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. William James
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. Barack Obama
Upper classes are a nation's past the middle class is its future. Ayn Rand
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. Arnold H. Glasow
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. Denis Waitley
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
Prediction is very difficult, especially if it's about the future. Niels Bohr
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
A person often meets his destiny on the road he took to avoid it. Jean de La Fontaine
Choose your friends with caution plan your future with purpose, and frame your life with faith. Thomas S. Monson
I don't try to describe the future. I try to prevent it. Ray Bradbury
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.' Nicole Kidman
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. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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