Future Quotes

The future is equal parts promise and uncertainty. These quotes explore what lies ahead — technology, progress, hope, anxiety — and the uncomfortable truth that the future is being built right now by the choices we make today.

“Of present fame think little, and of future less the praises that we receive after we are buried, like the flowers that are strewed over our grave, may be gratifying to the living, but they are nothing to the dead.”

Charles Caleb Colton

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“God wants us to prosper financially, to have plenty of money, to fulfill the destiny He has laid out for us.”

Joel Osteen

“Seek not to know what must not be reveal, for joy only flows where fate is most concealed. A busy person would find their sorrows much more if future fortunes were known before!”

John Dryden

“A dream collage is pictures of your goals. It is like your future photo album.”

Bo Bennett

“The fact is that all writers create their precursors. Their work modifies our conception of the past, just as it is bound to modify the future.”

Jorge Luis Borges

“A women who doesn't wear perfume has no future.”

Coco Chanel

“Religion often partakes of the myth of progress that shields us from the terrors of an uncertain future.”

Frank Herbert

“The essence of optimism is that it takes no account of the present, but it is a source of inspiration, of vitality and hope where others have resigned it enables a man to hold his head high, to claim the future for himself and not to abandon it to his enemy.”

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

“Every man gotta right to decide his own destiny.”

Bob Marley

“My theme is going to be: Together we can win the future. The right policies lead to the right results. And I'm going to argue that President Obama will lose the future because the wrong policies lead to the wrong results.”

Newt Gingrich

“I'm convinced there's a small room in the attic of the Foreign Office where future diplomats are taught to stammer.”

Peter Ustinov

“My entire life has been an attempt to get back to the kind of feelings you have on a field. The sense of brotherhood, the esprit de corps, the focus - there being no past or future, just the ball. As trite as it sounds, I was happiest playing ball.”

David Duchovny

“We've demonstrated a strong track record of being very disciplined with the use of our cash. We don't let it burn a hole in our pocket, we don't allow it to motivate us to do stupid acquisitions. And so I think that we'd like to continue to keep our powder dry, because we do feel that there are one or more strategic opportunities in the future.”

Steve Jobs

“I feel like I write songs for the future or something. Not in an arrogant way, but I feel like maybe my songs were, like, before their time or something.”

Ellie Goulding

“Future. That period of time in which our affairs prosper, our friends are true and our happiness is assured.”

Ambrose Bierce

“Customers don't know what they want. There's plenty of good psychology research that shows that people are not able to accurately predict how they would behave in the future. So asking them, 'Would you buy my product if it had these three features?' or 'How would you react if we changed our product this way?' is a waste of time. They don't know.”

Eric Ries

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