Future Quotes, Quotations & Sayings

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

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

Tomorrow is the only day in the year that appeals to a lazy man.
Jimmy Lyons

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

The future is the shape of things to come.
H. G. Wells

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

For a person who lives 100 years in the future, the present comes as no surprise.
Viktor Schauberger

The future is here. It’s just not widely distributed yet.
William Gibson

It is never safe to look into the future with eyes of fear.
E. H. Harriman

The future is like heaven, everyone exalts it, but no one wants to go there now.
James A. Baldwin

If tomorrow were never to come, it would not be worth living today.
Dagobert Runes

People are afraid of the future, of the unknown. If a man faces up to it, and takes the dare of the future, he can have some control over his destiny. That’s an exciting idea to me, better than waiting with everybody else to see what’s going to happen.
John H. Glenn

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

We drive into the future using only our rearview mirror.
Marshall McLuhan

Telling the future by looking at the past assumes that conditions remain constant. This is like driving a car by looking in the rearview mirror.
Anonymous

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

Be of good cheer. Do not think of today’s failures, but of the success that may come tomorrow. You have set yourselves a difficult task, but you will succeed if you persevere; and you will find a joy in overcoming obstacles. Remember, no effort that we make to attain something beautiful is ever lost.
Helen Keller

Neither in the life of the individual nor in that of mankind is it desirable to know the future.
Jakob Burckhardt

A man that don’t believe in destiny don’t need to know what his destiny is.
Laura Moncur

That which is escaped now is pain to come.
Proverb

Your future is created by what you do today, not tomorrow.
Robert Kiyosaki

The possibilities for tomorrow are usually beyond our expectations.
Anonymous

My will shall shape the future. Whether I fail or succeed shall be no man’s doing but my own. I am the force; I can clear any obstacle before me or I can be lost in the maze. My choice; my responsibility; win or lose, only I hold the key to my destiny.
Elaine Maxwell

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

The shape of things to come.
H. G. Wells

Fear not for the future, weep not for the past.
Percy Bysshe Shelley

Tomorrow is the mysterious, unknown guest.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Tomorrow is the most important thing in life. Comes in to us at midnight very clean. It’s perfect when it arrives and it puts itself in our hands and hopes we’ve learnt something from yesterday.
John Wayne

The afternoon knows what the morning never suspected.
Swedish proverb

He alone, who owns the youth, gains the future.
Adolf Hitler