170 Top-Notch Quotes about the Future

"A women who doesn't wear perfume has no future."

Gabrielle Bonheur "Coco" Chanel (19 August 1883 – 10 January 1971) was a pioneering French fashion designer whose modernist philosophy, menswear-inspired fashions, and pursuit of expensive simplicity made her an important figure in 20th-century fashion. She was the founder of one of the most famous fashion brands, Chanel. Her extraordinary influence on fashion was such that she was the only person in the couturier field to be named on Time 100: The Most Important People of the Century.


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

George Denis Patrick Carlin (May 12, 1937 – June 22, 2008) was an American stand-up comedian, social critic, actor and author, who won five Grammy Awards for his comedy albums


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

Wayne Walter Dyer (born May 10, 1940) is an American self-help advocate, author, and lecturer.


"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 Walter Dyer (born May 10, 1940) is an American self-help advocate, author, and lecturer.


"The future influences the present just as much as the past."

Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche (October 15, 1844 – August 25, 1900) was a 19th-century German philosopher and classical philologist. He wrote critical texts on religion, morality, contemporary culture, philosophy and science, displaying a fondness for metaphor, irony and aphorism.


"The only difference between the saint and the sinner is that every saint has a past, and every sinner has a future."

Oscar Fingal O'Flahertie Wills Wilde (16 October 1854– 30 November 1900) was an Irish writer, poet, and prominent aesthete. After writing in different forms throughout the 1880s, he became one of London's most popular playwrights in the early 1890s. Today he is remembered for his many epigrams, his plays which are still revived, and the tragedy of his imprisonment and early death.


"The danger of the past was that men became slaves. The danger of the future is that man may become robots."

Erich Seligmann Fromm (March 23, 1900 – March 18, 1980) was a German social psychologist, psychoanalyst, humanistic philosopher, and democratic socialist.


"It is said that the present is pregnant with the future."

François-Marie Arouet (21 November 1694 – 30 May 1778) better known by the pen name Voltaire, was a French Enlightenment writer and philosopher famous for his wit and for his advocacy of civil liberties, including freedom of religion and free trade.


"Learn from the past, set vivid, detailed goals for the future, and live in the only moment of time over which you have any control: now."

Denis E. Waitley (born 1933) is an American motivational speaker and writer, consultant and best-selling author.


"When I look into the future, it's so bright it burns my eyes."

Oprah Gail Winfrey (born January 29, 1954) is an American television host, actress, producer, and philanthropist, best known for her self-titled, multi-award winning talk show, which has become the highest-rated program of its kind in history. She has been ranked the richest African American of the 20th century, the greatest black philanthropist in American history.