Quotes About the Past, Present, Future, and Time
Create the destiny you desire with inspiration from these profound quotes.
“All great achievements require time.”
— Maya Angelou
“The best thing about the future is that it only comes one day at a time.”
— Abraham Lincoln
“Now is the operative word. Everything you put in your way is just a method of putting off the hour when you could actually be doing your dream. You don’t need endless time and perfect conditions. Do it now. Do it today. Do it for twenty minutes and watch your heart start beating.”
— Barbara Sher
“Always focus on the front windshield and not the rearview mirror.”
— Colin Powell
“Let go of what’s gone.”
— Unknown
“Go for it now. The future is promised to no one.”
— Wayne Dyer
“Right now a moment of time is passing by… we must become that moment.”
— Paul Cezanne
“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 is a circus, always packing up and moving away.”
— Ben Hecht
“The past is history. The future, a mystery. The here and now is a gift. That is why it’s called the present.”
— Unknown
“Planning is bringing the future into the present so that you can do something about it now.”
— Alan Lakein
“What you do today can improve all your tomorrows.”
— Ralph Marston
“Every moment is a fresh beginning.”
— T.S. Eliot
“Never leave that till tomorrow which you can do today.”
— Benjamin Franklin
“Twenty years from now, you’ll be more disappointed by the things you didn’t do, than the ones you did.”
— Mark Twain
“You can’t have a better tomorrow if you are thinking about yesterday all the time.”
— Charles Kettering
“Don’t watch the clock; do what it does. Keep going.”
— Sam Levenson
“The past is behind, learn from it. The future is ahead, prepare for it. The present is here, live it.”
— Thomas S. Monson
“None of us can change our yesterdays, but all of us can change our tomorrows.”
— Colin Powell
“Procrastination is one of the most common and deadliest of diseases and its toll on success and happiness is heavy.”
— Wayne Dyer
“In truth, people can generally make time for what they choose to do; it is not really the time.”
— John Lubbock
“If a goal is worth having, it’s worth blocking out the time in your day-to-day life necessary to achieve it.”
— Jill Koenig
“Tomorrow is often the busiest day of the week.”
— Spanish Proverb
“Never look back unless you are planning to go that way.”
— Henry David Thoreau
“Fears over tomorrow and regrets over yesterday are twin thieves that rob us of the moment.”
— Unknown
“The future is always beginning now.”
— Mark Strand
“You can clutch the past so tightly to your chest that it leaves your arms too full to embrace the present.”
— Jan Glidewell
“Most people spend more time and energy going around problems than in trying to solve them.”
— Henry Ford
“There is time for everything."
— Thomas Edison
“The best way to predict the future is to invent it.”
— Alan Kay
“Don't say you don't have enough time. You have exactly the same number of hours per day that were given to Helen Keller, Pasteur, Michaelangelo, Mother Teresea, Leonardo da Vinci, Thomas Jefferson, and Albert Einstein.”
— H. Jackson Brown Jr.
“Never limit your view of life by any past experience.”
— Ernest Holmes
“Don’t let the fear of the time it will take to accomplish something stand in the way of your doing it. The time will pass anyway; we might as well put that passing time to the best possible use.”
— Earl Nightingale
“Take time to deliberate, but when the time for action has arrived, stop thinking and go in.”
— Napoleon Bonaparte
“The point of power is always in the present.”
— Louise Hay
“Always remember: good things take time.”
— Unknown
“You cannot change the past but you can always change your perspective.”
— Freequill
“One day or day one. You decide.”
— Unknown
“Breathe. Let go. And remind yourself that this very moment is the only one you know you have for sure.”
— Oprah Winfrey
“Time and health are two precious assets that we don’t recognize and appreciate until they have been depleted.”
— Denis Waitley
“It’s never too late - in fiction or in life - to revise.”
— Nancy Thayer
“Someday is not a day of the week.”
— Unknown
“You may delay, but time will not.”
— Benjamin Franklin
“The past is a foreign country; they do things differently there.”
— Leslie Poles Hartley
“If you don’t make the time to work on creating the life that you want, you’re going to spend a lot of time dealing with a life you don’t want.”
— Kevin Ngo
“In three words I can sum up everything I’ve learned about life. It goes on.”
— Robert Frost
“Your past does not equal your future.”
— Tony Robbins
“Don't let yesterday take up too much of today.”
— John Wooden
“If you want more time, freedom, and energy, start saying no.”
— Unknown
“We think, mistakenly, that success is the result of the amount of time we put in at work, instead of the quality of time we put in.”
— Ariana Huffington
“If you don’t find the time, if you don’t do the work, you don’t get the results.”
— Arnold Schwarzenegger
“Your past is just a story. And once you realize this, it has no power over you.”
— Chuck Palahniuk
“The present moment is filled with joy and happiness. If you are attentive, you will see it.”
— Thich Nhat Hanh
“As for the future, your task is not to foresee it, but to enable it.”
— Antoine de Sant-Exupery