Future Quotes

These 80 quotes on future come straight from the QuotePlace collection — lines by poets, philosophers, leaders and artists across the centuries. Open any card to read the quote on its own page and meet the author behind it.

Your beliefs become your thoughts, your thoughts become your words, your words become your actions, your actions become your habits, your habits become your values, your values become your destiny. — Mahatma Gandhi
Your beliefs become your thoughts, your thoughts become your words, your words become your actions, your actions become your habits, your habits become your values, your values become your destiny.
Mahatma Gandhi
Once poverty is gone, we'll need to build museums to display its horrors to future generations. — Muhammad Yunus
Once poverty is gone, we'll need to build museums to display its horrors to future generations.
Muhammad Yunus
Do not dwell in the past, do not dream of the future, concentrate the mind on the present moment. — Gautama Buddha
Do not dwell in the past, do not dream of the future, concentrate the mind on the present moment.
Gautama Buddha
Sustainable development is the pathway to the future we want for all. — Ban Ki-moon
Sustainable development is the pathway to the future we want for all.
Ban Ki-moon
Even the smallest person can change the course of the future. — J.R.R. Tolkien
Even the smallest person can change the course of the future.
J.R.R. Tolkien
We cannot tire or give up. We owe it to the present and future generations of all species to rise up and walk! — Wangari Maathai
We cannot tire or give up. We owe it to the present and future generations of all species to rise up and walk!
Wangari Maathai
We did not come to fear the future. We came here to shape it. — Barack Obama
We did not come to fear the future. We came here to shape it.
Barack Obama
True happiness is to enjoy the present, without anxious dependence upon the future. — Seneca
True happiness is to enjoy the present, without anxious dependence upon the future.
Seneca
Be patient and tough; someday this pain will be useful to you. — Ovid
Be patient and tough; someday this pain will be useful to you.
Ovid
Many things we need can wait. The child cannot. Now is the time his bones are formed, his mind developed. To him we cannot say tomorrow, his name is today. — Gabriela Mistral
Many things we need can wait. The child cannot. Now is the time his bones are formed, his mind developed. To him we cannot say tomorrow, his name is today.
Gabriela Mistral
To establish a heart for Heaven and Earth, to secure a destiny for the people, to carry on the lost teachings of the sages, to open peace for all generations to come. — Zhang Zai
To establish a heart for Heaven and Earth, to secure a destiny for the people, to carry on the lost teachings of the sages, to open peace for all generations to come.
Zhang Zai
Never give up. Today is hard, tomorrow will be worse, but the day after tomorrow will be sunshine. — Jack Ma
Never give up. Today is hard, tomorrow will be worse, but the day after tomorrow will be sunshine.
Jack Ma
Let us sacrifice our today so that our children can have a better tomorrow. — A.P.J. Abdul Kalam
Let us sacrifice our today so that our children can have a better tomorrow.
A.P.J. Abdul Kalam
Live quietly in the moment and see the beauty of all before you. The future will take care of itself. — Paramahansa Yogananda
Live quietly in the moment and see the beauty of all before you. The future will take care of itself.
Paramahansa Yogananda
Sow a thought and you reap an action; sow an act and you reap a habit; sow a habit and you reap a character; sow a character and you reap a destiny. — Charles Reade
Sow a thought and you reap an action; sow an act and you reap a habit; sow a habit and you reap a character; sow a character and you reap a destiny.
Charles Reade
A happy man is too satisfied with the present to dwell too much on the future. — Albert Einstein
A happy man is too satisfied with the present to dwell too much on the future.
Albert Einstein
How am I going to live today in order to create the tomorrow I'm committed to? — Tony Robbins
How am I going to live today in order to create the tomorrow I'm committed to?
Tony Robbins
Today is victory over yourself of yesterday; tomorrow is your victory over lesser men. — Miyamoto Musashi
Today is victory over yourself of yesterday; tomorrow is your victory over lesser men.
Miyamoto Musashi
Yesterday is gone. Tomorrow has not yet come. We have only today. Let us begin. — Mother Teresa
Yesterday is gone. Tomorrow has not yet come. We have only today. Let us begin.
Mother Teresa
Stand up, be bold, be strong. Take the whole responsibility on your own shoulders, and know that you are the creator of your own destiny. — Swami Vivekananda
Stand up, be bold, be strong. Take the whole responsibility on your own shoulders, and know that you are the creator of your own destiny.
Swami Vivekananda
Education is the passport to the future, for tomorrow belongs to those who prepare for it today. — Malcolm X
Education is the passport to the future, for tomorrow belongs to those who prepare for it today.
Malcolm X
The whole future lies in uncertainty: live immediately. — Seneca
The whole future lies in uncertainty: live immediately.
Seneca
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
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
Yesterday is but today's memory and tomorrow is today's dream. — Kahlil Gibran
Yesterday is but today's memory and tomorrow is today's dream.
Kahlil Gibran
You cannot change your future, but you can change your habits, and surely your habits will change your future. — A.P.J. Abdul Kalam
You cannot change your future, but you can change your habits, and surely your habits will change your future.
A.P.J. Abdul Kalam
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
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
There is nothing like a dream to create the future. — Victor Hugo
There is nothing like a dream to create the future.
Victor Hugo
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