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 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 is always beginning now. Mark Strand
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
See also: positive quotes, success quotes
Part 2. Future Quotes That Are…
The Most Famous Future Quotes
Searching for a famous future quote? Check out those by Einstein, Roosevelt, Lincoln, Thoreau, etc.
Study the past if you would define the future. Confucius Click to tweet
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 never think of the future. It comes soon enough. Albert Einstein
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
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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)
What is coming is better than what is gone. Arabic proverb
The seeds of our future are sown in our past. Unknown
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
Make your past the fuel for your future. Maxime Lagacé
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 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
Change your life today. Don’t gamble on the future, act now, without delay. Simone de Beauvoir
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
See also: positive quotes
Funny Quotes About The Future
The future always comes too fast and in the wrong order. Alvin Toffler Click to tweet
Tomorrow is only found in the calendar of fools. Og Mandino
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 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 Sayings
He who controls the past controls the future. He who controls the present controls the past. George Orwell Click to tweet
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 know the past but cannot control it. We control the future but cannot know it. Claude Shannon
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 Sayings
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 is 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
An hour of thinking can save a decade of struggle. Johnny Uzan Click to tweet
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
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. 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 4. 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 Quotes
Part 2
Future Quotes That ARE
Famous
Short
Inspirational
Funny
Deep
Wise
Part 3
Poems About The Future
Part 4
Conclusion
