Future Quotes, Quotations & Sayings

Let your hopes, not your hurts, shape your future.
Robert H. Schuller

Memories are the key not to the past, but to the future.
Corrie Ten Boom

Time is just something that we assign. You know, past, present, it’s just all arbitrary. Most Native Americans, they don’t think of time as linear; in time, out of time, I never have enough time, circular time, the Stevens wheel. All moments are happening all the time.
Robin Green and Mitchell Burgess

See how time makes all grief decay.
Adelaide Proctor

By-and-by never comes.
Saint Augustine

There’s no reason people who work have to be resigned to situations and endure circumstances when we all possess the power to create better futures.
John Renesch

Let the workers organize. Let the toilers assemble. Let their crystallized voice proclaim their injustices and demand their privileges. Let all thoughtful citizens sustain them, for the future of Labor is the future of America.
John L. Lewis

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

The mind is never satisfied with the objects immediately before it, but is always breaking away from the present moment, and losing itself in schemes of future felicity… The natural flights of the human mind are not from pleasure to pleasure, but from hope to hope.
Samuel Johnson

One day at a time–this is enough. Do not look back and grieve over the past for it is gone; and do not be troubled about the future, for it has not yet come. Live in the present, and make it so beautiful it will be worth remembering.
Anonymous

To live for some future goal is shallow. It’s the sides of the mountain that sustain life, not the top.
Robert M. Pirsig

Do your duty and a little more and the future will take care of itself.
Andrew Carnegie

There is always one moment in childhood when the door opens and lets the future in.
Deepak Chopra

I fear there will be no future for those who do not change.
Louis L’Amour

Only man clogs his happiness with care, destroying what is with thoughts of what may be.
John Dryden

Leaders establish the vision for the future and set the strategy for getting there; they cause change. They motivate and inspire others to go in the right direction and they, along with everyone else, sacrifice to get there.
John Kotter

The past doesn’t equal the future.
Anthony Robbins

We are at the very beginning of time for the human race. It is not unreasonable that we grapple with problems. But there are tens of thousands of years in the future. Our responsibility is to do what we can, learn what we can, improve the solutions, and pass them on.
Richard P. Feynman

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

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

I’m not good at future planning. I don’t plan at all. I don’t know what I’m doing tomorrow. I don’t have a day planner and I don’t have a diary. I completely live in the now, not in the past, not in the future.
Heath Ledger

Such decisions will be far reaching and difficult. But you never lacked courage in the past. Your courage is now needed for the future.
Gerry Adams

Remember today, for it is the beginning of always. Today marks the start of a brave new future filled with all your dreams can hold. Think truly to the future and make those dreams come true.
Anonymous

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

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

The mind that is anxious about the future is miserable.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca

God made the world round so we would never be able to see too far down the road.
Isak Dinesen

It is by no means an irrational fancy that, in a future existence, we shall look upon what we think our present existence, as a dream.
Edgar Allan Poe

Life can be found only in the present moment. The past is gone, the future is not yet here, and if we do not go back to ourselves in the present moment, we cannot be in touch with life.
Thich Nhat Hanh

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