Looking To The Future Quotes

• For if Freedom and Communism were to compete for mans allegiance in a world at peace, I would look to the future with ever increasing confidence.

  John F. Kennedy

  Peace, Looks, World

  Kennedy, John F. (1962). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: John F. Kennedy, 1961”, p.23, Best Books on

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  I look to the future because that's where I'm going to spend the rest of my life.

  George Burns

  Inspirational, Life, Time

  George Burns (1989). “How to live to be 100--or more: the ultimate diet, sex, and exercise book”, Plume

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• Again, you can't connect the dots looking forward; you can only connect them looking backwards. So you have to trust that the dots will somehow connect in your future. You have to trust in something - your gut, destiny, life, karma, whatever. This approach has never let me down, and it has made all the difference in my life.

  Steve Jobs

  Inspirational, Life, Inspiring

  "Edgewalkers: People and Organizations That Take Risks, Build Bridges, and". Book by Judi Neal, p. 163, October 30, 2006.

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

  Eleanor Roosevelt

  Inspirational, Change, Positive

  Quoted in Providence Journal-Bulletin, 8 June 1994

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• The future interests me - I'm going to spend the rest of my life there.

  Mark Twain

  Future, Interest, My Future

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• Change is the law of life. And those who look only to the past or present are certain to miss the future.

  John F. Kennedy

  Inspirational, Life, Change

  Kennedy, John F. (1964). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: John F. Kennedy, 1963”, p.517, Best Books on

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  I never think of the future - it comes soon enough.

  Albert Einstein

  Happiness, Time, Clever

  Albert Einstein (2015). “Bite-Size Einstein: Quotations on Just About Everything from the Greatest Mind of the Twentieth Century”, p.24, St. Martin's Press

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• If you want a vision of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face - forever.

  George Orwell

  Time, Freedom, Future

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• It is by no means an irrational fancy that, in a future existence, we shall look upon what we think our present existence, as a dream.

  Edgar Allan Poe

  Dream, Future, Mean

  Edgar Allan Poe (1980). “The Unknown Poe: An Anthology of Fugitive Writings”, p.50, City Lights Books

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• Trying to predict the future is like trying to drive down a country road at night with no lights while looking out the back window.

  Peter Drucker

  Country, Business, Future

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• When I look into the future, it's so bright it burns my eyes.

  Oprah Winfrey

  Positive, Uplifting, Future

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• You can't connect the dots looking forward; you can only connect them looking backwards.

  Steve Jobs

  Change, Success, Trust

  Commencement Address at Stanford University, delivered 12 June 2005, Palo Alto, CA

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• He who controls the past controls the future.

  Laozi

  Future, Past, Political Language

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• Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past.

  George Orwell

  Dream, Time, Peace

  Nineteen Eighty-Four pt. 1, ch. 3 (1949) See Orwell 19

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• Everything that looks to the future elevates human nature; for never is life so low or so little as when occupied with the present.

  Walter Savage Landor

  Life, Nature, Future

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• Everything that looks to the future elevates human nature.

  Walter Savage Landor

  Future, Looks, Human Nature

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• Live in the moment, day by day, and don't stress about the future. People are so caught up in looking into the future, that they kind of lose what's in front of them.

  Jenna Ushkowitz

  Stress, People, Live In The Moment

  "Exclusive Interview: Glee's Jenna Ushkowitz". Interview with Neha Gandhi, www.seventeen.com. June 20, 2011.

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• One of the most important things that I did to turn my life around was to realize and to accept that from this minute, that's all we have. Everything that happened behind us we cannot change so you might as well look to the future.

  Nick Carter

  Important, Looks, Might

  "Backstreet Boys' Nick Carter Opens Up About 65 Pound Weight Loss" by Hollie McKay, www.foxnews.com. April 20, 2011.

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• I'm totally not a nostalgic person. I always look to the future and as much as I've enjoyed the ride until now and the different phases, I'm more excited about the next music.

  David Guetta

  Different, Looks, Phases

  "Where Pop Music Meets Dance Music". Interview with Taryn Haight, www.huffingtonpost.com. September 23, 2011.

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• The future is an unknown, but a somewhat predictable unknown. To look to the future we must first look back upon the past. That is where the seeds of the future were planted. I never think of the future. It comes soon enough.

  Albert Einstein

  Past, Thinking, Soon Enough

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• Can we who have had the joy of knowing that we are not orphans, that we have a Father, be indifferent to this city which asks of us, perhaps even unwittingly, without being aware of it, a hope that will help it look to the future with greater confidence and serenity? We cannot remain indifferent. . . . Words without witness are hot air. Words do not suffice. It must be the true witness that Paul speaks of.

  Pope Francis

  Father, Air, Cities

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• Looking to the future, the words uncertain and scared near the top but hopeful and optimistic prevail and beneath the division one sign of civility, 73 percent of Americans have a close friend or family member who voted for an opposing candidate.

  George Stephanopoulos

  Optimistic, Hopeful, Division

  Source: abcnews.go.com

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• It is enough to have been created, to have embodied for a moment the infinite and tumultuously creative spirit. It is infinitely more than enough to have been used, to have been the rough sketch for some perfected creation. Looking into the future, I saw without sorrow, rather with quiet interest, my own decline and fall.

  Olaf Stapledon

  Fall, Creative, Sorrow

  Olaf Stapledon (1931). “Last and First Men, & Star Maker: Two Science-fiction Novels”, Courier Corporation

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• I'm always looking to the future and what will next be on the horizon.

  Jose Andres

  Horizon, Next

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• We are always looking into the future, but we see only the past.

  Sophie Swetchine

  Future, Past

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