Past thinking and methods did not prevent world wars. Future thinking must prevent wars.
Albert EinsteinWho controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past.
George OrwellThe best way to predict the future is to create it.
Peter DruckerIf 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 TzuDo not dwell in the past, do not dream of the future, concentrate the mind on the present moment.
BuddhaHe who controls the past controls the future. He who controls the present controls the past
George OrwellThe future depends on what you do today.
Mahatma GandhiThe only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today.
Franklin D. RooseveltChange your life today. Don't gamble on the future act now without delay.
Simone de BeauvoirThe secret of health for both mind and body is not to mourn for the past, worry about the future or anticipate troubles, but to live in the present moment wisely and earnestly.
BuddhaThe greatest discovery of all time is that a person can change his future by merely changing his attitude.
Oprah WinfreyHappy is the person who knows what to remember of the past, what to enjoy in the present, and what to plan for in the future.
Arnold H. GlasowLet your hopes not your hurts shape your future.
Robert H. SchullerArdently do today what must be done. Who knows? Tomorrow, death comes.
BuddhaOur consciousness is almost completely preoccupied with memory and expectation. We do not realize that there never was, is, nor will be any other experience than present experience.
Alan WattsI, not events, have the power to make me happy or unhappy today. I can choose which it shall be. Yesterday is dead, tomorrow hasn't arrived yet. I have just one day today and I'm going to be happy in it.
Groucho MarxLive in the present, remember the past, and fear not the future, for it doesn't exist and never shall. There is only now.
Christopher PaoliniHappiness is not something you postpone for the future, it is something you design for the present.
Jim RohnWhat you do today can improve all your tomorrows.
Ralph MarstonThere are far, far better things ahead than any we leave behind.
C. S. LewisYesterday is gone. Tomorrow has not yet come. We have only today. Let us begin.
Mother TeresaGod has given me no control over the following moment. I am concerned about taking care of the present.
Mahatma GandhiHumanity has the stars in its future, and that future is too important to be lost under the burden of juvenile folly and ignorant superstition.
Isaac AsimovWe are living in a culture entirely hypnotized by the illusion of time, in which the so-called present moment is felt as nothing but an infinitesimal hairline between an all-powerfully causative past and an absorbingly important future.
Alan WattsEvery time I see an adult on a bicycle I no longer despair for the future of the human race.
H. G. WellsMrs. Parks is for me probably what the Statute of Liberty was for immigrants. She stood for the future and the better future.
Maya AngelouOf present fame think little and of future less, the praises that we receive after we are buried like the flowers that are strewed over our grave may be gratifying to the living, but they are nothing to the dead.
Charles Caleb ColtonOnce I knew only darkness and stillness... my life was without past or future... but a little word from the fingers of another fell into my hand that clutched at emptiness, and my heart leaped to the rapture of living.
Helen KellerYesterday is but today's memory and tomorrow is today's dream.
Kahlil GibranYesterday is not ours to recover, but tomorrow is ours to win or lose.
Lyndon B. JohnsonNo valid plans for the future can be made by those who have no capacity for living now.
Alan WattsThere's no present. There's only the immediate future and the recent past.
George CarlinThe golden age is before us, not behind us.
William ShakespeareThe future is something which everyone reaches at the rate of 60 minutes an hour whatever he does, whoever he is.
C. S. LewisThe distinction between the past, present and future is only a stubbornly persistent illusion.
Albert EinsteinCease to inquire what the future has in store and take as a gift whatever the day brings forth.
HoraceComing generations will learn equality from poverty and love from woes.
Kahlil GibranWhat we are today comes from our thoughts of yesterday, and our present thoughts build our life of tomorrow: Our life is the creation of our mind.
BuddhaEducation, therefore, is a process of living and not a preparation for future living.
John DeweyA dog starved at his master's gate predicts the ruin of the state.
William BlakeStop 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 DyerSolitude is not something you must hope for in the future. Rather it is a deepening of the present, and unless you look for it in the present you will never find it.
Thomas MertonI tell you the past is a bucket of ashes, so live not in your yesterdays, no just for tomorrow, but in the here and now. Keep moving and forget the post mortems, and remember no one can get the jump on the future.
Carl SandburgThe future is plump with promise.
Maya AngelouA youth is to be regarded with respect. How do you know that his future will not be equal to our present?
ConfuciusThe Youth of a Nation are the trustees of posterity.
Benjamin DisraeliThe truth is you don't know what is going to happen tomorrow. Life is a crazy ride and nothing is guaranteed.
EminemChange is the law of life. And those who look only to the past or present are certain to miss the future.
John F. KennedyI desire no future that will break the ties with the past.
George EliotAmerica is not nearly done. We're only in the beginning. Who knows who we will be? Who knows... what color we will be? It is all something that maybe our descendants - if they survive that long - will see.
Alice WalkerSeize the day and put the least possible trust in tomorrow.
HoraceYou know, nothing is more important than education because nowhere are our stakes higher, our future depends on the quality of education of our children today.
Arnold SchwarzeneggerThe future starts today, not tomorrow.
Pope John Paul IIOne today is worth two tomorrows.
Benjamin FranklinA 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 WaitleyPrejudice is a burden that confuses the past, threatens the future and renders the present inaccessible.
Maya AngelouEducate your children to self-control, to the habit of holding passion and prejudice and evil tendencies subject to an upright and reasoning will, and you have done much to abolish misery from their future and crimes from society.
Benjamin FranklinWe must respect the past and mistrust the present if we wish to provide for the safety of the future.
Joseph JoubertOur most basic common link is that we all inhabit this planet. We all breathe the same air. We all cherish our children's future. And we are all mortal.
John F. KennedyWhen the past no longer illuminates the future, the spirit walks in darkness.
Alexis de TocquevilleOnly you can control your future.
Dr. SeussI have realized that the past and future are real illusions, that they exist in the present, which is what there is and all there is.
Alan WattsWhen artists create pictures and thinkers search for laws and formulate thoughts, it is in order to salvage something from the great dance of death, to make something last longer than we do.
Herman HesseWhen I look into the future, it's so bright it burns my eyes.
Oprah WinfreyEducation is the investment our generation makes in the future.
Mitt RomneyThe direction in which education starts a man will determine his future in life.
PlatoAmerica is false to the past, false to the present, and solemnly binds herself to be false to the future.
Frederick DouglassI haven't been faithful to my own advice in the past. I will in the future.
Billy GrahamProphesy is a good line of business, but it is full of risks.
Mark TwainTruth has to persist unaffected in the past, present and future. That, which is absent in two states, how can it be true?
Sai BabaEveryman's life lies within the present, for the past is spent and done with, and the future is uncertain.
Marcus AureliusWe should not fret for what is past nor should we be anxious about the future, men of discernment deal only with the present moment.
ChanakyaI can't speak for the future. I have no crystal ball.
Michael JordanI was a peripheral visionary. I could see the future but only way off to the side.
Steven WrightWe live in an age when to be young and to be indifferent can be no longer synonymous. We must prepare for the coming hour. The claims of the Future are represented by suffering millions, and the Youth of a Nation are the trustees of Posterity.
Benjamin DisraeliThis combination virtually assures both Berkshire and General Re shareholders that they will have a better future than if the two companies operated separately
Warren BuffettTake time to gather up the past so that you will be able to draw from your experience and invest them in the future.
Jim RohnThe 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 ObamaYou can never plan the future by the past.
Edmund BurkeThe main goal of the future is to stop violence. The world is addicted to it.
Bill CosbyThe future and eternity are two entirely different things.
Doug CouplandYou 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 ObamaLos 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.
Henry MillerAs I've said there were patriots who supported this war and patriots who opposed it. And all of us are united in appreciation for our servicemen and women and our hopes for Iraqis' future.
Barack ObamaIf I am elected President of these United States I will work with all my energy and soul to restore that America to lift our eyes to a better future. That future is our destiny. That future is out there. It is waiting for us. Our children deserve it our nation depends upon it the peace and freedom of the world require it.
Mitt RomneyTo me the black black woman is our essential mother the blacker she is the more us she is and to see the hatred that is turned on her is enough to make me despair almost entirely of our future as a people.
Alice WalkerTo state the facts frankly is not to despair the future, nor indict the past. The prudent heir takes careful inventory of his legacies and gives a faithful accounting to those whom he owes an obligation of trust.
John F. KennedyAll successful people men and women are big dreamers. They imagine what their future could be ideal in every respect and then they work every day toward their distant vision that goal or purpose.
Brian TracyIf my future were determined just by my performance on a standardized test I wouldn't be here. I guarantee you that.
Michelle ObamaLearn from the past set vivid detailed goals for the future and live in the only moment of time over which you have any control: now.
Denis WaitleyLook not mournfully into the past it comes not back again. Wisely improve the present it is thine. Go forth to meet the shadowy future without fear and with a manly heart.
Henry Wadsworth LongfellowAll I can say is that I'm getting married in the future. I've narrowed it down to that.
Tiger WoodsThose people who develop the ability to continuously acquire new and better forms of knowledge that they can apply to their work and to their lives will be the movers and shakers in our society for the indefinite future.
Brian TracyHeaven knows where I'll end up - but it's a safe bet that I'll never be at the top of anything! Nor do I particularly care to be.
H. P. LovecraftI think the teaching profession contributes more to the future of our society than any other single profession.
John WoodenA guy like him - I'm not blowing smoke - could be the future of cycling.
Lance ArmstrongThe trouble with the future is that is usually arrives before we're ready for it.
Arnold H. GlasowOur 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 MandelaLife is a culmination of the past an awareness of the present an indication of a future beyond knowledge the quality that gives a touch of divinity to matter.
Charles LindberghFor 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. KennedyThe future is made of the same stuff as the present.
Simone WeilNever 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 AureliusToday was good. Today was fun. Tomorrow is another one.
Dr. SeussWe 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 SantayanaWisdom is the abstract of the past but beauty is the promise of the future.
Oliver Wendell HolmesThe only thing we know about the future is that it will be different.
Peter DruckerMy wish for the new millennium is for all children... to grow up wiser and stronger and more prosperous for the future than ever before.
Hillary ClintonGod is more interested in your future and your relationships than you are.
Billy GrahamTaste refers to the past imagination to the future.
Mason CooleyThe future is like heaven everyone exalts it but no one wants to go there now.
James Arthur BaldwinWe are called to be architects of the future not its victims.
R. Buckminster FullerOnly dedicated mothers can offer to the nation children who will strive for a great future for the country.
Sai BabaThe sky itself will have to be the roof of the auditorium of the future I will have to forego the car and even the airplane when I move from place to place for the crowds pressing around them will be too huge.
Sai BabaInnovations that are guided by smallholder farmers adapted to local circumstances and sustainable for the economy and environment will be necessary to ensure food security in the future.
Bill GatesTo make no mistakes is not in the power of man, but from their errors and mistakes the wise and good learn wisdom for the future.
PlutarchAgain 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 JobsMy future daughter is not going to go through what I did.
Christina AguileraI look forward to a great future for America - a future in which our country will match its military strength with our moral restraint its wealth with our wisdom its power with our purpose.
John F. KennedyTo act is to anchor in an imminent future so imminent it becomes almost tangible, to act is to feel you are consubstantial with that future.
Emile M. CioranI see the Fourfold Man, the Humanity in deadly sleep / And its fallen Emanation the Spectre and its cruel Shadow. / I see the Past Present and Future existing all at once / Before me.
William BlakeThe challenges of change are always hard. It is important that we begin to unpack those challenges that confront this nation and realize that we each have a role that requires us to change and become more responsible for shaping our own future.
Hillary ClintonIf you want a vision of the future imagine a boot stamping on a human face - forever.
George OrwellI think that in the future clocks won't say three o'clock anymore. They'll just get right to the point and rename three o'clock 'Pepsi.'
Doug CouplandThere is not any present moment that is unconnected with some future one. The life of every man is a continued chain of incidents each link of which hangs upon the former. The transition from cause to effect from event to event is often carried on by secret steps which our foresight cannot divine and our sagacity is unable to trace. Evil may at some future period bring forth good, and good may bring forth evil both equally unexpected.
Joseph AddisonIn the future torture will once again become the recreational sport of the rich.
Doug CouplandElegance is not the prerogative of those who have just escaped from adolescence but of those who have already taken possession of their future.
Coco ChanelThe past is a ghost the future a dream and all we ever have is now.
Bill CosbyThe worst thing that can happen in a democracy - as well as in an individual's life - is to become cynical about the future and lose hope.
Hillary ClintonWe have a close unshakable bond between the United States and Israel and between the American and Israeli people. We share common values and a commitment to a democratic future for the world and we are both committed to a two-state solution. But that doesn't mean that we're going to agree.
Hillary ClintonThe American people I talk to don't spend every moment thinking 'How can I tax my neighbor more than they're being taxed?' They say 'How can I get a good job? How can my kids get good jobs? How can seniors have a confidence in their future when they know that Social Security Medicare and Medicaid are bankrupt?'
Mitt RomneyDon't turn away from possible futures before you're certain you don't have anything to learn from them.
Richard BachOn 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 ObamaA man should conceive of a legitimate purpose in his heart and set out to accomplish it. He should make this purpose the centralizing point of his thoughts. It may take the form of a spiritual ideal or it may be a worldly object according to his nature at the time being, but whichever it is he should steadily focus his thought forces upon the object which he has set before him. He should make this purpose his supreme duty and should devote himself to its attainment not allowing his thoughts to wander away into ephemeral fancies longings and imaginings. This is the royal road to self-control and true concentration of thought. Even if he fails again and again to accomplish his purpose (as he necessarily must until weakness is overcome) the strength of character gained will be the measure of his true success and this will form a new starting point for future power and triumph.
James AllenIn love unlike most other passions the recollection of what you have had and lost is always better than what you can hope for in the future.
StendhalYou are led through your lifetime by the inner learning creature the playful spiritual being that is your real self. Don't turn away from possible futures before you're certain you don't have anything to learn from them.
Richard BachA women who doesn't wear perfume has no future.
Coco ChanelThere is hope for the future because God has a sense of humor and we are funny to God.
Bill CosbyAll political thinking for years past has been vitiated in the same way. 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 OrwellInvest three percent of your income in yourself (self-development) in order to guarantee your future.
Brian Tracy