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

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

It is extraordinary that whole populations have no projects for the future, none at all. It certainly is extraordinary, but it is certainly true.
Gertrude Stein

You can never plan the future by the past.
Edmund Burke

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

Our modern states are preparing for war without even knowing the future enemy.
Alfred Adler

The future is called 'perhaps,' which is the only possible thing to call the future. And the important thing is not to allow that to scare you.
Tennessee Williams

The challenges of change are always hard. It is important that we begin to unpack those challenges that confront this nation and realize that we each have a role that requires us to change and become more responsible for shaping our own future.
Hillary Clinton

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

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

Never make predictions, especially about the future.
Casey Stengel

Every time I see an adult on a bicycle, I no longer despair for the future of the human race.
H. G. Wells

To live for some future goal is shallow. It's the sides of the mountain that sustain life, not the top.
Robert M. Pirsig

To live only for some future goal is shallow. It's the sides of the mountain that sustain life, not the top.
Robert M. Pirsig

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

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

Humanity has the stars in its future, and that future is too important to be lost under the burden of juvenile folly and ignorant superstition.
Isaac Asimov

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

The question of armaments, whether on land or sea, is the most immediately and intensely practical question connected with the future fortunes of nations and of mankind.
Woodrow Wilson

Map out your future - but do it in pencil. The road ahead is as long as you make it. Make it worth the trip.
Jon Bon Jovi