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

There is nothing like a dream to create the future.
Victor Hugo

What is history? An echo of the past in the future; a reflex from the future on the past.
Victor Hugo

Each man should frame life so that at some future hour fact and his dreaming meet.
Victor Hugo

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

I do not think white America is committed to granting equality to the American Negro. This is a passionately racist country; it will continue to be so in the foreseeable future.
Susan Sontag

Existence is no more than the precarious attainment of relevance in an intensely mobile flux of past, present, and future.
Susan Sontag

The importance of money flows from it being a link between the present and the future.
John Maynard Keynes

The social object of skilled investment should be to defeat the dark forces of time and ignorance which envelope our future.
John Maynard Keynes

Just, you never know what the next day is going to bring. That goes for football, goes for off the field, and I gave up a long time ago trying to predict the future and trying to deal with things I couldn't deal with.
Brett Favre

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

Republicans are men of narrow vision, who are afraid of the future.
Jimmy Carter

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

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

Never make predictions, especially about the future.
Casey Stengel

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

We are at the very beginning of time for the human race. It is not unreasonable that we grapple with problems. But there are tens of thousands of years in the future. Our responsibility is to do what we can, learn what we can, improve the solutions, and pass them on.
Richard P. Feynman

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

We drive into the future using only our rearview mirror.
Marshall McLuhan

The wave of the future is coming and there is no fighting it.
Anne Morrow Lindbergh