Prejudice is a burden that confuses the past, threatens the future and renders the present inaccessible.
~ Maya Angelou
Real generosity toward the future lies in giving all to the present.
~ Albert Camus
The future influences the present just as much as the past.
~ Friedrich Nietzsche
The future is no more uncertain than the present.
~ Walt Whitman
The present was an egg laid by the past that had the future inside its shell.
~ Zora Neale Hurston
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.
There is an opportunity for us to renew ourselves. There's an opportunity for us to leave the past behind and present something different for the future.
~ Jay Weatherill
The distinction between the past, present and future is only a stubbornly persistent illusion.
~ Albert Einstein
Accordingly, globalization is not only something that will concern and threaten us in the future, but something that is taking place in the present and to which we must first open our eyes.
~ Ulrich Beck
The past, the present and the future are really one: they are today.
~ Harriet Beecher Stowe
Enjoy present pleasures in such a way as not to injure future ones.
~ Seneca
The past is an old armchair in the attic, the present an ominous ticking sound, and the future is anybody's guess.
~ James Thurber
The best preparation for the future is the present well seen to, and the last duty done.
~ George Macdonald
The future is made of the same stuff as the present.
~ Simone Weil
If we are to better the future we must disturb the present.
~ Catherine Booth
Everything that ever happened is still happening. Past, present and future keep happening in the eternity which is Here and Now.
~ James Broughton
The future is purchased by the present.
~ Samuel Johnson
The problem with the future is that it keeps turning into the present.
~ Bill Watterson
The most reliable way to forecast the future is to try to understand the present.
~ John Naisbitt
There's no present. There's only the immediate future and the recent past.
~ George Carlin
We can chart our future clearly and wisely only when we know the path which has led to the present.
~ Adlai E. Stevenson
Existence is no more than the precarious attainment of relevance in an intensely mobile flux of past, present, and future.
~ Susan Sontag
How paramount the future is to the present when one is surrounded by children.
~ Charles Darwin
The future is keeping you out of the present time.
~ Van Morrison
Life passes us by if all we do is focus on the future. Being present, for the present, is really what is important.
~ Brandon Jenner
Unification is not our present goal. That is a future program.
~ Kim Dae Jung
The future is the worst thing about the present.
~ Gustave Flaubert
The educator must above all understand how to wait; to reckon all effects in the light of the future, not of the present.
~ Ellen Key
We always project into the future or reflect in the past, but we are so little in the present.
~ Marina Abramović
But I dare not think too far into the future on the risk that I'll miss the present.
~ Colin Farrell
