None of us knows what the future holds. Let these quotes about the future give you thoughts to reflect upon as you think about your own future.
You may also be inspired by our collection of poems about the future.
We know we can't change the past, but the future we can lead.
Julie Hebert, Two Days of Every Week
Inspirational Poems
A wise man never dwells in the past because he knows he belongs to the future.
Debasish Mridha
Poems of Encouragement
Leave the broken, irreversible past in God's hands, and step out into the invincible future with Him.
Oswald Chambers
Christian Poems
The future is not something we enter. The future is something we create.
Leonard I. Sweet
Graduation Poems
There are far, far better things ahead than any we leave behind
C. S. Lewis
Train of Life Poem
A birthday is a day to be celebrated and look ahead to the future.
Catherine Pulsifer
Birthday Poems
If you want to touch the past, touch a rock. If you want to touch the present, touch a flower. If you want to touch the future, touch a life.
Author Unknown
Thank You Poems
The future holds many changes, but may laughter and caring remain constant to light our path.
Catherine Pulsifer
Poems About Laughter
I will be cheerful and hopeful. I will trust in God and bravely face the future.
on a Church Bulletin
Trust In God Poems
The future holds such promise and joy for you; you worked hard and today the results show
Catherine Pulsifer, So Proud Of You Daughter
Graduation Poems For Daughter
Whether we are going through hard times or we are just looking to the future we all need to cling to hope
Catherine Pulsifer
Poems About Hope
My interest is in the future because I am going to spend the rest of my life there.
Charles Kettering
Encouragement Quotes
There are far better things ahead than any we leave behind.
C.S. Lewis
New Years Wish
Real generosity toward the future lies in giving all to the present.
Albert Camus
Quotes about Giving
Apologies aren’t meant to change the past, they are meant to change the future.
Kevin Hancock
Apology Poems
Gratitude looks to the Past and love to the Present; fear, avarice, lust, and ambition look ahead.
C.S. Lewis
Gratitude Quotes
Your goals have been met with skill and drive and your future is wide open to thrive!
Catherine Pulsifer, You've Earned This Day
Graduation Poems From Parents
My love is yours forever, no matter what the future will be.
Catherine Pulsifer, I Love You More Birthday Love Poems
We shook hands with diplomas in hand, daydreams of greatness all across the land. All around us, our future is nigh,
to classes and books, we say goodbye!
Catherine Pulsifer, Our Future
Funny Graduation Poems
The future is bright and it glistens so, your achievements now do show.
Catherine Pulsifer, Congratulations On Your Graduation
Graduation Poems For Son
What will tomorrow bring I think to myself I can't see the future, I am no elf - but what I do have is this day and it will be up to me what I do and say.
Samatha Anne Marie Lynch, Live This Day
A New Day Poem
From rich and poor, from strong and weak, will come a thousand snares; let each one but a lesson be, to guide past future cares.
David V. Bush, Don't Lose Your Goat
Poems About Life
We cannot look into the future, we cannot tell if the New Year, will bring us fresh sorrows to mourn o'er, or bring us new blessings to cheer.
J. S. Ogilvie, Look To The Future
Inspirational Poems for The New Year
Tomorrow's path is uncertain yet quite interesting to trace, toward the future, I march at a loving steady pace.
Catherine Pulsifer, Tomorrow I'll Start
Poems About Procrastination
Fate decides our future if we don't intervene.
Steven Redhead
Fate Quotes
Regrets of the past can be turned into seeds to grow a more positive future or unlearned, doomed to repeat the same.
Tambré Bryant
Regret Quotes
Your future may be uncertain but may you use your time well to strive towards your goals, and on challenges don't dwell
Catherine Pulsifer, 21 Today! 21st Birthday Poems
Do not be deterred by what's to come next, remember - a positive attitude will pass any test.
Catherine Pulsifer, Keep Your Attitude Positive
A New Chapter In Life Poem
Being resilient means being able to turn setbacks into stepping stones for a more inspiring future.
Lisa Lieberman-Wang
Resilience Quotes
Hope is the heartbeat of heaven, and the promise of a brighter tomorrow.
Max Lucado
Christian Quotes About Hope
So moving forward, age and all I will live my life having a ball. I'll love those around me and be thankful and happy.
Catherine Pulsifer, Middle Age
MIddle Age Poems
But before looking to the future, let's glance back at the road we've traveled these past two years because that is the source of much of the optimism we are all feeling about the future.
Linda Lingle
Optimistic Poems
For opportunities rarely hang about, and when they're gone, on nothing can you count. If you wish for a bright future tomorrow then do it today and you'll have no sorrow.
Catherine Pulsifer, Opportunities Do Not Hang About
Opportunity Poems
There is no knowing if tomorrow may be - so live your life and seize all opportunities!
Catherine Pulsifer, Time, A Precious Thing
Poems About Time
O Thou whose strength is given anew each day, I thank Thee for this future untried year
Catherine Baker, New Year's
New Year's Resolutions Poems
If you want to be happy, begin where you are. Don't wait for some rapture that's future and far.
Priscilla Leonard, If You Want To Be Happy
Poems About Happiness
Never lose hope. This life is worth the struggle. Your future self is pleading with you to stay. You are more than your thoughts. You are more than your fears and stronger than you give yourself credit for.
Unknown
Lost Hope Quotes
The art of forgiveness begins when you forgive someone...You free your mind from the burdens of the past so you may walk victoriously into the future.
Wilferd Peterson, The Art Of Forgiveness
Forgiveness Poems
The best way to create a future is to set a goal and take action.
Debasish Mridha
Goals Quotes
Give us, O God, the vision to see the way...to ever keep the forward look and never to lose heart today
because of the stumblings and fallings in the yesterdays that are forever gone.
Almon Gunnison, The Vision To See
Prayer For Strength
Your dreams of today creates your future.
Laillah Gifty Akita
Dream Quotes
Have patience and perseverance; believe that there is still a future before us, and we shall at last reach the haven where we would be.
Arthur Penrhyn Stanley, Patience and Perseverance
Poems About Perseverance
"For I know the plans I have for you," declares the Lord, "plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you hope and a future."
Jeremiah 29:11 (NIV)
Motivational Quotes From The Bible
Keep interested in your own career, however humble; it is a real possession in the changing future of time.
Max Ehrmann
Desiderata Poem
Never be afraid to trust an unknown future to a known God.
Corrie Ten Boom
Christian Quotes
Focus on the future and forget the "ifs". Don't get caught in the "what if" riff.
Catherine Pulsifer, The Tiny Word of "If"
If Poems
Forgiveness does not change the past but it does enlarge the future.
Paul Lewis Boese
Forgiveness Quotes
Many say on graduation day the world awaits them and it is truly the beginning of their education. An exciting time, one in which the graduate turns their dreams and hopes for the future into a reality
Catherine Pulsifer
Poems About New Beginnings
You can’t undo the past, but you can remedy it by creating a better future.
A.D. Posey
Regret Quotes
Grandparents ...Together they create a chain of love linking the past with the future
Unknown, Grandparents Bestow
Grandparents Poems
...we stand upon the utmost verge of the old year. Forgetting the things that are behind, we stand with our faces looking earnestly into the future.
George L. Perin, Verge of The Old Year
New Year Prayers
That which is past is gone and irrevocable, and wise men have enough to do with things present and to come.
Bacon
Wisdom Poems
The very existence of libraries affords the best evidence that we may yet have hope for the future of man.
T.S. Eliot Quotes about Library
Look forward, not back!" 'Tis the chant of Creation, the chime of the seasons as onward they roll
Alice Freeman Palmer, Four Mottos
Life Mottos
The Christian faith has always been characterized by a strong and focused sense of future, with belief in the Second Coming of Jesus as the most distinctive detail
Eugene Peterson
Quotes About Jesus
The yesterdays I cannot readorn, or bygone years I never can relive, and future happenings are yet unborn, but Now is ever here with much to give.
Ida Mingus Clay, Today
Poems For Women
Hope is truth, - the future giveth more than present takes away, and the soul for ever liveth nearer God from day to day.
James Rusell Lowell, Life Is Joy
Poems About Joy
Let your hopes, not your hurts, shape your future.
Robert H. Schuller
Poems About Hope
Let tomorrow take care of tomorrow; leave things of the future to fate
Charles Swain, Leave The Future To Fate
Poems About Fate
For, as the present hour is spent, so must the future be; each action lives, in its effect, through all eternity.
S. W. Irvin, A Little Sonnet About Little Things
Little Things Poems
Loving the world destroys our relationship with God, it denies our faith in God, and it discounts our future with God.
David Jeremiah
Inspirational God Quotes
It's better to look ahead and prepare, than to look back and regret.
Jackie Joyner-Kersee
Poems About Regret
In all our trials and dramas there are lessons. Life is not a playground but a classroom. Our journey through life provides the course work and the tests needed for our education and development.
Susan L. Taylor
Life Lessons Quotes
Each decade of time assures us, tho' with burdens life is dear; dreams of future joys allure us onward as life's goal we near
C.C. Hassler, Thanksgiving Day
Thanksgiving Day Poem
How you experience your present is completely shaped by what you believe your ultimate future to be.
Tim Keller
Experience Quotes
In every conceivable manner, the family is link to our past, bridge to our future.
Alex Haley
Poems About Family
Live and make the present hour pleasant and cheerful. Keep your mind out of the past, and keep it out of the future.
John A. Schindler, How to Live a Hundred Years Happily
Poems
If you are losing sight of the future, climb up the stairs of Revelation and get a glimpse of the promised land.
Author Unknown, Timely Advice The Bible
Though no one can go back and make a brand new start, anyone can start from now and make a brand new ending.
Carl Bard
Quotes About New Beginnings
Do not quit too soon. The future is bright like a shining diamond.
Lailah Gifty Akita Quotes About Quitting
The future's a sunny sea to the lovers of joy and mirth; but the past alone to those who weep for the sundered ties of earth.
Unknown, Two Pictures
Poems About Life And Love
To forget the mistakes of the past and press on to greater achievements of the future.
Christy Larson, Promise Yourself
A Life Well Lived Poem
When we have struggles in this life, just knowing that God has a plan that is for our good can give us hope for the future.
Crystal McDowell
Hope Quotes
We travel in the future, we rush back in the past, we fly like hawks or eagles; our scope is wide and vast.
Greta Zwaan, Dreams
Poems About Dreams
Yea, in our sorrow we find our bliss, and weave of Yesterdays our To-morrows.
Douglas Malloch, Memories
Encouraging Poetry
Do not worry, do not fret, time will pass and we'll forget all the problems of the present in a future far more pleasant.
Unknown, Take It Easy
Poems About Worry
A truly concentrated life promptly rejects every thought of past or future that would disturb its confidence in the present hour.
C. B. Newcomb
Life Quotes
So let go of the past, and look on to the future.
Julie Hebert, There Will Come A Day
Life Choices Poems