The future influences the present just as much as the past. Friedrich Nietzsche
We are going from bread and circuses to cannabis and video games to psychedelics and VR. Naval Ravikant
Understand: the future belongs to groups that are fluid, fast, and nonlinear. Robert Greene
The future depends on what you do today. Mahatma Gandhi
There is no saint without a past, no sinner without a future. Augustine of Hippo
Yesterday is gone. Tomorrow has not yet come. We have only today. Let us begin. Mother Teresa
A happy man is too satisfied with the present to dwell too much on the future. Albert Einstein
He who has courage despises the future. Napoleon Bonaparte
You can’t go back and change the beginning, but you can start where you are and change the ending. C.S. Lewis
Understand your past, live this moment, dream your future. Maxime Lagacé
Fear not for the future, weep not for the past. Percy Bysshe Shelley
To make the future is highly risky. It is less risky, however, than not to try to make it. Peter F. Drucker
We did not come to fear the future. We came here to shape it. Barack Obama
The empires of the future will be empires of the mind. Winston Churchill (1943)
The most amazing thing about the future won’t be the spaceships, but the beings flying them. Yuval Noah Harari
See also: time quotes, change quotes, hard work quotes
The Best Future Quotes
The future is completely open and we are writing it moment to moment. Pema Chödrön Click to tweet
The future is always beginning now. Mark Strand
The future has a way of arriving unannounced. George Will
Unless you are 80 years old or something, you will have to repeatedly reinvent yourself in the coming decades — you’ll probably change your job a number of times. Yuval Noah Harari
We need to get to know ourselves better and we need to develop this mental flexibility. Not as a kind of hobby for the side. This is really the most important quality or skill to just survive the upheavals in the coming decades. Yuval Noah Harari
The technology is unstoppable. The future is bright. Naval Ravikant
Nothing that we do lasts. Eventually, you will fade. Your works will fade. Your children will fade. Your thoughts will fade. These planets will fade. This sun will fade. It will all be gone. Naval Ravikant
Life is not linear. It does not steadily become better or worse. It is cyclical in nature. The same patterns (like joy and sorrow) repeat again and again in an alternating rhythm. Understand this, be released from the illusion of a blissful future, and start living now. @TheAncientSage
Hope is the ability to hear the music of the future; faith is the courage to dance to it today. Peter Kuzmic
The future is literally in our hands to mold as we like. But we cannot wait until tomorrow. Tomorrow is now. Eleanor Roosevelt
The future belongs to those who give the next generation reason for hope. Pierre Teilhard de Chardin Click to tweet
Discipline has within it the potential for creating future miracles. Jim Rohn
These days people seek knowledge, not wisdom. Knowledge is of the past, wisdom is of the future. Vernon Cooper
Every man’s life lies within the present; for the past is spent and done with, and the future is uncertain. Marcus Aurelius
Future love does not exist. Love is a present activity only. The man who does not manifest love in the present has not love. Leo Tolstoy
Modern humans overdose on information, pushing the limits of our design constraints. Future humans will adopt filtering mechanisms to avoid drowning in random data. They’ll look back on us with pity. Attention pollution is a huge drain on our collective intellectual resources. @TheStoicEmperor
The perfected future never arrives. Life is full of seemingly endless trouble, and then life ends. Find peace in the imperfect present. @TheStoicEmperor
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
The future comes slowly, the present flies and the past stands still forever. Friedrich Schiller
The future belongs to those who learn more skills and combine them in creative ways. Robert Greene
Make creativity rather than comfort your goal and you will ensure far more success for the future. Robert Greene
Part 2. Future Quotes That Are…
The Most Famous Future Quotes (Einstein, Roosevelt, Thoreau, etc.)
Study the past if you would define the future. Confucius Click to tweet
I never think of the future. It comes soon enough. Albert Einstein
One faces the future with one’s past. Pearl S. Buck
For the majority of us, the past is a regret, the future an experiment. Mark Twain
You can’t 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 gut, destiny, life, karma, whatever. This approach has never let me down, and it has made all the difference in my life. Steve Jobs
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
What I’m asking for is hard. It’s easier to be cynical; to accept that change isn’t possible, and politics is hopeless, and to believe that our voices and actions don’t matter. But if we give up now, then we forsake a better future. Barack Obama
Do not dwell in the past, do not dream of the future, concentrate the mind on the present moment. Buddha
Today I will do what others won’t, so tomorrow I can accomplish what others can’t. Jerry Rice
If you get up in the morning and think the future is going to be better, it is a bright day. Otherwise, it’s not. Elon Musk
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
We face the future with our past and our present as guarantors of our promises. Theodore Roosevelt
We cannot build our own future without helping others to build theirs. Bill Clinton
The best thing about the future is that it only comes one day at a time. Abraham Lincoln
You cannot escape the responsibility of tomorrow by evading it today. Abraham Lincoln
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
I like dreams of the future better than the history of the past. Thomas Jefferson Click to tweet
How far you go in life depends on your being tender with the young, compassionate with the aged, sympathetic with the striving, and tolerant of the weak and strong. Because some day in life you will have been all of these. George Washington Carver
The future is something which everyone reaches at the rate of sixty minutes an hour, whatever he does, whoever he is. C.S. Lewis
The past is no more, the future is not yet. “Now” includes the balance of being here, experiencing, involvement, phenomenon, awareness. Bruce Lee
No matter how dirty your past is, your future is still spotless. Drake
Even the smallest person can change the course of the future. Queen Galadriel (Lord Of The Rings)
Prediction is very difficult, especially of the future. Niels Bohr
The greatest discovery of all time is that a person can change his future by merely changing his attitude. Oprah Winfrey
We are now faced with the fact that tomorrow is today. We are confronted with the fierce urgency of now. Martin Luther King Jr
It is not in the stars to hold our destiny but in ourselves. William Shakespeare
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Short Future Quotes
One-liners, short future quotes, sayings, thoughts and captions for your bio, social status, self-talk, motto, mantra, signs, posters, wallpapers, backgrounds.
The future is now. Nam June Paik Click to tweet
The future is emotional. Thibaut
Forever is composed of nows. Emily Dickinson
Only you can control your future. Dr. Seuss
And in today already walks tomorrow. Samuel Taylor Coleridge
We are always yesterday and tomorrow. Théo Lagacé (my 5 year old son)
Make your past the fuel for your future. Maxime Lagacé
What is coming is better than what is gone. Arabic proverb
The seeds of our future are sown in our past. Unknown (Submitted by the Wisdom Quotes Community)
For the future, the motto is, “No days unalert”. Robert Greene
Go for it now. The future is promised to no one. Wayne Dyer
Let your hopes, not your hurts, shape your future. Robert H. Schuller
Heal the past, live the present, dream the future. Mary Engelbreit
It is said that the present is pregnant with the future. Voltaire Click to tweet
Do something today that your future self will thank you for. Sean Patrick Flanery
The past cannot be changed. The future is yet in your power. Unknown
Let him who would enjoy a good future waste none of his present. Roger Babson
The present is short, the future is doubtful, the past is certain. Seneca
The past, the present and the future are really one: they are today. Harriet Beecher Stowe
With the past, I have nothing to do; nor with the future. I live now. Ralph Waldo Emerson
The present is theirs; the future, for which I really worked, is mine. Nikola Tesla
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Inspirational And Optimistic Future Quotes
The future is better than you think. Peter Diamandis Click to tweet
Never let the future disturb you. You will meet it, if you have to, with the same weapons of reason which today arm you against the present. Marcus Aurelius
As for the future, your task is not to foresee it, but to enable it. Antoine de Saint-Exupery
Life is no brief candle to me. It is a sort of splendid torch which I have got a hold of for the moment, and I want to make it burn as brightly as possible before handing it on to future generations. George Bernard Shaw
Help others have a better future and yours will be guaranteed. Maxime Lagacé
Now is the only time. How we relate to it creates the future. In other words, if we’re going to be more cheerful in the future, it’s because of our aspiration and exertion to be cheerful in the present. What we do accumulates; the future is the result of what we do right now. Pema Chödrön
Step out of the history that is holding you back. Step into the new story you are willing to create. Oprah Winfrey Click to tweet
You better live your best and act your best and think your best today; for today is the sure preparation for tomorrow and all the other tomorrows that follow. Harriet Martineau
The further and deeper we contemplate the future, the greater our capacity to shape it according to our desires. Robert Greene
There is never time in the future in which we will work out our salvation. The challenge is in the moment; the time is always now. James Baldwin
People who don’t need the money can work for payoffs that are further in the future and more uncertain, but much bigger. They can arbitrage other people’s need for immediacy and certainty, and hire them as employees. The less you need it today, the more you can have tomorrow. Johnny Uzan
Don’t burn your future on the altar of the past. Remember it. Don’t live in it. Learn the lesson. The past is fixed. The future is variable. You will transform. You will endure. @TheStoicEmperor
It is fruitless to wish you had started years ago. In the future you will wish you had started now. Don’t wish. Act. @TheStoicEmperor
You can build a future out of anything. A scrap, a flicker. The desire to go forward, slowly, one foot at a time. You can build an airy city out of ruins. Lauren Oliver
The past explains how I got here, but the future is up to me – and I love to live life at full throttle. Janice Dickinson
Change your life today. Don’t gamble on the future, act now, without delay. Simone de Beauvoir
See also: positive quotes
Funny And Surprising Quotes About The Future
Tomorrow is only found in the calendar of fools. Og Mandino Click to tweet
The hard work of the future will be pushing buttons. Nikola Tesla
Let others consult the horoscope, or read tarot cards: You have more concrete means of seeing into the future. Robert Greene
The factory of the future will have only two employees, a man and a dog. The man will be there to feed the dog. The dog will be there to keep the man from touching the equipment. Warren Bennis
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 F. Drucker
The future isn’t just something that happens. It’s a brutal force with a great sense of humor that will steamroll you if you’re not watching. Bill Murray
If you want a picture of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face forever. George Orwell (1984) (Not sure if it’s funny after all…)
The future is already here – it’s just not very evenly distributed. William Gibson Click to tweet
The future always comes too fast and in the wrong order. Alvin Toffler
The future interests me – I’m going to spend the rest of my life there. Mark Twain
People live for the morrow, because the day-after-to-morrow is doubtful. Friedrich Nietzsche
It’s tough to make predictions, especially about the future. Yogi Berra
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Deep Future Quotes (That Will Make You Think)
He who controls the past controls the future. He who controls the present controls the past. George Orwell Click to tweet
We know the past but cannot control it. We control the future but cannot know it. Claude Shannon
The most painful state of being is remembering the future, particularly the one you’ll never have. Søren Kierkegaard
What is history? An echo of the past in the future; a reflex from the future on the past. Victor Hugo
Fuck yesterday. Don’t dwell on it. Understand it, learn from it but don’t over respect it and allow it to affect tomorrow negatively. Gary Vaynerchuk
You’re addicted to past and future thinking because it feels safe. You avoid present thinking because it feels unsafe. Maxime Lagacé
The twentieth century was great and terrible, and the twenty-first century promises to be far greater and more terrible. Peter Thiel
A future society may support overclocking brilliant young scientists with mental performance enhancing drugs to get more scientific breakthroughs. Naval Ravikant
Anti-establishment candidates are the future. Naval Ravikant
Future: Money becomes information. Weapons become information. Land becomes information. Software eats society. Naval Ravikant
Ubiquitous streaming cameras with remote storage will eventually end almost all physical criminal activities. Naval Ravikant
Anything you do will fade. It will disappear, just like the human race will disappear and the planet will disappear. Get to Mars, even that group will disappear. No one is going to remember you past a certain number of generations, whether you’re an artist or a poet or a conqueror or a pauper or nothing. Naval Ravikant
Be skeptical of approaches that don’t find it necessary to suffer today for a better tomorrow. Shane Parrish Click to tweet
The moment you move to protect the status quo instead of disrupting or improving it, you put yourself at risk of becoming irrelevant in the near future. Thomas Oppong
We do not grow absolutely, chronologically. We grow sometimes in one dimension, and not in another; unevenly. We grow partially. We are relative. We are mature in one realm, childish in another. The past, present, and future mingle and pull us backward, forward, or fix us in the present. We are made up of layers, cells, constellations. Anais Nin
Time is accelerating. It’s the first time in history when we’ll have no idea how human society will be like in a couple of decades. Yuval Noah Harari
Illusions: 1. there is a better future awaiting you. 2. some day your problems will end. 3. change of govt will solve your problems. 4. worldly success will make you happy. 5. achieving a particular goal will bring lasting satisfaction. 6. you’ll finally start living after you’ve “made it”. @TheAncientSage
We have created a fragile and comfortable modern world in which things are much less likely to go slightly wrong, yet more likely to go catastrophically wrong. The future offers up enormous opportunity and enormous existential risk. @TheStoicEmperor
I have but one lamp by which my feet are guided, and that is the lamp of experience. I know no way of judging of the future but by the past. Edward Gibbon
To live only for some future goal is shallow. It’s the sides of the mountain that sustain life, not the top. Robert M. Pirsig (Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance, Amazon book)
People like us, who believe in physics, know that the distinction between past, present, and future is only a stubbornly persistent illusion. Albert Einstein
The future belongs to the people who can see “now” from a long-term perspective. Greg McKeown
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See also: Will the Future Be Human? Whiteboard Animation with Yuval Noah Harari (YouTube video)
Wise Future Quotes (Words Of Wisdom)
Think long term. Execute short term. Experience now. @TheStoicEmperor Click to tweet
Think on the long term when making a decision. Go back to not thinking when you are done. Naval Ravikant
Choose the path that leaves you more equanimous in the long term. Naval Ravikant (See also: inner peace quotes)
Nothing you do is going to matter that much in the long run. Don’t take yourself so seriously. Naval Ravikant
The more you understand yourself, the easier it will be to make good decisions. Maxime Lagacé
The only moment of possible happiness, is the present. The past gives regrets. And future uncertainties. Man quickly realised this and created religion. It forgives him what he has done wrong in the past and tells him not to worry about the future, as you will go to paradise. Arsène Wenger
Tomorrow will take care of itself based on what you do today. Shane Parrish
The future is something which everyone reaches at the rate of sixty minutes an hour, whatever he does, whoever he is. C.S. Lewis
You likely can’t predict the future but you can prepare for multiple possible futures. Shane Parrish (fs.blog)
Never take it for granted that your past successes will continue into the future. Actually, your past successes are your biggest obstacle: every battle, every war, is different, and you cannot assume that what worked before will work today. Robert Greene
You must always be prepared to place a bet on yourself, on your future, by heading in a direction that others seem to fear. Robert Greene
When people choose between talk about the past and talk about the future, a pragmatic person will always opt for the future and forget the past. Robert Greene
Short-term thinking makes people desperate, ungenerous, impulsive. Long-term thinking makes people calm, gracious, controlled. @TheStoicEmperor
If your options seem limited, expand your time horizon to a decade. Your current circumstances, obligations or skills become irrelevant. Once cured from short term thinking, you’re free to go in any direction. Johnny Uzan
An hour of thinking can save a decade of struggle. Johnny Uzan Click to tweet
I think the most important thing is to invest in emotional intelligence and mental balance, because the hardest challenges will be psychological. Yuval Noah Harari
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See also: How to Future-Proof Yourself (medium.com)
Part 3. Future Quotes About…
Future Quotes About Life And Living in the Moment
I’m more interested in the future than in the past, because the future is where I intend to live. Albert Einstein Click to tweet
If we are ever to enjoy life, now is the time, not tomorrow or next year… Today should always be our most wonderful day. Thomas Dreier
The future enters into us, in order to transform itself in us, long before it happens. Rainer Maria Rilke
No valid plans for the future can be made by those who have no capacity for living now. Alan Watts
Real life is the present moment — not the memories of the past, nor the dreams of the future. Walpola Rahula
One of the most tragic things I know about human nature is that all of us tend to put off living. We are all dreaming of some magical rose garden over the horizon instead of enjoying the roses that are blooming outside our windows today. Dale Carnegie
Our lust for future comfort is the biggest thief of life. Joshua Glenn Clark
When you forgive, you in no way change the past – but you sure do change the future. Bernard Meltzer
Even though the future seems far away, it is actually beginning right now. Mattie Stepanek
Life is a balance between accepting the present moment and fighting for a better future. Maxime Lagacé
When you are present in this moment, you break the continuity of your story, of past and future. Then true intelligence arises, and also love. Eckhart Tolle
I have never been able to grasp the meaning of time. I don’t believe it exists. I’ve felt this again and again, when alone and out in nature. On such occasions, time does not exist. Nor does the future exist. Thor Heyerdahl
Instead of treating events as wins or loses, ask “Did I learn something I can apply in the future?” Naval Ravikant
At any given time, when you’re walking down the streets, a very small percentage of your brain is focused on the present. The rest is future planning or regretting the past. That’s keeping you from an incredible experience. It’s keeping you from seeing the beauty in everything and for being grateful for where you are. Naval Ravikant
The most important time frames: A. 10+ years ahead. B. This moment right now. Worries, small thinking, overplanning – they all happen in-between. And neither justifies leaving the present. Johnny Uzan
Choosing to live in the past or the future not only robs you of enjoyment today, it robs you of truly living. Joshua Becker (See also: 10 Tips to Start Living in the Present)
There is no love in the future. Love can only exist in the present moment. A man who does not manifest love in the present does not love at all. Leo Tolstoy
When thinking about life, remember this: No amount of guilt can solve the past and no amount of anxiety can change the future. Dani Johnson
The future is a concept, it doesn’t exist. There is no such thing as tomorrow. There never will be, because time is always now. That’s one of the things we discover when we stop talking to ourselves and stop thinking. We find there is only present, only an eternal now. Alan Watts
Never carry things on from the past. The past is gone. Every moment – be rid of it, solved or unsolved. Drop it, and don’t carry parts – because those parts won’t allow you to solve new problems that live in this moment. Osho
There is nothing other than this present moment; there is no past, there is no future; there is nothing but this. So when we don’t pay attention to each little this, we miss the whole thing. Charlotte Joko Beck
If you are depressed you are living in the past, if you are anxious you are living in the future. If you are at peace you are living in the present. Lao Tzu
Move into the future with gratitude, not expectation. Unknown
I don’t carry the burden of the past or the madness of the future. I live in the present. Narendra Modi
You waste precious time dreaming of the future instead of engaging in the present. Robert Greene
There is some comfort in the emptiness of the sea, no past, no future. Nathan Algren Click to tweet
See also: zen quotes
Future Quotes About Happiness And Unhappiness
The fundamental delusion – there is something out there that will make me happy and fulfilled forever. Naval Ravikant Click to tweet
True happiness is… to enjoy the present, without anxious dependence upon the future. Seneca
The most anxious people live in the future. The most saddest people live in the past. The happiest people live in the present. Maxime Lagacé
Do not look back on happiness or dream of it in the future. You are only sure of today; do not let yourself be cheated out of it. Henry Ward Beecher
Not obsessing about the future and not beating yourself up over what you don’t have is very important, because then you can pay attention and be grateful for what you do have. Naval Ravikant
Happiness is that state when nothing is missing. When nothing is missing, your mind shuts down and your mind stops running into the future or running into the past to regret something or to plan something. Naval Ravikant
The fewer desires I can have, the more I can accept the current state of things, the less my mind is moving because the mind really exists in motion towards the future or the past. Naval Ravikant
Happiness to me is mainly not suffering, not desiring, not thinking too much about the future or the past, really embracing the present moment and the reality of what is, the way it is. Naval Ravikant
The future is made up of only one substance and that is the present moment. By taking care of the present, you are doing everything you can to assure a good future. Thich Nhat Hanh
Drink your tea slowly and reverently, as if it is the axis on which the world earth revolves – slowly, evenly, without rushing toward the future. Thich Nhat Hanh
Learn from your past, don’t live in it. The past must be integrated, it cannot be wished away, but it also should not be allowed to devour the future. Today is tomorrow’s past, don’t spend it reliving yesterday. See the infinite flowering of now. @TheStoicEmperor
Don’t sacrifice the present by dreaming of the hypothetically perfect future. Don’t sacrifice the present by obsessing over a nostalgically distorted past. Today is yesterday’s hypothetically perfect future. Today is tomorrow’s nostalgically distorted past. @TheStoicEmperor
A toxic relationship with the past poisons the future. This is true for individuals and for nations. @TheStoicEmperor
Many people are unwilling to suffer in the short term to reach fulfillment in the long term. Shane Parrish
See also: stoic quotes
See also: Why the quickest route to happiness may be to do nothing (bbc.com)
Future Quotes About Fear, Uncertainty, Worrying, Cynicism
Worry does not empty tomorrow of its sorrow, it empties today of its strength. Leo Buscaglia Click to tweet
Heaven is being immersed in the moment. Hell is worrying about the future. @TheAncientSage
There are two kinds of future concern: desire and fear. @TheAncientSage
Cut your ties to the past; enter unknown territory. Robert Greene
Anomalies often represent the future, but to our eyes they seem strange. Robert Greene
Your brain is a survival machine which means it will always try to predict the future. Maxime Lagacé
If you are clear and far-thinking enough, you will understand that the future is uncertain, and that you must be open to adaptation. Robert Greene
Anxiety contaminates the present with the pains of all imaginable futures. We cannot experience the fullness of the moment if we are forever suffering from hypothetical hardships. @TheStoicEmperor
Who knows whether the gods will add tomorrow to the present hour? Horace
Maturity of mind is the capacity to endure uncertainty. John Finley Click to tweet
The past is behind, learn from it. The future is ahead, prepare for it. The present is here, live it. Thomas S. Monson
You can’t have a better tomorrow if you are thinking about yesterday all the time. Charles Kettering
The future is full of anxiety. Only the present is real — the here-and-now. Seize the day. Saul Bellow (See also: How to Stop Worrying About the Future: 8 Practical Techniques, lifehack.org)
A cynic is not merely one who reads bitter lessons from the past, he is one who is prematurely disappointed in the future. Sydney J. Harris
I have learned to live each day as it comes, and not to borrow trouble by dreading tomorrow. It is the dark menace of the future that makes cowards of us. Dorothy Day
Fear keeps us focused on the past or worried about the future. If we can acknowledge our fear, we can realize that right now we are okay. Right now, today, we are still alive, and our bodies are working marvelously. Our eyes can still see the beautiful sky. Our ears can still hear the voices of our loved ones. Thich Nhat Hanh
We must welcome the future, remembering that soon it will be the past; and we must respect the past, remembering that it was once all that was humanly possible. George Santayana
In the future we find anxiety. In the past we find nostalgia. In the present we find peace. Unknown
To be uncertain is to be uncomfortable, but to be certain is to be ridiculous. Chinese proverb
See also: pain quotes, failure quotes
Future Quotes About Courage, Waiting, Patience, Mental Strength
The future doesn’t belong to the fainthearted; it belongs to the brave. Ronald Reagan Click to tweet
The future belongs to those who have the guts to pull the trigger. Ryan Holiday
Patience, persistence and perspiration make an unbeatable combination for success. Napoleon Hill
Social media and 24 hour news has made long term thinking very hard for people. They are fooled by short term metrics. The most valuable things in life and business must be given time to evolve. Identify what is real and practice patience. @TheStoicEmperor
The most courageous person is the one who does his best right now knowing it’s the only thing that will bring a better future. Maxime Lagacé
The struggle you’re in today is developing the strength you need for tomorrow. Don’t give up. Robert Tew
The future is meaningless and unimportant to the person who can bravely face and make the most of the present. The present moment is, as Marcus Aurelius would say, all you need. It’s enough. Good or bad. Scary or exciting. A man must live in the present and face it with courage. Starting today. Ryan Holiday
No longer be either dissatisfied with thy present lot, or shrink from the future. Marcus Aurelius Click to tweet
It is the patient building of character, the intense struggle to realize the truth, which alone will tell in the future of humanity. Swami Vivekananda
Courage, it would seem, is nothing less than the power to overcome danger, misfortune, fear, injustice, while continuing to affirm inwardly that life with all its sorrows is good; that everything is meaningful even if in a sense beyond our understanding; and that there is always tomorrow. Dorothy Thompson
Every man has his own destiny: the only imperative is to follow it, to accept it, no matter where it leads him. Henry Miller
Accept your past without regret, handle your present with confidence, and face your future without fear. Unknown
Forgiveness does not change the past, but it does enlarge the future. Paul Boese
See also: patience quotes, strength quotes
Future Quotes About Hope, Visions, Dreams
Where there is no hope in the future, there is no power in the present. John C. Maxwell Click to tweet
Do not let the memories of your past limit the potential of your future. Roy T. Bennett
Let us make our future now, and let us make our dreams tomorrow’s reality. Malala Yousafzai
Anything one man can imagine, other men can make real. Jules Verne
All our dreams can come true, if we have the courage to pursue them. Walt Disney
Hope is your ally for a better future but it’s also what makes you suffer today. Keep fighting, keep living. Maxime Lagacé
No good can come from refusing to think far into the future and planning to the end. Robert Greene
The best way to lead people into the future is to connect with them deeply in the present. James Kouzes and Barry Posner
Part 1. To be hopeful in bad times is not just foolishly romantic. It is based on the fact that human history is a history not only of cruelty, but also of compassion, sacrifice, courage, kindness. Howard Zinn
Part 2. What we choose to emphasize in this complex history will determine our lives. If we see only the worst, it destroys our capacity to do something. Howard Zinn
Part 3. If we remember those times and places – and there are so many – where people have behaved magnificently, this gives us the energy to act, and at least the possibility of sending this spinning top of a world in a different direction. Howard Zinn
Part 4. And if we do act, in however small a way, we don’t have to wait for some grand utopian future. Howard Zinn
Part 5. The future is an infinite succession of presents, and to live now as we think human beings should live, in defiance of all that is bad around us, is itself a marvelous victory. Howard Zinn
Our job is to make sure that even as we make progress, that we are also giving people a sense of hope and vision for the future. Barack Obama
We choose our joys and sorrows long before we experience them. Kahlil Gibran
Our imagination is the only limit to what we can hope to have in the future. Charles Kettering Click to tweet
The future can be different if we choose to make it so. There is no time for complacency, hope lies in what action we take. Dalai Lama
We have no guarantee what will happen in the future, but we live in hope. That’s what keeps us going. Dalai Lama
Our faith in the present dies out long before our faith in the future. Ruth Benedict
There is nothing like a dream to create the future. Victor Hugo
See also: success quotes
Quotes About Predicting The Future, Creating The Future
The best way to predict the future is to create it yourself. Peter Diamandis Click to tweet
The only thing we know about the future is that it will be different. Peter F. Drucker
You don’t win by predicting the future; you win by getting the odds right. Will Bonner
The year is 3720. Humans can extend their lives forever. To prevent overpopulation, the government issues each newborn 500 years worth of life credits. They are tradeable down to the minute. Abdul, a 900-year-old religious leader, just crowdfunded his next millennium. Johnny Uzan
Predicting the future anytime, in any realm, is fairly perilous. Stephen J. Dubner (freakonomics.com)
The primary reason the brain remembers the past is to better predict what will work in the future. James Clear
It’s easier to explain the past than predict the future. Shane Parrish
Predicting what’s going to change is hard. Predicting what’s going to stay the same is relatively easy. Shane Parrish
The siren song of avoiding uncertainty and knowing the future is hard to resist. Having the answer is the equivalent of signaling to the world that you’re an oracle. Shane Parrish
In the coming 30 years the tendency toward the dematerialized, the decentralized, the simultaneous, the platform enabled, and the cloud will continue unabated. Kevin Kelly
Brooding on the past is futile, so is being anxious about future. Focus on what you can do in the present because the present is creating your future. @TheAncientSage
No one has ever gone back in time and no one has ever been able to predict the future successfully in any way that matters. Naval Ravikant
You are basically a bunch of hardware DNA written, that then reacted to environmental effects when you were younger. Then you recorded the things that were good and bad and you use that to prejudge everything that’s going to be thrown against you. Then you’re using that to constantly try and predict and change the future. Naval Ravikant
The distant future is small free cities with drone armies and skill-based immigration policies, surrounded by a sea of failed socialist states. Naval Ravikant
The brain is a memory prediction machine. It has a memory of things that worked in the past and what it’s read and it’s trying to predict the future. Naval Ravikant
The future is unpredictable, and worrying about it is a waste of time. Focus on right now, and you’ll always be able to handle what comes. Leo Babauta
Humans are going to upgrade themselves into gods. That is, humans will acquire abilities that in the past were considered divine, such as eternal youth, mind reading, and the ability to engineer life. Yuval Noah Harari
You are the best author 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
Be mindful of intention. Intention is the seed that creates our future. Buddhist proverb Click to tweet
Trying to tear down the past prohibits you from building up your future. Lil Wayne
Once we rid ourselves of traditional thinking we can get on with creating the future. Jimmy Bertrand
The future is not built on fads. The future is built by true believers. @TheStoicEmperor
See also: creativity quotes, art quotes
Future Quotes About Business, Work, Innovation, Leadership
Innovation is the calling card of the future. Anna Eshoo Click to tweet
Future companies will be smaller and more nimble. Peter Diamandis
Leadership is the capacity to translate vision into reality. Warren Bennis
A leader’s job is to look into the future and see the organization, not as it is, but as it should be. Jack Welch
The only way to lead is by creating new paths. The only way to create new paths is by taking the risk of being 100% yourself. Maxime Lagacé
In order to keep up with the world of 2050, you will need not merely to invent new ideas and products but above all to reinvent yourself over and over again. Yuval Noah Harari
Our future growth relies on competitiveness and innovation, skills and productivity… and these in turn rely on the education of our people. Julia Gillard
We are rapidly networking together every brain on the planet. Nothing like this has ever happened. It is without precedent. The future will belong to those who grasp the significance of this and truly understand what animates the movements of the crowd. @TheStoicEmperor
Forty hour workweeks are a relic of the Industrial Age. Knowledge workers function like athletes – train and sprint, then rest and reassess. Naval Ravikant Click to tweet
We’re going to see an era of everyone employing remote tech workers. Naval Ravikant
Pick an industry where you can play long term games with long term people. Naval Ravikant
If you don’t want to go to the meeting right now, your future self won’t want to go to it later, either. Naval Ravikant
I think the best way to prepare for the future 20 years is find something you love to do, to have a shot at being one of the best people in the world at it. Naval Ravikant
Try to make a creative work, so you’ll stay interesting, stay ahead of the game. Anything that’s not a creative, society can replicate and then not pay you full value over time, so it’s always better to solve new problems and do new things, and get comfortable with working in a boom-bust fashion, where a couple of weeks at a time you may have a lot of work, then a couple of weeks at a time you’re on vacation. Naval Ravikant
The future is all headed towards individual brands. You can see how reporters on the New York Times now build individual brands on Twitter that far exceed the brand that they would build just under the New York Times. Naval Ravikant
Our future success is directly proportional to our ability to understand, adopt and integrate new technology into our work. Sukant Ratnakar
People skills are so important now and will continue to be in high demand in the future. Thomas Oppong
Objectives are not fate; they are direction. They are not commands; they are commitments. They do not determine the future; they are means to mobilize the resources and energies of the business for the making of the future. Peter F. Drucker
Long range planning does not deal with future decisions, but with the future of present decisions. Peter F. Drucker
The future is hidden even from those who are forging it. Anatole France
See also: 10 Proven Ways To Build The Workplace Of The Future (officevibe.com)
See also: Ten Human Skills for the Future of Work (99u.adobe.com)
Future Quotes About Technology And Social Media
Technology feeds on itself. Technology makes more technology possible. Alvin Toffler Click to tweet
Digital addiction is going to be one of the great mental health crises of our time. Sam Altman (See also: focus quotes)
Remote is the future of everything. Education. Fitness. Experiences. Medicine. Relationships. Community. The technology is finally cohesive enough — VR will simply accelerate this trend. Brian Norgard
The instantaneous cross over between real and virtual worlds is the future. Brian Norgard
If you control the code, you control the world. This is the future that awaits us. Marc Goodman
Any work you do in the comfort of a routine risks being taken over by a robot. Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Most of the problems we have in our life today have come from previous technologies. And most of the problems in the future will come from the technologies that we’re inventing today. Kevin Kelly
Yes, robots will probably take your job — but the future will still be pretty great. Kevin Kelly
We are, and will remain, perpetual newbies. Kevin Kelly
Uber owns no vehicles. Facebook creates no content. Alibaba has no inventory. And Airbnb owns no real estate. Something interesting is happening. Kevin Kelly
Our intuition about the future is linear. But the reality of information technology is exponential, and that makes a profound difference. If I take 30 steps linearly, I get to 30. If I take 30 steps exponentially, I get to a billion. Ray Kurzweil
The Web as I envisaged it, we have not seen it yet. The future is still so much bigger than the past. Tim Berners-Lee (inventor of the World Wide Web) (Wikipedia)
Any new technology tends to go through a 25-year adoption cycle. Marc Andreessen
Technology enables us to work every minute of every day from any place on the planet. Carl Honoré
A future society will be better served by un-censorable, distributed, open-source social media protocols. Naval Ravikant
Future media should be open-source, distributed, and user controlled. Naval Ravikant
It’s increasingly clear that the wealth and power of any given nation state will be proportional to its ability to create and utilize new technology. Naval Ravikant
Anything in your pockets that’s not a smartphone will be replaced by the smartphone. Naval Ravikant
Far future: In a perfect Virtual Reality world, we all live in governments of one. Fin. Naval Ravikant Click to tweet
It took decades for society to comprehend the damage from junk food and sugar addiction. It will take just as long with social media and dopamine addiction. And it will seem just as obvious looking back. Johnny Uzan
The future belongs to social media. It is egalitarian and inclusive. Social media is not about any country, any language, any colour, any community but it is about human values and that is the underlying link binding humanity. Narendra Modi
The Internet is no longer a web that we connect to. Instead, it’s a computerized, networked, and interconnected world that we live in. This is the future, and what we’re calling the Internet of Things. Bruce Schneier
If future generations are to remember us with gratitude rather than contempt, we must leave them more than the miracles of technology. We must leave them a glimpse of the world as it was in the beginning, not just after we got through with it. Lyndon B. Johnson
The programmers of tomorrow are the wizards of the future. You’re going to look like you have magic powers compared to everybody else. Gabe Newell
One of the most important ingredients to success in life and business is the ability to adapt as technology changes and new trends emerge in a fast-paced digital world. Thomas Oppong
It has become appallingly obvious that our technology has exceeded our humanity. Albert Einstein
The revolutionary potential of future technologies is to change Homo sapiens itself, including our bodies and our minds, and not merely our vehicles and weapons. Yuval Noah Harari
The future will basically take care of itself. We just need to develop better technology and it will create a kind of paradise on earth. Yuval Noah Harari
Future Quotes About Education
Education is the passport to the future, for tomorrow belongs to those who prepare for it today. Malcolm X Click to tweet
Many times the reading of a book has made the future of a man. Ralph Waldo Emerson
Next generation will be faster thinkers, better tool users, able to handle more complex situations. Naval Ravikant
For these are all our children. We will all profit by, or pay for, whatever they become. James Baldwin
Education […] is a process of living and not a preparation for future living. John Dewey
Learn how to learn faster today so you don’t become obsolete tomorrow. Maxime Lagacé
I think the teaching profession contributes more to the future of our society than any other single profession. John Wooden
My father taught me to always do more than you get paid for as an investment in your future. Jim Rohn
I believe one of the things future generations will look back on and say “what were they thinking” about us involves the notion of standardized education. In the future it will be mostly personalized to individuals. Shane Parrish
The future of education will be (i) asynchronous and synchronous, here and there, (ii) decentralized, the best content from wherever, (iii) customized (iv) with attention to measuring improvements at the edge of competence (v) accessible to all for cheap, and (vi) global. 1517 Fund (medium.com article)
The most important investment that people can make is not to learn a particular skill—”I’ll learn how to code computers,” or “I will learn Chinese,” or something like that. No, the most important investment is really in building this more flexible mind or personality. Yuval Noah Harari
We’re in an unprecedented situation in history in the sense that nobody knows what the basics about how the world will look like in 20 or 30 years. Not just the basics of geopolitics but what the job market would look like, what kind of skills people will need, what family structures will look like, what gender relations will look like. This means that for the first time in history we have no idea what to teach in schools. Yuval Noah Harari (See also: The Most Important Survival Skill for the Next 50 Years Isn’t What You Think (gq.com)
You can choose a future where more Americans have the chance to gain the skills they need to compete, no matter how old they are or how much money they have. Education was the gateway to opportunity for me. It was the gateway for Michelle. And now more than ever, it is the gateway to a middle-class life. Barack Obama
Teaching is a very noble profession that shapes the character, caliber, and future of an individual. If the people remember me as a good teacher, that will be the biggest honour for me. A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
Education is not only a ladder of opportunity, but it is also an investment in our future. Ed Markey Click to tweet
Once you’re a parent, you’re the ghost of your children’s future. Cooper (Interstellar)
In every conceivable manner, the family is link to our past, bridge to our future. Alex Haley
We are made wise not by the recollection of our past, but by the responsibility for our future. George Bernard Shaw
We may not be able to prepare the future for our children, but we can at least prepare our children for the future. Franklin D. Roosevelt
See also: learning quotes
Future Quotes About Humanity
For me it was never about money, but solving problems for the future of humanity. Elon Musk Click to tweet
Without memory, there is no culture. Without memory, there would be no civilization, no society, no future. Elie Wiesel
Without it, there would be no planning, no building, no culture; without an imagined picture of the future, our civilization would not exist. Dan Falk
What will happen to you and me? We don’t know. What will happen to humanity? We don’t know. What will happen to the Earth? We don’t know. It’s that uncertainty that makes life so special. Maxime Lagacé
The future of humanity and the future of the world is going to be defined by what we have in common, as opposed to those things that separate us and ultimately lead us into conflict. Barack Obama
I stand before you again tonight, after almost two terms as your president, to tell you I am more optimistic about the future of America than ever before. Barack Obama
There will come a time in the distant future, where no one will know who you were, no one will know of your existence and contributions, no one will know your pain and suffering, and your happiness. Time will wipe away both men and the memories of men. Let yourself be free. Life Math Money
If the earth does grow inhospitable toward human presence, it is primarily because we have lost our sense of courtesy toward the earth and its inhabitants. Thomas Berry
The critical responsibility for the generation you’re in is to help provide the shoulders, the direction, and the support for those generations who come behind. Gloria Dean Randle Scott
The great Norwegian playwright, Henrik Ibsen, wrote, “One of these days, the younger generation will come knocking at my door.” The future is knocking at our door right now. Make no mistake, the next generation will ask us one of two questions. Either they will ask: “What were you thinking; why didn’t you act?” Or they will ask instead: “How did you find the moral courage to rise and successfully resolve a crisis that so many said was impossible to solve?” Al Gore
Perhaps the future no longer depends on a single leader but on each of us who can quietly dedicate our life to light love and healing. Deepak Chopra
The future can be anything we want it to be, providing we have the faith and that we realize that peace, no less than war, required blood and sweat and tears. Charles Kettering (See also: peace quotes)
It’s unrealistic to think that the future of humanity can be achieved through prayer or good wishes alone; what we need is to take action. Dalai Lama
The future is in your hands, but for it to be peaceful and happy requires a sense of compassion and concern for others’ well-being. Dalai Lama
I believe it is possible that decades from now we will see an era of peace — but we must work together as global citizens of a shared planet. Dalai Lama
Today we understand that the future of humanity very much depends on our planet, and that the future of the planet very much depends on humanity. Dalai Lama Click to tweet
I feel optimistic about the future because humanity seems to be growing more mature; scientists are paying more attention to our inner values, to the study of mind and the emotions. There is a clear desire for peace and concern for the environment. Dalai Lama
The future is in the hands of those who explore… and from all the beauty they discover while crossing perpetually receding frontiers, they develop for nature and for humankind an infinite love. Jacques-Yves Cousteau
When I see an adult on a bicycle, I do not despair for the future of the human race. H.G. Wells
More humanity quotes
See also: The Future of Humankind with Yuval Harari (YouTube video)
Part 4. Poems about the future
Poem #1
To the wrongs that need resistance,
To the right that needs assistance,
To the future in the distance,
Give yourselves.
Carrie Chapman Catt
Poem #2
A brief candle; both ends burning
An endless mile; a bus wheel turning
A friend to share the lonesome times
A handshake and a sip of wine
So say it loud and let it ring
We are all a part of everything
The future, present and the past
Fly on proud bird
You’re free at last.
Charlie Daniels
Poem #3
Now is the accepted time, not tomorrow, not some more convenient season.
It is today that our best work can be done and not some future day or future year.
It is today that we fit ourselves for the greater usefulness of tomorrow.
Today is the seed time, now are the hours of work, and tomorrow comes the harvest and the playtime.
W.E.B. Du Bois
Part 5. Conclusion
The greatest adventure is what lies ahead. Today and tomorrow are yet to be said. The chances, the changes are all yours to make. The mold of your life is in your hands to break. J.R.R. Tolkien Click to tweet
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Table Of Contents
Part 1
Top 15 Images
Best Future Quotes
Part 2
Future Quotes That ARE
Famous
Short
Inspirational
Funny
Deep
Wise
Part 3
Future Quotes ABOUT
Living In The Moment
Happiness
Fear
Courage
Hope
Predicting The Future
Business
Technology
Education
Humanity
Part 4
Poems About The Future
Part 5
Conclusion