Future Quotes



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A dream is your creative vision for your life in the future. You must break out of your current comfort zone and become comfortable with the unfamiliar and the unknown. ~Denis Waitley

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

A mother's happiness is like a beacon, lighting up the future but reflected also on the past in the guise of fond memories. ~Honore de Balzac

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

A women who doesn't wear perfume has no future. ~Coco Chanel

All endeavor calls for the ability to tramp the last mile, shape the last plan, endure the last hours toil. The fight to the finish spirit is the one... characteristic we must posses if we are to face the future as finishers. ~Henry David Thoreau

All political thinking for years past has been vitiated in the same way. People can foresee the future only when it coincides with their own wishes, and the most grossly obvious facts can be ignored when they are unwelcome. ~George Orwell

All sciences are now under the obligation to prepare the ground for the future task of the philosopher, which is to solve the problem of value, to determine the true hierarchy of values. ~Friedrich Nietzsche

All successful people men and women are big dreamers. They imagine what their future could be, ideal in every respect, and then they work every day toward their distant vision, that goal or purpose. ~Brian Tracy

Always remember that the future comes one day at a time. ~Dean Acheson

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And in today already walks tomorrow. ~Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Business, more than any other occupation, is a continual dealing with the future; it is a continual calculation, an instinctive exercise in foresight. ~Henry R. Luce

Cease to inquire what the future has in store, and take as a gift whatever the day brings forth. ~Horace

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

Change your life today. Don't gamble on the future, act now, without delay. ~Simone de Beauvoir

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

Do not brood over your past mistakes and failures as this will only fill your mind with grief, regret and depression. Do not repeat them in the future. ~Sivananda

Do not dwell in the past, do not dream of the future, concentrate the mind on the present moment. ~Buddha

Don't forget what I discovered that over ninety percent of all national deficits from 1921 to 1939 were caused by payments for past, present, and future wars. ~Franklin D. Roosevelt

Each man should frame life so that at some future hour fact and his dreaming meet. ~Victor Hugo

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Education is the passport to the future, for tomorrow belongs to those who prepare for it today. ~Malcolm X

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

Every saint has a past and every sinner has a future. ~Oscar Wilde

Every time I see an adult on a bicycle, I no longer despair for the future of the human race. ~H. G. Wells

Everyone here has the sense that right now is one of those moments when we are influencing the future. ~Steve Jobs

For time and the world do not stand still. Change is the law of life. And those who look only to the past or the present are certain to miss the future. ~John F. Kennedy

Future. That period of time in which our affairs prosper, our friends are true and our happiness is assured. ~Ambrose Bierce

Go for it now. The future is promised to no one. ~Wayne Dyer

God is more interested in your future and your relationships than you are. ~Billy Graham

Happiness is not something you postpone for the future; it is something you design for the present. ~Jim Rohn

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Here is the rule to remember in the future, When anything tempts you to be bitter: not, "This is a misfortune" but "To bear this worthily is good fortune." ~Marcus Aurelius

History is a relentless master. It has no present, only the past rushing into the future. To try to hold fast is to be swept aside. ~John F. Kennedy

I believe the future is only the past again, entered through another gate. ~Arthur Wing Pinero

I do not want to foresee the future. I am concerned with taking care of the present. God has given me no control over the moment following. ~Mahatma Gandhi

I don't think the human mind can comprehend the past and the future. They are both just illusions that can manipulate you into thinking theres some kind of change. ~Bob Dylan

I don't try to describe the future. I try to prevent it. ~Ray Bradbury

I go to school the youth to learn the future. ~Robert Frost

I have seen the future and it is very much like the present - only longer. ~Kehlog Albran

I just don't want to live like I used to. And at some point, I'm going to put a gag order on myself in terms of talking about the past. I've got to slam the door and deal with the present and the future. ~Charlie Sheen

I know not what the future holds, but I know who holds the future. ~Author Unknown

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I like the dreams of the future better than the history of the past. ~Thomas Jefferson

I look forward to a great future for America - a future in which our country will match its military strength with our moral restraint, its wealth with our wisdom, its power with our purpose. ~John F. Kennedy

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

I predict future happiness for Americans if they can prevent the government from wasting the labors of the people under the pretense of taking care of them. ~Thomas Jefferson

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

I was a peripheral visionary. I could see the future, but only way off to the side. ~Steven Wright

If we open a quarrel between past and present, we shall find that we have lost the future. ~Winston Churchill

If you believe that feeling bad or worrying long enough will change a past or future event, then you are residing on another planet with a different reality system. ~William James

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

I'll never stop dreaming that one day we can be a real family, together, all of us laughing and talking, loving and understanding, not looking at the past but only to the future. ~LaToya Jackson

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In a time of drastic change it is the learners who inherit the future. The learned usually find themselves equipped to live in a world that no longer exists. ~Eric Hoffer

In this bright future you can't forget your past. ~Bob Marley

It is said that the present is pregnant with the future. ~Voltaire

It looks like the future's really bright. ~Michael P. Anderson

Learn from the past, set vivid, detailed goals for the future, and live in the only moment of time over which you have any control: now. ~Denis Waitley

Let him who would enjoy a good future waste none of his present. ~Roger Babson

Let others lead small lives, but not you. Let others argue over small things, but not you. Let others cry over small hurts, but not you. Let others leave their future in someone else's hands, but not you. ~Jim Rohn

Let us not seek the Republican answer or the Democratic answer, but the right answer. Let us not seek to fix the blame for the past. Let us accept our own responsibility for the future. ~John F. Kennedy

Life is a series of collisions with the future; it is not the sum of what we have been, but what we yearn to be. ~Jose Ortega y Gasset

Life is divided into three terms - that which was, which is, and which will be. Let us learn from the past to profit by the present, and from the present to live better in the future. ~William Wordsworth

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Look back over the past, with its changing empires that rose and fell, and you can foresee the future, too. ~Marcus Aurelius

Look not mournfully into the past, it comes not back again. Wisely improve the present, it is thine. Go forth to meet the shadowy future without fear and with a manly heart. ~Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Losers live in the past. Winners learn from the past and enjoy working in the present toward the future. ~Denis Waitley

My future is righteousness. ~Bob Marley

My interest is in the future because I am going to spend the rest of my life there. ~Charles Kettering

Never be afraid to trust an unknown future to a known God. ~Corrie Ten Boom

Never let the future disturb you. You will meet it, if you have to, with the same weapons of reason which today arm you against the present. ~Marcus Aurelius

No work or love will flourish out of guilt, fear, or hollowness of heart, just as no valid plans for the future can be made by those who have no capacity for living now. ~Alan Watts

Not only our future economic soundness but the very soundness of our democratic institutions depends on the determination of our government to give employment to idle men. ~Franklin D. Roosevelt

Once I knew only darkness and stillness... my life was without past or future... but a little word from the fingers of another fell into my hand that clutched at emptiness, and my heart leaped to the rapture of living. ~Helen Keller

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Our faith in the present dies out long before our faith in the future. ~Ruth Benedict

Our most basic common link is that we all inhabit this planet. We all breathe the same air. We all cherish our children's future. And we are all mortal. ~John F. Kennedy

Philosophy finds it an easy matter to vanquish past and future evils, but the present are commonly too hard for it. ~Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Pick the day. Enjoy it - to the hilt. The day as it comes. People as they come... The past, I think, has helped me appreciate the present - and I don't want to spoil any of it by fretting about the future. ~Audrey Hepburn

Prediction is very difficult, especially if it's about the future. ~Niels Bohr

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Prejudice is a burden that confuses the past, threatens the future and renders the present inaccessible. ~Maya Angelou

Republicans are men of narrow vision, who are afraid of the future. ~Jimmy Carter

Set your sights high, the higher the better. Expect the most wonderful things to happen, not in the future but right now. Realize that nothing is too good. Allow absolutely nothing to hamper you or hold you up in any way. ~Eileen Caddy

Stop acting as if life is a rehearsal. Live this day as if it were your last. The past is over and gone. The future is not guaranteed. ~Wayne Dyer

Study the past, if you would divine the future. ~Confucius

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The assertion that "all men are created equal" was of no practical use in effecting our separation from Great Britain and it was placed in the Declaration not for that, but for future use. ~Abraham Lincoln

The best thing about the future is that it comes one day at a time. ~Abraham Lincoln

The best way to predict the future is to create it. ~Peter Drucker

The course of life is unpredictable... no one can write his autobiography in advance. ~Abraham Joshua Heschel

The direction in which education starts a man will determine his future in life. ~Plato

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The distinction between the past, present and future is only a stubbornly persistent illusion. ~Albert Einstein

The empires of the future are the empires of the mind. ~Winston Churchill

The future ain't what it used to be. ~Yogi Berra

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

The future belongs to those who prepare for it today. ~Malcolm X

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The future influences the present just as much as the past. ~Friedrich Nietzsche

The future is always beginning now. ~Mark Strand

The future is an opaque mirror. Anyone who tries to look into it sees nothing but the dim outlines of an old and worried face. ~Jim Bishop

The future is called "perhaps," which is the only possible thing to call the future. And the only important thing is not to allow that to scare you. ~Tennessee Williams

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The future is no more uncertain than the present. ~Walt Whitman

The future is something which everyone reaches at the rate of 60 minutes an hour, whatever he does, whoever he is. ~C. S. Lewis

The future starts today, not tomorrow. ~Pope John Paul II

The future will be better tomorrow. ~Dan Quayle

The future, according to some scientists, will be exactly like the past, only far more expensive. ~John Sladek

The greatest discovery of all time is that a person can change his future by merely changing his attitude. ~Oprah Winfrey

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The illiterate of the future will not be the person who cannot read. It will be the person who does not know how to learn. ~Alvin Toffler

The most glorious moments in your life are not the so-called days of success, but rather those days when out of dejection and despair you feel rise in you a challenge to life, and the promise of future accomplishments. ~Gustave Flaubert

The past can't see you, but the future is listening. ~Terri Guillemets

The past is a ghost, the future a dream, and all we ever have is now. ~Bill Cosby

The reason people find it so hard to be happy is that they always see the past better than it was, the present worse than it is, and the future less resolved than it will be. ~Marcel Pagnol

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The trouble with our times is that the future is not what it used to be. ~Paul Valery

There is hope for the future because God has a sense of humor and we are funny to God. ~Bill Cosby

To state the facts frankly is not to despair the future nor indict the past. The prudent heir takes careful inventory of his legacies and gives a faithful accounting to those whom he owes an obligation of trust. ~John F. Kennedy

Tomorrow is fresh, with no mistakes in it. ~L.M. Montgomery

True happiness is... to enjoy the present, without anxious dependence upon the future. ~Lucius Annaeus Seneca

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Upper classes are a nation's past; the middle class is its future. ~Ayn Rand

We are made wise not by the recollection of our past, but by the responsibility for our future. ~George Bernard Shaw

We cannot turn the clock back nor can we undo the harm caused, but we have the power to determine the future and to ensure that what happened never happens again. ~Paul Kagame

We should all be concerned about the future because we will have to spend the rest of our lives there. ~Charles F. Kettering

When you forgive, you in no way change the past - but you sure do change the future. ~Bernard Meltzer

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While I take inspiration from the past, like most Americans, I live for the future. ~Ronald Reagan

Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past. ~George Orwell

With the past, I have nothing to do; nor with the future. I live now. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson

Without forgiveness, there's no future. ~Desmond Tutu

Without libraries what have we? We have no past and no future. ~Ray Bradbury

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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

You are always free to change your mind and choose a different future, or a different past. ~Richard Bach

You can never plan the future by the past. ~Edmund Burke

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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