The future influences the present just as much as the past.
-Friedrich Nietzsche
Quotations
Future
Do not dwell in the past; do not dream of the future, concentrate the mind on the present moment.
-Gautama Buddha
Forethought we may have, undoubtedly, but not foresight.
-Napoleon Bonaparte
People were always getting ready for tomorrow.
I didn’t believe in that.
Tomorrow wasn’t getting ready for them.
It didn’t even know they were there.
-Cormac McCarthy
"The Road"
How am I going to live today in order to create the tomorrow I'm committed to?
-Anthony "Tony" Robbins
It's not about what I SEE for our future, or humanity; It's about what I DO for our future and humanity.
-Steve Maraboli
One today is worth two tomorrows.
-Benjamin Franklin
I don’t live in either my past or my future. I’m interested only in the present. If you can concentrate always on the present, you’ll be a happy man. Life will be a party for you, a grand festival, because life is the moment we’re living now.
-Paulo Coelho
"The Alchemist"
You realize that our mistrust of the future makes it hard to give up the past.
-Charles Michael "Chuck" Palahniuk
"Survivor"
Why didn't I learn to treat everything like it was the last time. My greatest regret was how much I believed in the future.
-Jonathan Safran Foer
"Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close"
