We can pay our debt to the past by putting the future in debt to ourselves.
These days people seek knowledge, not wisdom. Knowledge is of the past, wisdom is of the future.
One problem with gazing too frequently into the past is that we may turn around to find the future has run out on us.
I never think of the future. It comes soon enough.
A cynic is not merely one who reads bitter lessons from the past, he is one who is prematurely disappointed in the future.
The past exists only in our memories, the future only in our plans. The present is our only reality.
apologize, v.i.: To lay the foundation for a future offence.
The best thing about the future is that it comes only one day at a time.
Just remember--when you think all is lost, the future remains.
There is nothing like dream to create the future. Utopia to-day, flesh and blood tomorrow.
A youth is to be regarded with respect. How do you know that his future will not be equal to our present?
Every saint has a past and every sinner a future.
A guidance counselor who has made a fetish of security, or who has unwittingly surrendered his thinking to economic determinism, may steer a youth away from his dream of becoming a poet, an artist, a musician or any other of thousands of things, because it offers no security, it does not pay well, there are no vacancies, it has no "future".
The only difference between saints and sinners is that every saint has a past while every sinner has a future.
The best way to predict the future is to invent it.
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.
Every time I see an adult on a bicycle, I no longer despair for the future of the human race.
All endeavor calls for the ability to tramp the last mile, shape the last plan, endure the last hours toil. The fight to the finish spirit is the one... characteristic we must posses if we are to face the future as finishers.
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.
Never be satisfied with what you achieve, because it all pales in comparison with what you are capable of doing in the future.
Neither a wise man nor a brave man lies down on the tracks of history to wait for the train of the future to run over him.
The future is not a giftâit is an achievement.
We live in the present, we dream of the future and we learn eternal truths from the past.
Present-moment living, getting in touch with your "now," is at the heart of effective living. When you think about it, there really is no other moment you can live. Now is all there is, and the future is just another present moment to live when it arrives. One thing is certain, you cannot live it until it does appear.
I used to hurt so badly that I'd ask God why, what have I done to deserve any of this? I feel now He was preparing me for this, for the future. That's the way I see it.