65 Quotes About The Future

Navigating the uncharted waters of what lies ahead can be both exhilarating and daunting. The future holds boundless possibilities, each day presenting fresh opportunities and challenges. Whether you're seeking motivation, inspiration, or simply a different perspective, quotes about the future can offer profound insights and guidance. In this collection, we've gathered 65 thought-provoking quotes that encapsulate various aspects of contemplating and embracing the future. These words of wisdom from visionaries, thinkers, and leaders across time are sure to inspire and uplift you as you forge your path forward.

1. “We cannot always build the future for our youth, but we can build our youth for the future.” - Franklin D. Roosevelt

2. “I never think of the future - it comes soon enough.” - Albert Einstein

3. “If we are worried about the future, then we must look today at the upbringing of children.” - Gordon B. Hinckley

4. “For millions of years, mankind lived just like the animals. Then something happened which unleashed the power of our imagination. We learned to talk and we learned to listen. Speech has allowed the communication of ideas, enabling human beings to work together to build the impossible. Mankind's greatest achievements have come about by talking, and its greatest failures by not talking. It doesn't have to be like this. Our greatest hopes could become reality in the future. With the technology at our disposal, the possibilities are unbounded. All we need to do is make sure we keep talking.” - Stephen Hawking

5. “The future you have, tomorrow, won't be the same future you had, yesterday.” - Chuck Palahniuk

6. “No reflection was to be allowed now, not one glance was to be cast back; not even one forward. Not one thought was to be given either to the past or the future. The first was a page so heavenly sweet, so deadly sad, that to read one line of it would dissolve my courage and break down my energy. The last was an awful blank, something like then world when the deluge was gone by.” - Charlotte Brontë

7. “A man is a fool to live in hopes of a better tomorrow. I have a thousand, better ways today to spend what time remains ahead of me, and I have brighter, lighter and more pleasant places in which to spend it.” - Jack Whyte

8. “We debate sometimes what is to be the future of this nation when we think that in a few years public affairs may be in the hands of the fin-de-siecle gilded youths we see about us during the Christmas holidays. Such foppery, such luxury, such insolence,was surely never practiced by the scented, overbearing patricians of the Palatine, even in Rome's most decadent epoch. In all the wild orgy of wastefulness and luxury with which the nineteenth century reaches its close, the gilded youth has been surely the worst symptom.” - Booth Tarkington

9. “The future is greatly different than your life now, the actions that you take must also be greatly different. You cannot do the same thing and get something different.” - Steve Maraboli

10. “For I dipped into the future, far as human eye could see,Saw the Vision of the world, and all the wonder that would be.” - Alfred Lord Tennyson

11. “...Coca-Cola and fries, the wafer and wine of the Western religion of commerce.” - Tad Williams

12. “Everyone wavers between the emotionally still-alive past ad the already dead future.Gilles Ivain (aka Ivan Chtcheglov)” - Tom McDonough

13. “In the future, eyeglasses see all directions simultaneously.To be able to use hemiscope, eyes and brain need to practice.” - Toba Beta

14. “But clouds bellied out in the sultry heat, the sky cracked open with a crimson gash, spewed flame-and the ancient forest began to smoke. By morning there was a mass of booming, fiery tongues, a hissing, crashing, howling all around, half the sky black with smoke, and the bloodied sun just barely visible. And what can little men do with their spades, ditches, and pails? The forest is no more, it was devoured by fire: stumps and ash. Perhaps illimitable fields will be plowed here one day, perhaps some new, unheard-of wheat will ripen here and men from Arkansas with shaven faces will weigh in their palms the heavy golden grain. Or perhaps a city will grow up-alive with ringing sound and motion, all stone and crystal and iron-and winged men will come here flying over seas and mountains from all ends of the world. But never again the forest, never again the blue winter silence and the golden silence of summer. And only the tellers of tales will speak in many-colored patterned words about what had been, about wolves and bears and stately green-coated century-old grandfathers, about old Russia; they will speak about all this to us who have seen it with our own eyes ten years - a hundred years! - ago, and to those others, the winged ones, who will come in a hundred years to listen and to marvel at it all as at a fairy tale. ("In Old Russia")” - Yevgeny Zamyatin

15. “You're about to enter the future gate.Come in now, or later will be too late.” - Toba Beta

16. “We can pay our debts to the past by putting the future in debt to ourselves.” - John Buchan

17. “Not all dreamers are winners, but all winners are dreamers. Your dream is the key to your future. The Bible says that, "without a vision (dream), a people perish." You need a dream, if you're going to succeed in anything you do.” - Mark Gorman

18. “All Christian language about the future is a set of signposts pointing into a mist.” - N. T. Wright

19. “Le passé et le présent sont deux statues incomplètes: l'une a été retirée toute mutilée du débris des âges, l'autre n'a pas encore reçu sa perfection de l'avenir.” - François-René de Chateaubriand

20. “To envision the future; you must forget the past and make the present a memory” - Jeremy Aldana

21. “You will be fine,' the fortune teller says. 'There may be decisions to make and surprises in store. Life takes us to unexpected places sometimes. The future is never set in stone, remember that.” - Erin Morgenstern

22. “The future is an infinite succession of presents, and to live now as we think human beings should live, in defiance of all that is bad around us, is itself a marvelous victory.” - Howard Zinn

23. “Imagination sees the complete reality, - it is where past, present and future meet... Imagination is limited neither to the reality which is apparent - nor to one place. It lives everywhere. It is at a centre and feels the vibrations of all the circles within which east and west are virtually included. Imagination is the life of mental freedom. It realizes what everything is in its many aspects ... Imagination does not uplift: we don't want to be uplifted, we want to be more completely aware.” - Kahlil Gibran

24. “All stories have a curious and even dangerous power. They are manifestations of truth -- yours and mine. And truth is all at once the most wonderful yet terrifying thing in the world, which makes it nearly impossible to handle. It is such a great responsibility that it's best not to tell a story at all unless you know you can do it right. You must be very careful, or without knowing it you can change the world.” - Vera Nazarian

25. “A King and Queen cannot support a crown with eyes looking down. Their universe expands as far as you can see.” - T.F. Hodge

26. “The past is bound to be fragmentary, bound to be reconstructed, bound to be reinvented. It serves only to collect the truths of today. If our present is the child of the past, our past is the child of the present. And the future will be the harvester of our bastard offspring.” - amin maalouf

27. “The life where nothing was ever unexpected. Or inconvenient. Or unusual. The life without colour, pain or past.” - Lois Lowry

28. “I wasn't used to looking ahead. Not like Jack. Maybe that was why he had that ready grin. I could see through the dust, but he could see through time, and he didn't even need magic to do it.” - Sarah Zettel

29. “When someone you love says goodbye you can stare long and hard at the door they closed and forget to see all the doors God has open in front of you.” - Shannon Alder

30. “So much American science fiction is parochial -- not as true now as it was years ago, but the assumption is one culture in the future, more or less like ours, and with the same ideals, the same notions of how to do things, just bigger and flashier technology. Well, you know darn well it doesn't work that way...” - Poul Anderson

31. “The past always seems better when you look back on it than it did at the time. And the present never looks as good as it will in the future.” - Peter Benchley

32. “Don't entrust your future on others' hands. Rather make decisions by yourself with the help of God's guidance. Hold your beliefs so tight and never let go of them!” - Hark Herald Sarmiento

33. “Although I am no longer caught in the past, the future seems like a ridiculous thing to me. Try to catch it, hold it in your hand. It disappears every time.” - Alice Hoffman

34. “[T]he concern of man is not his future but his present, not the world but his soul. We must be just, we must strive, we must engage ourselves with the business of the world for our own sake, because through that, and through contemplation in equal measure, our soul is purified and brought closer to the divine. ... Thought and deed conjoined are crucial. ... The attempt must be made; the outcome is irrelevant. Right action is a pale material reflection of the divine, but reflection it is, nonetheless. Define your goal and exert reason to accomplish it by virtuous action; successs or failure is secondary.” - Iain Pears

35. “The taste of the usual was like cinders in his mouth, and there were moments when he felt as if he were being buried alive under his future.” - Edith Wharton

36. “Newton's work on gravity led to the discovery of the Lagrange point, a place where opposing forces cancel one another out, and a body may remain at relative rest. This is where I am right now; the forces in my life confound one another. Better, for the moment, to be here and now, without history or future.” - Nick Harkaway

37. “In such seconds of decision entire futures are made.” - Dan Simmons

38. “The COUNTRY is controlled by LAWS>LAWS are controlled by POLITICIANS>POLITICIANS are controlled by VOTERS>VOTERS are controlled by PUBLIC OPINION>PUBLIC OPINION is controlled by the MEDIA (News, Hollywood, Internet...) & EDUCATIONso. whoever controls MEDIA & EDUCATION, controls the COUNTRY.” - William J Federer

39. “I believe that the military-industrial state will eventually collapse, possibly even in our lifetime, and that a majority of us (if prepared) will muddle through to a freer, more open, less crowded, green and spacious agrarian society. (Maybe; of course it may be only a repeat of the middle ages.)” - Edward Abbey

40. “I am a drifter, and as lonely as that can be, it is also remarkably freeing. I will never define myself in terms of anyone else. I will never feel the pressure of peers or the burden of parental expectation. I can view everyone as pieces of a whole, and focus on the whole, not the pieces. I have learned to observe, far better than most people observe. I am not blinded by the past or motivated by the future. I focus on the present because that is where I am destined to live.” - David Levithan

41. “The energy and daring is to resist the noes, until the final yes has been achieved.” - Jeffrey D. Sachs

42. “The library refused many downloads, of course, but I succeeded with two Optimists translated from the Late English, Orwell and Huxley;” - David Mitchell

43. “When I save, I lay something aside for future need. If I sense God's leading, I will give it away to meet greater needs. When I hoard, I'm unwilling to part with what I've saved to meet others' needs, because my possible future needs outweigh their actual present needs. I fail to love my neighbor as myself.” - Randy Alcorn

44. “In post-modern finance, everybody took a risk when lending or borrowing.” - B. Barmanbek

45. “It’s more like he was an ant in the land of elephants. Nobody would notice his presence, no matter how much noise he might make.” - B. Barmanbek

46. “Who am I? I'm just a writer. I write things down. I walk through your dreams and invent the future. Sure, I sink the boat of love, but that comes later. And yes, I swallow glass, but that comes later.” - Richard Siken

47. “There is little faith involved in setting out on a journey where the destination is certain and every step in between has been mapped in detail. Bravery, trust, is about leaving camp in the dark, when we do not know the route ahead and cannot be certain we will ever return.” - Bear Grylls

48. “To live a more balanced life, glance at the past, live in the present, and focus on the future.” - Todd Stocker

49. “Just because a prediction is true, doesn't mean that it is not false.” - Lionel Suggs

50. “Inbetween yesterday's regret and tomorrow's dream is today's opportunity. Seize the chance!” - Ifeanyi Enoch Onuoha

51. “Bir elmanın bir meyve olduğu, bir babanın baba, bir savaşın savaş olduğu, bir gerçeğin gerçek olduğu, bir yalanın yalan olduğu, bir aşkın aşk olduğu, bir bıkmanın bıkma olduğu, bir başkaldırmanın başkaldırma olduğu, bir sessizliğin bir sessizlik olduğu, bir haksızlığın bir haksızlık olduğu, bir düzenin bir düzen ve bir evliliğin bir evlilik olduğu, olacağı günler gelecekti, inanıyordu Tante Rosa.” - Sevgi Soysal

52. “Invest in the future because that is where you are going to spend the rest of your life.” - Habeeb Akande

53. “I'm not going to be one of those people who sits around talking about what they're going to do. I'm just going to do it. Imagining the future is a kind of nostalgia.” - John Green

54. “We are all time voyagers leaving history in our wake, pioneering into the future.” - Erwin Raphael McManus

55. “We are, perhaps uniquely among the earth’s creatures, the worrying animal. We worry away our lives, fearing the future, discontent with the present, unable to take the idea of dying, unable to sit still.” - Lewis Thomas

56. “Two years hence you will be as calm as I am now, - and far, far happier, I trust, for you are a man and free to act as you please” - Anne Brontë

57. “We stand at the onset of a great age of adventure—and always shall, so long as we keep doing science.” - Timothy Ferris

58. “Some of us enjoy with today, some with future and some other with past.” - Shayne Azad

59. “It is the business of the future to be dangerous; and it is among the merits of science that it equips the future for its duties.” - Alfred North Whitehead

60. “What are you doing with all these books?" I asked, stepping towards a tall stack on the floor. I ran my fingers down the spines, recognizing a few familiar titles from School: Heart of Darkness, The Great Gatsby, and To the Lighthouse.Caleb came beside me, his warm shoulder brushing against mine. "I do this funny thing sometimes," she said, shooting me a mischievous grin. "I open a book, and I look at each page. It's called reading” - Anna Carey

61. “We can strive to put the past behind us, serve God to the best of our ability now, and look ahead to the glorious future!” - The Watchtower Bible and Tract Society

62. “Patience is the antidote to the restless poison of the Ego. Without it we all become ego-maniacal bulls in china shops, destroying our future happiness as we blindly rush in where angels fear to tread. In these out-of-control moments, we bulldoze through the best possible outcomes for our lives, only to return to the scene of the crime later to cry over spilt milk.” - Anthon St. Maarten

63. “In another 2,400 years, even Socrates, the most well-known genius of the century, might be forgotten. The future will erase everything--there's no level of fame or genius that allows you to transcend oblivion. The infinite future makes that kind of mattering impossible.” - John Green

64. “Things will happen that you can’t prevent, things will fall apart that you can’t hold together, but ultimately you’re shaping yourself and that final product speaks volumes about who you really are, not what people see you as or what you want to be.” - Erik Tomblin

65. “The woman was simply leaving us alone with our future, the future she wouldn't be a part of. She didn't know how to do it or what it was, but she was trying to give it to us.” - Austin Grossman