Top 200 Future Quotes (2025 Update)
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51. “If you have a dream, you’ve got to protect it.”

— Chris Gardner

52. “When I look at the future, it's so bright it burns my eyes.”

— Oprah Winfrey

53. “When you visualize, then you materialize.”

— Denis Waitley

54. “The thoughts you think today determine the results you’ll see tomorrow.”

— Robin S. Sharma

55. “Everything you need for better future and success has already been written. And guess what? All you have to do is go to the library.”

— Jim Rohn

56. “Exploration is in our nature. We began as wanderers, and we are wanderers still. We have lingered long enough on the shores of the cosmic ocean. We are ready at last to set sail for the stars.”

— Carl Sagan

57. “Create your day in advance by thinking the way you want it to go, and you will create your life intentionally.”

— Rhonda Byrne

58. “You are only one defining decision away from a totally different life!”

— Mark Batterson

59. “We did not come to fear the future. We came here to shape it.”

— Barack Obama

60. “Don’t let the fear of the time it will take to accomplish something stand in the way of your doing it. The time will pass anyway; we might just as well put that passing time to the best possible use.”

— Earl Nightingale

61. “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

62. “Let your hopes, not your hurts, shape your future.”

— Robert H. Schuller

63. “Greatness starts with a clear vision of the future.”

— Simon Sinek

64. “What you do today can improve all your tomorrows.”

— Ralph Marston

65. “Space, the final frontier. These are the voyages of the starship Enterprise. Its five-year mission: to explore strange new worlds, to seek out new life and new civilizations, to boldly go where no man has gone before.”

— Gene Roddenberry

66. “I’ve actually made a prediction that within 30 years a majority of new cars made in the United States will be electric. And I don’t mean hybrid, I mean fully electric.”

— Elon Musk

67. “VISUALIZE!!! Rehearse your future.”

— Rhonda Byrne

68. “If you want to predict the future, create it.”

— Peter F. Drucker

69. “Never look back in regret – move on to the next thing.”

— Richard Branson

70. “Continuous personal and professional development is your key to the future.”

— Brian Tracy

71. “Every once in a while, a revolutionary product comes along that changes everything.”

— Steve Jobs

72. “It’s time to say goodbye, but I think goodbyes are sad and I’d much rather say hello. Hello to a new adventure.”

— Ernie Harwell

73. “Another world is not only possible, she is on her way. On a quiet day, I can hear her breathing.”

— Arundhati Roy

74. “Yesterday is not ours to recover, but tomorrow is ours to win or lose.”

— Lyndon B. Johnson

75. “If you don’t know exactly where you’re going, how will you know when you get there?”

— Steve Maraboli

76. “The future belongs to the competent. It belongs to those who are very, very good at what they do. It does not belong to the well meaning.”

— Brian Tracy

77. “As for the future, your task is not to foresee it, but to enable it.”

— Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

78. “People with goals succeed because they know where they’re going.”

— Earl Nightingale

79. “What would you dare to dream if you knew you wouldn’t fail?”

— Brian Tracy

80. “Make a choice of what you want, who you want to be and how you’re going to do it. The universe will get out of your way.”

— Will Smith

81. “Our destiny is not written for us, but by us.”

— Barack Obama

82. “We always overestimate the change that will occur in the next two years and underestimate the change that will occur in the next ten. Don’t let yourself be lulled into inaction.”

— Bill Gates

83. “The past cannot be changed. The future is yet in your power.”

— Mary Pickford

84. “Today is your day, your mountain is waiting. So get on your way.”

— Dr. Seuss

85. “The future has several names. For the weak, it is impossible; for the fainthearted, it is unknown; but for the valiant, it is ideal.”

— Victor Hugo

86. “Education is our passport to the future.”

— Malcolm X

87. “I’m just always looking forward. I spend very little time looking backward.”

— Gary Vaynerchuk

88. “Going from PayPal, I thought: ‘Well, what are some of the other problems that are likely to most affect the future of humanity?’ Not from the perspective, ‘What’s the best way to make money?’”

— Elon Musk

89. “Optimism is a strategy for making a better future. Because unless you believe that the future can be better, you are unlikely to step up and take responsibility for making it so.”

— Noam Chomsky

90. “Dreams are a projection of the kind of life you want to lead. Dreams can drive you. Dreams can make you skip over obstacles. When you allow your dreams to pull you, they unleash a creative force that can overpower any obstacle in your path.”

— Jim Rohn

91. “We usually overestimate what we think we can accomplish in one year-but we grossly underestimate what we can accomplish in a decade.”

— Tony Robbins

92. “The future is ours to win. But to get there we can’t just stand still...”

— Barack Obama

93. “Sustainable development is development that meets the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs.”

— Gro Harlem Brundtland

94. “Decisions determine destiny.”

— Thomas S. Monson

95. “And, when you can’t go back, you have to worry only about the best way of moving forward.”

— Paulo Coelho

96. “Our history is not our destiny.”

— Alan Cohen

97. “The past is past, and the future is yet to come. That means the future is in your hands – the future entirely depends on the present. That realization gives you a great responsibility.”

— Dalai Lama XIV

98. “And now we welcome the new year, full of things that have never been.”

— Rainer Maria Rilke

99. “The future doesn't belong to the lighthearted. It belongs to the brave.”

— Ronald Reagan

100. “The same wind blows on us all; the winds of disaster, opportunity and change. Therefore, it is not the blowing of the wind, but the setting of the sails that will determine our direction in life.”

— Jim Rohn