Past, Present and Future Quotes
Top 40 Past, Present and Future Quotes
No 1 (Best quote!)![Past, Present and Future Quotes Past, Present and Future Quotes](images/quotes-lincoln.jpg)
You cannot escape the responsibility of tomorrow by avoiding it today.
- Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865) American president,
pictured right.
No 2![Past, Present and Future Quotes Past, Present and Future Quotes](images/quotes-drucker.jpg)
The best way to predict the future is to create it.
- Peter Drucker (1909-2005), pictured right, American
management writer.
No 3![Past, Present and Future Quotes Past, Present and Future Quotes](images/quotes-santayana.jpg)
Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.
- George Santayana (1863–1952), Spanish philosopher, pictured right.
![Past, Present and Future Quotes Past, Present and Future Quotes](images/quotes-burke.jpg)
Edmund Burke (1729-97), pictured
right, Irish-born British Member of Parliament, says similarly:
Those who don’t know history are destined to repeat it
![Past, Present and Future Quotes Past, Present and Future Quotes](images/quotes-angelou.jpg)
But the American writer and poet, Maya Angelou (1928-2014), pictured right, is more
optimsitic:
History, despite its wrenching pain, cannot be unlived, but, if faced with courage, need not be lived again.
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No 4
Creating the future doesn't require a company to abandon all of its past.
- Gary Hamel, pictured right above, and
C.K. Prahalad, pictured right below,
in Competing for the
Future (1994) ![Past, Present and Future Quotes Past, Present and Future Quotes](images/quotes-prahalad.jpg)
No 5![Past, Present and Future Quotes Past, Present and Future Quotes](images/quotes-lincoln.jpg)
The dogmas of the quiet past are inadequate for the stormy present and future,
- Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865) American president,
pictured right.
Lincoln also comments:
People who stay in the present will remain in the
past.
No 6![Past, Present and Future Quotes Past, Present and Future Quotes](images/quotes-ohara.jpg)
Tomorrow is another day!,
(last line of Gone With The Wind, the 1939 film and Margaret Mitchell’s 1936 novel)
- Scarlett O’Hara (Vivien Leigh, pictured right, in the film).
No 7![Past, Present and Future Quotes Past, Present and Future Quotes](images/quotes-frank.jpg)
Memories mean more to me than dresses.
- Anne Frank (1929-1945), child victim of the
Holocaust, pictured right.
No 8![Past, Present and Future Quotes Past, Present and Future Quotes](images/quotes-eisenhower.jpg)
Neither a wise man, nor a brave man, lies down on the tracks of history to wait for the train of the future to
run over him.
- Dwight D. Eisenhower (1890-1969,)
American Second World War leader and president, pictured right.
No 9![Past, Present and Future Quotes Past, Present and Future Quotes](images/quotes-toffler.jpg)
Change is the process by which the future invades our lives.
- Alvin Toffler, pictured right, in Future Shock (1970)
No 10![Past, Present and Future Quotes Past, Present and Future Quotes](images/quotes-confucius.jpg)
Study the past if you would divine the future.
- Confucius (551- 479 BC), Chinese
philosopher, pictured right.
![Past, Present and Future Quotes Past, Present and Future Quotes](images/quotes-henry.jpg)
The American revolutionary, Patrick
Henry (1736-99), pictured right, agrees:
I know of no way of judging of the future, but by the past
![Past, Present and Future Quotes Past, Present and Future Quotes](images/quotes-burke.jpg)
But Edmund Burke (1729-97), pictured
right, Irish-born British philosopher and politician, disagrees:
You can never plan the future by the past
No 11![Past, Present and Future Quotes Past, Present and Future Quotes](images/quotes-honda.jpg)
We can only have one future, and it will be made of our dreams, if we have the courage to challenge
convention.
- Soichiro Honda (1906-91), co-founder of Honda,
pictured right.
No 12![Past, Present and Future Quotes Past, Present and Future Quotes](images/quotes-gladstone.jpg)
You cannot fight against the future.
- William Gladstone (1809–98), British Prime
Minister, pictured right.
No 13![Past, Present and Future Quotes Past, Present and Future Quotes](images/quotes-churchill.jpg)
If we open a quarrel between past and present, we shall find that we have lost the future.
- Winston Churchill (1874–19650, British prime
minister, pictured right.
No 14![Past, Present and Future Quotes Past, Present and Future Quotes](images/quotes-ford.jpg)
History is more or less bunk. It’s tradition.,
- Henry Ford (1863–1947), American car manufacturer,
pictured right.
No 15![Past, Present and Future Quotes Past, Present and Future Quotes](images/quotes-orwell.jpg)
Who controls the past controls the future: who controls the present controls the past ,
(Party slogan from the 1949 novel Nineteen Eighty-Four)
- George Orwell (1903-50), English writer, pictured right
No 16![Past, Present and Future Quotes Past, Present and Future Quotes](images/quotes-dickens.jpg)
I will live in the Past, the Present and the Future...I will not shut out the lessons that they teach,
(Scrooge in the 1843 novel A Christmas Carol)
- Charles Dickens (1812-70), pictured
right, English writer.
No 17![Past, Present and Future Quotes Past, Present and Future Quotes](images/quotes-leonardo.jpg)
Be not false about the past.
- Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519) Italian
painter, sculptor, architect and engineer, pictured right.
No 18
I do not know which makes a man more conservative – to know nothing but the
present, or nothing but the past.
- John Maynard Keynes (1883-1946),
English economist, pictured right.
No 19![Past, Present and Future Quotes Past, Present and Future Quotes](images/quotes-handy.jpg)
We are all prisoners of our past.
- Charles Handy, pictured right, The Age of Unreason (1989).
No 20![Past, Present and Future Quotes Past, Present and Future Quotes](images/quotes-marx-groucho.jpg)
Yesterday is dead, tomorrow hasn't arrived yet. I have just one day, and I'm going to be happy in it.
- Groucho Marx (1890-1977), American comedian and film and TV star, pictured right.
No 21![Past, Present and Future Quotes Past, Present and Future Quotes](images/quotes-austen.jpg)
Think only of the past as its remembrance gives you pleasure.
(Elizabeth in the 1813 novel Pride and
Prejudice)
- Jane Austen (1775-1817), English writer,
pictured right.
No 22![Past, Present and Future Quotes Past, Present and Future Quotes](images/quotes-branson.jpg)
Fantasizing about the future is one of my favourite pastimes.
- Richard Branson (1950- ), pictured right,
English founder of the British company, Virgin.
No 23![Past, Present and Future Quotes Past, Present and Future Quotes](images/quotes-jefferson.jpg)
I like the dreams of the future better than the history of the past.
- Thomas Jefferson (1743-1826), pictured right,
American president.
No 24![Past, Present and Future Quotes Past, Present and Future Quotes](images/quotes-napoleon.jpg)
The stupid speak of the past, the wise of the present and fools of the future.
- Napoleon Bonaparte (1769-1821), pictured
right, French leader.
No 25![Past, Present and Future Quotes Past, Present and Future Quotes](images/quotes-marcus-aurelius.jpg)
Never let the future, disturb you.
- Marcus Aurelius (121-180),
pictured right, Roman emperor and philosopher
No 26![Past, Present and Future Quotes Past, Present and Future Quotes](images/quotes-buddha.jpg)
Do not dwell in the past, do not dream of the future, concentrate the mind on the present moment.
- Gautama Buddha (563-483 BC), pictured
right, founder of Buddhism.
No 27![Past, Present and Future Quotes Past, Present and Future Quotes](images/quotes-cicero.jpg)
To be ignorant of the past is forever to be a child.
- Cicero (106-43 BC), pictured
right, Roman philosopher and politician
No 28![Past, Present and Future Quotes Past, Present and Future Quotes](images/quotes-gibran.jpg)
Let today embrace the past with remembrance and the future with longing.
- Kahlil Gibran (1883-1931), pictured
right, Lebanese-born American philosopher
No 29![Past, Present and Future Quotes Past, Present and Future Quotes](images/quotes-nietzsche.jpg)
The future influences the present just as much as the past.
- Friedrich Nietzsche
(1844-1900), German philosopher (pictured right).
No 30![Past, Present and Future Quotes Past, Present and Future Quotes](images/quotes-einstein.jpg)
Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow.
- Albert Einstein (1879-1955),
pictured right, German-born American scientist.
No 31![Past, Present and Future Quotes Past, Present and Future Quotes](images/quotes-dickens.jpg)
It’s in vain, Trot, to recall the past, unless it works some influence upon the present,
(David Copperfield in the 1850 novel David
Copperfield).
- Charles Dickens (1812-70), pictured
right, English writer.
No 32![Past, Present and Future Quotes Past, Present and Future Quotes](images/quotes-tolstoy.jpg)
The terrible thing is that it is impossible to tear the past out by the roots.
(Anna in the novel Anna Karenina)
- Leo Tolstoy (1828-1910), Russian writer, pictured right.
No 33![Past, Present and Future Quotes Past, Present and Future Quotes](images/quotes-lovell.jpg)
Memory always remembers the happy things.
- Bernard Lovell (1913–2012), pictured right, the British astronomer.
No 34![Past, Present and Future Quotes Past, Present and Future Quotes](images/quoteswilder.jpg)
Hindsight is always twenty-twenty.
- Billy Wilder (1906-2002), pictured right, American film director.
No 35![Past, Present and Future Quotes Past, Present and Future Quotes](images/quotes-handy.jpg)
It would be sad, if we missed our future because of our past.
- Charles Handy (pictured right), in Beyond Certainty,
1995.
No 36![Past, Present and Future Quotes Past, Present and Future Quotes](images/quotes-levin.jpg)
The future is not what it was.
- Bernard Levin (1928-2004), English journalist (pictured right)
![Past, Present and Future Quotes Past, Present and Future Quotes](images/quotes-jobs.jpg)
Steve Jobs, co-founder of
Apple, pictured right, said
something similar in a 1983 speech:
The future isn't what it used to be.
No 37![Past, Present and Future Quotes Past, Present and Future Quotes](images/quotes-leonardo.jpg)
Be not false about the past
-Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519), pictured
right, Italian painter and engineer
No 38![Past, Present and Future Quotes Past, Present and Future Quotes](images/quotes-proust.jpg)
The true paradises are the paradises we have lost.
- Marcel Proust (1871-1922), pictured
right, French writer
No 39![Past, Present and Future Quotes Past, Present and Future Quotes](images/quotes-wilde.jpg)
The one duty we owe to history is to rewrite it.
- Oscar Wilde (1854–1900), pictured right, Irish writer.
No 40![Past, Present and Future Quotes Past, Present and Future Quotes](images/quotes-douglass.jpg)
We have to do with the past only as we can make it useful to the present and the future.
- Frederick Douglass (1818-95),
American civil rights leader, pictured right.
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