200 Inspirational Future Quotes About Life, Success And Dreams

If you need a little motivation to achieve your dreams, these future quotes should help you never give up.

Share in the comments below the quote that moved you the most.

We can define the future as “what will happen in the time after the present.”

What Are The Benefits Of Reading These Future Quotes?

It is what many of us plan, study, work, and dream for.

Although we might not always know how to make it happen, we all want a better future.

If you’re unhappy with your life the way it is, the good news is you can begin creating your own future right now.

Right at this very moment.

The future is always important, but not without focusing directly on the present.

You can create and nurture your future in the present moment.

This means that you should always:

• Have tomorrow in mind whenever you make choices and commitments
• Plan before you take action
• Keep an open mind about what the future has in store (it might look different from what you planned for)

Here are some inspirational future quotes to motivate you to use your Everyday Power to create your own future.

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Future Quotes About Success And Dreams

1. “The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.” ― Eleanor Roosevelt

2. “Life can only be understood backward, but it must be lived forwards.” ― Søren Kierkegaard

3. “The future depends on what we do in the present.” – Mahatma Gandhi

4. “Even if you fall on your face, you’re still moving forward.” – Victor Kiam

5. “No matter how dirty your past is, your future is still spotless.” – Drake

6. “There is nothing like a dream to create the future.” – Victor Hugo

7. “The best thing about the future is that it comes one day at a time.” – Abraham Lincoln

8. “Always remember that the future comes one day at a time.” – Dean Acheson

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9. The only thing we know about the future is that it will be different. – Peter Drucker

10. A speculator is a man who observes the future and acts before it occurs. – Bernard Baruch

Inspirational Future Quotes To Help You Focus On Your Dreams And Goals

11. If we open a quarrel between past and present, we shall find that we have lost the future. – Winston Churchill

12. Let the future tell the truth, and evaluate each one according to his work and accomplishments. The present is theirs; the future, for which I have really worked, is mine. – Nikola Tesla

13. “If we could unfold the future, the present would be our greatest care.” – Edward Counsel

14. “You cannot change your future. But you can change your habits. And surely your habits will change your future.” – A.P.J. Abdul Kalam

15. “You can’t connect the dots looking forward; you can only connect them looking backward. So you have to trust that the dots will somehow connect in your future.” – Steve Jobs

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16. “If there is hope in the future, there is literally power in the present.” – Zig Ziglar

17. “Go for it now. The future is promised to no one.” – Wayne Dyer

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18. “Do not watch the clock. Do what it does. Keep going.” – Sam Levenson

19. “What you do today can improve all your tomorrows.” – Ralph Marston

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20. “The future rewards those who press on. I don’t have time to feel sorry for myself. I don’t have time to complain. I’m going to press on.” – Barack Obama

Future Quotes To Help You Plan For It

21. “Education is the passport to the future, for tomorrow belongs to those who prepare for it today.” – Malcolm X

22. “Change your life today. Don’t gamble on the future. Act now, without delay.” – Simone de Beauvoir

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23. “The future is there… looking back at us. Trying to make sense of the fiction we will have become.” ― William Gibson

24. “You cannot escape the responsibility of tomorrow by evading it today.” – Abraham Lincoln

25. “We are made wise not by the recollection of our past, but by the responsibility for our future.” – George Bernard Shaw

26. “Even though the future seems far away, it is actually beginning right now.” – Mattie Stepanek

27. “The future starts today, not tomorrow.” – Pope John Paul II

28. “The future is not an inheritance. It is an opportunity and an obligation.” – Bill Clinton

29. “Real generosity toward the future lies in giving all to the present.” – Albert Camus

30. “Humanity does not know where to go because no one is waiting for it: not even God.” – Antonio Porchia

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Uplifting Future Quotes To Help You Look On The Bright Side

31. “I got a bright future ahead of me.” – Justin Bieber

32. “In this bright future, you can’t forget your past.” – Bob Marley

33. “Hope: Belief in a bright future.” ― Lailah Gifty Akita

34. “I guess short films have a bright future… The advantage is budget.” – Anurag Kashyap

35. “It always seems impossible until it is done.” – Nelson Mandela

36. “Look beyond the present circumstances, imagine a brighter future.” ― Lailah Gifty Akita

37. “The past gave us experience and made us wiser so that we can create a beautiful and brighter future.” ― Debasish Mridha

38. “When I started my campaign for Congress, I was one who people said, ‘Tulsi, you have a bright future, but there’s no way you can win.’” – Tulsi Gabbard

39. “Being fully present is the best guarantee for a bright future.” – Guy Finley

40. “Always in motion is the future.” – Yoda

Future Quotes To Elevate Your Perspective

41. “The past cannot be changed. The future is yet in your power.” – Unknown

42. “Do not dwell in the past, do not dream of the future, concentrate the mind on the present moment.” – Buddha

43. “When did the future switch from being a promise to being a threat?” ― Chuck Palahniuk

44. “Happiness is not something you postpone for the future; it is something you design for the present.” – Jim Rohn

45. “We did not come to fear the future. We came here to shape it.” – Barack Obama

46. “We steal if we touch tomorrow. It is God’s.” – Henry Ward Beecher

47. “The future was always more important than the past.” – Paul Park

48. “I never think of the future. It comes soon enough.” – Albert Einstein

49. “My interest is in the future because I am going to spend the rest of my life there.” – Charles F. Kettering

50. “When all else is lost, the future still remains.” – Christian Nevell Bovee

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Future Quotes To Broaden Your Thoughts

51. “The future is up for grabs. It belongs to any and all who will take the risk and accept the responsibility of consciously creating the future they want.”― Robert Anton Wilson

52. “Sometimes we have to soak ourselves in the tears and fears of the past to water our future gardens.”― Suzy Kassem

53. “We cannot always build a future for our youth, but we can always build our youth for the future.”― Franklin D. Roosevelt

54. “Your future is your own again. And I consider that to be a happy ending to the story.”― Lisa Mangum

55. “The future is not something we enter. The future is something we create.”― Leonard I. Sweet

56. “The future is in the skies.”― Mustafa Kemal Atatürk

57. “Your future is only as bright as your mind is open.”― Rich Wilkins

58. “Be careful not to look so far ahead, that you miss what’s in front of you.”― Jeremy Aldana

59. “She had no idea what the future would hold for any of them, beyond possibilities as infinite as the stars. And really, that was enough.”― Melissa Landers

60. “You can only take steps toward the future you want. It’s not guaranteed to be there.”― Amanda Howells

Future Quotes To Give You Perspective

61. “This is what you do. You make a future for yourself out of the raw material at hand.”― Michael Cunningham

62. “Well, we must wait for the future to show.”― Virginia Woolf

63. “Our anxiety does not come from thinking about the future, but from wanting to control it.”― Kahlil Gibran

64. “The future is a split second away.”― Ana Monnar

65. “The future is what matters — because one never reaches it, but always stays in the present — like the White Queen who had to run like the wind to remain in the same spot.”― Sylvia Plath

66. “One must plan for the future and anticipate the future without fearing the future.”― Robin Hobb

67. “The direction in which education starts a man will determine his future life.”― Plato

68. “I’m always thinking about creating. My future starts when I wake up in the morning and see the light.”― Miles Davis

69. “At some point the future becomes reality. And then it quickly becomes the past.”― Haruki Murakami

70. “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

Future Quotes To Inspire Success

71. “We remember the past, live in the present, and write the future.”― Shaun David Hutchinson

72. “People don’t realize that the future is just now, but later.”― Russell Brand

73. “I am an optimist. Anyone interested in the future has to be otherwise, he would simply shoot himself.”― Arthur C. Clarke

74. “The future is a hundred thousand threads, but the past is a fabric that can never be rewoven.”― Orson Scott Card

75. “The most important thing is this: to sacrifice what you are now for what you can become tomorrow.”― Shannon Alder

76. “One mustn’t dream of one’s future; one must earn it.”― Carlos Ruiz Zafón

77. “The future lay before him, inevitable but invisible.”― John Green

78. “Why don’t you focus on where you’re going and less on where you came from?”― Amy Harmon

79. “The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today. Let us move forward with strong and active faith.”― Franklin D. Roosevelt

80. “The future will be what it will, and fretting about it will only make your fears more likely to come true.”― Christopher Paolini

Future Quotes To Inspire You Today

81. “You realize that our mistrust of the future makes it hard to give up the past.” – Chuck Palahniuk

82. “Never be afraid to trust an unknown future to a known God.” – Corrie Ten Boom

83. “Knowing too much of your future is never a good thing.” – Rick Riordan

84. “Once you realize you deserve a bright future, letting go of your dark past is the best choice you will ever make.” – Roy T. Bennett

85. “The past is always tense, the future perfect.” – Zadie Smith

86. “May God guide and lead us to a glorious future.” – Lailah Gifty Akita

87. “She said that the planting of trees, like the education of children, was a gift to the future.” – Cassandra Danz

88. “The future is created by those who have a great imagination and the will to make it a reality by their actions.” – Debasish Mridha

89. “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 Wilson Watts

90. “Accept the past; embrace the present; consider the future.” – Russell Eric Dobda

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More Future Quotes And Sayings

91. “The past is your lesson. The present is your gift. The future is your motivation.” -Anonymous

92. “The future influences the present.” – Friedrich Nietzsche

93. “Let go of the past and go for the future.” – Anonymous

94. “Be loyal to your future, not your past.” – Anonymous

95. “Study the past if you want to define the future.” – Confucius

96. “You must predict the future and you must learn to act deliberately to control your destiny.” – Toni Lynn Chinoy

97. “A person can change his future by merely changing his attitude.” – Earl Nightingale

98. “I believe that the future can be bright for us.” – John F. Kennedy

99. “We invest in the future.” – Greg Plitt

100. “The past and present have much to tell us about the future, and the future will tell us much about the past.” – Stephen M. Millett

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Future Quotes To Inspire Your Goals And Dreams

101. “If we are worried about the future, then we must look today at the upbringing of children.”
― Gordon B. Hinckley

102. “I don’t want a future, I want a present. To me, this appears of greater value. You have a future only when you have no present, and when you have a present, you forget to even think about the future.” ― Robert Walser

103. ‘There may be decisions to make and surprises in store. Life takes us to unexpected places sometimes. The future is never set in stone. Remember that.” ― Erin Morgenstern

104. “The past attracts me, the present frightens me because the future is death.” ― Guy de Maupassant

105. “All great beginnings start in the dark when the moon greets you to a new day at midnight.” ― Shannon L. Alder

106. “The future is uncertain, but that can be a good thing.” ― Jennifer Niven

107. “We can only see a short distance ahead, but we can see plenty there that needs to be done.” ― Alan Turing

108. “Your hand can seize today, but not tomorrow, and thoughts of your tomorrow are nothing but desire. Don’t waste this breath, if your heart isn’t crazy, since “the rest of your life” won’t last forever.” ― Omar Khayyám

109. “The past is made out of facts… I guess the future is just hope.” ― Isaac Marion

110. “I met a boy whose eyes showed me that the past, present, and future were all the same thing.” ― Jennifer Elisabeth

Future Quotes To Keep You Looking Forward

111. “The secret of your future is hidden in your daily routine.” – Mike Murdock

112. “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

113. “You can never plan the future by the past.” – Edmund Burke

114. “Prediction is very difficult, especially if it’s about the future.” – Niels Bohr

115. “I don’t know what the future may hold, but I know who holds the future.” – Ralph Abernathy

116. “Without forgiveness, there is not future.” – Desmond Tutu

117. “America’s future will be determined by the home and the school. The child becomes largely what he is taught; hence we must watch what we teach, and how we live.” – Jane Addams

118. “I know of no way of judging the future but by the past.” – Patrick Henry

119. “The future is always beginning now.” – Mark Strand

120. “Map out your future – but do it in pencil. The road ahead is as long as you make it. Make it worth the trip.” – Jon Bon Jovi

Motivational Future Quotes To Keep You Moving

121. “Nothing we do can change the past, but everything we do changes the future.” – Ashleigh Brilliant

122. “The best way to predict the future is to create it.” – Pete Drucker

123. “I look to the future because that’s where I’m going to spend the rest of my life.” – George Burns

124. “The future isn’t a place that we’re going to go. It’s a place that you get to create.” – Nancy Duarte

125. “Your current thoughts are creating your future life.” – Rhonda Byrne

126. “The future doesn’t belong to the lighthearted. It belongs to the brave.” – Ronald Reagan

127. “If you don’t try to create the future you want, you must endure the future you get.” – John C. Maxwell

128. “The first step is to establish that something is possible, then probability will occur.” – Elon Musk

129. “If you want to know the future, look at the past.” – Albert Einstein

130. “There are far better things ahead than any we leave behind.” – C.S. Lewis

Future Quotes To Prepare You For The Future

131.”I feel like God puts things in our lives to help prepare us for the future.” – Louie Gohmert

132. “Let your past failures prepare you for future victories.” – Jim George

133. “ Your future is what you make of it. The more work you put in, the more results you get back.” – Unknown

134. “Today you are only a branch of a tree, tomorrow you gonna be tree yourself, so prepare yourself today so strong, that tomorrow you can hold the branches.” – Amresh Kumar

135. “The future is coming and will be the present whether you are ready or not. Keep learning, keep living, and keep building relationships. Time will take care of itself.” – Unknown

136. “Now’s the time to teach your 5-year-old kid about financing. If they can add, I suggest that you start teaching them about saving that money. And how their money can add up in the future. I think the more you prepare your children for the future, the better off they’ll be.” – Donald Faison

137. “Respect the past, and prepare for the future by taking action in the present.” – Rob Martin

138. “The best possible way to prepare for tomorrow is to concentrate with all your intelligence, all your enthusiasm, on doing today’s work superbly today. That is the only possible way you can prepare for the future.” – Dale Carnegie

139. “Witness the choices you make in every moment. The best way to prepare for any moment in the future is to be fully conscious in the present.” – Deepak Chopra

140. “The longer you look back, the farther you can look forward.” – Winston Churchill

Future Quotes That Help One To Embrace Life & Prepare For The Future

141. “If you want to be happy, do not dwell in the past, do not worry about the future, focus on living fully in the present.” —  Roy T. Bennett

142. “Yesterday is gone. Tomorrow has not yet come. We have only today. Let us begin.” — Mother Theresa

143. “The future belongs to those who prepare for it today.” — Malcolm X

144. “It’s more fun to think of the future than dwell on the past.” — Sara Shepard

“145. “There are men who run on ahead of their age and open the gates of the future.” — James Lendall Basford

146. “The future will hold only the happiness that we build into it.” — The Garment Worker

147. “The past is a source of knowledge, and the future is a source of hope. Love of the past implies faith in the future.” — Stephen Ambrose

148. “Mathematics is just another way of predicting the future.” — Ralph Abraham

149. “The past is a ghost, the future a dream, and all we ever have is now.” —  Bill Cosby

150. “The only difference between the saint and the sinner is that every saint has a past, and every sinner has a future.” — Oscar Wilde

Future Quotes To Make It Interesting

151. “Optimism is a strategy for making a better future. Because unless you believe that the future can be better, you are unlikely to step up and take responsibility for making it so.” — Noam Chomsky

152. “We cannot build our own future without helping others to build theirs.” — William J. Clinton

153. “The future belongs to those who give the next generation reason for hope.” — Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

154. “We work day after day, not to finish things; but to make the future better… because we will spend the rest of our lives there.” — Charles Kettering

155. “There is always one moment in childhood when the door opens and lets the future in.” — Graham Greene

156. “Don’t let fear decide your future.” — Shalane Flanagan

157. “We can chart our future clearly and wisely only when we know the path which has led to the present.” — Adlai E. Stevenson

158. “Insisting on living in your past will kill your future. Let it go.” — Tony Evans

159. “We are not lacking in the dynamic forces needed to create the future. We live immersed in a sea of energy beyond all comprehension.” — Thomas Berry

160. “To live only for some future goal is shallow. It’s the sides of the mountain that sustain life, not the top.” — Robert M. Pirsig

Short Future Quotes To Determine How You Live

161. “You can analyze the past, but you have to design the future.” — Edward de Bono

162. “Life is a series of collisions with the future.” — Jose Ortega Y Gasset

163. “Faith is all that dreamers need to see into the future.” — Jim Stovall

164. “We cannot build the future by avenging the past.” — T.H. White

165. “Limitless is your potential. Magnificent is your future.” — Gordon B. Hinckley

166. “The future is an imagined now, a projection of the mind.” — Eckhart Tolle

167. “The fact that there is a general belief in a future life is no evidence of its truth.” — Clarence Darrow

168. “The future is not a gift, it is an achievement.” — Albert Einstein

169. “Posture is paramount to your future.” — Cindy Ann Peterson

170. “No matter what your past has been, your future is spotless.” — Hugh B. Brown

Future Quotes To Shape Your Tomorrow

171. “I can´t change my past, or predict my future. But i can shape my present.” ― Armin Houman

172. “I can only imagine that future generations will consider us to have been barbaric for our intolerance of differences.” ― Cathy Burnham Martin

173. “We worry too much about the future. And fail to enjoy the moment.” ― Lailah Gifty Akita

174. “Always remember that your future is determined by what you do today, not tomorrow.” ― Robert T. Kiyosaki

175. “I prefer not to use my past to gain sympathy or people, I believe in present and try to stay in it for a better future.” ― Neetesh Dixit

176. “Because the new the stories we tell, the art we make, the rockets we build, will influence the future that shapes our present.” ― Natasha Tsakos

177. “We can’t fear the future with a present mindset. We must ask ourselves questions we do not know the answers to, we should disrupt ourselves to grow.” ― Natasha Tsakos

178. “Purpose expands the reason and future of every plan” ― Sunday Adelaja

179. “My friend, let us enjoy the present and give no thought to the evils of the future.” ― Alexandre Dumas

180. “As an act of goodwill you must sacrifice all the futures you might have for the one that he designs for you.” ― Dexter Palmer

Future Quotes About The Power To Shape Our Lives 

181. “One cannot have a future if he doesn’t serve the one and only God” ― Sunday Adelaja

182. “Who you are married to determines what your future will look like” ― Sunday Adelaja

183. “Given that I don’t know anything, when I am making up stories about the future, why not make it a good story instead of a scary one?” ― Sharon Weil

184. “To rid oneself of the past is to forgo the future…” ― Nanette L. Avery

185. “You can predict your future life, only predict not assure.” ― Saad Shah

186. “Never fear the unknown that is where your future may lie” ― Candice Galek

187. “You can see the future only when he that knows the future reveals it to you” ― Sunday Adelaja

188. “I saw this was the way of the future, to leave the past behind as if it were a dream.” ― Alice Hoffman

189. “Others may predict my future but only I can determine my destiny.” ― Jeffrey Fry

190. “If you stay true to your principles, you have confidence, conviction, purpose, values – in other words, you have a future.” ― Mike Klepper

Positive Future Quotes

191. “What you had yesterday is only memories; what you will have tomorrow is your dreams and what you will do today, let it be love.” ― Santosh Kalwar

192. “How can we prepare for the future if we won’t acknowledge the past?” ― N.K. Jemisin

193. “Other men look up and down, left and right; but men like us are different. We are visionaries.” ― Eoin Colfer

194. “I wasn’t scared of losing my past. i was scared of losing my future.” ― Meg Jay

195. “In such seconds of decision entire futures are made.” ― Dan Simmons

196. “If you have one foot in the past and one foot in the future, you’re pissing on the present.” ― Malachy McCourt

197. “You don’t destroy what you want to acquire in the future.” ― Suzanne Collins

198. “We mourn the future because it’s easier than admitting that we’re miserable in the present.” ― Robyn Schneider

199. “The future always looks good in the golden land, because no one remembers the past.” ― Joan Didion

200. “I can’t take back the past, but I can fight for the future.” ― Shannon A. Thompson

Which Future Quotes Were Your Favorites?

Remember, you are creating your future life with each passing day.

And every day you have on this Earth is your opportunity to make a difference in yourself and your life.

The future depends on what you do today, so adequately use your time.

We hope these future quotes inspire you to appreciate the present and work hard for the future you envision.

If you dream it, you can achieve it.

And seeing it in your mind is the first step to getting there!

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