Future Quotes

I'm not sure what the future holds but I do know that I'm going to be positive and not wake up feeling desperate. As my dad said 'Nic, it is what it is, it's not what it should have been, not what it could have been, it is what it is.'

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.

I don't try to describe the future. I try to prevent it.

Enjoy present pleasures in such a way as not to injure future ones.

The past, the present and the future are really one: they are today.

It took the madmen of yesterday for us to be able to act with extreme clarity today. I want to be one of those madmen. We must dare to invent the future.

What matters is to live in the present, live now, for every moment is now. It is your thoughts and acts of the moment that create your future. The outline of your future path already exists, for you created its pattern by your past.

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.

Tomorrow is only found in the calendar of fools.

I do not want to foresee the future. I am concerned with taking care of the present. God has given me no control over the moment following.

Upper classes are a nation's past; the middle class is its future.

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.

The wise man must remember that while he is a descendant of the past, he is a parent of the future.

They gave each other a smile with a future in it.

The future is always beginning now.

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

The one thing we know about the future is that it comes only one day at a time.

If you believe that feeling bad or worrying long enough will change a past or future event, then you are residing on another planet with a different reality system.

Well, the future for me is already a thing of the past.

We must respect the past, and mistrust the present, if we wish to provide for the safety of the future.