This collection holds 16 future past your quotes, drawn from writers, leaders, artists and thinkers across the QuoteForever archive. The most quoted voices here are Joel A. Barker, Bob Marley and Ll Cool J.

They are ordered so that each author has a say before anyone repeats, which means the first page gives you the range of the topic rather than one writer's back catalogue.

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In this bright future you can't forget your past.

You can't let your past hold your future hostage.

Create your future from your future not your past.

When your future arrives, will you blame your past?

Your successful past will block your visions of the future.

Trying to tear down the past prohibits you from building up your future.

Your past is not your potential. In any hour you can choose to liberate the future.

The ordinary experiences of aging alter and clarify your view of past, present, and future.

Your future takes precedence over your past. Focus on your future, rather than on the past.

People don't realize that now is all there ever is; there is no past or future except as memory or anticipation in your mind.

Such decisions will be far reaching and difficult. But you never lacked courage in the past. Your courage is now needed for the future.

Whether or not you welcome it, moving house requires you to make choices about the past as you move into the future. What of all of your bits of stuff is truly valued? What should be left behind?

On Facebook, your past comes into your present when someone from your second grade class suddenly pops up to send you a message, and your future is being manipulated by what Facebook knows to put in front of you next.

I think the biggest thing is just focusing on the day-to-day, your routine, not getting caught up in the future or the past and just being right there and focusing on what you have to do that day or that night to help your team win.

I fantasise about what the future could be in terms of aesthetic and psychology. It's the most difficult thing to do because you have to start from the past - your favourite architect, your favourite song - you take it all with you.

The ultimate function of prophecy is not to tell the future, but to make it. Your successful past will block your visions of the future.

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