40 Quotes About The Future
1. The empires of the future are the empires of the mind. – Winston Churchill
2. Every saint has a past and every sinner has a future. – Oscar Wilde
3. Again, 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
4. I never think of the future – it comes soon enough. – Albert Einstein
5. It is not in the stars to hold our destiny but in ourselves. – William Shakespeare
6. The distinction between the past, present and future is only a stubbornly persistent illusion. – Albert Einstein
7. 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
8. The best years of your life are the ones in which you decide your problems are your own. You do not blame them on your mother, the ecology, or the president. You realize that you control your own destiny. – Albert Ellis
9. If we open a quarrel between past and present, we shall find that we have lost the future. – Winston Churchill
10. 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
11. Every man gotta right to decide his own destiny. – Bob Marley
12. 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
13. In this bright future you can’t forget your past. – Bob Marley
14. Education is the passport to the future, for tomorrow belongs to those who prepare for it today. – Malcolm X
15. For time and the world do not stand still. Change is the law of life. And those who look only to the past or the present are certain to miss the future. – John F. Kennedy
16. Stop acting as if life is a rehearsal. Live this day as if it were your last. The past is over and gone. The future is not guaranteed. – Wayne Dyer
17. It looks like the future’s really bright. – Michael P. Anderson
18. I believe that you control your destiny, that you can be what you want to be. You can also stop and say, ‘No, I won’t do it, I won’t behave his way anymore. I’m lonely and I need people around me, maybe I have to change my methods of behaving,’ and then you do it. – Leo Buscaglia
19. The future starts today, not tomorrow. – Pope John Paul II
20. What matters is to live in the present, live now, for every moment is now. It is your thoughts and acts of the moment that create your future. The outline of your future path already exists, for you created its pattern by your past. – Sai Baba
21. Destiny is no matter of chance. It is a matter of choice. It is not a thing to be waited for, it is a thing to be achieved. – William Jennings Bryan
22. Study the past, if you would divine the future. – Confucius
23. Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past. – George Orwell
24. I don’t think the human mind can comprehend the past and the future. They are both just illusions that can manipulate you into thinking theres some kind of change. – Bob Dylan
25. I just don’t want to live like I used to. And at some point, I’m going to put a gag order on myself in terms of talking about the past. I’ve got to slam the door and deal with the present and the future. – Charlie Sheen
26. Life is divided into three terms – that which was, which is, and which will be. Let us learn from the past to profit by the present, and from the present, to live better in the future. – William Wordsworth
27. A dream is your creative vision for your life in the future. You must break out of your current comfort zone and become comfortable with the unfamiliar and the unknown. – Denis Waitley
28. God wants us to prosper financially, to have plenty of money, to fulfill the destiny He has laid out for us. – Joel Osteen
29. The future ain’t what it used to be. – Yogi Berra
30. There’s no present. There’s only the immediate future and the recent past. – George Carlin
31. Destiny has two ways of crushing us – by refusing our wishes and by fulfilling them. – Henri Frederic Amiel
32. 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
33. I know of no way of judging the future but by the past. – Patrick Henry
34. Our human compassion binds us the one to the other – not in pity or patronizingly, but as human beings who have learnt how to turn our common suffering into hope for the future. – Nelson Mandela
35. On every front there are clear answers out there that can make this country stronger, but we’re going to break through the fear and the frustration people are feeling. 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
36. The past is a ghost, the future a dream, and all we ever have is now. – Bill Cosby
37. No work or love will flourish out of guilt, fear, or hollowness of heart, just as no valid plans for the future can be made by those who have no capacity for living now. – Alan Watts
38. The most glorious moments in your life are not the so-called days of success, but rather those days when out of dejection and despair you feel rise in you a challenge to life, and the promise of future accomplishments. – Gustave Flaubert
39. The main goal of the future is to stop violence. The world is addicted to it. – Bill Cosby
40. 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
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