Top 40 Future Quotes (2024 Update)

1. “Nothing we do can change the past, but everything we do changes the future.”

— Ashleigh Brilliant

2. “The future starts today, not tomorrow.”

— Pope John Paul II

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3. “Our history is not our destiny.”

— Alan Cohen

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4. “Anyone who fights for the future, lives in it today.”

— Ayn Rand

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5. “Our task is not to fix blame for the past, but to fix the course for the future.”

— John F. Kennedy

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6. “Your time is too valuable, your destiny is too great, and your future is too bright to waste a single moment. Be a now person.”

— Joel Osteen

7. “Education is the way to move mountains, to build bridges, to change the world. Education is the path to the future. I believe that education is indeed freedom.”

— Oprah Winfrey

8. “Long range planning does not deal with future decisions, but with the future of present decisions.”

— Peter F. Drucker

9. “The time is now, the place is here. Stay in the present. You can do nothing to change the past, and the future will never come exactly as you plan or hope for.”

— Dan Millman

10. “The future is not an inheritance, it is an opportunity and an obligation.”

— William J. Clinton

11. “I don’t know what the future may hold, but I know who holds the future.”

— Ralph Abernathy

12. “I like the dreams of the future better than the history of the past.”

— Thomas Jefferson

13. “One must care about a world one will not see.”

— Bertrand Russell

14. “Every man gotta right to decide his own destiny.”

— Bob Marley

15. “Change is not merely necessary to life – it is life.”

— Alvin Toffler

16. “Let the future tell the truth, and evaluate each one according to his work and accomplishments. The present is theirs; the future, for which I have really worked, is mine.”

— Nikola Tesla

17. “Why didn’t I learn to treat everything like it was the last time. My greatest regret was how much I believed in the future.”

— Jonathan Safran Foer

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18. “But the only possible guarantee of the future is responsible behavior in the present.”

— Wendell Berry

19. “The future belongs to those who give the next generation reason for hope.”

— Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

20. “Yesterday’s just a memory, tomorrow is never what it’s supposed to be.”

— Bob Dylan

21. “If you are truly present and know how to take care of the present moment as best you can, you are doing your best for the future already.”

— Nhat Hanh

22. “The main goal of the future is to stop violence. The world is addicted to it.”

— Bill Cosby

23. “It’s tough to make predictions, especially about the future.”

— Yogi Berra

24. “You are always free to change your mind and choose a different future, or a different past.”

— Richard Bach

25. “Change your life today. Don’t gamble on the future, act now, without delay.”

— Simone de Beauvoir

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26. “Tomorrow belongs to those of us who conceive of it as belonging to everyone; who lend the best of ourselves to it, and with joy.”

— Audre Lorde

27. “Within the child lies the fate of the future.”

— Maria Montessori

28. “The human race is challenged more than ever before to demonstrate our mastery, not over nature but of ourselves.”

— Rachel Carson

29. “The planets are lining up, bringing brighter days.”

— Michael Jackson

30. “Every tomorrow has two handles. We can take hold of it with the handle of anxiety or the handle of faith.”

— Henry Ward Beecher

31. “I believe that children are our future. Teach them well and let them lead the way. Show them all the beauty they possess inside.”

— Whitney Houston

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32. “Never be afraid to trust an unknown future to a known God.”

— Corrie ten Boom

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33. “To line only for some unknown future is superficial.”

— Abdul Kalam

34. “There must be a better way to make the things we want, a way that doesn’t spoil the sky, or the rain or the land.”

— Paul McCartney

35. “Don’t hurry anything. Don’t worry about the future. Don’t worry about what progress you’re making. Just be entirely content to be aware of what is.”

— Alan Watts

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36. “The true felicity of life is to be free from anxieties and pertubations; to understand and do our duties to God and man, and to enjoy the present without any serious dependence on the future.”

— Seneca the Younger

37. “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

38. “It makes no sense to invest in fossil fuel companies that undermine our future.”

— Desmond Tutu

39. “If you break your neck, if you have nothing to eat, if your house is on fire, then you got a problem. Everything else is inconvenience.”

— Robert Fulghum

40. “Before another century is done it will be hard for people to imagine a time when humanity was confined to one world, and it will seem to them incredible that there was ever anybody who doubted the value of space and wanted to turn his or her back on the Universe.”

— Isaac Asimov

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