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

Choose your friends with caution; plan your future with purpose, and frame your life with faith.

Life is divided into three terms - that which was, which is, and which will be. Let us learn from the past to profit by the present, and from the present, to live better in the future.

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

Even though the future seems far away, it is actually beginning right now.

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

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.

If you do not think about your future, you cannot have one.

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

The future influences the present just as much as the past.

In this bright future you can't forget your past.

Never make predictions, especially about the future.

Yesterday is a cancelled check. Today is cash on the line. Tomorrow is a promissory note.

I never think of the future - it comes soon enough.

History is a relentless master. It has no present, only the past rushing into the future. To try to hold fast is to be swept aside.

Business, more than any other occupation, is a continual dealing with the future; it is a continual calculation, an instinctive exercise in foresight.

You need imagination in order to imagine a future that doesn't exist.

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

You cannot escape the responsibility of tomorrow by evading it today.

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.

The future is no more uncertain than the present.

I have made good judgments in the past. I have made good judgments in the future.

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

The factory of the future will have only two employees, a man and a dog. The man will be there to feed the dog. The dog will be there to keep the man from touching the equipment.

A great source of calamity lies in regret and anticipation; therefore a person is wise who thinks of the present alone, regardless of the past or future.

Do your duty and a little more and the future will take care of itself.

If we open a quarrel between past and present, we shall find that we have lost the future.

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.

Anniversaries are like birthdays: occasions to celebrate and to think ahead, usually among friends with whom one shares not only the past but also the future.

Real generosity toward the future lies in giving all to the present.

What we need to do is always lean into the future; when the world changes around you and when it changes against you - what used to be a tail wind is now a head wind - you have to lean into that and figure out what to do because complaining isn't a strategy.

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

The secret of your future is hidden in your daily routine.

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.

There is always one moment in childhood when the door opens and lets the future in.

Fear not for the future, weep not for the past.

This is the first age that's ever paid much attention to the future, which is a little ironic since we may not have one.

The future ain't what it used to be.

Map out your future - but do it in pencil. The road ahead is as long as you make it. Make it worth the trip.

The best years of your life are the ones in which you decide your problems are your own. You do not blame them on your mother, the ecology, or the president. You realize that you control your own destiny.

The children have been a wonderful gift to me, and I'm thankful to have once again seen our world through their eyes. They restore my faith in the family's future.

The youth is the hope of our future.

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.

The important consequences to the American States from this Declaration of Independence, considered as the ground and foundation of a future government, naturally suggest the propriety of proclaiming it in such a manner as that the people may be universally informed of it.

A person often meets his destiny on the road he took to avoid it.

When the past no longer illuminates the future, the spirit walks in darkness.

Destiny is no matter of chance. It is a matter of choice. It is not a thing to be waited for, it is a thing to be achieved.

As long as we are persistence in our pursuit of our deepest destiny, we will continue to grow. We cannot choose the day or time when we will fully bloom. It happens in its own time.

The only difference between the saint and the sinner is that every saint has a past, and every sinner has a future.

This time, instead of moving oceans and healing planets, let's get our bills in order and pay down the debt so we control our own future.

I think the teaching profession contributes more to the future of our society than any other single profession.

The human brain now holds the key to our future. We have to recall the image of the planet from outer space: a single entity in which air, water, and continents are interconnected. That is our home.

I don't think the human mind can comprehend the past and the future. They are both just illusions that can manipulate you into thinking theres some kind of change.

I've said it before, but it's absolutely true: My mother gave me my drive, but my father gave me my dreams. Thanks to him, I could see a future.

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.

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

Let us not seek the Republican answer or the Democratic answer, but the right answer. Let us not seek to fix the blame for the past. Let us accept our own responsibility for the future.

The future is always beginning now.

The Internet: transforming society and shaping the future through chat.

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

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.

I've said it before, but it's absolutely true: My mother gave me my drive, but my father gave me my dreams. Thanks to him, I could see a future.

It is not in the stars to hold our destiny but in ourselves.

I look to the future because that's where I'm going to spend the rest of my life.

Neither a wise man nor a brave man lies down on the tracks of history to wait for the train of the future to run over him.

The future is called 'perhaps', which is the only possible thing to call the future. And the important thing is not to allow that to scare you.

The word tomorrow was invented for indecisive people and for children.

Every man has his own destiny: the only imperative is to follow it, to accept it, no matter where it leads him.

Let us put our minds together and see what life we can make for our children.

Control your own destiny or someone else will.

You can't connect the dots looking forward; you can only connect them looking backwards. So you have to trust that the dots will somehow connect in your future. You have to trust in something - your gut, destiny, life, karma, whatever. This approach has never let me down, and it has made all the difference in my life.

Only you can control your future.

Girls are the future mothers of our society, and it is important that we focus on their well-being.

I'll never stop dreaming that one day we can be a real family, together, all of us laughing and talking, loving and understanding, not looking at the past but only to the 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 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.

I have realized that the past and future are real illusions, that they exist in the present, which is what there is and all there is.

Children are not casual guests in our home. They have been loaned to us temporarily for the purpose of loving them and instilling a foundation of values on which their future lives will be built.

Without forgiveness, there's no future.

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.

The future starts today, not tomorrow.

I don't know what the future may hold, but I know who holds the future.

If you think in terms of a year, plant a seed; if in terms of ten years, plant trees; if in terms of 100 years, teach the people.

Sooner and later you will see great changes made, dreadful horrors and vengeances. For as the Moon is thus led by its angel, the heavens draw near to the Balance.

God is more interested in your future and your relationships than you are.

Look not mournfully into the past, it comes not back again. Wisely improve the present, it is thine. Go forth to meet the shadowy future without fear and with a manly heart.

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.

My interest is in the future because I am going to spend the rest of my life there.

We steal if we touch tomorrow. It is God's.

I believe that you control your destiny, that you can be what you want to be. You can also stop and say, 'No, I won't do it, I won't behave his way anymore. I'm lonely and I need people around me, maybe I have to change my methods of behaving,' and then you do it.

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.

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

Tomorrow is only found in the calendar of fools.

I think the future for solar energy is bright.

Isn't it amazing the way the future succeeds in creating an appropriate past?

The empires of the future are the empires of the mind.

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.

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

Those people who develop the ability to continuously acquire new and better forms of knowledge that they can apply to their work and to their lives will be the movers and shakers in our society for the indefinite future.

You can never plan the future by the past.