Future And Present Quotes - Page 2

• The future is not what it used to be.

  Yogi Berra

  Future, Happy Accidents, Used

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• The wise man must remember that while he is a descendant of the past, he is a parent of the future.

  Herbert Spencer

  Life, Inspiring, Wise

  Herbert Spencer (1865). “First Principles of a New System of Philosophy”, p.123

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• 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

  Inspirational, Life, Future

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• It's being here now that's important. There's no past and there's no future. Time is a very misleading thing. All there is ever, is the now. We can gain experience from the past, but we can't relive it; and we can hope for the future, but we don't know if there is one.

  George Harrison

  Time, Future, Carpe Diem

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• We seem to be going through a period of nostalgia, and everyone seems to think yesterday was better than today. I don't think it was, and I would advise you not to wait ten years before admitting today was great. If you're hung up on nostalgia, pretend today is yesterday and just go out and have one hell of a time.

  Art Buchwald

  Past, Thinking, Years

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  Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.

  George Santayana

  Past, Infancy Is, History

  "The Life of Reason: The Phases of Human Progress", Vol. I, Reason in Common Sense by George Santayana, 1905-1906.

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• 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

  Love, Life, Relationship

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• The past is a ghost, the future a dream, and all we ever have is now.

  Bill Cosby

  Love, Inspirational, Life

  Bill Cosby (1987). “Time Flies”

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• He who controls the past controls the future.

  Laozi

  Future, Past, Political Language

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• I am quite sure, that if we open a quarrel between the past and the present, we shall find that we have lost the future.

  Winston Churchill

  Time, Lost Love, Future

  "Blood, Toil, Tears, and Sweat: The Speeches of Winston Churchill".

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• One of the most tragic things I know about human nature is that all of us tend to put off living.

  Dale Carnegie

  Life, Procrastination, Garden

  Dale Carnegie (2016). “How to stop worrying & start living”, p.22, Diamond Pocket Books Pvt Ltd

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• The meeting of two eternities, the past and future....is precisely the present moment.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Past, Two, Live In The Moment

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• Trust no future, however pleasant! Let the dead past bury its dead! Act -- act in the living Present! Heart within and God overhead.

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  God, Time, Future

  "A Psalm of Life" st. 6 (1838)

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• Learn from yesterday, live for today.

  Albert Einstein

  Life, New Year, Hope

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• "Old times" never come back and I suppose it's just as well. What comes back is a new morning every day in the year, and that's better.

  George Edward Woodberry

  Break Up, Broken Heart, Heartbroken

  George Edward Woodberry (1933). “Selected letters of George Edward Woodberry”

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• All human situations have their inconveniences. We feel those of the present but neither see nor feel those of the future; and hence we often make troublesome changes without amendment, and frequently for the worse.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Future, Vision, Amendments

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• Let the dead Past bury its dead!

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  New Year, Regret, Moving

  "A Psalm of Life" st. 6 (1838)

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• Wisely improve the Present. It is thine.

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Past Future, Fear Of The Future, Manly

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (2012). “Hyperion”, p.228, Jazzybee Verlag

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• Go forth to meet the shadowy future without fear and with a manly heart.

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Future, Heart, Iron Will

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (Illustrated)”, p.2016, Delphi Classics

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• Opportunities flit by while we sit regretting the chances we have lost, and the happiness that comes to us we heed not, because of the happiness that is gone.

  Jerome K. Jerome

  Happiness, Regret, Opportunity

  Jerome K. Jerome (2016). “The Idle Thoughts of an Idle Fellow”, p.133, Jerome K. Jerome

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• Nothing ever gets anywhere. The earth keeps turning round and gets nowhere. The moment is the only thing that counts.

  Jean Cocteau

  What Matters, Past Present Future, Earth

  Jean Cocteau, Margaret Crosland (1972). “Cocteau's world: an anthology of writings”, Owen

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• Look not mournfully into the past. It comes not back again.

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Past, Looks, One Tree Hill Love

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (Illustrated)”, p.2016, Delphi Classics

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• Those who don't remember the past are condemned to repeat the eleventh grade.

  James W. Loewen

  Past, Infancy Is, History

  James W. Loewen (2013). “Lies My Teacher Told Me: Everything Your American History Textbook Got Wrong”, p.16, The New Press

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• There is only one time that is important -- NOW! It is the most important time because it is the only time hat we have any power.

  Leo Tolstoy

  Time, Live In The Moment, Important

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• Children have neither past nor future;
  they enjoy the present, which very few of us do.

  Jean de la Bruyere

  Life, Baby, Time

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