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

The country that is more developed industrially only shows, to the less developed, the image of its own future.
Karl Marx

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.
Marcus Aurelius

Here is the rule to remember in the future, When anything tempts you to be bitter: not, "This is a misfortune" but "To bear this worthily is good fortune."
Marcus Aurelius

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

When I look into the future, it's so bright it burns my eyes.
Oprah Winfrey

The greatest discovery of all time is that a person can change his future by merely changing his attitude.
Oprah Winfrey

I was a peripheral visionary. I could see the future, but only way off to the side.
Steven Wright

Once I knew only darkness and stillness... my life was without past or future... but a little word from the fingers of another fell into my hand that clutched at emptiness, and my heart leaped to the rapture of living.
Helen Keller

Without culture, and the relative freedom it implies, society, even when perfect, is but a jungle. This is why any authentic creation is a gift to the future.
Albert Camus

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

The past is not dead, it is living in us, and will be alive in the future which we are now helping to make.
William Morris

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

Let others lead small lives, but not you. Let others argue over small things, but not you. Let others cry over small hurts, but not you. Let others leave their future in someone else's hands, but not you.
Jim Rohn

Happiness is not something you postpone for the future; it is something you design for the present.
Jim Rohn

Take time to gather up the past so that you will be able to draw from your experience and invest them in the future.
Jim Rohn

We're at the crossroads. Down one road is a European centralized bureaucratic socialist welfare system in which politicians and bureaucrats define the future. Down the other road is a proud, solid, reaffirmation of American exceptionalism.
Newt Gingrich

My theme is going to be: Together we can win the future. The right policies lead to the right results. And I'm going to argue that President Obama will lose the future because the wrong policies lead to the wrong results.
Newt Gingrich

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

But blind to former as to future fate, what mortal knows his pre-existent state?
Alexander Pope