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Future Quotes and Sayings

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

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

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

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

The future is always beginning now.
Mark Strand

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

The secret of health for both mind and body is not to mourn for the past, nor to worry about the future, but to live the present moment wisely and earnestly.
Buddha

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

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

The past can’t see you, but the future is listening.
Destin Figuier

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

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

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

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

The past can’t see you, but the future is listening.
Destin Figuier

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

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

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

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

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

There’s no present. There’s only the immediate future and the recent past.
George Carlin

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

And in today already walks tomorrow.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge

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

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

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

Neither a wise man nor a brave man lies down on the tracks of history to wait for the train of the future to run over him.
Dwight D. Eisenhower

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

The only thing we know about the future is that it will be different.
Peter Drucker

We are the only beings on the planet who lead such rich internal lives that it’s not the events that matter most to us, but rather, it’s how we interpret those events that will determine how we think about ourselves and how we will act in the future.
Tony Robbins

The main goal of the future is to stop violence. The world is addicted to it.
Bill Cosby

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

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

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

How paramount the future is to the present when one is surrounded by children.
Charles Darwin

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

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.
Mohandas Gandhi

Take time to gather up the past so that you will be able to draw from your experience and invest them in the future.
Jim Rohn

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

My future is righteousness.
Bob Marley

At some future period, not very distant as measured by centuries, the civilized races of man will almost certainly exterminate, and replace the savage races throughout the world.
Charles Darwin

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

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

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

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

And in today already walks tomorrow.
Samuel Taylor

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