“You are the only young man that I know of who ignores the fact that the future becomes the present, the present the past and the past turns into everlasting regret if you don't plan for it!”

“…everything has a past. Everything – a person, an object, a word, everything. If you don’t know the past, you can’t understand the present and plan properly for the future.”

Chaim Potok book Davita's Harp

“He who spends time regretting the past loses the present and risks the future.”

Francisco de Quevedo (1584–1645) Spanish writer

“I try to learn from the past, but I plan for the future by focusing exclusively on the present.”

Donald J. Trump (1946) 45th President of the United States of America

“Because I don't live in either my past or my future. I'm interested only in the present".”

Paulo Coelho book The Alchemist

“I wish to acquaint you with some of the occurrences of the present past and future.”

Ned Kelly (1855–1880) Australian bushranger

“Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past.”

George Orwell book 1984

“There's no present. There's only the immediate future and the recent past.”

George Carlin (1937–2008) American stand-up comedian

“There is neither Past nor Future. There is only the Present.”

Ramana Maharshi (1879–1950) Indian religious leader

“If you are living in the past or in the future, you will never find a meaning in the present.”

Fausto Cercignani (1941) Italian scholar, essayist and poet