I am not interested in the past, except as the road to the future.
The vast possibilities of our great future will become realities only if we make ourselves responsible for that future.
Tomorrow is no man's gift.
Nobody knows what the future is except for wizards.
As I say to our own team: 'Never protect your past, never define yourself by a single product, and always continue to steward for the long-term. Keep moving towards the future.'
What can be more stupid than to be in pain about future things and absent ones which at present are not felt?
My responsibility as president is to take care to solve the problems we are facing now and to provide a vision and direction for how our nation should advance in the future.
A transition to clean energy is about making an investment in our future.
The future depends entirely on what each of us does every day; a movement is only people moving.
I have no illusions of the future. Or maybe it's all illusion. I don't know. I've always been ready for it.
I don't have time to beat myself up over my fallible nature. Instead I use my energy to learn from my past and let it inform my future. It's time to own all of our glory, mistakes, mess and light and be gentle to ourselves. Let's be kind to our spirits and celebrate the truth of our hearts.
There is always one moment in childhood when the door opens and lets the future in.
Even gang members imagine a future that doesn't include gangs.
The future is the worst thing about the present.
Being fully present is the best guarantee for a bright future.
Yesterday is a cancelled check. Today is cash on the line. Tomorrow is a promissory note.
Promises are the uniquely human way of ordering the future, making it predictable and reliable to the extent that this is humanly possible.
At some point in the future - possibly the very near future - Britain will be hit by a deadly pandemic, and its impact could be utterly devastating.
I don't compare shows. It's very simple. I don't live in the past. If there's any secret to my longevity, it's living in the future. And a little bit in the present.
The past, the present and the future are really one: they are today.
I had faith in Israel before it was established, I have in it now. I believe it has a glorious future before it - not just another sovereign nation, but as an embodiment of the great ideals of our civilization.
Worrying about the past or the future isn't productive. When you start chastising yourself for past mistakes, or seeing disaster around every corner, stop and take a breath and ask yourself what you can do right now to succeed.
As a small country, both in size and population, our future hinges on the quality of our people.
Whenever in future wars the battle is fought, armored troops will play the decisive role.
Destiny has two ways of crushing us - by refusing our wishes and by fulfilling them.
The Christian leaders of the future have to be theologians, persons who know the heart of God and are trained - through prayer, study, and careful analysis - to manifest the divine event of God's saving work in the midst of the many seemingly random events of their time.
The Christian leader of the future is called to be completely irrelevant and to stand in this world with nothing to offer but his or her own vulnerable self. God loves us, not because of what we do or accomplish, but because God has created and redeemed us in love.
The real enemies of our life are the 'oughts' and the 'ifs.' They pull us backward into the unalterable past and forward into the unpredictable future. But real life takes place in the here and now.
Our Heavenly Father knows us and our circumstances and even what faces us in the future. His Beloved Son, Jesus Christ, our Savior, has suffered and paid for our sins and those of all the people we will ever meet. He has perfect understanding of the feelings, the suffering, the trials, and the needs of every individual.
As the humanities and liberal arts are downsized, privatized, and commodified, higher education finds itself caught in the paradox of claiming to invest in the future of young people while offering them few intellectual, civic, and moral supports.
Every man has his own destiny: the only imperative is to follow it, to accept it, no matter where it leads him.
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.
We steal if we touch tomorrow. It is God's.
The wise man must remember that while he is a descendant of the past, he is a parent of the future.
Cease to inquire what the future has in store, and take as a gift whatever the day brings forth.
I believe life is a series of near misses. A lot of what we ascribe to luck is not luck at all. It's seizing the day and accepting responsibility for your future. It's seeing what other people don't see And pursuing that vision.
It is time we in Scotland put England in its proper place and instead of our leaning on England and taking inspiration from her, we should lean and turn to Europe, for it is there our future prosperity lies.
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.
The word tomorrow was invented for indecisive people and for children.
Predictions are preposterous.
I want to have all that scientific information that we're building be used in designing the future so that people who make geographic decisions - and here it's not just land-use planners, but it's everyone: foresters, transportation engineers, people who buy a house - can analyze all of these information layers and design a future.
Right now people are interested in genetic engineering to help the human race. That's a noble cause, and that's where we should be heading. But once we get past that - once we understand what genetic diseases we can deal with - when we start thinking about the future, there's an opportunity to create some new life-forms.
There have been ups and downs over the years, but that's in the past, and now I'm just looking forward and focussed on the future ahead.
Control your own destiny or someone else will.
The road to the future leads us smack into the wall. We simply ricochet off the alternatives that destiny offers. Our survival is no more than a question of 25, 50 or perhaps 100 years.
The shape and solutions of the future rely totally on the collective effort of people working together. We are all an integral part of the web of life.
It is not predictions but plans that make the future. If you want predictions, it is because you do not have the ability to make a plan and fulfill it.
The future is like heaven, everyone exalts it, but no one wants to go there now.
Everything that ever happened is still happening. Past, present and future keep happening in the eternity which is Here and Now.
In the future, we will probably see cyber operations that change or manipulate electronic information to compromise its integrity instead of simply deleting the access to it.