937 private quotes tagged future

“A great source of calamity lies in regret and anticipation therefore a person is wise who thinks of the present alone, regardless of the past or future.” — Oliver Goldsmith

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“Solitude is not something you must hope for in the future. Rather, it is a deepening of the present, and unless you look for it in the present you will never find it.” — Thomas Merton

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“I am tomorrow, or some future day, what I establish today. I am today what I established yesterday or some previous day.” — James Joyce

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“America is false to the past, false to the present, and solemnly binds herself to be false to the future.” — Frederick Douglass

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“You know when you're young you think you will always be. As you become more fragile, you reflect and you realize how much comfort can come from the past. Hymns can carry you into the future.” — Andy Griffith

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“Deficits mean future tax increases, pure and simple. Deficit spending should be viewed as a tax on future generations, and politicians who create deficits should be exposed as tax hikers.” — Ron Paul

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“We should regret our mistakes and learn from them, but never carry them forward into the future with us.” — Lucy Maud Montgomery

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“I try to learn from the past, but I plan for the future by focusing exclusively on the present. That's were the fun is.” — Donald Trump

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“I know I'm going to blow one day. My life is doomed the way it is. I have no future.” — Mike Tyson

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“Humanity has the stars in its future, and that future is too important to be lost under the burden of juvenile folly and ignorant superstition.” — Isaac Asimov

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“People respond when you tell them there is a great future in front of you, you can leave your past behind.” — Joel Osteen

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“I am totally against the idea that a Muslim woman should not have the same opportunities as a Muslim man to learn, to open up, to work, help shape the future. To close Islam down to a sexist approach is totally intolerable and ridiculous. It's not Islam.” — King Hussein I

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“Yesterday's the past, tomorrow's the future, but today is a gift. That's why it's called the present.” — Bil Keane

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“Even though the future seems far away, it is actually beginning right now.” — Mattie Stepanek

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“A liberal is a man or a woman or a child who looks forward to a better day, a more tranquil night, and a bright, infinite future.” — Leonard Bernstein

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“We should not fret for what is past, nor should we be anxious about the future men of discernment deal only with the present moment.” — Chanakya

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“Living in dreams of yesterday, we find ourselves still dreaming of impossible future conquests.” — Charles Lindbergh

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“The past cannot be changed. The future is yet in your power.” — Mary Pickford

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“Hydrogen holds great promise to meet many of our future energy needs, and it addresses national security and our environmental concerns. Hydrogen is the simplest, most abundant element in the universe.” — Dan Lipinski

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“All cities do face similar, significant trends in the future... most importantly global warming and climate change.” — Cate Blanchett

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“We must welcome the future, remembering that soon it will be the past and we must respect the past, remembering that it was once all that was humanly possible.” — George Santayana

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“If future generations are to remember us more with gratitude than sorrow, we must achieve more than just the miracles of technology. We must also leave them a glimpse of the world as it was created, not just as it looked when we got through with it.” — Lyndon B. Johnson

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“Although children are only 24 percent of the population, they're 100 percent of our future and we cannot afford to provide any child with a substandard education.” — Ed Markey

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“Never make predictions, especially about the future.” — Casey Stengel

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“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

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