The future is no more uncertain than the present.

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.

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.

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.

There is nothing like a dream to create the future.

Cease to inquire what the future has in store and take as a gift whatever the day brings forth.

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

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.

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.

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.

Look back over the past with its changing empires that rose and fell and you can foresee the future too.

Prediction is very difficult especially if it's about the future.

The future belongs to those who prepare for it today.

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

Happy is the person who knows what to remember of the past what to enjoy in the present and what to plan for in the future.

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

The future rewards those who press on. I don't have time to feel sorry for myself. I don't have time to complain. I'm going to press on.

Elegance is not the prerogative of those who have just escaped from adolescence but of those who have already taken possession of their future.

The main goal of the future is to stop violence. The world is addicted to it.

The most glorious moments in your life are not the so-called days of success but rather those days when out of dejection and despair you feel rise in you a challenge to life and the promise of future accomplishments.

The past is a ghost the future a dream and all we ever have is now.

Our human compassion binds us the one to the other - not in pity or patronizingly but as human beings who have learnt how to turn our common suffering into hope for the future.

I know of no way of judging the future but by the past.

Never let the future disturb you. You will meet it if you have to with the same weapons of reason which today arm you against the present.