Success follows those adept at preserving the substance of the past by clothing it in the forms of the future.
Dee Hock

Such decisions will be far reaching and difficult. But you never lacked courage in the past. Your courage is now needed for the future.
Gerry Adams

Nobody gets to live life backward. Look ahead, that is where your future lies.
Ann Landers

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

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

That man is prudent who neither hopes nor fears anything from the uncertain events of the future.
Anatole France

Everything you need for better future and success has already been written. And guess what? All you have to do is go to the library.
Henri Frederic Amiel

The problem with the future is that it keeps turning into the present.
Bill Watterson

I think I'm going to be making country records for as long as I can see into the future. It's much more down-home and real.
Neil Young

The vote is a trust more delicate than any other, for it involves not just the interests of the voter, but his life, honor and future as well.
Jose Marti

The flesh endures the storms of the present alone; the mind, those of the past and future as well as the present. Gluttony is a lust of the mind.
Thomas Hobbes

If education is always to be conceived along the same antiquated lines of a mere transmission of knowledge, there is little to be hoped from it in the bettering of man's future. For what is the use of transmitting knowledge if the individual's total development lags behind?
Maria Montessori

There are times when even the most potent governor must wink at transgression, in order to preserve the laws inviolate for the future.
Herman Melville

All my children have spoken for themselves since they first learned to speak, and not always with my advance approval, and I expect that to continue in the future.
Gerald R. Ford

My commitment to the security and future of Israel is based upon basic morality as well as enlightened self-interest. Our role in supporting Israel honors our own heritage.
Gerald R. Ford

The most reliable way to forecast the future is to try to understand the present.
John Naisbitt

In a world that is constantly changing, there is no one subject or set of subjects that will serve you for the foreseeable future, let alone for the rest of your life. The most important skill to acquire now is learning how to learn.
John Naisbitt

John wrote with a very deep love for the human race and a concern for its future.
Yoko Ono

Also, it is interesting that developing countries, with China and India perhaps in the lead, where the future of the global environment will be decided are now on board with the case for sustainable development.
Maurice Strong

We owe at least this much to future generations, from whom we have borrowed a fragile planet called Earth.
Maurice Strong