Well, the future for me is already a thing of the past. – Bob Dylan
The future belongs to those who prepare for it today. – Malcolm X
Look back over the past, with its changing empires that rose and fell, and you can foresee the future, too. – Marcus Aurelius
It is not enough to understand, or to see clearly. The future will be shaped in the arena of human activity, by those willing to commit their minds and their bodies to the task. – Robert Kennedy
The reason people find it so hard to be happy is that they always see the past better than it was, the present worse than it is, and the future less resolved than it will be. – Marcel Pagnol
The essence of optimism is that it takes no account of the present, but it is a source of inspiration, of vitality and hope where others have resigned it enables a man to hold his head high, to claim the future for himself and not to abandon it to his enemy. – Dietrich Bonhoeffer
Cease to inquire what the future has in store, and take as a gift whatever the day brings forth. – Horace
There is nothing like a dream to create the future. – Victor Hugo
Trying to predict the future is like trying to drive down a country road at night with no lights while looking out the back window. – Peter Drucker
Let the future tell the truth, and evaluate each one according to his work and accomplishments. The present is theirs the future, for which I have really worked, is mine. – Nikola Tesla
If future generations are to remember us more with gratitude than sorrow, we must achieve more than just the miracles of technology. We must also leave them a glimpse of the world as it was created, not just as it looked when we got through with it. – Lyndon B. Johnson
The future is no more uncertain than the present. – Walt Whitman
There is never time in the future in which we will work out our salvation. The challenge is in the moment the time is always now. – James A. Baldwin
Hold fast to the Bible. To the influence of this Book we are indebted for all the progress made in true civilization and to this we must look as our guide in the future. – Ulysses S. Grant
Every man has his own destiny: the only imperative is to follow it, to accept it, no matter where it leads him. – Henry Miller
We must welcome the future, remembering that soon it will be the past and we must respect the past, remembering that it was once all that was humanly possible. – George Santayana
The secret of your future is hidden in your daily routine. – Mike Murdock
Control your own destiny or someone else will. – Jack Welch
I am tomorrow, or some future day, what I establish today. I am today what I established yesterday or some previous day. – James Joyce
Never make predictions, especially about the future. – Casey Stengel
