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

Education is the passport to the future, for tomorrow belongs to those who prepare for it today.
Malcolm X

The future belongs to those who prepare for it today.
Malcolm X

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

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

I like dreams of the future better than the history of the past.
Patrick Henry

Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past.
George Orwell

If you want a vision of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face - forever.
George Orwell

All political thinking for years past has been vitiated in the same way. People can foresee the future only when it coincides with their own wishes, and the most grossly obvious facts can be ignored when they are unwelcome.
George Orwell

We have to do with the past only as we can make it useful to the present and the future.
Frederick Douglass

America is false to the past, false to the present, and solemnly binds herself to be false to the future.
Frederick Douglass

Solitude is not something you must hope for in the future. Rather, it is a deepening of the present, and unless you look for it in the present you will never find it.
Thomas Merton

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.
Plutarch

In each action we must look beyond the action at our past, present, and future state, and at others whom it affects, and see the relations of all those things. And then we shall be very cautious.
Blaise Pascal

If we examine our thoughts, we shall find them always occupied with the past and the future.
Blaise Pascal

Wisdom is the abstract of the past, but beauty is the promise of the future.
Oliver Wendell Holmes

Smiles form the channels of a future tear.
Lord Byron

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