Top 100 Quotes About The Future Not The Past
#1. History is really a study of the future, not the past.
Arundhati Roy
#2. We must build bridges to the future, not the past.
David Axelrod
#3. You have to live in the future, not the past.
Gordon Brown
#4. You need to think about the future, not the past. You
Gemma Liviero
#5. I take responsibility only for the future, not the past. The past can't hurt you the way the future can.
Gregory Maguire
#6. This [2016] election better be about the future, not the past. It better be about the issues our nation and the world is facing today, not simply the issues we once faced.
Marco Rubio
#7. Our job as managers in creative environments is to protect new ideas from those who don't understand that in order for greatness to emerge, there must be phases of not-so-greatness. Protect the future, not the past.
Ed Catmull
#8. Wizard's Seventh Rule Life is the future, not the past.
Terry Goodkind
#10. While you have a future do not live too much in contemplation of your past: unless you are content to walk backward the mirror is a poor guide.
Ambrose Bierce
#11. The Present Is Not The Past And It Is Not The Future. The Present Is The Present Moment! The Present Is Right Now!
Spencer Johnson
#12. Only by not forgetting the past can we be the master of the future.
Ba Jin
#13. A politics of vengeance is not politics. Revenge is a recklessness towards the future in a vain attempt to make the present abolish a suffering which is already past.
Bernard Crick
#14. It is no more possible to live in the future than it is to live in the past. If life is not now, it is never.
Wendell Berry
#15. Like other ghosts, she whispers; not for me to join her, but so that, when I'm close enough, she can push me back into the world.
Anne Michaels
#16. Not only can no one predict the future, we don't understand the present - and there isn't even any certainty about the past.
Harry Browne
#17. As you meditate, over time your consciousness becomes awake within itself. The silent witness within saturates and illuminates the mind so that it does not look to the past or the future for fulfillment. It experiences peace and freedom within itself in every moment.
Deepak Chopra
#18. Your desire or beliefs will literally be reaching back into time, teaching the nerves new tricks. Definite reorganizations in that past will occur in your present, allowing you to behave in entirely new fashions. Learned behavior therefore alters not only present and future but also past conduct.
Jane Roberts
#19. My idea in terms of managing a narrative, or in thinking in my creative life, is that you could easily argue that the past, the present and the future all occur simultaneously, and if you can postulate that, then you're not strictly bound to a linear narrative.
Tommy Lee Jones
#20. Remembering the past should help you create a purposeful future, not cause you to be afraid of it.
Bill Crawford
#21. The circle is a reminder that each moment is not just the present, but is inclusive of our gratitude to the past and our responsibility to the future.
Kazuaki Tanahashi
#22. Economics is a highly sophisticated field of thought that is superb at explaining to policymakers precisely why the choices they made in the past were wrong. About the future, not so much.
Ben Bernanke
#23. Live the present intensely and fully, do not let the past be a burden, and let the future be an incentive. Each person forges his or her own destiny.
Carlos Slim
#24. Memories are the key not to the past, but to the future.
Corrie Ten Boom
#25. The past is not dead, it is living in us, and will be alive in the future which we are now helping to make.
William Morris
#26. Not to know what happened before you were born is always to remain a child. For what is a man's life if it is not linked with the life of future generations by memories of the past?
Marianne Curley
#27. Asceticism, it is evident, has a double motivation. If men and women torment their bodies, it is not only because they hope in this way to atone for past sins and avoid future punishments; it is also because they long to visit the mind's antipodes and do some visionary sightseeing.
Aldous Huxley
#28. Let us not be bitter about the past, but let us keep our eyes firmly on the future.
Sukarno
#29. The young should not think of themselves as immature and the elderly need not view themselves as feeble. Our minds control our bodies. Have no age, transcend both past and future, and enter into naka-ima - the eternal present.
H.E. Davey
#30. Now is not the time to look at the past. Lets look forward to the future.
Diplomats know very well that these are standard slogans for those who are engaged in serious crimes.
Noam Chomsky
#31. Life is not always about a past filled with mysteries or a future filled with endless dark possibilities ... it is also about a present filled with timeless distractions.
Con Template
#32. We can gain experience from the past, but we cant relive it. But we can hope for the future, Its always along side us, on the inside of us looking out. The past should not be allowed to evaporate but should exist only in memories.
Sean Sullivan
#33. It was not the future they'd been objecting to, but the loss of the past. As if it was his fault that you could now have one without the other
Alice McDermott
#34. Blake, your past is my past, your present is my present, and your future is my future. I bear the weight of everything that happens in your life. How can you not see that?
Claire Contreras
#35. The future needed service, not pity, not piety; but in the past lay darkness, confusion, waste, and all the cramped primitive minds, bewildered, torturing one another in their stupidity, yet one and all in some unique manner, beautiful.
Olaf Stapledon
#37. The testimony of every scientist is that the frontiers that are opening out ahead of us now are far wider and more spectacular than any frontier of America in the past. Our horizons are not closed. We are going to write a greater development in America than has ever been conceived.
Eric Johnston
#38. You have to start living your life for the future that you're alive for, not the past the you're willing to die for.
Harper Sloan
#39. What happens now will not matter in the future.
Will Nolan
#40. Remember what we wrote? 'And just as I cannot imagine how I survived the past without you ... I cannot imagine a future without you.' Remember? Well, I'm the future without her, buddy boy, and I can tell you right now that it's not something you're going to relish.
Peter David
#41. Do not ignore dreams. They are a line from the past to the future. All nightmares are real.
Max Gladstone
#42. Most people are prisoners, thinking only about the future or living in the past. They are not in the present, and the present is where everything begins.
Carlos Santana
#43. Oh hours of childhood,
when behind each shape more than the past appeared
and what streamed out before us was not the future.
We felt our bodies growing and were at times impatient to be grown up, half for the sake
of those with nothing left but their grownupness.
Rainer Maria Rilke
#44. I ask you to forgive me for not fulfilling some hopes of those people who believed that we would be able to jump from the totalitarian past into a bright, rich and civilized future in one go.
Boris Yeltsin
#45. Adolescence is a time of active deconstruction, construction, reconstruction
a period in which past, present, and future are rewoven and strung together on the threads of fantasies and wishes that do not necessarily follow the laws of linear chronology.
Louise J. Kaplan
#46. For much of the twentieth century, 1984 was a year that belonged to the future - a strange, gray future at that. Then it slid painlessly into the past, like any other year. Big Brother arrived and settled in, though not at all in the way George Orwell had imagined.
James Gleick
#47. I can be nostalgic for the past, and I can romanticize the future, but I cannot sugar coat the here and now. I think that's why I try not to think about it, and I think that's the exact same reason why I need to.
Ellie Rose McKee
#48. If I did not simply live from one moment to another, it would be impossible for me to be patient, but I only look at the present, I forget the past, and I take good care not to forestall the future.
Therese De Lisieux
#49. If the past is not resolved, future relationships will suffer. Let your heart heal, before you open the door to another.
Leon Brown
#50. But Alfred could not live long. He was already an old man, well past forty years, and now he was looking to the future. He
Bernard Cornwell
#51. For the past is what man should not have been. The present is what man ought not to be. The future is what artists are.
Oscar Wilde
#52. Not only is the statistical madness an assault on individuality, it's also one on temporality too. Statistics - even when accurate - are only an image of the past that can then be Photoshopped before being pasted on to the future.
Will Self
#53. I am not my past. I am my present. I am my future. The past can chase you if you let it.You can spend your life trying to outrun it or you can stop running, turn around and look it inthe face. i've stared down my past, and now i'm moving on.I am more than my past.I am my future and it belings to me.
Lauren Blakely
#54. We should not fret for what is past, nor should we be anxious about the future; men of discernment deal only with the present moment
Chanakya
#55. As with the future, it is not all at once but grain by grain that one savours the past.
Marcel Proust
#56. A revolution is not a bed of roses. A revolution is a struggle between the future and the past.
Fidel Castro
#57. I shall stay and tell my tale, hope that it may serve some purpose, that eyes shall see it and learn, that the future will not repeat the mistakes of the past. That is my prayer, but what use is prayer to a god that has abandoned all things . . .
John Gwynne
#59. When you face up to bad things in the past, the most important thing is not to allow them to happen today or in the future, and as storytellers, we must play our part in that.
Michelle Yeoh
#60. That was your past, Michelle. You can't live in the past.
Sure you can, Sean. If you're not too thrilled with your future.
David Baldacci
#61. we are in one of those great historical periods that occur every 200 or 300 years when people don't understand the world anymore, and the past is not sufficient to explain the future
Kim S. Cameron
#62. 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
#63. The wrongs of the past are not less significant, they're just harder to fix. And the longer you ignore them in favor of more pressing issues, the worse the harm, until the problems of the past actually create the problems of the future.
Erika Johansen
#64. Meditation is not meant to help us avoid problems or run away from difficulties. It is meant to allow positive healing to take place. To meditate is to learn how to stop - to stop being carried away by our regrets about the past, our anger or despair in the present, or our worries about the future.
Nhat Hanh
#65. Let us not seek the Republican answer or the Democratic answer, but the right answer. Let us not seek to fix the blame for the past. Let us accept our own responsibility for the future.
John F. Kennedy
#66. They are living in the moment. They are not ashamed of the past; they are not worried about the future. Little children express what they feel, and they are not afraid to love.
Miguel Ruiz
#67. It is only by making the past alive again for a person that a true growth in the present is facilitated. If the past is cut off, the future does not exist.
Alexander Lowen
#68. The ultimate function of prophecy is not to tell the future, but to make it. Your successful past will block your visions of the future.
Joel A. Barker
#69. Whenever a soul is brutalized, cleansing and healing must happen. But
you are strong, Quinn. You learn from the past and the present, but you do not
let it dictate your future. You let it guide you, inspire you and instruct you
only.
Joey W. Hill
#71. Time ...
Once it's gone, it belongs to the past.
We do not hold on to the now, and
We do not treasure the future ...
We keep receiving this present, but we never open and cherish it until it is too late.
Until it comes no more.
Michelle Horst
#72. The past is to be respected and acknowledged, but not worshipped; it is our future in which we will find our greatness.
Pierre Trudeau
#73. My way of thinking is to create a situation where we rally everyone together and create peace and pardon people, to not forget about the past - because we need to learn from it - but to mainly think about the future.
Michel Martelly
#74. An echo from the past when, innocent
We looked upon the present with delight
And doubted not the future would be kinder
And never knew the loneliness of night.
Noel Coward
#75. The counterfeits of the past take assumed names, and are fond of calling themselves the future. That eternally returning spector, the past, not infrequently falsifies its passport.
Victor Hugo
#76. The past was always there, lived inside of you, and it helped to make you who you were. But it had to be placed in perspective. The past could not dominate the future.
Barbara Taylor Bradford
#77. Biblical hope is not wishful thinking or an optimistic outlook; rather, it is a confident expectation based on the certainty of God's Word that as He has anchored us in the past, so He will in the future.
David Wilkerson
#78. Alas! it is not the renunciation of our past and future selves that is difficult; it is the steady denial of our present self which makes the disciple.
Amelia E. Barr
#79. They would no longer be time-bound, that they were free to live in the future, the past, in fantasy.
She had been a woman preparing to live, not living.
Kiana Davenport
#80. Do not look back,
No one knows how the world ever began.
Do not fear the future, Nothing lasts forever.
If you dwell on the past or future,
You will miss the moment.
Rumi
#81. You gotta keep things moving. If leaving behind the past means you can have a better future, then, sure, why not?
Lisa Mangum
#82. You are either in here or you are in nowhere, because both the past and the future are nowhere; past is dead, future is not born yet!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#83. Do not worry about the past or the future. This moment needs your attention, for this is where your life exists.
Leon Brown
#84. She can't change the past." "It's not the past she's thinking of." He set his hand briefly on my shoulder. "It's the future.
Sylvia Day
#85. Have you not noticed that love is silence? It may be while holding the hand of another, or looking lovingly at a child, or taking in the beauty of an evening. Love has no past or future, and so it is with this extraordinary state of silence.
Jiddu Krishnamurti
#86. If you do not value libraries then you do not value information or culture or wisdom. You are silencing the voices of the past and you are damaging the future.
Neil Gaiman
#87. The softer your heart is the less that your past is forming your present and your future. When there is openness and softness of heart, what forms the present and the future is not your past but the reality of your own being.
John De Ruiter
#88. I note that I've lived longer in the past now, than I can expect to live in the future. I have more to remember than I have to look forward to. Memory fades, not much of the past stays, and I wouldn't mind forgetting more of it.
Denis Johnson
#89. You left me.
Not realizing until I've said my final good-bye and closed the door behind me, that he's not referring to the past.
He's prophesying our future.
Alyson Noel
#90. Your past does not have to dictate your future. You have the God-given power to make your life better and to heal from divorce.
Renee Smith Ettline
#91. Our nature and purpose is, more than anything else, to love and to make love, to take joy from the beauty of the world, to live with an awareness that the future is not as real a place for any one of us as are the present and the past.
Dean Koontz
#92. I tried to tell her how if you could not accept the past and its burden there was no future, for without one there cannot be the other, and if you could accept the past you might hope for the future, for only out of the past can you make a future.
Robert Penn Warren
#93. I'm not sitting dwelling about the past or stressing or fretting about something in the future.
Jennifer Aniston
#94. My future will not copy my fair past, I wrote that once. And, thinking at my side my ministering life-angel justified the word by his appealing look upcast to the white throne of God.
Elizabeth Barrett Browning
#95. The mysterious path goes inward. It is in us, and not anywhere else, where the eternity of the worlds, the past and the future are found.
Novalis
#96. Life is what you make it. Today is the first day of the rest of your life. You can't change the past, but the future isn't set in stone. You can effect a change there. Move forward not with hatred or love. Move forward with purpose. ========== Dream Chaser (Kenyon, Sherrilyn)
Anonymous
#97. I will look at the past, but I will not stare at it.
M. Spio
#98. Do not allow the negative experiences of your past to block your future blessings
Latorria Freeman
#100. We are made wise not by the recollection of our past, but by the responsibility for our future.
George Bernard Shaw
