“The future is something which everyone reaches at the rate of sixty minutes an hour, whatever he does, whoever he is.”

“A youth is to be regarded with respect. How do you know that his future will not be equal to our present?”

“Only you can control your future.”

“The future belongs to those who prepare for it today.”

Any planning that I have in my career is totally accidental really.

“I predict future happiness for Americans if they can prevent the government from wasting the labors of the people under the pretense of taking care of them.”

The future will either be green or not at all.

In securing the future of the planet, we secure happiness for ourselves. One of the aims of the Greens is to turn around the tide of pessimism amongst the young people of the world.

“Though things change, the future’s still inside of me.”

“You cannot change your future, but you can change your habits, and surely your habits will change your future.

“The greatest fine art of the future will be the making of a comfortable living from a small piece of land.” 

“The best thing about the future is that it comes one day at a time.” 

“The best way to predict your future is to create it.” 

“I've never been more hopeful about our future. I have never been more hopeful about America. And I ask you to sustain that hope. I'm not talking about blind optimism, the kind of hope that just ignores the enormity of the tasks ahead or the roadblocks that stand in our path. I'm not talking about the wishful idealism that allows us to just sit on the sidelines or shirk from a fight. I have always believed that hope is that stubborn thing inside us that insists, despite all the evidence to the contrary, that something better awaits us so long as we have the courage to keep reaching, to keep working, to keep fighting.” 

“Let it be told to the future world that in the depth of winter, when nothing but hope and virtue could survive, that the city and the country, alarmed at one common danger, came forth to meet it.” 

"The future belongs to those who learn more skills and combine them in creative ways."

"For the future, the motto is, "No days unalert."

“Real generosity toward the future lies in giving all to the present.”

“Optimism is a strategy for making a better future. Because unless you believe that the future can be better, it’s unlikely you will step up and take responsibility for making it so. If you assume that there’s no hope, you guarantee that there will be no hope. If you assume that there is an instinct for freedom, there are opportunities to change things, there’s a chance you may contribute to making a better world. The choice is yours.” 

“I remember reading a book set in the future, it was written in the 1870s projecting to 1920, and this time traveler said you couldn't tell the difference between men and women. He saw what was coming.” 

Here is a rule to remember in future, when anything tempts you to feel bitter: not “This is misfortune,” but “To bear this worthily is good fortune”.

Remind yourself that it is not the future or what has passed that afflicts you, but always the present.

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.

How you see the future is much more important than what happened in your past.