•“The reason people find it so hard to be happy is that they always see the past better than it was, the present worse than it is, and the future less resolved than it will be.” 
― Marcel Pagno 

•“The future is up for grabs. It belongs to any and all who will take the risk and accept the responsibility of consciously creating the future they want.” 
― Robert Anton Wilson

•“Change is the law of life. And those who look only to the past or present are certain to miss the future.” 
― John F. Kennedy 

•“Education is our passport to the future, for tomorrow belongs to the people who prepare for it today.” 
― Malcolm X

•“Who really can face the future? All you can do is project from the past, even when the past shows that such projections are often wrong. And who really can forget the past? What else is there to know?” 
― Robert M. Pirsig

•“I never think of the future - it comes soon enough.” 
― Albert Einstein

•“We have trained them to think of the Future as a promised land which favored heroes attain-not as something which everyone reaches at the rate of sixty minutes an hour, whatever he does, whoever he is.” 
― C.S. Lewis

•“The future you have, tomorrow, won't be the same future you had, yesterday.” 
― Chuck Palahniuk

•“Let him who would enjoy a good future waste none of his present.” 
― Roger Babson 

•“Optimism is a strategy for making a better future. Because unless you believe that the future can be better, you are unlikely to step up and take responsibility for making it so.” 
― Noam Chomsky

•“I'm choosing happiness over suffering, I know I am. I'm making space for the unknown future to fill up my life with yet-to-come surprises.” 
― Elizabeth Gilbert

•“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 

•“Study the past if you would define the future.” 
― Confucius

•“Live quietly in the moment and see the beauty of all before you. The future will take care of itself......” 
― Paramahansa Yogananda

•“The past is a ghost, the future a dream and all we ever have is now.” 
― Bill Cosby

•“Whoever said that the past isn't dead had it backward. It's the future that's already dead, already played out.” 
― Gayle Forman

•“We may not be able to prepare the future for our children, but we can at least prepare our children for the future.” 
― Franklin D. Roosevelt

•“When you forgive, you in no way change the past - but you sure do change the future.” 
― Bernard Meltzer 

•“But you can build a future out of anything. A scrap, a flicker. The desire to go forward, slowly, one foot at a time. You can build an airy city out of ruins.” 
― Lauren Oliver

•“All successful people men and women are big dreamers. They imagine what their future could be, ideal in every respect, and then they work every day toward their distant vision, that goal or purpose.” 
― Brian Tracy 

•“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

•“Look not mournfully into the past, it comes not back again. Wisely improve the present, it is thine. Go forth to meet the shadowy future without fear and with a manly heart.” 
― Henry Wadsworth Longfellow 

•“Its more fun to think of the future than dwell on the past.” 
― Sara Shepard

•“Set your sights high, the higher the better. Expect the most wonderful things to happen, not in the future but right now. Realize that nothing is too good. Allow absolutely nothing to hamper you or hold you up in any way.” 
― Eileen Caddy 

•“The only thing that makes life possible is permanent, intolerable uncertainty: not knowing what comes next.” 
― Ursula K. Le Guin

•“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 

•“We are made wise not by the recollection of our past, but by the responsibility for our future.” 
― George Bernard Shaw 

•“Other men look up and down, left and right; but men like us are different. We are visionaries.” 
― Eoin Colfer

•“The illiterate of the future will not be the person who cannot read. It will be the person who does not know how to learn.” 
― Alvin Toffler 

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

•“You realize that our mistrust of the future makes it hard to give up the past.” 
― Chuck Palahniuk

•“The future rewards those who press on. I don't have time to feel sorry for myself. I don't have time to complain. I'm going to press on.”
― Barack Obama 

•“The hardships that I encountered in the past will help me succeed in the future.”
― Philip Emeagwali 

•“What you had yesterday is only memories; what you will have tomorrow is your dreams and what you will do today, let it be love.” 
― Santosh Kalwar

•“What we instill in our children will be the foundation upon which they build their future.” 
― Steve Maraboli

•“If you believe that feeling bad or worrying long enough will change a past or future event, then you are residing on another planet with a different reality system.”
― William James 

•“Let go of the past and go for the future. Go confidently in the direction of your dreams. Live the life you imagined.” 
― Henry David Thoreau

•“To state the facts frankly is not to despair the future nor indict the past. The prudent heir takes careful inventory of his legacies and gives a faithful accounting to those whom he owes an obligation of trust.”
― John F. Kennedy 

•“The past attracts me, the present frightens me, because the future is death.” 
― Guy de Maupassant

•“We must welcome the future, remembering that soon it will be the past; and we must respect the past, remembering that it was once all that was humanly possible.”
― George Santayana 

•“The best way to predict your future is to create it” 
― Abraham Lincoln

•“People respond when you tell them there is a great future in front of you, you can leave your past behind.”
― Joel Osteen 

•“Forgiving does not erase the bitter past. A healed memory is not a deleted memory. Instead, forgiving what we cannot forget creates a new way to remember. We change the memory of our past into a hope for our future.”
― Lewis B. Smedes 

•“Not all dreamers are winners, but all winners are dreamers. Your dream is the key to your future. The Bible says that, "without a vision (dream), a people perish." You need a dream, if you're going to succeed in anything you do.” 
― Mark Gorman

•“The future is a hundred thousand threads, but the past is a fabric that can never be rewoven.” 
― Orson Scott Card

•No people whose word for 'yesterday' is the same as their word for 'tomorrow' can be said to have a firm grip on the time.” 
― Salman Rushdie

•“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 Chane

•The past was gone and the future had yet to unfold, and he knew he should focus his life on the present yet his day-to-day existence suddenly struck him as endless and unbearable.” 
― Nicholas Sparks

•“I was doing something I'd never done before. And what will I be able to do tomorrow that I cannot yet do today?” 
― Elizabeth Gilbert

•“The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today. Let us move forward with strong and active faith.” 
― Franklin D. Roosevelt

•“What's the Future? It's a blank sheet of paper, and we draw lines on it, but sometimes our hand is held, and the lines we draw aren't the lines we wanted.” 
― John Marsden

•“It's possible to go on, no matter how impossible it seems.” 
― Nicholas Sparks

•“The ultimate test of man's conscience may be his willingness to sacrifice something today for future generations whose words of thanks will not be heard.” 
― Gaylord Nelson

•“Gratitude looks to the Past and love to the Present; fear, avarice, lust, and ambition look ahead.” 
― C.S. Lewis

•“The past is to be respected and acknowledged, but not worshipped; it is our future in which we will find our greatness.” 
― Pierre Trudeau

•“The present is theirs; the future, for which I really worked, is mine.” 
― Nikola Tesla

•“Why didn't I learn to treat everything like it was the last time. My greatest regret was how much I believed in the future.” 
― Jonathan Safran Foer

•“I feel very adventurous. There are so many doors to be opened, and I'm not afraid to look behind them.” 
― Elizabeth Taylor

•“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 

•“You have within you,right now,everything you need to deal with whatever the world can throw at you.” 
― Brian Tracy

•“If we open a quarrel between past and present, we shall find that we have lost the future. ” 
― Winston Churchill

•“You can't stop the future You can't rewind the past The only way to learn the secret
...is to press play.” 
― Jay Asher

•“I am an optimist. Anyone interested in the future has to be otherwise he would simply shoot himself.” 
― Arthur C. Clarke

•“If we are worried about the future, then we must look today at the upbringing of children.” 
― Gordon B. Hinckley

•“It's being here now that's important. There's no past and there's no future. Time is a very misleading thing. All there is ever, is the now. We can gain experience from the past, but we can't relive it; and we can hope for the future, but we don't know if there is one.” 
― George Harrison

•“The Future is, of all things, the thing least like eternity. It is the most temporal part of time--for the Past is frozen and no longer flows, and the Present is all lit up with eternal rays.” 
― C.S. Lewis