"You realize that our mistrust of the future makes it hard to give up the past."
— Chuck Palahniuk (Survivor)

"The future depends on what you do today."
— Mahatma Gandhi

"Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards."
— Søren Kierkegaard

"I never think of the future - it comes soon enough."
— Albert Einstein

"Yesterday is gone. Tomorrow has not yet come. We have only today. Let us begin."
— Mother Teresa

"If you want a picture of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face—for ever."
— George Orwell (1984)

"Knowing too much of your future is never a good thing."
— Rick Riordan (The Lightning Thief)

"It's being here now that's important. There's no past and there's no future. Time is a very misleading thing. All there is ever, is the now. We can gain experience from the past, but we can't relive it; and we can hope for the future, but we don't know if there is one."
— George Harrison

"We may not be able to prepare the future for our children, but we can at least prepare our children for the future."
— Franklin D. Roosevelt

"Real generosity toward the future lies in giving all to the present."
— Albert Camus

"If we are worried about the future, then we must look today at the upbringing of children."
— Gordon B. Hinckley (Standing for Something: 10 Neglected Virtues That Will Heal Our Hearts and Homes)

"The future starts today, not tomorrow."
— Pope John Paul II (Karol Wojtyła)

"I want an infinitely blank book and the rest of time...
...why didn't I learn to treat everything like it was the last time, my greatest regret is how much I believed in the future.
"
— Jonathan Safran Foer

"It is by no means an irrational fancy that, in a future existence, we shall look upon what we think our present existence, as a dream."
— Edgar Allan Poe

"It is not our part to master all the tides of the world, but to do what is in us for the succour of those years wherein we are set, uprooting the evil in the fields that we know, so that those who live after may have clean earth to till. What weather they shall have is not ours to rule."
— J.R.R. Tolkien (The Lord of the Rings)

"The past is a ghost, the future a dream and all we ever have is now."
— Bill Cosby

"People are all over the world telling their one dramatic story and how their life has turned into getting over this one event. Now their lives are more about the past than their future."
— Chuck Palahniuk (Invisible Monsters)

"The future is just wasted on some people."
— Chuck Palahniuk (Invisible Monsters)

"the future is uncertain but the end is always near "
— Jim Morrison

"The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today. Let us move forward with strong and active faith."
— Franklin D. Roosevelt

"in a woman's womb.
another chance.
to make the world better."
— Ellen Hopkins (Burned)

"At this rate, we'll never get to the future."
— Chuck Palahniuk (Invisible Monsters)

"We have no idea, now, of who or what the inhabitants of our future might be. In that sense, we have no future. Not in the sense that our grandparents had a future, or thought they did. Fully imagined cultural futures were the luxury of another day, one in which 'now' was of some greater duration. For us, of course, things can change so abruptly, so violently, so profoundly, that futures like our grandparents' have insufficient 'now' to stand on. We have no future because our present is too volatile. ... We have only risk management. The spinning of the given moment's scenarios. Pattern recognition"
— William Gibson (Pattern Recognition)

"You have within you,right now,everything you need to deal with whatever the world can throw at you."
— Brian Tracy

"I like stepping into the future. Therefore, I look for doorknobs."
— Mark Rosen

"The present is theirs; the future, for which I really worked, is mine."
— Nikola Tesla

"If you focus on what you've left behind, you will never be able to see what lies ahead."
— Gusteau (Ratatouille)

"Now he has departed from this strange world a little ahead of me. That means nothing. People like us, who believe in physics, know that the distinction between past, present, and future is only a stubbornly persistent illusion."
— Albert Einstein

"It is possible to believe that all the past is but the beginning of a beginning, and that all that is and has been is but the twilight of the dawn. It is possible to believe that all the human mind has ever accomplished is but the dream before the awakening."
— H.G. Wells

"Human relationships always help us to carry on because they always presuppose further developments, a future - and also because we live as if our only task was precisely to have relationships with other people."
— Albert Camus

"The Fourteenth Book is entitled, "What can a Thoughtful Man Hope for Mankind on Earth, Given the Experience of the Past Million Years?"
It doesn't take long to read The Fourteenth Book. It consists of one word and a period.
This is it: "Nothing."
— Kurt Vonnegut (Cat's Cradle)

"The past is to be respected and acknowledged, but not worshipped; it is our future in which we will find our greatness."
— Pierre Trudeau

"My interest is in the future because I am going to spend the rest of my life there."
— Charles F. Kettering Foundation

"I desire no future that will break the ties of the past."
— George Eliot (The Mill on the Floss)

"Money is like manure; it's not worth a thing unless it's spread around encouraging young things to grow."
— Thornton Wilder (The Matchmaker A Farce in Four Acts)

"We have trained them to think of the Future as a promised land which favored heroes attain-not as something which everyone reaches at the rate of sixty minutes an hour, whatever he does, whoever he is."
— C.S. Lewis

"I can't stop dreaming of where I will be, when I should be focusing on how I can get there."
— Tammy Huang

"The future belongs, not to those who have the most, but to those who do the most with what they have."
— Eugene P. Odum

"You, as a food buyer, have the distinct privilege of proactively participating in shaping the world your children will inherit."
— Joel Salatin (Holy Cows And Hog Heaven: The Food Buyer's Guide To Farm Friendly Food)