We are called to be architects of the future, not its victims.
R. Buckminster Fuller

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

True happiness is... to enjoy the present, without anxious dependence upon the future.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca

The mind that is anxious about the future is miserable.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca

The future is that period of time in which our affairs prosper, our friends are true, and our happiness is assured.
Ambrose Bierce

Future. That period of time in which our affairs prosper, our friends are true and our happiness is assured.
Ambrose Bierce

To apologize is to lay the foundation for a future offense.
Ambrose Bierce

Learn from the past, set vivid, detailed goals for the future, and live in the only moment of time over which you have any control: now.
Denis Waitley

A dream is your creative vision for your life in the future. You must break out of your current comfort zone and become comfortable with the unfamiliar and the unknown.
Denis Waitley

Losers live in the past. Winners learn from the past and enjoy working in the present toward the future.
Denis Waitley

The man who comes up with a means for doing or producing almost anything better, faster or more economically has his future and his fortune at his fingertips.
J. Paul Getty

Your future takes precedence over your past. Focus on your future, rather than on the past.
Gary Ryan Blair

Planning ahead is a measure of class. The rich and even the middle class plan for future generations, but the poor can plan ahead only a few weeks or days.
Gloria Steinem

The future depends entirely on what each of us does every day; a movement is only people moving.
Gloria Steinem

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.
William Wordsworth

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.
Ulysses S. Grant

Every thought we think is creating our future.
Louise L. Hay

In a time of drastic change it is the learners who inherit the future. The learned usually find themselves equipped to live in a world that no longer exists.
Eric Hoffer

The only way to predict the future is to have power to shape the future.
Eric Hoffer

While day by day the overzealous student stores up facts for future use, he who has learned to trust nature finds need for ever fewer external directions. He will discard formula after formula, until he reaches the conclusion: Let nature take its course.
Larry Bird