Quotes, aphorisms and sentences about the future, or about that portion of time that has not yet passed, a conception in opposition to the past and the present with their moments and events that have already happened and are happening respectively.
Quotes about the future
- Gratitude looks to the past and love to the present; fear, greed, lust and ambition look to the future. (C.S.Lewis)
- If the past has been imperfect, more caution is needed for the future. (Father Pio)
- It is not necessary to give up the past to enter the future. When changing things there is no need to lose them. (John Cage)
- Nothing is more powerful for your future than being a collector of good ideas and information. This is called doing your homework. (Jim Rohn)
- Do not look to the past with anger or to the future with anxiety, but look around carefully. (James Grover Thurber)
- When the future is hopeless, the present acquires an ignoble bitterness. (Emile Zola)
- I would have been better off not counting on the future. What you can believe in is the moment, the moment. Because in the blink of an eye, everything can change. (Michael C. Hall)
- History is the mother of truth, emulates time, custodian of actions, witness of the past, example and announcement of the present, warning for the future. (Miguel De Cervantes)
- We often get into debt with the future to pay off debts with the past. (Khalil Gibran)
- The best prophet of the future is the past. (Lord Byron)
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- We cannot always build the future of our youth, but we can build our youth for the future. (Franklin Delano Roosevelt)
- Old age begins when your attachment to the past outweighs your excitement for the future. (Alan Parisse)
- The past has revealed to me the structure of the future. (Pierre Teilhard De Chardin)
- Your future depends on many things, but mainly on you. (Frank Tyger)
- The importance of money derives essentially from being a link between the present and the future. (John Maynard Keynes)
- Change is the process by which the future invades our lives. (Alvin Toffler)
- Do not be anxious about tomorrow, but rather focus on today, because every day his miracle is enough. (Khalil Gibran)
- It is not what you have done in your past life that influences the present, but it is what you do in the present that will redeem the past and logically change the future. (Paulo Coelho)
- The laws of science do not distinguish between past and future. (Stephen Hawking)
- So don't be anxious about tomorrow, because tomorrow will worry about itself. Every day his trouble is enough. (From Matthew's Gospel)
- I reinvented the past to see the beauty of the future. (Louis Aragon)
- Happiness is not something you postpone for the future; it's something you draw for the present. (Jim Rohn)
Aphorisms about the future
- Life is Beautiful. May future generations free it from all evil, oppression and violence, and enjoy it in all its splendor. (Lev Trotsky)
- Make use of every minute; you will be less of a slave to the future if you take over the present. Between postponements and other life goes away. (Lucio Anneo Seneca)
- The only difference between a saint and a sinner is that every saint has a past while every sinner has a future. (Oscar Wilde)
- The future means to lose what you have now, and to see something born that you don't have yet. (Haruki Murakami)
- I don't know what the future holds, but I know there is no future without your love. (Oona Chaplin)
- I am interested in the future because I will spend the rest of my life there. (Charles Franklin Kettering)
- The best thing about the future is that it comes one day at a time. (Abraham Lincoln)
- When you abandon the desire to control your future, you can be happier. (Nicole Kidman)
- Who does not think about the future, will not have one. (John Galsworthy)
- Extremely short and troubled is the life of those who forget the past, neglect the present, fear the future: having reached the extreme moment, late they understand that they have been busy for a long time without concluding anything. (Lucio Anneo Seneca)
- Let the future sleep as it deserves. If you wake him up ahead of time, you get a sleepy present. (Franz Kafka)
- Change is a law of life and those who insist on always looking only at the past or concentrating solely on the present can be sure of losing the future. (John Fitzgerald Kennedy)
- The past belongs to us, but we do not belong to the past: we are from the present. We build the future, but we are not of the future. (Mahatma Gandhi)
- Enjoy the pleasures present so as not to damage future ones. (Lucio Anneo Seneca)
- I like the future that technology and globalization are creating. (Neill Blomkamp)
- Remembering the past is for the future, so you will not repeat the same mistakes: you will invent new ones. (Groucho Marx)
- Pack your bags love, let's go into the future. (Ryan Gosling)
- The past is gone and the future may not even be, the only thing we can experience is now, I try to enjoy the minute. (George Harrison)
- There is nothing like dreams to create the future. Utopia today, flesh and bones tomorrow. (Victor Hugo)
- Life is not a short candle for me. It is a kind of splendid torch that I am holding for the moment, and I want it to shine as much as possible before passing it on to future generations. (George Bernard Shaw)
- We cannot prepare the future without embracing the meaning and relevance of the infant's perspective on life. (Michel Odent)
- The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams. (Eleanor Anna Roosevelt)
Phrases about the future
- The doctor of the future will not give medicines, but instead will motivate his patients to take care of their body, diet, and the cause and prevention of the disease. (Thomas Alva Edison)
- When it comes to the future, our job is not to predict it, but rather to allow it to happen. (Antoine De Saint Exupery)
- One day, after having dominated the winds, the waves, the tides and gravity, we will harness the energy of love: and for the second time in the history of the world, man will have discovered fire. (Brian Weiss)
- Take time to collect the past so that you will be able to learn from your experience and invest it in the future. (Jim Rohn)
- Today is only an ordinary day of all the days to come, but what you will do in all the days that come depends on what you do today. It has been so many times. (Ernest Hemingway)
- All the great men of the past were visionaries, they were men and women who projected themselves into the future. They thought about what could have been, rather than what it already was, and then they themselves went into action, to make these things happen. (Bob Proctor)
- The future affects the present as much as the past. (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche)
- I live neither in my past nor in my future. I only have the present, and it is the present that interests me. (Paulo Coelho)
- Do not dwell on the past; do not dream of the future, focus your mind on the present moment. (Buddha)
- Only those who cannot live in the present turn to the future. (Lucio Anneo Seneca)
- The future begins today, not tomorrow. (Pope John Paul II)
- The future runs towards us with open arms but does not give us time to embrace it. (Michelangelo)
- The future belongs to those who prepare for it today. (Malcom X)
- The mind that is anxious about future events is disheartened. (Lucio Anneo Seneca)
- Life is divided into three phases: in the present, past and future. Of these, the present is very short; the future, doubtful: the past, of course. (Lucio Anneo Seneca)
- I have a very pessimistic vision of the future: every time I see the news I would like to have a psychiatrist next to me. (Roman Polanski)
- I live neither in my past nor in my future. I only have the present, and it is the present that interests me. If you can always keep yourself in the present, you will be a happy man. Life will be a party, a great banquet, because it is always and only the moment we are living. (Paulo Coelho)
- I don't live for myself, but for the generation to come. (Vincent Van Gogh)
- There are three times: present of the past, present of the present, present of the future. These three times are in my soul and I don't see them elsewhere. The present of the past, which is history; the present of the present, which is the vision; the present of the future, which is waiting. (Sant'Antagostino)
- Our thought of future happiness is always chimerical: now hope deceives us, now what we hoped for disappoints us. (Arthur Schopenhauer)
- Waiting is the future that comes up empty-handed. (Michelangelo)
