"Who so neglects learning in his youth loses the past and is dead to the future.'"

"It is the way of weakened minds to see everything through a black cloud. The soul forms its own horizons; your soul is darkened, and consequently the sky of the future appears stormy and unpromising"

"Until the day when God shall deign to reveal the future to man, all human wisdom is summed up in these two words,-Wait and hope."

"the future's uncertain and the end is always near"

"Whoever neglects the arts when he is young has lost the past and is dead to the future."

"The future of this republic is in the hands of the American voter."

"In the future days, which we seek to make secure, we look forward to a world founded upon four essential human freedoms. The first is freedom of speech and expression--everywhere in the world. The second is freedom of every person to worship God in his own way--everywhere in the world. The third is freedom from want--which, translated into world terms, means economic understandings which will secure to every nation a healthy peacetime life for its inhabitants--everywhere in the world. The fourth is freedom from fear--which, translated into world terms, means a world-wide reduction of armaments to such a point and in such a thorough fashion that no nation will be in a position to commit an act of physical aggression gainst any neighbor--anywhere in the world."

"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."

"Go for it now. The future is promised to no one."

"I looked for the same pitch my whole career, a breaking ball. All of the time. I never worried about the fastball. They couldn't throw it past me, none of them."

"[It's easy to wax satirical about the possibility that in some future time there could be more poets laureate in Colorado than readers of poetry. The fact is, poetry is an endangered species, and even those of us with a more prosaic bent can appreciate the importance of encouraging a broader audience. Of course, even poets have different views of what they do. Pablo Neruda wrote, for example, that] poetry is an act of peace, ... Poetry is a way of taking life by the throat."

If you have no vision of yourself in the future, then you have nothing to live for. 

“Nowadays, when a speaker tells the graduates that the future is theirs--is that a promise or a threat?” 

If you have a smothering parent, the effect it can apparently have on a child is to give them, in equal doses, a sense of too much self-esteem, because they are mummy's little princess or prince, and low self-esteem. It affects future relationships.

It's no good pretending that any relationship has a future if your record collections disagree violently or if your favorite films wouldn't even speak to each other if they met at a party.

One day, maybe not in the next few weeks, but certainly in the conceivable future, someone will be able to refer to me without using the word 'arse' somewhere in the sentence.

I am a person who continually destroys the possibilities of a future because of the numbers of alternative viewpoints I can focus on the present.

Inflict the least possible permanent injury, for the enemy of to-day is the customer of the morrow and the ally of the future

The practical value of history is to throw the film of the past through the material projector of the present on to the screen of the future.

Times and conditions change so rapidly that we must keep our aim constantly focused on the future.

“Only put off until tomorrow what you are willing to die having left undone”

The doctor of the future will prescribe virtually no medicine, but will interest his patients in the care of the human body, in diet, and in the cause and prevention of disease.

The power of memories and expectations is such that for most human beings, the past and the future are not as real, but rather more real than the present.

For I dipped into the future, far as human eye could see, Saw the Vision of the world, and all the wonder that would be.