170 Top-Notch Quotes about the Future

"Losers live in the past. Winners learn from the past and enjoy working in the present toward the future. "

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


"I am not afraid of tomorrow, for I have seen yesterday and I love today."

William Allen White (1868-1944) American Journalist known as the Sage of Emporia, whose mixture of tolerance, optimism, liberal Republicanism and provincialism made him the epitome of the thoughtful small-town American.


"Show me someone who doesn't dream about the future and I'll show you someone who doesn't know where they are going."

Unknown [Help Us] (-)


"The longer you wait for the future, the shorter it will be."

Marleen Loesje (-) Dutch Fictional character.


"I like the dreams of the future better than the history of the past."

Thomas Jefferson (April 13, 1743 – July 4, 1826) was the third President of the United States (1801–1809) and the principal author of the Declaration of Independence (1776). Jefferson was one of the most influential Founding Fathers, known for his promotion of the ideals of republicanism in the United States.


"The future is a convenient place for dreams."

Anatole France (16 April 1844—12 October 1924) born François-Anatole Thibault, was a French poet, journalist, and novelist. He was a successful novelist, with several best-sellers. Ironic and skeptical, he was considered in his day the ideal French man of letters. He won the Nobel Prize for Literature.


"You can't change the past, but you can ruin the present by worrying about the future."

Unknown [Help Us] (-)


"If we open a quarrel between past and present, we shall find that we have lost the future."

Sir Winston Leonard Spencer-Churchill (30 November 1874– 24 January 1965) was a British politician and statesman known for his leadership of the United Kingdom during the Second World War (WWII). He is widely regarded as one of the great wartime leaders. He served as prime minister twice (1940-1945 and 1951-1955). A noted statesman and orator, Churchill was also an officer in the British Army, a historian, writer, and an artist. To date, he is the only British prime minister to have received the Nobel Prize in Literature.


"While I take inspiration from the past, like most Americans, I live for the future."

Ronald Wilson Reagan (February 6, 1911 – June 5, 2004) was the 40th President of the United States (1981–1989) and the 33rd Governor of California (1967–1975).


"The future is something which everyone reaches at the rate of 60 minutes an hour, whatever he does, whoever he is."

Clive Staples Lewis (29 November 1898 – 22 November 1963) commonly referred to as C. S. Lewis and known to his friends and family as "Jack", was an Irish-born British novelist, academic, medievalist, literary critic, essayist, lay theologian and Christian apologist.