future - quotes

William Ralph Inge, 1860-1954

was an English author and Anglican prelate

There is no law of progress. Our future is in our own hands, to make or to mar. It will be an uphill fight to the end, and would we have it otherwise? Let no one suppose that evolution will ever exempt us from struggles. “You forget,” said the Devil, with a chuckle, “that I have been evolving too.”

Eric Hoffer, 1902-1983

was an American social writer and philosopher

A preoccupation with the future not only prevents us from seeing the present as it is but often prompts us to rearrange the past.

( “The Passionate State of Mind”, 1954 )

Edmund Burke, 1729-1797

was an Irish orator, philosopher, and politician

You can never plan the future by the past.

Franklin D(elano) Roosevelt, 1882-1945

was a 32nd president of US

The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.

George Orwell (Eric Arthur Blair), 1903-1950

was an English essayist, novelist, and satirist

Who controls the past controls the future: who controls the present controls the past.

Eleanor Roosevelt, 1884-1962

was an US diplomat and reformer

The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.

Albert Einstein, 1879-1955

was an US (German-born) physicist

I never think of the future. It comes soon enough.

Albert Einstein, 1879-1955

was an US (German-born) physicist

I feel that you are justified in looking into the future with true assurance, because you have a mode of living in which we find the joy of life and the joy of work harmoniously combined. Added to this is the spirit of ambition which pervades your very being, and seems to make the day's work like a happy child at play. [referring to America]

Albert Einstein, 1879-1955

was an US (German-born) physicist

People like us, who believe in physics, know that the distinction between past, present, and future is only a stubbornly persistent illusion.

Sir Arthur Wing Pinero, 1855-1934

was an English dramatist

I believe the future is only the past again, entered through another gate.