Just because the past didn't turn out like you wanted it to doesn't mean your future can't be better than you imagined.
Don't worry about people in your past. There's a reason they didn't make it to your future.
Don't cry over the past, it's gone. Don't stress about the future, it hasn't arrived. Live in the present and make it beautiful.
I can't take back the past, but I can fight for the future. @ -Shannon A. Thompson
The decisions you make today are the results you will see tomorrow.
The past is your lesson. The present is your gift. The future is your motivation.
Never let fear decide your future.
Do not let the memories of your past limit the potential of your future. There are no limits to what you can achieve on your journey through life, except in your mind. @ -Roy T. Bennett
You can't go back and change the beginning, but you can start where you are and change the ending.  @ -C. S. Lewis
Treat your future self like you would treat someone that you love dearly.
Cry. Forgive. Learn. Move on. Let your tears water the seeds of your future happiness.
Inhale the future. Exhale the past.
Believe in yourself and you will believe in your future.
Stop being a prisoner of your past. Become the architect of your future. @ -Robin Sharma
People don't grow by accident, they grow by design. Design yourself. Design your future. Success never just happens.
Do something today that your future self will thank you for.
Today I will do what others won't, so tomorrow I can accomplish what others can't. @ -Jerry Rice
Forget the past; look forward to the future, for the best things are yet to come.
The future depends on what you do today. @ -Mahatma Gandhi
Heal the past, live the present, dream the future. @ -Mary Engelbreit
Your past is a lesson... Not a life sentence. Forgive yourself and focus on the future. @ -Mel Robbins
Today I close the door to the past, open the door to the future, take a deep breath, step on through and start a new chapter in my life.
We cannot always change what has happened to us, but we can change how we react and how we live in the future. Living with no regrets is living successfully. @ -Dr. Ellen Taricani
Once you realize you deserve a bright future, letting go of your dark past is the best choice you will ever make. @ -Roy T. Bennett
What you do today will determine your future. @ -Catherine Pulsifer
Let go of the past and go for the future.
Your future is as bright as your faith.
You can't change the past, but you can change the future. 
Let others lead small lives, but not you. Let others argue over small things, but not you. Let others cry over small hurts, but not you. Let others leave their future in someone else's hands, but not you. @ -Jim Rohn
Yesterday is gone. Tomorrow has not yet come. We have only today. Let us begin. @ -Mother Teresa
If you live in fear of the future because of what happened in your past, you will end up losing what you have in the present.
Step out of the history that is holding you back. Step into the new story you are willing to create. @ -Oprah Winfrey
You cannot change your future; but, you can change your habits, and surely your habits will change your future. @ -Dr. Abdul Kalam
The best way to predict the future is to create it. @ -Abraham Lincoln
If you give too much value to the pain of the past and uncertainty of the future, you will waste the power of today.
I'm looking forward to the future and feeling grateful for the past. @ -Mike Rowe
Go for it now. The future is promised to no one. @ -Wayne Dyer
Many times in life we'll look far into our future with uncertainty. None of us can predict the future, so enjoying life one day at a time will remain much easier and fulfilling. @ -Ron Baratono
What is coming is better than what is gone.
Planning is bringing the future into the present so that you can do something about it now. @ -Alan Lakein
Be loyal to your future, not your past.
What helps make your future a brighter one is if you'll make the decision today to choose to be happy and thankful for the present, and just let the future be. @ -Matt Morris
The choices we make today create the future that we are dreaming of.
Your past never defines your future.
A painful past can build an indestructible future.
He who wants his future to be better than the present must work for it now to make it so. @ -ATGW
Happy is the person who knows what to remember of the past, what to enjoy in the present, and what to plan for in the future. @ -Arnold H. Glasgow
Oh, the places you'll go. @ -Dr. Seuss
We can change our future by merely changing our attitude to the positive. Simple yet powerful. @ -Zeenat Merchant Syal
Your future is created by what you do today, not tomorrow. @ -Robert Kiyosaki
Setting goals allows you to track your progress, as well as to have a plan for your future. Without setting goals, you will face the risk of aimlessly wandering in different directions - a situation where success may become unattainable. @ -Charles Kenneth
Once you've made the decision to move on, don't look back. You will never find your future in the rear view mirror.
Do not dwell in the past, do not dream of the future, concentrate the mind on the present moment. @ -Buddha
The future hasn't arrived yet. Do your best to try to shape it in the present moment, but always remember some things are just out of our control, and that's fine. @ -Robert Washington
Don't let the past get in the way of a meaningful future.
Do not let the shadows of your past darken the doorstep of your future.
The best thing about the future is that it comes one day at a time. @ -Abraham Lincoln
Forgiving isn't something you do for someone else. It's something you do for yourself. It's saying, 'You're not important enough to have a stranglehold on me.' It's saying, 'You don't get to trap me in the past. I am worthy of a future. @ -Jodi Picoult
The best way to create a better future is to do your best at this very moment. @ -Debasish Mridha
Your apology won't fix the past, but it's the first step toward fixing the future.
Look closely at the present you are constructing. It should look like the future you are dreaming. @ -Alice Walker
We cannot build our own future without helping others to build theirs. @ -Bill Clinton
We all make mistakes, have struggles, and even regret things in our past. But you are not your mistakes, you are not your struggles, and you are here now with the power to shape your day and your future. @ -Steve Maraboli
A good relationship is when someone accepts your past, supports your present, and encourages your future.
The brightest future will always be based on a forgotten past, you can't go on well in life until you let go of your past failures and heartaches.
Have a vision for yourself. You need to have foresight into your future - your goals, your dreams, what you want to achieve for yourself. @ -Matthew Lewis Browne
My interest is in the future because I am going to spend the rest of my life there.
Your future is found in your daily routine. Successful people do daily what others do occasionally. @ -Paula White
The best way to predict your future is to create it. @ -Abraham Lincoln
Without forgiveness, there's no future. @ -Desmond Tutu
Your current thoughts are creating your future life. What you think about the most or focus on the most will appear as your life. @ -Rhonda Byrne
The reason people find it so hard to be happy is that they always see the past better than it was, the present worse than it is, and the future less resolved than it will be. @ -Marcel Pagnol
If someone has caused you pain in the past you have full permission to keep them out of your future. @ -Jay Shetty
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
There's a future version of you who's proud you were strong enough.
The future starts today, not tomorrow. @ -Pope John Paul II
The future belongs to those who learn from the past and live brilliantly in the present moment. @ -Debasish Mridha
If there is hope in the future, there is literally power in the present. @ -Zig Ziglar
The best way to predict the future is to create it, get to work.
Learn to enjoy every minute of your life. Be happy now. Don't wait for something outside of yourself to make you happy in the future. Every minute should be enjoyed and savored. @ -Earl Nightingale
No matter how dirty your past is, your future is still spotless. @ -Drake
It is strange how we hold on to the pieces of the past while we wait for our futures. @ -Ally Condie
I'm always thinking about creating. My future starts when I wake up every morning. Every day I find something creative to do with my life. @ -Miles Davis
The path of future is uncertain and blurred. The walk is long and tiring. But in the end, you will realize that it was all worth it.
If you know you should be doing something, think of the repercussions of not doing it for 5 years.
A friend is someone who understands our past, believes in your future, and accepts you just the way you are.
The secret of your future is hidden in your daily routine.
Clean out your social life, clean out your fridge, clean out your house and focus on your future.
Leave your regrets behind and look to the future.
Being grateful for the good things that will happen to you in the future is an excellent way to build up your hope.
You can't change the past and you can't predict the future, but you can ruin the present by worrying about both.
Don't be in such a rush to figure everything out. Embrace the unknown and let your life surprise you.
We invest in the future. @ -Greg Plitt
Live in the present, forget the past and don’t worry about the future.
A great future doesn't require a great past. @ -William Chapman
Your past, present and future are moulded by your thoughts. Remember - your thinking is your life's autobiography. @ -James Borg
No one says the future belongs to the weak and timid, the future belongs those of us who push ourselves beyond comfort to achieve great things.
Only you have the power to determine whether your future mimics your past. @ -Skip Prichard
The past cannot be changed. The future is yet in your power. @ -Mary Pickford
The only thing between you and the future you want is you.
Know that wisdom is such to your soul; if you find it, there will be a future, and your hope will not be cut off. @ -Proverbs 24:14
A dream is your creative vision for your life in the future. You must break out of your current comfort zone and become comfortable with the unfamiliar and the unknown. @ -Denis Waitley
Love your future more than your past. @ -Joe Dispenza
You are the best author of your own future. So, the next time you sit down to write your own story, remember that you are the creator of the best chapters that could ever be written. @ -Catherine Pulsifer
You cannot suffer the past or future because they do not exist. What you are suffering is your memory and your imagination. @ -Sadhguru
We're so busy watching out for what's just ahead of us that we don't take time to enjoy where we are. @ -Bill Watterson
There is a future, and I can't wait to get to it. @ -Marilyn Monroe
The future is always beginning now. @ -Mark Strand
No amount of anxiety can change the future. No amount of regret can change the past. @ -Karen Salmansohn
If you do not think about your future, you cannot have one. @ -John Galsworthy
Don't let what broke you hold you back from a joyous future.
Tomorrow brings a million new possibilities for a better life.
Nobody gets to live life backward. Look ahead, that is where your future lies. @ -Ann Landers
The future depends on what we do in the present. @ -Mahatma Gandhi
And while imagining a better future, let's also imagine a better self. Unless we give our power away, we are in charge of creating our future. @ -Vlad Zachary
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
Study the past if you want to define the future. @ -Confucius
You can't make up for lost time. You can only do better in the future. @ -Ashley Ormon
Right actions in the future are the best apologies for bad actions in the past. @ -Tryon Edwards
You can build a future out of anything. A scrap, a flicker. The desire to go forward, slowly, one foot at a time. You can build an airy city out of ruins. @ -Lauren Oliver
The past is a shadow, the future is a dream and all we ever have is now.
Holding on is believing that there's only a past; letting go is knowing that there's a future. @ -Daphne Rose Kingma
Keep your eyes open towards the future.
A person often meets his destiny on the road he took to avoid it. @ -Jean de La Fontaine
You don't have to wait for someone to treat you bad repeatedly. All it takes is once, and if they get away with it that once, if they know they can treat you like that, then it sets the pattern for the future. @ -Jane Green
I don't try to describe the future. I try to prevent it. @ -Ray Bradbury
Always make your future bigger than your past.  @ -Dan Sullivan
The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams. @ -Eleanor Roosevelt
Let go of the past so your future can be brighter.
No one saves us but ourselves. No one can and no one may. We ourselves must walk the path. @ -Gautama Buddha
If you get up in the morning and think the future is going to be better, it is a bright day. Otherwise, it's not. @ -Elon Musk
The past is only an imaginary time or experience that is used to teach us lessons for the future. The future is where you apply the lessons of the past. Dr. @ -Lauren Cunning
Regret, remorse, sorrow all emotions that can result in negative feelings. Only you can change your emotions to positive ones, you cannot change the past but you can change the future. @ -Catherine Pulsifer
Letting go of the bad memories of the past can really help you have a free feeling now while you take each day into the future. @ -Zac Dixon
If you don't leave your past in your past, it will destroy your future.
Change your life today. Don't gamble on the future, act now, without delay. @ -Simone de Beauvoir
Determine your future by creating it with goals and action.
You may have had unfair things happen to you, but the depth of your pain is an indication of the height of your future. @ -Joel Osteen
The future is better than you think. @ -Peter Diamandis
According to scientists, cheerful temper and a belief in a brighter future can strengthen your body and hold up the old age because optimism doesn't simply protect your nerves - moreover, it strengthens the immune system, repels bacteria and allays pain. @ -Vanessa Angel
Your future depends on your dreams, so go to sleep. @ -Mesut Barazany
Destiny is no matter of chance. It is a matter of choice. It is not a thing to be waited for, it is a thing to be achieved. @ -William Jennings Bryan
Many of us crucify ourselves between two thieves - regret for the past and fear of the future. @ -Fulton Oursler
You can't connect the dots looking forward; you can only connect them looking backwards. So you have to trust that the dots will somehow connect in your future. @ -Steve Jobs
Disappointment is nothing but an eye-opening learning process for your future endeavors. @ -Edmond Mbiaka
Focusing on your future makes you realize more opportunities than ever. @ -Kate Iroegbu
For the future, the motto is, "No days unalert". @ -Robert Greene
When you let go of your past, you'll find your future.
No amount of guilt can change the past and no amount of worrying can change the future. @ -Umar ibn Al Khattab
Keeping baggage from the past will leave no room for happiness in the future. @ -Wayne L. Misner
Any change in how we think about our future, even if it could radically improve our prospects, takes courage. @ -Bruce Wilkinson
You spend your whole life stuck in the labyrinth, thinking about how you'll escape one day, and how awesome it will be, and imagining that future keeps you going, but you never do it. You just use the future to escape the present. @ -John Green
The past is always tense, the future perfect. @ -Zadie Smith
One faces the future with one's past. @ -Pearl S. Buck
Trying to control the future is like trying to take the master carpenter's place. When you handle the master carpenter's tools, chances are that you'll cut your hand. @ -Lao Tzu
As long as we are persistence in our pursuit of our deepest destiny, we will continue to grow. We cannot choose the day or time when we will fully bloom. It happens in its own time. @ -Denis Waitley
Never forget the past, but always live for the present, because you never know what the future will bring for you. @ -Anurag Prakash Ray
If you must look back, do so forgivingly. If you will look forward, do so prayerfully. But the wisest course would be to be present in the present gratefully. @ -Maya Angelou
We cannot always build the future for our youth, but we can build our youth for the future. @ -Franklin D. Roosevelt
Two elements must therefore be rooted out once for all, the fear of future suffering, and the recollection of past suffering; since the latter no longer concerns me, and the former concerns me not yet. @ -Seneca
Life is not discovery of fate; it is continuous creation of future, through choices of thoughts, feelings and actions in the present. @ -Sanjay Sahay
The mind that is anxious about future events is miserable. @ -Seneca
You can get excited about the future. The past won't mind. @ -Hillary DePiano
Destiny has two ways of crushing us - by refusing our wishes and by fulfilling them. @ -Henri Frederic Amiel
The future is uncertain but this uncertainty is at the very heart of human creativity. @ -Ilya Prigogine
Your future depends on what you do today. @ -Mahatma Gandhi
Make creativity rather than comfort your goal and you will ensure far more success for the future. @ -Robert Greene
Reflect upon your present blessings (of which every man has many) not on your past misfortunes, of which all men have some. @ -Charles Dickens
The prerequisite for motivation and success in any endeavor is a BIG vision for your future. If you're stuck in the past, you're really in trouble.  @ -B. N. Norton
To design your future effectively, you must let go of your past. @ -Charles Givens
You can't change the past; you can only make decisions today to help how your future turns out.
We grow in time to trust the future for our answers. @ -Ruth Benedict
These days people seek knowledge, not wisdom. Knowledge is of the past, wisdom is of the future. @ -Vernon Cooper
Resistance is the only thing from keeping you from your future.
The future has a way of arriving unannounced. @ -George Will
Struggle and disappointment are necessary ingredients to success both in the present and in the future. @ -Britney Watkins
Learn from past relationships to make for an even better future one.
Never make predictions, especially about the future. @ -Casey Stengel
There are no guarantees or crystal balls for the future, and there's no absolute way to know if you are or aren't making the right decision. Give tomorrow the best possible chance that you can. @ -Kenneth Dino
The future belongs to those who learn more skills and combine them in creative ways. @ -Robert Greene
No work or love will flourish out of guilt, fear, or hollowness of heart, just as no valid plans for the future can be made by those who have no capacity for living now. @ -Alan Watts
It is fruitless to wish you had started years ago. In the future you will wish you had started now. Don't wish. Act. @ -The Stoic Emperor
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
Prediction is very difficult, especially about the future. @ -Niels Bohr
What matters is to live in the present, live now, for every moment is now. It is your thoughts and acts of the moment that create your future. The outline of your future path already exists, for you created its pattern by your past. @ -Sai Baba
How we think it is, is how it is – It's easy to confuse what has happened in our past as what is going to happen in the future. What we fail to realize is that what happened in our past does not have to equal the future. If you believe that it does, then it does. @ -Robert Norman
Trust yourself to know that you are in control of your destiny. @ -Jasmine Upwork
The past is gone, never to come back. Whatever you did or could not do is history; you cannot go back in time to do or undo it. Brooding on the past is futile, so is being anxious about future. Focus on what you can do in the present because the present is creating your future. @ -The Ancient Sage
Live in the moment but prepare for your future. @ -Jasmine Upwork
You prepare for your future by living in the now. @ -Jasmine Upwork
Optimism is an expectation of the future, but hope is a way of experiencing the present. Optimism argues with the predictions of cynicism and bitterness, and is often proved wrong. Hope rejects cynicism and bitterness as unhelpful, and is perennially proved right. @ -Doug Muder
For many people, the only thing that seems certain about the future is the uncertainty of it all. Others cannot see beyond the pain and suffering. We cannot blind ourselves to real problems the human race faces, but there truly is hope for a joy and peace-filled future. @ -David Brickner
Your future depends on the sacrifices and decisions you make today. @ -Jasmine Upwork
If you can change your focus, you can change your future. Don't spend a minute worrying about something that you can't control. If something can't be changed by you taking direct action, put it out of your mind. Today's society is overrun with useless distractions. @ -Jim O'Shaughnessy
Why didn't I learn to treat everything like it was the last time? My greatest regret was how much I believed in the future. @ -Jonathan Safran Foer
A very wise man once told me that you can't look back, you just have to put the past behind you, and find something better in your future. @ -Jodi Picoult
Humanity is now standing at a crossroads. We must now decide which path we want to take. How do we want the future living conditions for all living species to be like? @ -Greta Thunberg
A happy man is too satisfied with the present to dwell too much on the future. @ -Albert Einstein
As for the future, your task is not to foresee it, but to enable it. @ -Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
The past is made out of facts… I guess the future is just hope. @ -Isaac Marion
I felt like it was time to set up my future, so I set a goal. My goal was independence.
The future is uncertain but the end is always near. @ -Jim Morrison
Live in the moment. Forget the past and don't concern yourself with the future. @ -Tanner Christensen
A person busy kicking themselves over what has happened in the past, or biting their nails over what might happen in the future, is a person who is not busy with life. @ -Ryan Holiday
Prejudice is a burden that confuses the past, threatens the future, and renders the present inaccessible. @ -Maya Angelou
To make the future is highly risky. It is less risky, however, than not to try to make it. @ -Peter F. Drucker
Do not brood over your past mistakes and failures as this will only fill your mind with grief, regret and depression. Do not repeat them in the future. @ -Swami Sivananda
Times and conditions change so rapidly that we must keep our aim constantly focused on the future. @ -Walt Disney
The future is no more uncertain than the present. @ -Walt Whitman
I'm choosing happiness over suffering, I know I am. I'm making space for the unknown future to fill up my life with yet-to-come surprises. @ -Elizabeth Gilbert
If we open a quarrel between past and present, we shall find that we have lost the future. @ -Winston Churchill
You must be careful not to let your current appetites steal away any chance we might have for a future feast. @ -Jim Rohn
Hope is the ability to hear the music of the future; faith is the courage to dance to it today. @ -Peter Kuzmic
If we examine our thoughts, we shall find them always occupied with the past and the future. @ -Blaise Pascal
You cannot escape the responsibility of tomorrow by evading it today. @ -Abraham Lincoln
Your past does not equal your future. @ -Tony Robbins
The future belongs to those who reach out and grab it with both hands.
Look forward to the future and look forward to the unknown. Nothing stays the same and people change. One day that hurt and pain will be a distant memory. @ -Angela Merkel
We should regret our mistakes and learn from them, but never carry them forward into the future with us. @ -Lucy Maud Montgomery
Stop falling for those who won't raise you up in the future. @ -Michael Bassey Johnson
The only thing a person can ever really do is keep moving forward. Take that big leap forward without hesitation, without once looking back. Simply forget the past and forge toward the future. @ -Alyson Noel
Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards. @ -Soren Kierkegaard
By having a clear vision, even a short vision of what will happen in the future. We will be less worried and feel a little bit confident, and calm because we can manage our life in the world that is changing every second. @ -Ly Nguyen
Every moment the future is becoming the present, and the present is becoming the past. The past has no possibility, it has been used. @ -Osho
If my future were determined just by my performance on a standardized test, I wouldn't be here. I guarantee you that. @ -Michelle Obama
You have to open up to the world and learn optimism... Contentment with the past, happiness with the present, and hope for the future. Learned optimism. @ -Jennifer Crusie
Happiness is not something you postpone for the future; it is something you design for the present. @ -Jim Rohn
The future begins today. @ -Wayne Gerard Trotman
Our anxiety does not come from thinking about the future, but from wanting to control it. @ -Kahlil Gibran
Our focus is our future. @ -David DeNotaris
Knowing too much of your future is never a good thing. @ -Rick Riordan
Spend eighty percent of your time focusing on the opportunities of tomorrow rather than the problems of yesterday. @ -Brian Tracy
Our future is our confidence and self-esteem. @ -Tupac
Always choose the future over the past.  @ -Brian Tracy
You do have a future. There is light at the end of that inky black tunnel. @ -Willow Cross
I never think of the future. It comes soon enough. @ -Albert Einstein
The empires of the future will be empires of the mind. @ -Winston Churchill
Forgiveness does not change the past, but it does enlarge the future. @ -Paul Boese
Destiny is not for comfort seekers. Destiny is for the daring and determined who are willing to at times endure some discomfort, delayed gratification, and go where destiny leads.  @ -Bishop T. D. Jakes
Don't let your fear decide your future. @ -Shalane Flanagan
Genetics do not determine your future; no matter how many times you hear the genetic lie, it will never be true.
The past, like the future, is indefinite and exists only as a spectrum of possibilities. @ -Stephen Hawking
The whole future lies in uncertainty: live immediately. @ -Seneca
The longer you look back, the farther you can look forward. @ -Winston Churchill
When you make a choice, you change the future. @ -Deepak Chopra
If you believe that feeling bad or worrying long enough will change a past or future event, then you are residing on another planet with a different reality system. @ -William James
True happiness is to enjoy the present without anxious dependence upon the future, not to amuse ourselves with either hopes or fears but to rest satisfied, for he that is wants nothing. @ -Seneca
Always focus on the front windshield and not the rearview mirror. @ -Colin Powell
Let your hopes, not your hurts, shape your future. @ -Dr. Robert Schuller
We make the future sustainable when we invest in the poor, not when we insist on their suffering. @ -Bill Gates
Drink your tea slowly and reverently, as if it is the axis on which the world earth revolves - slowly, evenly, without rushing toward the future. @ -Thich Nhat Hanh
Acceptance teaches us that our new life after acceptance is a life after our tragedy, a life where we remember our loved one but also a life where we do not live in the past, we live for our future. @ -Valerie Orr
The past may be finite, but the future is infinite.
It is not in the stars to hold our destiny but in ourselves. @ -Shakespeare
We have to do with the past only as we can make it useful to the present and the future. @ -Frederick Douglas
With the past, I have nothing to do; nor with the future. I live now. @ -Ralph Waldo Emerson
The past does not equal the future. @ -Tony Robbins
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
Cease to inquire what the future has in store, and take as a gift whatever the day brings forth. @ -Horace
Yesterday's mistakes are the past and tomorrow's fears are yet to be. But today is yours to enjoy.
The secret is here in the present. If you pay attention to the present, you can improve upon it. And, if you improve on the present, what comes later will also be better. @ -Paulo Coelho
The ego-self constantly pushes reality away. It constructs a future out of empty expectations and a past out of regretful memories. @ -Alan Watts
The real honesty is a responsibility to the present moment. It needs tremendous awareness. You have to be honest to the present moment, not to the past, not to the future. @ -Rajneesh
Anxiety contaminates the present with the pains of all imaginable futures. We cannot experience the fullness of the moment if we are forever suffering from hypothetical hardships. @ -The Stoic Emperor
Trying to predict the future is like trying to drive down a country road at night with no lights while looking out the back window. @ -Peter F. Drucker
Understand: the future belongs to groups that are fluid, fast, and nonlinear. @ -Robert Greene
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 Baldwin
We face the future with our past and our present as guarantors of our promises. @ -Theodore Roosevelt
Unfortunately, the clock is ticking, the hours are going by. The past increases, the future recedes. Possibilities decreasing, regrets mounting. @ -Haruki Murakami
Every man's life lies within the present; for the past is spent and done with, and the future is uncertain. @ -Marcus Aurelius
It's only when you have complete realization of your present can you control your future.
Savor the moment. Most people fear the future. Sometimes you see yourself worrying about what will happen. The best thing to do is to banish all your worries about the future. @ -John Rogers
There is nothing like a dream to create the future. @ -Victor Hugo
We do not need a crystal ball to predict the future. We can have the gift of foresight though by understanding how cause and effect works. Every choice and move that we make has a consequence. @ -Jeffrey Lehman
Study the past if you would define the future. @ -Confucius
The future is emotional. @ -Thibaut
Hope is sweet-minded and sweet-eyed. It draws pictures; it weaves fancies; it fills the future with delight. @ -Henry Ward Beecher
Real generosity towards the future lies in giving all to the present. @ -Albert Camus
The future of humanity is in our hands. @ -14th Dalai Lama
The future influences the present. @ -Friedrich Nietzsche
Turning your back on your future so you can wallow in the past just pushes your story further away from today.
A man devoid of hope and conscious of being so has ceased to belong to the future. @ -Albert Camus
People are weak because when challenged, they opt for the path of least resistance. Taking the path of least resistance makes them weaker still and thus more likely to opt for the path of least resistance again in the future. It's a deadly cycle. @ -Zuby
In an era of stress and anxiety, when the present seems unstable and the future unlikely, the natural response is to retreat and withdraw from reality, taking recourse either in fantasies of the future or in modified visions of a half-imagined past. @ -Alan Moore
Faith and hope work hand in hand, however while hope focuses on the future, faith focuses on the now. @ -David Odunaiya
Memories are the key not to the past, but to the future. @ -Corrie Ten Boom
The only thing that makes life possible is permanent, intolerable uncertainty; not knowing what comes next. @ -Ursula K. LeGuin
So little of what could happen does happen. @ -Salvador Dalí
We are made wise not from the recollection of our past, but by responsibility for our future. @ -George Bernard Shaw
Every saint has a past, and every sinner has a future. @ -Oscar Wilde
Every time you are tempted to react in the same old way, ask if you want to be a prisoner of the past or a pioneer of the future. @ -Deepak Chopra
Nobody is aware of what the future holds, to take advantage of uncertainty is to hope for the best and prepare for the worst. @ -Blaze Olamiday
The future is completely open and we are writing it moment to moment. @ -Pema Chödrön
It is the patient building of character, the intense struggle to realize the truth, which alone will tell in the future of humanity. @ -Swami Vivekananda
But life is very short and anxious for those who forget the past, neglect the present, and fear the future. @ -Seneca
The present is theirs; the future, for which I really worked, is mine. @ -Nikola Tesla
The greatest discovery of all time is that a person can change his future by merely changing his attitude. @ -Oprah Winfrey
The future is literally in our hands to mold as we like. But we cannot wait until tomorrow. Tomorrow is now. @ -Eleanor Roosevelt
You better live your best and act your best and think your best today; for today is the sure preparation for tomorrow and all the other tomorrows that follow. @ -Harriet Martineau
Mathematics is just another way of predicting the future. @ -Ralph Abraham
If you want to be happy, do not dwell in the past, do not worry about the future, focus on living fully in the present. @ -Roy T. Bennett
Drown out the doubt around you by repeating your future plans and achievements to yourself daily.
Regret is counterproductive. It's looking back on a past that you can't change. Questioning things as they occur can prevent regret in the future. @ -Colleen Hoover
Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past. @ -George Orwell
It's amazing how a little tomorrow can make up for a whole lot of yesterday. @ -John Guare
Deal with the issues of today not those that are possible in the future. @ -Byron Pulsifer
We need to think of the future and the planet we are going to leave to our children and their children. @ -Kofi Annan
In every conceivable manner, the family is link to our past, bridge to our future. @ -Alex Haley
Our human compassion binds us the one to the other – not in pity or patronizingly but as human beings who have learnt how to turn our common suffering into hope for the future. @ -Nelson Mandela
The future belongs to those who give the next generation reason for hope. @ -Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
When you are thankful or you feel appreciation, you are in the ultimate state to receive. When you embrace gratitude, your body as the unconscious mind will begin to believe it is in that future reality in the present moment. @ -Joe Dispenza
And in today already walks tomorrow. @ -Samuel Taylor Coleridge
If you want a picture of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face—for ever. @ -George Orwell
When I look into the future, it's so bright it burns my eyes. @ -Oprah Winfrey
May the happiest days of your past, be the saddest days of your future. @ -Irish Saying
Your own positive future begins in this moment. All you have is right now. Every goal is possible from here. @ -Lao Tzu
I like dreams of the future better than the history of the past. @ -Thomas Jefferson
It is said that the present is pregnant with the future. @ -Voltaire
Future love does not exist. Love is a present activity only. The man who does not manifest love in the present has not love. @ -Leo Tolstoy
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
No amount of sophistication is going to allay the fact that all your knowledge is about the past and all your decisions are about the future. @ -Ian Wilson
The secret of health for both mind and body is not to mourn for the past, not to worry about the future, or not to anticipate troubles, but to live in the present moment wisely and earnestly. @ -Buddha
Tell it to your anxious thought, always worrying about the future, that "I will worry about it when that actually happens". @ -Haemin Sunim
Sort out what you want out life in the future and if it isn't served by your current focus you need to make changes.
Gratitude looks to the past and love to the present; fear, avarice, lust, and ambition look ahead. @ -C. S. Lewis
The future is there, looking back at us. Trying to make sense of the fiction we will have become. @ -William Gibson
For the majority of us, the past is a regret, the future an experiment. @ -Mark Twain
The life of folly is empty of gratitude, full of anxiety: it is focused wholly on the future. @ -Seneca
Don't burn your future on the altar of the past. Remember it. Don't live in it. Learn the lesson. The past is fixed. The future is variable. You will transform. You will endure. @ -The Stoic Emperor
The past, the present and the future are really one: they are today. @ -Harriet Beecher Stowe
People tend to dwell more on negative things than on good things. So the mind then becomes obsessed with negative things, with judgments, guilt and anxiety produced by thoughts about the future and so on. @ -Eckhart Tolle
The best way to lead people into the future is to connect with them deeply in the present. @ -James Kouzes and Barry Posner
Tomorrow is only found in the calendar of fools. @ -Og Mandino
You must always be prepared to place a bet on yourself, on your future, by heading in a direction that others seem to fear. @ -Robert Greene
The most amazing thing about the future won't be the spaceships, but the beings flying them. @ -Yuval Noah Harari
With our words we can either bless our futures or we can curse our futures. @ -Joel Osteen
The future comes slowly, the present flies and the past stands still forever. @ -Friedrich Schiller
Children are one third of our population and all of our future.
Forever is composed of nows. @ -Emily Dickinson
The future is called 'perhaps', which is the only possible thing to call the future. And the important thing is not to allow that to scare you. @ -Tennessee Williams
Every man has his own destiny: the only imperative is to follow it, to accept it, no matter where it leads him. @ -Henry Miller
We are going from bread and circuses to cannabis and video games to psychedelics and VR. @ -Naval Ravikant
Well, the future for me is already a thing of the past. @ -Bob Dylan
The future belongs to those who prepare for it today. @ -Malcolm X
The future influences the present just as much as the past. @ -Friedrich Nietzsche
People always find it easier to be a result of the past rather than a cause of the future.
The past explains how I got here, but the future is up to me – and I love to live life at full throttle. @ -Janice Dickinson
The future is something which everyone reaches at the rate of sixty minutes an hour, whatever he does, whoever he is.  @ -C. S. Lewis
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.
Fear not for the future, weep not for the past. @ -Percy Bysshe Shelley
There is no present or future only the past happening over and over again now. @ -Eugene O'neal
Declare the past, diagnose the present, foretell the future. @ -Hippocrates of Cos
Thought, thinking about past pain, projects future pain and therefore is afraid of the future. @ -Jiddu Krishnamurti
Most times, we are afraid of things that may never happen. Often we project into the future. @ -Clodagh Swanson
Let him who would enjoy a good future waste none of his present. @ -Roger Babson
Discipline has within it the potential for creating future miracles. @ -Jim Rohn
Habits that you have had for years can be maintained only by thinking about them in the future in the same way you thought about them in the past. @ -Helen Mayhew
Life can be found only in the present moment. The past is gone, the future is not yet here, and if we do not go back to ourselves in the present moment, we cannot be in touch with life. @ -Thich Nhat Hanh
There is no saint without a past, no sinner without a future. @ -Augustine of Hippo
He who has courage despises the future. @ -Napoleon Bonaparte
You realize that our mistrust of the future makes it hard to give up the past. @ -Chuck Palahniuk
Always remember that the future comes one day at a time. @ -Dean Acheson
I know of no way of judging the future but by the past. @ -Patrick Henry
Prolong not the past. Invite not the future. Do not alter your innate wakefulness. Fear not appearances. There is nothing more than this. @ -Ram Dass
There are a lot of reasons people don't pursue their dreams of a successful future, but none of them are great.
I don't think the human mind can comprehend the past and the future. They are both just illusions that can manipulate you into thinking theres some kind of change. @ -Bob Dylan
Each dream you leave behind is a part of your future that will no longer exist. @ -Steve Jobs
Starting today, you have the opportunity to build on your good works and your hopes for the future through creating a plan that will benefit the causes most important to you. @ -Kathy LeMay
We must welcome the future, remembering that soon it will be the past; and we must respect the past, remembering that it was once all that was humanly possible. @ -George Santayana
There are two kinds of future concern: desire and fear. They together create a perfect hell. @ -The Ancient Sage
When did the future switch from being a promise to a threat?  @ -Chuck Palahniuk
The further and deeper we contemplate the future, the greater our capacity to shape it according to our desires. @ -Robert Greene
Just remember, when you think all is lost, the future remains. @ -Robert H. Goddard
The doctor of the future will give no medicines, but will interest his patients in the care of the human frame, in diet, and in the causes and prevention of disease. @ -Thomas Edison
The past could always be annihilated. Regret, denial, or forgetfulness could do that. But the future was inevitable. @ -Oscar Wilde
The future you have, tomorrow, won't be the same future you had, yesterday. @ -Chuck Palahniuk
The present is short, the future is doubtful, the past is certain. @ -Seneca
The wise man must remember that while he is a descendant of the past, he is a parent of the future. @ -Herbert Spencer
