201 Quotes on The Future
When I was thinking about creating a post of quotes about on the future, the subject gave me a feeling of deep discontent and bewilderment. It caused both excitement and anxiety. A big part of me, more than ever has prepared better for the future. Which inspired in me a sense of hope.
The other part of me knowns I have not prepared enough. Especially in the past. So that brought me anxiety.
It’s crazy how one word can evoke such negative and powerful responses at the same time. How it can literally dislodge our consciousness out of the now, running along a timeline that already past and as hasn’t even happened yet.
And yet there is so much around this elusive world, future. What does it mean? Is it really a reality? Or is it a fabrication we have made up in our minds? When the future comes, it is NOW. Is living in the moment the answer then?
Just like normally with philosophy, more questions posed offer more questions to pose!
Yet lets take a look at a myriad of interesting perspectives on the future. With 201 quotes on the future. To garner hope, insight and education on this elusive topic.
201 Future Quotes
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“The future depends on what we do in the present.” – Mahatma Gandhi
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The pas cannot be changed. The future is yet in your power.” – Unknown
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“The past is behind, learn from it. The future is ahead, prepare for it. The present is here. Live it.” – Thomas S Monson
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“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
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“Let your hopes, not your hurts shape your future.” – Robert H. Schuller
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“The future influences the present just as much as the past.” – Friedrich Nietzsche
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“The future rewards those who press on, I don’t have time to feel sorry for myself. I don’t have time to complain. I’m going to press on.” – Barack Obama
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“You cannot 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 guy, destiny, life, karma whatever. This approach has never let me down, and it has made all the difference in my life.” – Steve Jobs
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“Look back over the past, with it’s changing empires that rose and fell, and you can foresee the future, too.” – Marcus Aurelius
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“You are the creator of your own future. So the next time you sit down to write your own story, remember that you are the creator of the best chapters that could ever be written.” – Catherine Pulsifer
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“Map out your future, but do it in pencil. The road ahead is as long as you make it. Make it worth the trip.” – Jon Bon Jovi
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“If there is hope in the future there is literally power in the present.” – Zig Ziglar
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“Change is the law of life. And those who look only to the past or present or certain to miss the future.” – John F. Kennedy
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“Look closely at the present you are constructing. It should look like the future you are dreaming.” – Alice Walker
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“The most reliable way to forecast the future is to try to understand the present.” – John Naisbitt
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“Go for it now. The future is promised to no one.” – Wayne Dyer
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“Most of us have spend more time studying a map to avoid getting lost on a trip than we have studying our life so we’ll know how to proceed in the future.” – Dan B. Allender
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“Your future is only as bright as your mind is open.” – Rich Wilkins
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“No matter how dirty your past is, your future is still spotless.” – Drake
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“Real generosity toward the future lies in giving all to the present.” – Albert Camus
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“It is not in the stars to hold our destiny but in ourselves.” – William Shakespeare
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“When I look into the future, it’s so bright it burns my eyes.” – Oprah Winfrey
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“May the happiest days of your past, be the saddest days of your future.” – Irish Saying
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“I am not afraid of tomorrow, for I have seen yesterday and love today.” – William Allen White
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“Do you duty and a little more and the future will take care of itself.” – Andrew Carnegie
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“If you think in terms of a year, plant a seed. If in terms of ten years, plant trees, if in terms of 100 years, teach the people.” – Confucius
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“Always in motion is the future.” – Yoda
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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
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“The distinction between the past, present and future is only a stubbornly persistent illusion.” – Albert Einstein
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“Enjoy pleasant pleasures in such a way as not to injure future ones.” – Seneca
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“At some point the future becomes reality. And then it quickly becomes the past.” – Haruki Murakami
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“May the dreams of your past be the reality of your future.” – Unknown
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“The future is not something we enter. The future is something we create.” – Leonard I. Sweet
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“There is nothing like a dream to create the future.” – Victor Hugo
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“Every moment the future is becoming the present, and the present is becoming the past. The past has no possibility, it has been used.” – Osho
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“Choose your friends with caution, plan your future with purpose, and frame your life with faith.” – Thomas S. Monson
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“What a wonderful thought it is that some of the best days of our lives haven’t happened yet.” – Unknown
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“Our anxiety does not come from thinking about the future, but from wanting to control it.” – Kahlil Gibran
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“The future has a way of arriving unannounced.” – George Will
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“What you do today will determine your future.” – Catherine Pulsifer
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“What helps make your future a brighter one is if you’ll make the decision to choose to be happy and thankful for the present and just let the future be.” – Matt Morris
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“While I take inspiration from the past, like most Americans, I live for the future.” – Ronald Reagan
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“Every man gotta right to decide his own destiny.” – Bob Marley
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“What else does anxiety about the future bring you but sorrow upon sorrow.” – Thomas a Kempis
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“Happiness is not something you postpone for the future, it is something you design for the present.” – Jim Rohn
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“Being fully present is the best guarantee for a bight future.” – Guy Finley
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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
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“I got a bright future ahead of me.” – Justin Bieber
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“Neither a wise man nor a brave man lie down on the tracks of history to wait for the train of the future to run over him.” – Dwight D. Eisenhower
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“Any change in how we think about our future, even it if could radically improve our prospects, takes courage.” – Bruce Wilkinson
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“Those who look only to the past or the present are certain to miss the future.” – John F. Kennedy
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“Well the future for me, is already a thing of the past.” – Bob Dylan
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“Hope: belief in a bright future.” – Lailah Gifty Akita
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“A speculator is a man who observes the future, and acts before it occurs.” – Bernard Baruc
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“People always find it easier to be a result of the past, rather than a cause of the future.” – Unknown
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“The past, the present and the future are really one, they are today.” – Harriet Beecher Stowe
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“The future is a split second away.” – Ana Monnar
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“Do not watch the clock. Do what it does and keep going.” – Sam Levenson
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“Cease to inquire what the future has in store, and take as a gift whatever the day brings forth.” – Horae
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“Never make predictions, especially about the future.” – Casey Stengel
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“The prerequisite for motivation and success in any endeavor is a BIG vision for your future. If you’re stuck in the past, you’re really in trouble.” – B.N. Norton
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“I don’t live for the past. I live for today and tomorrow.” – Thomas Edison
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“If you have not vision of yourself in the future, than you have nothing to live for. The Bible says ‘Where there is no vision, the people perish’.” – Les Brown
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“Your past, present and future should be moulded by your thoughts. Remember your thinking is your life’s autobiography.” – James Borg
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“We are made wise, not by the recollection of our past, but by the responsibility of our future.” – George Bernard Shaw
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“Even though the future seems far away, it is actually beginning right now.” – Mattie Stepanek
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“Fear not for the future, weep not for the past.” – Percy Bysshe Shelley
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“And while imagining a better future, let’s also imagine a better self. Unless we give our power away, we are in charge of creating our future.” – Vlad Zachary
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“You can’t accept responsibility of tomorrow by evading it today.” – Abraham Lincoln
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“There is always one moment in childhood when the door opens and let’s the future in.” – Graham Greene
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“The secret is here in the present. If you pay attention to the present, you can improve upon it. And if you improve on the present, what comes later will also be better.” – Paulo Coelho
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“The future, something which everyone reaches at a rate of sixty minutes an hour, whatever he does, whoever he is.”- C.S. Lewis
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“Focusing on your future makes you realize more opportunities than ever.” – Kate Iroegbu
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“Be careful not to look so far ahead, that you miss what’s in front of you.” – Jeremy Aldana
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“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
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“In this volatile business our ours, we can ill afford to rest on our laurels even to pause in retrospect. Times and conditions can change so rapidly that we must keep our aim constantly focused on the future.” – Walt Disney
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“The empires of the future, are the empires of the mind.” – Winston Churchill
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“When did the future switch from being a promise to being a threat.” – Chuck Palahniuk
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“According to scientists, cheerful temper and a belief in a brighter future can strengthen your body and hold up the old age because optimism doesn’t simply protect your nerves, moreover, it strengthens the immune system, repels bacteria and allays pain.” – Vanessa Angel
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“The future is not an inheritance, it is an opportunity and an obligation.” – Bill Clinton
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“One must plan for the future and anticipate the future, without fearing the future.” – Robin Hobb
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“What is coming is better than what is gone.” – Arabic Proverb
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“With our words we can either bless our futures, or we can curse our futures.” – Joel Osteen
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“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
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“The best way to predict your future is to create it.” – Abraham Lincoln
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“Life is the art of drawing without an eraser.” – John W. Gardner
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“Happy is the person who knows that to remember of the past, what to enjoy in the present and what to plan for in the future.” – Arnold H. Glasow
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“I haven’t been faithful to my own advice in the past. I will in the future.” – Bill Graham
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“Faith and hope work hand in hand, however, while hope focuses on the future, faith focuses on the now.” – David Odunaiya
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“We must welcome the future, remember that soon it will be the past, and we must respect the past, remember that it was once all that was humanly possible.” – George Santayana
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“As long as we are persistence in our pursuit of our deepest destiny, we will continue to grow. We cannot choose the day or time when we fully bloom. It happens in it’s own time.” – Denis Waitley
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“Trying to tear down your past prohibits you from building up your future.” – Lil Wayne
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“The choices we make today create the future that we are dreaming of.” – Clare Josa
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“Young people, from lack of experience are often puzzled over the future.” – Bill Calhoun
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“Life is divided into three terms, that which was, which is and which will be. Leet 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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“The future is an unknown but a somewhat predictable unknown. To look to the future, we must first look back on the past. That is where the seeds of the future were planted. I never think of the future. It comes soon enough.” – Albert Einstein
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“The future is always more important than the past.” – Paul Park
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“Our human compassion binds the one to the other, not in pity or patronizingly, but as human beings who have learnt how to turn our common suffering into hope for the future.” – Nelson Madela
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“In this bright future, you can’t forget your past.” – Bob Marley
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“Prediction is very difficult, especially if it’s about the future.” – Niels Bohr
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“Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past.” – George Orwell
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“How we think it is, is how it is is. It’s easy to confuse what has happened in our past as what is going to happen in the future. What we fail to realize is that what happened in our past does not have to equal the future. If you believe that it does, than it does.” – Robert Norman
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“I have realized that the past and future are real illusions, that they exist in the present, which is what there is and all there is.” – Alan Watts
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“Yesterday is a cancelled check. Today is cash on the line. Tomorrow is a promissory note.” – Hank Stram
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“Deal with the issues of today not those that are possible in the future.” – Byron Pulsifer
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“It is always wise to look ahead, but difficult to look further than you can see.” – Winston Churchill
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“When you get to the peak remember the valley exists.” – Ernest Yehoah
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“The best thing about the future is that it comes one day at a time.” – Abraham Lincoln
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“Elegance is not the prerogative of those who have just escaped from adolescence, but thsoe who have already taken possession of their future.” – Coco Chanel
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“The longer you look back, the farther you can look forward.” – Winston Churchill
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“The wise man must remember that while he is a descendant of the past, he is a parent of the future.” – Herbert Spencer
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“The only different between the saint and the sinner is that every saint has a past, every sinner has a future.” – Oscar Wilde
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“Study the past if you were to define the future.” – Confucius
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“The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.” – Eleanor Roosevelt
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“The future starts today, not tomorrow.” – Pope John Paul II
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“Nothing we do can change the past, but everything we do changes the future.” – Ashleigh Brilliant
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“Without forgiveness, there is no future.” – Desmond Tutu
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“The future is there, looking back at us. Trying to make sense of the fiction we have become.” – William Gibson
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“In an open quarrel between past and present, we shall find that we have lost the future.” – Winston Churchill
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“If we could unfold the future, the present would be our greatest care.” – Edward Counse
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“It is not enough to understand, or to see clearly. The future will be shaped in the arena of human activity, by those willing to commit their minds and bodies to the task.” – Robert Kennedy
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“The future is called ‘perhaps’, which is the only possible thing to call the future. And the important ting is not to allow that to scare you.” – Tennessee Williams
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“There are no guarantees or crystal balls for the future, and there’s no absolute way to know if you are or aren’t making the right decision. Give tomorrow the best possible chance that you can.” – Kenneth Dino
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“When the past no longer illuminates the future, the spirit walks in darkness.” – Alexis de Tocqueville
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“Let the future tell the truth, and evaluate each one according to his work and accomplishments. The present is theirs, the future for which have really worked, is mine.” – Nikola Tesla
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“The essence of optimism is that it takes no account to the present but it is a source of inspiration, of vitality and hope where other have resigned. It enables a man to hold his head high, to claim the future for himself and not abandon it to his enemy.” – Dietrich Bonhoeffer
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“Never let the future disturb you. You will meet, if you have to, with the same weapons of reason which today arm you against the present.” – Marcus Aurelius
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“Never let your fear decide your future.” – Unknown
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“A person often meets his destiny on the road he took to avoid it.” – Jean de La Fontaine
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“Control your own destiny, or someone else will.” – Jack Welch
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“The future is uncertain but the end is always near.” – Jim Morrison
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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
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“Just because the past didn’t turn out like you wanted it to, doesn’t mean you future can’t be better than you’ve ever imagined.” – Unknown
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“The future ain’t what it used to be.” – Yogi Berra
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“The future is up for grabs. it belongs to any and all who take the risk and accept the responsibility of consciously creating the future they want.” – Robert Anton Wilson
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“Let your hopes, not your hurts, shape your future.” – Robert H. Schaller
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“The future has not been written, there is not fate but we make for ourselves.” – John Connor
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“The secret of your future is hidden in your daily routine.” – Mike Murdock
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“Just because the past didn’t turn out like you wanted it to, doesn’t mean your future can’t be better than you imagined.” – Unknown
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“Future generations will judge us not by what we say, but what we do.” – Elen Johnson Sareef
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“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
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“The past, the present and the future are really one, they are today.” – Harriet Beecher Stowe
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“Life for the present, not for the future. Work for the ‘future’ not for the ‘present’.” – Kusum Prasad
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“Education is the passport to the future, for tomorrow belongs to those who prepare for it today.” – Malcolm X
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“If we work hard in our present, then we build up a better future.” – Risabh Shukla
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“We have come too far, we have sacrificed too much, to disdain the future now.” – John F. Kennedy
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“The most reliable way to predict, the future is to create it.” – Abraham Lincoln
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“Upper classes are a nations past, the middle class is it’s future.” – Ayn Rand
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“I am tomorrow, or some future day, what I establish today. I am today what I established yesterday or some previous day.” – James Joyce
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“That’s where the future lies, in the youth of today.” – Will Stargell
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“Trust the past to God’s Mercy. The present to God’s love and the future to his providence.” – Augustine
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“I go to school the youth to learn the future.” – Robert Frost
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“We cannot alway build the future of our youth, but we can build out youth for the future.” – Franklin Delano Roosevelt
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“Learn from the past. Hope for the future. Live in the present.” – Ken Lancaster
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“The future is no more certain than the present.” – Walt Whitman
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“Every man has his own destiny, the only imperative is to follow it, to accept it, no matter where it leads him.” – Henry Miller
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“The youth is the hope of our future.” – Jose Rizal
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“The future of the world belongs to the youth of the world, and it is from the youth and not from the old that the fire of life will warm and enlighten the world. It is your privilege to breath the breath of life into the dry bones of many around you.” – Tom Mann
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“History has no present, only the rushing into the future. To try to hold fast is to be swept aside.” – John F. Kennedy
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“We cannot predict the future, but we can create it. I desire no future that will break the ties of the past.” – George Elliot
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“Let it be told to the future world, that in the depths of winter, when nothing but hope and virtue could survive, the city and the country, alarmed at one common danger, came forth to meet and to repulse it.” – Thomas Paine
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“You do have a future. There is a light at the end of that inky black tunnel.” – Willow Cross
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“I don’t know what the future may hold, but I know who holds the future.” – Ralph Albernathy
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“The future promise of any nation can be directly measured by the present prospects of it’s youth.” – John F. Kennedy
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“Those who have the youth on their side control the future.” – Hans Schemm
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“For young people, if someone tells you, you are the future, say NO! I’m the present. You have things to do right now.” – Hamza Yusuf
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“Give young people a greater voice. They are the future and they are much wiser than we give them credit for.” – Demond Tutu
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“I tell young people, do not think of yourself, think of others. Think of the future that awaits you, think about what you can do and do not fear anything.” – Rita Levi-Montalcini
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“It may sound trite, but young people really are the future.” – Jane Goodall
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“To young people, the future is still long.” – Ivy Compton- Burnett
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“If you don’t take charge of shaping your destiny, others will apply their agenda for you.” – Eric Allenbaugh
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“You invest into the future, and that’s how young people become human in best sense of it. Through the great experience of listening to a Muller symphony or to see a great play by Tennessee Williams, experience something in a ballet, in a film.” – Mikhail Baryshnikov
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“We invest in things like the future, like our children, like education. In other words, we invest in things that we understand we will not see an immediate return on investment but everybody knows that it will have a positive impact and you can easily measure it over the course of time. Your why is exactly the same.” – Simon Sinek
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“Don’t wait to be success at some future point. Have a relationship with the present and be fully present in whatever you are doing. That is success.” – Eckhart Tolle
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“Always keep looking forward. Looking back is never good. You want to look to the future. And that is something you should do.” – Catherine Pulsifer
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“There is no present. There’s only the immediate future and the recent past.” – George Carlin
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“There is never time in the future in which we work out our salvation. The challenge is in the moment, the time is always now.” – James Baldwin
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“You can never plan the future by the past.” – Edmund Burke
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“Let’s not look 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 a manly heart.” – Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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“What we need to do is always learn into the future, when the world changes around you and when it changes against you, what used to be a tail wind is now a head wind, you have to lean into that and figure out what to do because complaining isn’t a strategy.” – Jeff Bezos
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“You hold the key to your future. The actions you take every day shape your future.” – Mattias Skarin
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“Your future is your own again. And I consider that to be a happy ending to the story.” – Lisa Mangum
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“The past gives us experience and made us wiser so that we can create a beautiful and brighter future.” – Debasish Mridha
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“This is the first age that’s every paid much attention to the future, which is a little ironic since we may not have one.” – Arthur C. Clarke
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“If you don’t focus on the future generation, it means you are destroying your country.” – Malala Yousafzai
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“But I dare not think too far into the future, on the risk that I’ll miss the present.” – Colin Farrell
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“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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“Tomorrow is no man’s gift.” – Gilbert Parker
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“One faces the future with one’s past.” – Pearl S. Buck
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“We can continue to try and clean up the gutters all over the world and spend all of our resources looking at just the dirty spots and trying to make them clean. Or we can lift our eyes up and look into the skies and move forward in an evolutionary way.” – Buzz Aldrin
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“We must respect the past, and mistrust the present, if we wish to provide for the safety of the future.” – Joseph Joubert
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“For all uncertainty, we cannot flee the future.” – Barbara Jordan
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“What matters is to live in the present, live now, for every moment is now. It is your thoughts and acts of the moment that create the future. They outline of your future path already exists, for you created its pattern by your past.” – Sai Baba
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“If you don not think about your future, you cannot have one.” – John Galsworthy
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“Sometimes you need to step outside, get some air and remind yourself of who you are and who you want to be.” – Unknown
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“The vision we offer our children shape the future.” – Carl Sagan
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“The future of the world is in my classroom today.” – Ivan Welton Fitzwafer
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“What worked in the past isn’t going to work in the future. More is expected of leaders today. All of us need to start demanding more from ourselves as leaders.” – Vince Molinaro
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“Remember when all of your peers are going out late at night to party, they are just wasting their life and they will cause themselves much pain and sorrow in the future.”
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“Acceptance teaches us that our new life after acceptance is a life after our tragedy, a life where we remember our loved one but also a life where we do not live in the past, we live for the future.” – Valarie Orr
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“When all else is lost, the future still remains.” – Christian Novel Bovee
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Conclusion To Quotes About The Future
So there it is my friends, 201 quotes on the future. I hope it brought you as much hope, education and insight on the topic as it brought me.
I would love to hear your thoughts on the matter. How big of an impact this topic has on you. And what quote really resonated with you the most.
I look forward to chatting with you in the comment section below!
With gratitude,
Chris
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