Future And Present Quotes:

The past is history, the future's a mystery.

- James Toback

source: Source: therumpus.net

topic: Past, Mystery, Future And Present, Present Future, Past Present

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

topic: Future, Adventure, Worry, Equanimity, Stoic

I never think of the future - it comes soon enough.

- Albert Einstein

topic: Happiness, Time, Clever, Inspirational Future, Looking To The Future

Go for it now. The future is promised to no one.

- Wayne Dyer

topic: Motivational, Graduation, Dream, Live Life To Its Fullest, Live To The Fullest

The best way to predict the future is to create it.

- Peter Drucker

topic: Inspirational, Life, Motivational, Way In Life, Young Entrepreneurs

With the past, I have nothing to do; nor with the future. I live now.

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

topic: Inspirational, Time, Moving Forward, Live In The Now, Past And Present

Do not dwell in the past, do not dream of the future, concentrate the mind on the present moment.

- Gautama Buddha

topic: Inspirational, Life, Motivational, Soul Life, Dwell On The Past

Don't let yesterday use up too much of today.

- Will Rogers

topic: Inspirational, Motivational, Moving On, Indian, Indian Wisdom

Real generosity toward the future lies in giving all to the present.

- Albert Camus

topic: Life, Gratitude, Real, Inspirational Future, Charity And Generosity

There is never time in the future in which we will work out our salvation. The challenge is in the moment; the time is always now.

- James A. Baldwin

source: "James Baldwin: My Uncle and His Love Life" by T. Better Baldwin, www.huffingtonpost.com. July 30, 2014.

topic: Time, Future, Blessing, Live In The Now, Present Future

The past is a foreign country; they do things differently there.

- L.P. Hartley

source: "The Go-Between". Book by L.P. Hartley, 1953.

topic: Country, Memories, Future, Past And Present, Past Present

Look not mournfully into the past. It comes not back again.

- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

topic: Past, Looks, One Tree Hill Friendship, One Tree Hill Life, One Tree Hill Love

There is no distance on this earth as far away as yesterday.

- Robert Nathan

source: Robert Nathan (1967). “So Love Returns”

topic: Memories, Distance, Past, Past Present Future Love, Future And Present

We can easily manage if we will only take, each day, the burden appointed to it. But the load will be too heavy for us if we carry yesterday's burden over again today, and then add the burden of the morrow before we are required to bear it.

- John Newton

topic: Life, Attitude, Past, Yesterday And Tomorrow, Living One Day At A Time

Nothing is worth more than this day.

- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

topic: Bad Day, Garden, Carpe Diem, Is It Worth It, Past And Present

I have memories - but only a fool stores his past in the future.

- David Gerrold

source: David Gerrold (2014). “A Covenant of Justice: Trackers, Book Two”, p.98, BenBella Books, Inc.

topic: Love, Dream, Memories, Past And Present, Past Present Future Love

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 really worked, is mine.

- Nikola Tesla

source: "Tesla, Master of Lightning" by Margaret Cheney, Robert Uth, and Jim Glenn, (p. 73), 1999.

topic: Change, Dream, Future, Future And Present

Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it without a sense of ironic futility.

- Errol Morris

topic: Past, Ironic, Remember, Condemning, Infancy Is

Life lived for tomorrow will always be just a day away from being realized.

- Leo Buscaglia

topic: Encouraging, Tomorrow, Live In The Present, Future And Present

There's no present. There's only the immediate future and the recent past.

- George Carlin

topic: Future, Past, Entrepreneur, Present Future, Recent Past

There is no present or future-only the past, happening over and over again-now.

- Eugene O'Neill

source: Bhagwat S. Goyal, Eugene O'Neill (1975). “The Strategy of Survival: Human Significance of O'Neill's Plays”, Ghaziabad : Vimal Prakashan

topic: Time, Memories, Future, Timeliness, Past And Present

True happiness is...to enjoy the present, without anxious dependence upon the future.

- Seneca the Younger

source: "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

topic: Inspirational, Motivational, Happiness, Intemperance, Life And Happiness

Learn From Yesterday, Live for Today, hope for tomorrow.

- Orison Swett Marden

topic: Cute, Positive, Leadership, Life Philosophy, Inspirational Tattoo

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

topic: Time, Future, Carpe Diem, Carpe, Hope For The Future

Waste not fresh tears over old griefs.

- Euripides

topic: Inspirational, Grief, Grieving, Deep Life, Past Present Future Love

The future is not what it used to be.

- Yogi Berra

topic: Future, Happy Accidents, Used, Future And Present, Great Future

The wise man must remember that while he is a descendant of the past, he is a parent of the future.

- Herbert Spencer

source: Herbert Spencer (1865). “First Principles of a New System of Philosophy”, p.123

topic: Wise, Time, Past, Past And Present, Past Future

Pick the day. Enjoy it - to the hilt. The day as it comes. People as they come... The past, I think, has helped me appreciate the present - and I don't want to spoil any of it by fretting about the future.

- Audrey Hepburn

topic: Inspirational, Life, Future, Fretting, Future And Present

We seem to be going through a period of nostalgia, and everyone seems to think yesterday was better than today. I don't think it was, and I would advise you not to wait ten years before admitting today was great. If you're hung up on nostalgia, pretend today is yesterday and just go out and have one hell of a time.

- Art Buchwald

topic: Past, Thinking, Years, Live In The Now, Live Every Moment

Progress, far from consisting in change, depends on retentiveness. When change is absolute there remains no being to improve and no direction is set for possible improvement: and when experience is not retained, as among savages, infancy is perpetual. Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it. In the first stage of life the mind is frivolous and easily distracted; it misses progress by failing in consecutiveness and persistence. This is the condition of children and barbarians, in which instinct has learned nothing from experience.

- George Santayana

source: George Santayana (2011). “The Life of Reason: Introduction and Reason in Common Sense”, p.172, MIT Press

topic: Change, Children, Persistence, Condemning, Infancy Is

I have realized that the past and future are real illusions, that they exist in the present, which is what there is and all there is.

- Alan Watts

topic: Love, Life, Relationship, Live Each Day, Live In The Now

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

- Bill Cosby

source: Bill Cosby (1987). “Time Flies”

topic: Love, Inspirational, Life, Past Future, Paranormal

He who controls the past controls the future.

- Laozi

topic: Future, Past, Political Language, Power And Control, Looking To The Future

I am quite sure, that if we open a quarrel between the past and the present, we shall find that we have lost the future.

- Winston Churchill

source: "Blood, Toil, Tears, and Sweat: The Speeches of Winston Churchill".

topic: Time, Lost Love, Future, Past And Present, Past Future

One of the most tragic things I know about human nature is that all of us tend to put off living. We are all dreaming of some magical rose garden over the horizon instead of enjoying the roses that are blooming outside our windows today.

- Dale Carnegie

source: "Jurnee Smollett-Bell Gets Deep About Underground, a Slave Narrative That Will Make You Proud to Be Black". Interview with Ronda Racha Penrice, www.theroot.com. March 9, 2016.

topic: Inspirational, Life, Motivational, Inspirational Future, Blooming

In any weather, at any hour of the day or night, I have been anxious to improve the nick of time, and notch it on my stick too; to stand on the meeting of two eternities, the past and future, which is precisely the present moment; to toe that line.

- Henry David Thoreau

topic: Time, Future, Past, Notches, Future And Present

Trust no future, however pleasant! Let the dead past bury its dead! Act -- act in the living Present! Heart within and God overhead.

- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

topic: Time, Future, Heart, Indian Happy New Year, Past Future

Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow. The important thing is not to stop questioning.

- Albert Einstein

source: "Philomena interview: Steve Coogan". www.sbs.com.au. December 28, 2013.

topic: Inspirational, Positive, Inspiring, Live And Learn, Hungry For Knowledge

"Old times" never come back and I suppose it's just as well. What comes back is a new morning every day in the year, and that's better.

- George Edward Woodberry

source: George Edward Woodberry (1933). “Selected letters of George Edward Woodberry”

topic: Broken Heart, Morning, Years, Old Time, Future And Present

All human situations have their inconveniences. We feel those of the present but neither see nor feel those of the future; and hence we often make troublesome changes without amendment, and frequently for the worse.

- Benjamin Franklin

topic: Vision, Amendments, Situation, Mission And Vision, Troublesome

Wisely improve the Present. It is thine.

- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

topic: Fear Of The Future, Past Future, Future And Present

Look not mournfully into the past, it comes not back again. Wisely improve the present, it is thine. Go forth to meet the shadowy future without fear and with a manly heart.

- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

topic: Inspirational, Life, Wisdom, Iron Will, Fear Of The Future

Opportunities flit by while we sit regretting the chances we have lost, and the happiness that comes to us we heed not, because of the happiness that is gone.

- Jerome K. Jerome

source: Jerome K. Jerome (2016). “The Idle Thoughts of an Idle Fellow”, p.133, Jerome K. Jerome

topic: Happiness, Regret, Opportunity, Past Present Future Love, Lost Opportunity

Nothing ever gets anywhere. The earth keeps turning round and gets nowhere. The moment is the only thing that counts.

- Jean Cocteau

source: Jean Cocteau, Margaret Crosland (1972). “Cocteau's world: an anthology of writings”, Owen

topic: Earth, Moments, Nothingness, Past And Present, Past Present Future Love

Those who don't remember the past are condemned to repeat the eleventh grade.

- James W. Loewen

source: "Wicked: Number 5 in series". Book by Sara Shepard, 2011.

topic: Past, Remember, Grades, Condemning, Infancy Is

There is only one time that is important -- NOW! It is the most important time because it is the only time hat we have any power.

- Leo Tolstoy

topic: Time, Live In The Moment, Important, Live In The Now, Future And Present

Children have neither past nor future; they enjoy the present, which very few of us do.

- Jean de la Bruyere

topic: Time, Children, Future, Past And Present, Inner Child