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“I am running for president to help create a better future. A future where everyone who wants a job can find one. Where no senior fears for the security of their retirement. An America where every parent knows that their child will get an education that leads them to a good job and a bright horizon.”
Mitt Romney
“While I take inspiration from the past, like most Americans, I live for the future.”
Ronald Reagan
“Upper classes are a nation's past; the middle class is its future.”
Ayn Rand
“We are the only beings on the planet who lead such rich internal lives that it's not the events that matter most to us, but rather, it's how we interpret those events that will determine how we think about ourselves and how we will act in the future.”
Tony Robbins
“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
“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 Dyer
“Go for it now. The future is promised to no one.”
Wayne Dyer
“America is false to the past, false to the present, and solemnly binds herself to be false to the future.”
Frederick Douglass
“We have to do with the past only as we can make it useful to the present and the future.”
Frederick Douglass
“Evolution never looks to the future.”
Richard Dawkins
“At some future period, not very distant as measured by centuries, the civilized races of man will almost certainly exterminate, and replace the savage races throughout the world.”
Charles Darwin
“How paramount the future is to the present when one is surrounded by children.”
Charles Darwin
“There is hope for the future because God has a sense of humor and we are funny to God.”
Bill Cosby
“The past is a ghost, the future a dream, and all we ever have is now.”
Bill Cosby
“The main goal of the future is to stop violence. The world is addicted to it.”
Bill Cosby
“Change your life today. Don't gamble on the future, act now, without delay.”
Simone de Beauvoir
“The future enters into us, in order to transform itself in us, long before it happens.”
Rainer Maria Rilke
“Since God knows our future, our personalities, and our capacity to listen, He isn't ever going to say more to us than we can deal with at the moment.”
Charles Stanley
“I can't speak for the future. I have no crystal ball.”
Michael Jordan
“I try to learn from the past, but I plan for the future by focusing exclusively on the present. That's were the fun is.”
Donald Trump
“Without forgiveness, there's no future.”
Desmond Tutu
“When we see the face of a child, we think of the future. We think of their dreams about what they might become, and what they might accomplish.”
Desmond Tutu
“In the future everyone will be famous for 15 minutes.”
Andy Warhol
“The greatest discovery of all time is that a person can change his future by merely changing his attitude.”
Oprah Winfrey
“When I look into the future, it's so bright it burns my eyes.”
Oprah Winfrey
“The future is no more uncertain than the present.”
Walt Whitman
“No work or love will flourish out of guilt, fear, or hollowness of heart, just as no valid plans for the future can be made by those who have no capacity for living now.”
Alan Watts
“I have realized that the past and future are real illusions, that they exist in the present, which is what there is and all there is.”
Alan Watts
“No valid plans for the future can be made by those who have no capacity for living now.”
Alan Watts
“Never let the future disturb you. You will meet it, if you have to, with the same weapons of reason which today arm you against the present.”
Marcus Aurelius
