Top 100 Focus Future Quotes
#1. Stop thinking of the past, and stop worrying about the future. Just win the day. Achieve the goals you set for every single day, and you'll rebuild your life in a few short years.
Kevin J. Donaldson
#2. You must always remember that your future holds promise and good fortune. Count your blessings, and never regret what was not. Rather, focus on the path God has chosen for you.
Mirella Sichirollo Patzer
#3. In the remaining months, we should focus on achieving more robust international involvement in training of Iraqi soldiers, police officers, judges, teachers, and doctors - all key elements needed to end the sectarian and civil conflict and build Iraq's future.
John Olver
#4. Your future takes precedence over your past. Focus on your future, rather than on the past.
Gary Ryan Blair
#5. Scientists will eventually stop flailing around with solar power and focus their efforts on harnessing the only truly unlimited source of energy on the planet: stupidity. I predict that in the future, scientists will learn how to convert stupidity into clean fuel.
Scott Adams
#6. Life passes us by if all we do is focus on the future. Being present, for the present, is really what is important.
Brandon Jenner
#7. I didn't have many friends; I might not have had any friends. But it all turned out good in the end, because when you aren't popular and you don't have a social life, it gives you more time to focus on your future.
Madonna Ciccone
#8. I will focus on taking care of myself and helping others. I will put more effort into planning for my future. I will make healthy lifestyle choices so I can feel good every day. These are the priorities that matter.
Susane Colasanti
#9. The revolutionary artist does not only focus on the negative aspects of capitalist lives, but also creates visions of a revolutionary future.
Pablo Picasso
#10. Hope is what keeps you going, but hope keeps you focused on the future, and this continued focus perpetuates your denial of the Now and therefore your unhappiness.
Eckhart Tolle
#11. The past is far behind. If you still want to look at it, you will painfully stretch your neck muscles. Don't live in the past, leave the past, but learn from it.
Israelmore Ayivor
#12. Forgiveness means that problems of the past no longer dictate our destinies, and we can focus on the future with God's love in our hearts.
David E. Sorensen
#13. I've been through plenty in my life where I've really had to focus on the day ahead ... because, as I know, the future is, you know, whatever the future is ... Once you've stared mortality that hard in the face, you really seize the day.
Sam Taylor-Wood
#14. It is time for us to turn a corner and come together, put our differences behind us and focus on the future.
Christine Gregoire
#15. Perfecting the past blurs your focus of the future.
Marvin Davis
#16. Leave aside your regrets of the past and anxieties of the future
And focus intelligently on the present.
This is the best way of ensuring a positive future.
Chinmayananda Saraswati
#17. Each person is a temporary focus of forces, vitalities, and values that carry back to an immemorial past and that reach forward into an unthinkable future.
Lewis Mumford
#18. By working together to focus on our national priorities today we can ensure that the state of our union is strong for the future.
Patty Murray
#19. Focus on the future for 50%, on the present for 40%, and on the past for 10%
Masaaki Hatsumi
#20. Do not dwell on the past, do not dream of the future. Instead, focus only on the task at hand.
Siddhattha Gotama
#21. Never lose sight of the people who are the foundation of the future you are working to build.
Carlos Wallace
#22. The future takes care of itself, and we should instead focus on taking care of the present. Try to make it pleasant and happy.
Lamees Alhassar
#23. Every hour you are not going after your passion, making your dreams a reality or defining your purpose is an hour you can't get back. Is what you're doing right now, this day, this moment getting you closer to where you want to be? If not, readjust your focus. It's your future. Go get it!
Elizabeth Bourgeret
#24. As long as you allow your past to haunt you, you'll never be free to pursue your future. You won't even be able to focus on your present.
Brian Klemmer
#25. There are always limits, and opportunities. The ones we rehearse and focus on are the ones that shape our future.
Seth Godin
#27. My policy is to learn from the past, focus on the present, and dream about the future. I'm a firm believer in learning from adversity. Often the worst of times can turn to your advantage - my life is a study of that.
Donald Trump
#28. 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 Bennett
#29. If we want to help Google become something meaningfully different in the future, then that's more likely to happen if we focus on the physical world instead.
Astro Teller
#30. That was a thing of wolves; they could know the past and the future, yet keep their attention on the hunt. Could he do the same? Allow himself to be consumed when needed, yet keep balance in other parts of his life?
Robert Jordan
#31. I am a person who continually destroys the possibilities of a future because of the numbers of alternative viewpoints I can focus on the present.
Doris Lessing
#32. Over time, I have come to believe that there is a killer and a saint in all of us. But ... I choose to focus on the future and the *potential* in people.
Agnes Kamara-umunna
#33. The gap between current conditions and your future vision should be your focus
Tony Jeary
#34. My happiness with the future and the present depends on my ability to let the past go and make peace with it.
A.J. Darkholme
#35. Soft focus is an important skill that can effect us metaphorically. In other words, the way we see the future has everything to do with how well we can look up and see the expanded horizon before us.
Peter Kline
#36. I try to keep in mind Oscar Wilde's comment that "saints always have a past and sinners always have a future," so no investment should be ruled out simply on the basis of past history. We focus on liquidation analysis and liquidation analysis alone.
Peter Cundill
#37. Where you have been isn't half as important as where you are headed. Keep your sights and focus on the future.
Bidemi Mark-Mordi
#38. James Dobson, founder of today's infamous 'Focus on the Family' movement,* is equally acquainted with the principle: 'Those who control what young people are taught, and what they experience - what they see, hear, think, and believe - will determine the future course for the nation.'79 ==========
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#39. I think that a lot of kids today focus on impressing each other. And while that's really nice, you also have to think about your future, about getting into a good school.
Kara Hayward
#40. Whatever I 'align' myself with are the very things that will create a 'line' into my future.
Craig D. Lounsbrough
#41. To me, living in the present means being aware of your conscious choice to focus on the past, present or future - it is not necessarily having to focus on the present.
Bo Bennett
#42. Enjoy memories of the past, cherish every moment of present and focus on your future achievement
S G
#43. Hard work and focus and will would shape my future. Nothing was meant to be.
Diana Nyad
#44. To build a beautiful future, focus on your dreams and not your past.
Debasish Mridha
#45. Don't let your past pollute your present and disable you from progressing in the future.
Maddy Malhotra
#46. My focus, my life, my world is now. You just can't plan the future.
Juliette Lewis
#47. The past was gone and the future had yet to unfold, and he knew he should focus his life on the present ... yet his day-to-day existence suddenly struck him as endless and unbearable.
Nicholas Sparks
#48. As a mentor you have to learn how to tackle the past of your mentee, be able to put it to sleep and focus to the promising future of him/her.
Euginia Herlihy
#49. Why don't you focus on where you're going and less on where you came from?
Amy Harmon
#50. My entire life has been an attempt to get back to the kind of feelings you have on a field. The sense of brotherhood, the esprit de corps, the focus - there being no past or future, just the ball. As trite as it sounds, I was happiest playing ball.
David Duchovny
#51. One thing we're going to focus on is the middle class and the crushing prices and stagnant wages they're facing. What motivates me is looking at my 3-year-old son and thinking about what we're passing on to him and his future wife and their future kids.
Bobby Schilling
#52. Studies find that as people grow older they interact with fewer people and concentrate more on spending time with family and established friends. They focus on being rather than doing and on the present more than the future. Understanding
Atul Gawande
#53. Success in the present is only achieved when you put your focus where you want your future.
Myles Munroe
#54. A lot of people celebrate their past, but I don't look at it all. I don't Google myself; I focus on the future. This is a volatile profession, and the moment you start thinking you've got something, that's when the floor beneath you falls through, so I hope to make more movies and TV shows.
Sean Maguire
#55. To be a highflier and a name to conjure with, you must decide your dimension, plan your path, master the moment, focus on the future, determine your degree, push your persistence and lead
your life.
Ifeanyi Enoch Onuoha
#56. Part of getting other people to focus on the future rather than being myopically focused on the present is about living that way yourself and showing that you can make choices today that are about future outcomes and still be having a great time into the present and enjoying your life.
Hill Harper
#57. I would tell 17-year-olds to be proud of who you are. Don't try to change yourself for others. Focus on school and your future. Boys and friends will come and go, just focus on you and your future.
Lea Michele
#58. This is your first marathon. Possibly, you'll want it to be your last. Focus on future races draws energy from the one in front of you. Like the mileage that comprises them, train for marathons one at a time.
Gina Greenlee
#59. Girls are the future mothers of our society, and it is important that we focus on their well-being.
Miriam Makeba
#60. My neck and shoulders are killing me. Hard to focus on writing about murder, doom, shagging, our hopeless future & other comedy etc etc.
Warren Ellis
#61. You help families focus on the future through their children.
Sam Worthington
#62. You are only happy in life if you forget the bad things and focus on the good things
Jeroen Saey
#63. Positive thinkers focus their minds on the future; they are never complacent about where they are.
Israelmore Ayivor
#64. When you look to the past, don't sit and dwell on your regrets. Instead, focus on the things you learned from each experience and how they may enrich your future. Use the past not as something to hold you back, but as a method for reaffirming the drive to move forward on your chosen path.
Jack Davenport
#65. A great future awaits you. However, you have to divorce your past and get hooked for a better life. Embrace the great future ahead with all optimism!
Israelmore Ayivor
#66. Governance has been at the heart of the work of the Oxford Martin Commission for Future Generations and is a clear focus in its report, 'Now for the Long Term.'
Mo Ibrahim
#67. As far as you are concerned the present is your point of action, focus and power, and from that point of volition you form both your future and past. Realizing this, you will understand that you are not at the mercy of a past over which you have no control.
Seth
#68. We can learn from past failures and mistakes, but we shouldn't get stuck there. We can keep future goals in mind, but we shouldn't get stuck there, either. The only way to reach our potential is to focus on what we must do now - this moment, this day - to perform effectively and win.
Joe Torre
#69. A great deal of what people say, think, or do is actually motivate by fear, which of course is always linked with having your focus on the future and being out of touch with the Now. As there are no problems in the Now, there is no fear either.
Eckhart Tolle
#70. The future is finally something that we can now put into focus.
Lou Gramm
#71. He had to focus on the future or he'd never reach it.
James Dashner
#72. As our parents planted for us, so will we plant for our children. When Charlie and I began our philanthropic journey, we wanted to focus our resources on planting seeds that would help perpetuate Jewish values and traditions for future generations and also contribute to repairing our world.
Lynn Schusterman
#73. My capital budget maintains my commitment to the education of children, health of the Chesapeake Bay, and safety of all Maryland citizens. We will continue to focus on the five pillars of my Administration as we build today and look forward to the projects of the future.
Bob Ehrlich
#74. The feeling or emotion of happiness or joy is always momentary, but it's only your imaginations, that extend your momentary happiness, for some more time.
Roshan Sharma
#75. I NEVER LOOK BACK AT WHAT I HAVE ACHIEVED BECAUSE I AM ALWAYS LOOKING AT THE FUTURE. I CAN LOOK BACK AT WHAT I HAVE ACHIEVED WHEN I AM RETIRED - BUT UNTIL THEN IT IS ALL ABOUT FOCUS.
Lionel Messi
#76. As we embark on a new chapter of our lives, our focus must be on what the future holds. We can look back from the old memories but mustn't stay there and be stagnant for life is meant to let you move forward and not backwards.
Elizabeth E. Castillo
#77. Love affairs, in their beginnings, are all about the present. But there is a point in each
an event, an exchange, some other unseen trigger
which forces the past and the future back into focus.
Kate Morton
#78. Now, and in the future, my focus is entirely on pets and children. I'm not a person who can turn a blind eye to injustice against them.
Lori Foster
#79. Goals for the future distract from worry and anger about the past and redirect your focus to the direction you're travelling in.
Sam Owen
#80. My focus is on the reader and that the poet's job is not to inspire himself or herself. The poet's job is to inspire some future reader.
Edward Hirsch
#81. To live a more balanced life, glance at the past, live in the present, and focus on the future.
Todd Stocker
#82. Since we cling to our hope in the future, we do not focus our energies and capabilities on the present moment
Thich Nhat Hanh
#83. It is important to focus on present work. It is more important to align your present work with future outlook and desires.
Abhishek Ratna
#84. My plate is full with just acting. I want to focus on that, and then maybe direct in the future.
Penelope Cruz
#85. I pray for faith that my future will be good if I live today well, and in peace. I will remember that staying in the present is the best thing I can do for my future. I will focus on what's happening now instead of what's going to happen tomorrow.
Melody Beattie
#86. If you don't focus on the future generation, it means you are destroying your country.
Malala Yousafzai
#87. The central paradox of motherhood is that while our children become the absolute center of our lives, they must also push us backout in the world ... But motherhood that can narrow our lives can also broaden them. It can make us focus intensely on the moment and invest heavily in the future.
Ellen Goodman
#88. Odd that the future should be so difficult to bring into focus when the past, uninvited, offered itself up so easily for inspection.
Richard Russo
#89. It's the choices you make that construct your future. You can choose to become a victim or you can choose to make decisions that empower you. Surround yourself with people who support your vision so you can keep your focus, and your energy!
Rashmi Bansal
#90. But as your horizons contract - when you see the future ahead of you as finite and uncertain - your focus shifts to the here and now, to everyday pleasures and the people closest to you.
Atul Gawande
#91. Forget and forgive your past. Focus on your future, but never forget to act at the present moment.
Debasish Mridha
#92. When there is an influenza threat, drop everything and focus on risks from influenza pandemics. When SARS spreads, focus on unknown respiratory diseases. This approach helps to quell public concern, but it's a hugely inefficient way to deal with future risks.
Nathan Wolfe
#93. These are tough times, and the New Yorkers I have met are facing economic adversity with grace and dignity. They worry about their future, care about their neighbors and hope this storm will pass so they can focus on better days ahead.
Harold Ford Jr.
#94. No other youth group like the Scouts has trained so many future leaders while at the same time being a nature organization with its outdoor focus.
Richard Louv
#96. Everything in life is possible, so better focus on your future so that at the end you can grant a better life for all
K.C Mathobela
#97. An important part of any focusing regimen is to set aside time at the end of the day - just before going to sleep - to acknowledge your successes, review your goals, focus on your successful future, and make specific plans for what you want to accomplish the next day.
Jack Canfield
#98. Step into the future with focus
knowing that the only way to kill your
dream is trying to find another.
Moffat Machingura
#99. The main focus of this group is to help bridge the gifts and abilities of the pastor (and other staff) and laity in the church. Building the bridges that will link the faithfulness of the past with the possibilities of the future is crucial.
General Board Of Discipleship
#100. When you sit there and wish things had happened differently, you can't just wish away the bad stuff. You have to think about all the good stuff you might lose, too. Better just to stay in the now and focus on what you can do better in the future.
Taylor Jenkins Reid
