Future Quotes

A good well-lived today makes every yesterday a dream of a good future, and every morning is a vision of hope.~ Sanskrit Proverb

All the past died yesterday; the future is born today.~ Chinese Proverb

And in today already walks tomorrow.  ~Samuel Taylor Coleridge

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

A sponge to wipe away the past; a rose to sweeten the present; a kiss to greet the future.~ Arabian Proverb

Don’t try to make predictions — especially those concerning the future.~ Chinese Proverb

Every future is not far away.~ Arabian Proverb

He who predicts the future lies, even if he tells the truth.~ Arabian Proverb

If men could foresee the future, they would still behave as they do now.~ Russian Proverb

I have seen the future and it is very much like the present – only longer.  ~Kehlog Albran

I know not what the future holds, but I know who holds the future.  ~Author Unknown

I never think of the future – it comes soon enough.  ~Albert Einstein

Learn about the future by looking at the past.~ Tamil Proverb

May you have a bright future — as the chimney sweep said to his son. ~ Irish Proverb

Men see only the present; heaven sees the future.~ Chinese Proverb

Our faith in the present dies out long before our faith in the future.  ~Ruth Benedict

The best way to predict the future is to invent it.~ Alan Kay

The course of life is unpredictable… no one can write his autobiography in advance.  ~Abraham Joshua Heschel

The future, according to some scientists, will be exactly like the past, only far more expensive.  ~John Sladek

The future is always beginning now.  ~Mark Strand

The future is an opaque mirror.  Anyone who tries to look into it sees nothing but the dim outlines of an old and worried face.  ~Jim Bishop

The future is called “perhaps,” which is the only possible thing to call the future.  And the only important thing is not to allow that to scare you.  ~Tennessee Williams

The future is for those who know how to wait.~ Russian Proverb

The future struggles against being mastered.~ Latin Proverb

The past can’t see you, but the future is listening.  ~Destin Figuier

The past is for God, the future for the Tsars.~ Russian Proverb

The past is the future of the present.~ Japanese Proverb

The trouble with our times is that the future is not what it used to be.  ~Paul Valery

Those who foretell the future lies, even if he tells the truth.~ Saudi Arabian Proverb

We should all be concerned about the future because we will have to spend the rest of our lives there.  ~Charles F. Kettering

When men speak of the future, the gods laugh.~ Chinese Proverb

When we have nothing to worry about we are not doing much, and not doing much may supply us with plenty of future worries.~ Chinese Proverb

When you talk about future happenings the devil starts to laugh.~ Japanese Proverb

You can be cautious about the future but not the past.~ Chinese Proverb

You can never plan the future by the past.  ~Edmund Burke

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