Those who adhere to the past won't be able to cope with the future.
Future Quotes
John F. Kennedy leads, then Buckminster Fuller, Eckhart Tolle, Shakespeare and Nikola Tesla. Two of Churchill’s lines in The Second World War are here: if we open a quarrel between the past and the present, we shall find that we have lost the future, and the empires of the future are the empires of the mind. Fuller, in Critical Path (1981), warns that all of humanity is in peril of extinction unless each of us dares to tell only the truth.
“Prediction is very difficult, especially about the future” is credited to Niels Bohr and disputed. The notes also name the Danish poet Piet Hein and the cartoonist Storm P., and they cite an investigation that found its earliest version in 1948. “The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams” is credited to Eleanor Roosevelt and is also disputed.
The past and future are veiled; but the past wears the widow's veil; the future, the virgin's.
The wave of the future is coming and there is no fighting it.
Take hold of the future or the future will take hold of you -- be futurewise.
The future is too interesting and dangerous to be entrusted to any predictable, reliable agency.
The future survives because people care. Live responsibly or die.
Heaven makes sport of human affairs, and the present hour gives no sure promise of the next.
The possible future is not just longer than the past. It is unimaginably longer.
People ask me to predict the future, when all I want to do is prevent it. Better yet, build it.
With mortal crisis doth portend
My days to appropinque an end.
With high hope for the future, no prediction in regard to it is ventured.