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 | 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, 6th cent. BC, Chinese philosopher 20 likes |
 | But life is very short and anxious for those who forget the past, neglect the present, and fear the future. — Seneca, 5 AD-65 AD, Roman philosopher 13 likes |
 | Future, n.That period of time in which our affairs prosper, our friends are true and our happiness is assured. — Ambrose Bierce, 1842–1914, American writer 9 likes |
 | The trouble with our times is that the future is not what it used to be. — Paul Valery, 1871-1945, French poet 8 likes |
 | The future depends on what you do today. — Mahatma Gandhi, 1869-1948, Indian leader of independence 7 likes |
 | A preoccupation with the future not only prevents us from seeing the present as it is but often prompts us to rearrange the past. — Eric Hoffer, 1902-1983, American writer & philosopher 7 likes |
 | How paramount the future is to the present when one is surrounded by children. — Charles Darwin, 1809-1882, British scientist 7 likes |
 | I like men who have a future and women who have a past. — Oscar Wilde, 1854-1900, Irish writer 6 likes |
| The only difference between the saint and the sinner is that every saint has a past and every sinner has a future. — Oscar Wilde, 1854-1900, Irish writer 6 likes |
 | He had reached the age when the future ceases to be a rosy blur and becomes actual and menacing. — George Orwell, 1903-1950, British writer 6 likes |
 | The best way to predict your future is to create it. — Peter Drucker, 1909–2005, Austrian management guru 6 likes |
 | There is always one moment in childhood when the door opens and lets the future in. — Graham Greene, 1904-1991, British writer 6 likes |
 | Man goes nowhere. Everything comes to man, like tomorrow. — Antonio Porchia, 1885-1968, Italian-Argentinian poet 5 likes |
| If you want a picture of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face, for ever. — George Orwell, 1903-1950, British writer 5 likes |
 | Your future depends on many things, but mostly on you. — Frank Tyger, 1929-2011, American cartoonist 5 likes |
 | Yesterday is not ours to recover, but tomorrow is ours to win or lose. — Lyndon Johnson, 1908-1973, American President [1963-1969] 5 likes |
 | Tomorrow is tomorrow. Future cares have future cures, And we must mind today. — Sophocles, 496-406 BC, Ancient tragic poet 5 likes |
 | The most painful state of being is remembering the future, particularly the one you'll never have. — Søren Kierkegaard, 1813-1855, Danish philosopher 5 likes |
 | It is a mistake to try to look too far ahead. The chain of destiny can only be grasped one link at a time. — Winston Churchill, 1874-1965, British Prime Minister, Nobel 1953 4 likes |
| The farther backward you can look, the farther forward you are likely to see. — Winston Churchill, 1874-1965, British Prime Minister, Nobel 1953 4 likes |
 | I never think of the future. It comes soon enough. — Albert Einstein, 1879-1955, German-Jewish physicist 4 likes |
 | Man spends his life in reasoning on the past, in complaining of the present, in fearing future. — Antoine Rivarol, 1753-1801, French author of maxims 4 likes |
 | As for the future, your task is not to foresee it, but to enable it. — Antoin de Saint-Exupéry, 1900-1940, French writer 4 likes |
 | The past is settled, the present eludes you, think of the future. — Duc de Levis, 1764-1830, French politician & author of maxims 3 likes |
 | If we examine our thoughts, we shall find them always occupied with the past and the future. — Blaise Pascal, 1623-1662, French thinker 3 likes |
| People can foresee the future only when it coincides with their own wishes, and the most grossly obvious facts can be ignored when they are unwelcome. — George Orwell, 1903-1950, British writer 3 likes |
 | We cannot always build the future for our youth, but we can build our youth for the future. — Franklin Roosevelt, 1882-1945, American President [1936-1945] 3 likes |
 | Our permanent address is tomorrow. — Marshall McLuhan, 1911-1980, Canadian academic & media theorist 3 likes |
 | The future is literally in our hands to mold as we like. But we cannot wait until tomorrow. Tomorrow is now. — Eleanor Roosevelt, 1884-1962, Wife of the 32nd USA president 3 likes |
 | The goal of the future is full unemployment, so we can play. That's why we have to destroy the present politico-economic system. — Arthur Clarke, 1917-2008, British Sci-Fi writer 2 likes |
 | In our fear, we are victims of an aggression of the Future. — Emile M. Cioran, 1911-1995, French-Romanian philosopher 2 likes |
| If we open a quarrel between the past and the present we shall find that we have lost the future. — Winston Churchill, 1874-1965, British Prime Minister, Nobel 1953 2 likes |
 | Anyone who fights for the future, lives in it today. — Ayn Rand, 1905-1982, American writer & philosopher 2 likes |
| The only thing we know about the future is that it is going to be different. — Peter Drucker, 1909–2005, Austrian management guru 2 likes |
| This is the first age that's ever paid much attention to the future, which is a little ironic since we may not have one. — Arthur Clarke, 1917-2008, British Sci-Fi writer 2 likes |
 | Change is the law of life. And those who look only to the past or present are certain to miss the future. — John Kennedy, 1917-1963, American President [1961-1963] 2 likes |
 | People ask me to predict the future, when all I want to do is prevent it. Better yet, build it. — Ray Bradbury, 1920-2012, American sci-fi writer 2 likes |
 | The future's another country, man... And I still ain't got a passport. — Zadie Smith, 1975-, British writer 2 likes |
 | A European who goes to New York and Chicago sees the future... when he goes to Asia he sees the past. |
 | Wisdom is the abstract of the past, but beauty is the promise of the future. |
 | The future is the worst thing about the present. |
 | As people used to be wrong about the motion of the sun, so they are still wrong about the motion of the future. The future stands still, it is we who move in infinite space. |
 | The twenty-first century will be spiritual or it will not be. |
 | The future is a convenient place for dreams. |
 | Don’t judge each day by the harvest you reap but by the seeds that you plant. |
| We look at the present through a rear view mirror. We march backwards into the future. — Marshall McLuhan, 1911-1980, Canadian academic & media theorist |
 | Do not belong to the past dawns, but to the noons of future. — Sri Aurobindo, 1872-1950, Indian nationalist, yogi & philosopher |
 | The future is merely a shadow which blocks out the joys of the present and emphasizes the miseries of the past. |
 | Los Angeles gives one the feeling of the future more strongly than any city I know of. A bad future, too, like something out of Fritz Lang's feeble imagination. |
 | Nothing we do can change the past, but everything we do changes the future. — Ashleigh Brilliant, 1933-, British cartoonist & epigrammatist |
| Future is everything that past has forgotten. |
 | The present is theirs; the future, for which I really worked, is mine. |
 | It is impossible to live in the past, difficult to live in the present and a waste to live in the future. |
 | The source of anxiety lies in the future. If you can keep the future out of mind, you can forget your worries. |
| Young is the one that plunges in the future and never looks back. |
 | History teaches everything, even the future. |
 | Change is the process by which the future invades our lives. |
| Future shock is the shattering stress and disorientation that we induce in individuals by subjecting them to too much change in too short a time. |
| If we do not learn from history, we shall be compelled to relive it. True. But if we do not change the future, we shall be compelled to endure it. And that could be worse. |
Personal Stories
| Here I am, fifty-eight, and I still don't know what I'm going to be when I grow up. — Peter Drucker, 1909–2005, Austrian management guru 3 likes |
Quotes in Verse
 | Deleting a piece from the past is like deleting a corresponding piece from the future. |
Funny Quotes
 | The future will soon be a thing of the past. — George Carlin, 1936-2008, American comedian 10 likes |
| I have seen the future! Go back! — Ashleigh Brilliant, 1933-, British cartoonist & epigrammatist |
 | In the next century it will be the early mechanical bird which get the first plastic worm out of the artificial grass. |
Stupid Quotes
 | It is our will that this state shall endure for a thousand years. We are happy to know that the future is ours entirely! — Adolf Hitler, 1889-1945, German dictator 6 likes |
Ancient Greek
 | The day will come… Έσσετ’ ήμαρ… — Homer, c. 800-750 BC, Ancient Greek Poet ‐ Iliad IV 21 likes |
 | Keep sight of the future. Όρα το μέλλον. — Periander of Corinth, 668-584 BC, tyrant of Corinth 13 likes |
 | The future is hidden from all men and great events hang on small chances. Το μέλλον άδηλον πάσιν ανθρώποις και μικροί καιροί μεγάλων πραγμάτων αίτιοι γίγνονται. — Demosthenes, 384-322 BC, Ancient Athenian & statesman orator 13 likes |
 | We should be patient in the present situation and have courage for the future. Δει καρτερείν επί τοις παρούσι και θαρρείν περί των μελλόντων. — Isokrates, 436-338 BC, Ancient Greek rhetorician 11 likes |
| Your future will be good, if you arrange well the present. Ευ σοι το μέλλον έξει, αν το παρόν ευ τιθής. — Isokrates, 436-338 BC, Ancient Greek rhetorician 10 likes |
 | If you want to live a life without stress, consider whatever is going to happen in the future as if it has already happened Ει βούλει άλυπον βίον ζην, τα μέλλοντα συμβαίνειν ως ήδη συμβεβηκότα λογίζου. — Epictetus, 50-120 AD, Ancient Greek Stoic philosopher 10 likes |
Movie Quotes
 | Well, what if there is no tomorrow? There wasn't one today. — from the film Groundhog Day (1993) 2 likes |
