Happy is the one who understands what to learn from the past and what to love in the future. The world pays respect to those who move ahead to the future. I have little need to feel bad for myself. I have more energy to think. I have little faith in me. Here are some 38 inspirational future quotes to motivate you to use your Everyday Power to create your own future.
1. “The greatest discovery of all time is that a person can change his future by merely changing his attitude.” — Oprah Winfrey
2. “After 2014, we will support a unified Afghanistan as it takes responsibility for its own future.” — Barack Obama
3. “We can choose a future where we export more products and outsource fewer jobs. After a decade that was defined by what we bought and borrowed, we’re getting back to basics, and doing what America has always done best: We’re making things again.” — Barack Obama
4. “As I’ve said, there were patriots who supported this war, and patriots who opposed it. And all of us are united in appreciation for our servicemen and women, and our hopes for Iraqis’ future.” — Barack Obama
5. “We’ve demonstrated a strong track record of being very disciplined with the use of our cash. We don’t let it burn a hole in our pocket, we don’t allow it to motivate us to do stupid acquisitions. And so I think that we’d like to continue to keep our powder dry because we do feel that there are one or more strategic opportunities in the future.” — Steve Jobs
6. “We have to do with the past only as we can make it useful to the present and the future.” — Frederick Douglass
7. “What I’m asking for is hard. It’s easier to be cynical; to accept that change isn’t possible, and politics is hopeless, and to believe that our voices and actions don’t matter. But if we give up now, then we forsake a better future.” — Barack Obama
8. “My future is righteousness.” — Bob Marley
9. “It is said that the present is pregnant with the future.” — Voltaire
10. “I can’t speak for the future. I have no crystal ball.” — Michael Jordan
11. “The future is something which everyone reaches at the rate of 60 minutes an hour, whatever he does, whoever he is.” — C. S. Lewis
12. “The idea of personal salvation is intensely repugnant to me when it is not absurd. Imagine Roosevelt, the big brute, preserving his personality in a future state and swaggering about like a celestial Rough Rider!” — George Bernard Shaw
13. “The White House isn’t the place to learn how to deal with an international crisis, the balance of power, war and peace, and the economic future of the next generation.” — Joe Biden
14. “The truth is that you can only come to know God when you give up the past and the future in your mind and merge totally into the now because God is always here now.” — Wayne Dyer
15. “You do indeed have a past, but not now! And, yes, you have a future, but not now! You can consume your now with thoughts of ‘then’ and ‘maybe,’ but that will keep you from the inner peace you could experience.” — Wayne Dyer
16. “Your timeless self does not age and has no fear of the future. Contemplate your physical self and all its possessions, and practice laughing peacefully at it all.” — Wayne Dyer
17. “Sabotage did not involve loss of life, and it offered the best hope for future race relations. Bitterness would be kept to a minimum and, if the policy bore fruit, democratic government could become a reality.” — Nelson Mandela
18. “It is by no means an irrational fancy that, in a future existence, we shall look upon what we think our present existence, like a dream.” — It is by no means an irrational fancy that, in a future existence, we shall look upon what we think our present existence, like a dream.” — Edgar Allan Poe
19. “You can choose a future where more Americans have the chance to gain the skills they need to compete, no matter how old they are or how much money they have. Education was the gateway to opportunity for me. It was the gateway for Michelle. And now more than ever, it is the gateway to a middle-class life.” — Barack Obama
20. “Pick the day. Enjoy it – to the hilt. The day as it comes. People as they come… The past, I think, has helped me appreciate the present – and I don’t want to spoil any of it by fretting about the future.” — Audrey Hepburn
21. “The future is like heaven, everyone exalts it, but no one wants to go there now.” — James Baldwin
22. “America is false to the past, false to the present, and solemnly binds herself to be false to the future.” — Frederick Douglass
23. “A lot has happened over the years. And while this nation has been tested by war, and it’s been tested by recession and all manner of challenges – I stand before you again tonight, after almost two terms as your president, to tell you I am more optimistic about the future of America than ever before.” — Barack Obama
24. “Without culture, and the relative freedom it implies, society, even when perfect, is but a jungle. This is why any authentic creation is a gift to the future.” — Albert Camus
25. “I think the human race doesn’t have a future if it doesn’t go into space.” — Stephen Hawking
26. “I go to school the youth to learn the future.” — Robert Frost
27. “Grounded in the natural philosophy of the Middle Ages, alchemy formed a bridge: on the one hand into the past, to Gnosticism, and on the other into the future, to the modern psychology of the unconscious.” — Carl Jung
28. “People respond when you tell them there is a great future in front of you, you can leave your past behind.” — Joel Osteen
29. “If we want to travel into the future, we just need to go fast. Really fast. And I think the only way we’re ever likely to do that is by going into space.” — Stephen Hawking
30. “See, when you drive home today, you’ve got a big windshield on the front of your car. And you’ve got a little bitty rearview mirror. And the reason the windshield is so large and the rearview mirror is so small is because what’s happened in your past is not near as important as what’s in your future.” — Joel Osteen
31. “I think the teaching profession contributes more to the future of our society than any other single profession.” — John Wooden
32. “I believe that when you think of the negative, and you get up discouraged – ‘There’s nothing good in my future’ – I really believe it almost ties the hands of God. God works where there’s an attitude of faith. I believe faith is all about hope.” — Joel Osteen
33. “The future of advertising is the Internet.” — Bill Gates
34. “Innovations that are guided by smallholder farmers adapted to local circumstances, and sustainable for the economy and environment will be necessary to ensure food security in the future.” — Bill Gates
35. “Windows 8 is key to the future, the Surface computer.” — Bill Gates
36. “Take time to gather up the past so that you will be able to draw from your experience and invest them in the future.” — Jim Rohn
37. “We all sort of do want incentives for creative people to still exist at a certain level. You know, maybe rock stars shouldn’t make as much; who knows? But you want as much creativity to take place in the future as took place in the past.” — Bill Gates
38. “The future of Windows is to let the computer see, listen and even learn.” — Bill Gates