Look back over the past, with it's changing empires that rose and fell, and you can foresee the future too.
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.
Change your life today. Don't gamble on the future, act now, without delay.
..Men do not sufficiently realize that their future is in their own hands. Theirs is the task of determining first of all whether they want to go on living or not. Theirs is the responsibility, then, for deciding if they want merely to live, or intend to make just the extra effort required for fulfilling, even on this refractory planet, the essential function of the universe, which is a machine for the making of gods.”
Everything tends to make us believe that there exists a certain point of the mind at which life and death, the real and the imagined, past and future, the communicable and the incommunicable, high and low, cease to be perceived as contradictions.
Do not dwell in the past, do not dream of the future, concentrate the mind on the present moment.
The secret of health for both mind and body is not to mourn for the past, nor to worry about the future, but to live the present moment wisely and earnestly.
Always bear in mind that the people are not fighting for ideas, for the things in anyone’s head. They are fighting to win material benefits, to live better and in peace, to see their lives go forward, to guarantee the future of their children.
Real generosity toward the future lies in giving all to the present.
All of the future exists in the past.
A revolution is not a bed of roses. A revolution is a struggle between the future and the past.
Elegance is not the prerogative of those who have just escaped adolescence, but of those who have already taken possession of their future.
A woman who doesn't wear perfume has no future.
Times and conditions change so rapidly that we must keep our aim constantly focused on the future.
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.
Looking at the past must only be a means of understanding more clearly what and who they are so that they can more wisely build the future.
Only mothers can think of the future - because they give birth to it in their children.
“Remembrance of the past kills all present energy and deadens all hope for the future”
The past, like the future, is indefinite and exists only as a spectrum of possibilities.
Cease to inquire what the future has in store, and take as a gift whatever the day brings forth.
Do not laugh at any calamity because destiny is common and the future unknown.
The future is purchased by the present.
There is not past, no future; everything flows in an eternal present.
I am tomorrow, or some future day, what I establish today. I am today what I established yesterday or some previous day.
My future is righteousness.
The past attracts me, the present frightens me, because the future is death.
If you want a vision of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face - forever.
Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past.
A society is defined as much by how it comes to terms with its past as by its attitude toward the future: its memories are no less revealing than its aims.
To make no mistakes is not in the power of man; but from their errors and mistakes the wise and good learn wisdom for the future.
In my view, the composer, just as the poet, the sculptor or the painter, is in duty bound to serve Man, the people. He must beautify life and defend it. He must be a citizen first and foremost, so that his art might consciously extol human life and lead man to a radiant future.
Carry on any enterprise as if all future success depended on it.
You may forget but let me tell you this: someone in some future time, will think of us.
True happiness is to enjoy the present, without anxiety about the future.
Fear not for the future, weep not for the past.
Fear not for the future, weep not for the past.
Whoever neglects the arts when he is young has lost the past and is dead to the future.
To regret the past, to hope in the future, and never to be satisfied with the present: that is what I spend my whole life doing”
We should try to be the parents of our future rather than the offspring of our past.
“The future happens. No matter how much we scream.”
Every saint has a past, and every sinner has a future.”