  extinction  future  humanity  space  

Haruki MurakamiUnfortunately, the clock is ticking, the hours are going by. The past increases, the future recedes. Possibilities decreasing, regrets mounting.

 - Haruki Murakami

Tags:   future  past  possibilities  regrets  time  

Henry Wadsworth LongfellowLook not mournfully into the past, it comes not back again. Wisely improve the present, it is thine. Go forth to meet the shadowy future without fear and with a manly heart.

 - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Tags:   future  past  present  

BuddhaThe secret of health for both mind and body is not to mourn for the past, nor to worry about the future, but to live the present moment wisely and earnestly.

 - Gautama Buddha

Tags:   future  health  past  present  worry  

Pearl BuckFate is unalterable only in the sense that given a cause, a certain result must follow, but no cause is inevitable in itself, and man can shape his world if he does not resign himself to ignorance.

 - Pearl S. Buck

Tags:   fate  future  ignorance  

Today is thine to spend, but not tomorrow; Counting on morrows breedeth bankrupt sorrow: O squander not this breath that Heaven hath lent thee; Make not too sure another breath to borrow.

 - Omar Khayy?m

Tags:   future  present  today  tomorrow  

Dwight EisenhowerEngineers build for the future, not merely for the needs of men but for their dreams as well. Thus, inherently, the engineers work is a fearless optimism that life will go forward, and that the future is worth working for.

 - Dwight Eisenhower

Tags:   engineering  future  needs  optimism  

Benjamin FranklinAll 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

Tags:   future  inconvenience  

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

 - Horace

Tags:   future  present  

Blaise PascalThe present is never the mark of our designs. We use both past and present as our means and instruments, but the future only as our object and aim.

 - Blaise Pascal

Tags:   future  past  present  

John WayneTomorrow is the most important thing in life. Comes to us at midnight very clean. It's perfect when it arrives and puts itself in our hands. It hopes we've learned something from yesterday.

 - John Wayne

Tags:   future  learning  tomorrow  

And I want to say something to the school children of America who were watching the live coverage of the shuttle's take-off. I know it's hard to understand, but sometimes painful things like this happen. It's all part of the process of exploration and discovery. It's all part of taking a chance and expanding man's horizons. The future doesn't belong to the fainthearted; it belongs to the brave. The Challenger crew was pulling us into the future, and we'll continue to follow them.

 - Ronald Reagan

Tags:   challenger  children  disaster  exploration  future  shuttle  space  

Jame MattisHistory is not a straitjacket, but I've never found a better guide for the way ahead than studying the histories.

 - Jame Mattis

Tags:   future  history  planning