Listen to the Ages

The present was made to be a past. When you finally reach your future, it will be present but for a short time.

D L Herring

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

Abraham Lincoln

It is always wise to look ahead, but difficult to look further than you can see.

Winston Churchill

It is not in the stars to hold our destiny but in ourselves.

William Shakespeare

Education is the passport to the future, for tomorrow belongs to those who prepare for it today.

Malcolm X

Memories are the key not to the past, but to the future.

Corrie Ten Boom

Let the future tell the truth, and evaluate each one according to his work and accomplishments. The present is theirs; the future, for which I have really worked, is mine.

Nikola Tesla

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

A person often meets his destiny on the road he took to avoid it.

Jean de La Fontaine

The secret of your future is hidden in your daily routine.

Mike Murdock

No work or love will flourish out of guilt, fear, or hollowness of heart, just as no valid plans for the future can be made by those who have no capacity for living now.

Alan Watts

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

The empires of the future are the empires of the mind.

Winston Churchill

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

The future ain't what it used to be.

Yogi Berra

Even though the future seems far away, it is actually beginning right now.

Mattie Stepanek

Hold fast to the Bible. To the influence of this Book we are indebted for all the progress made in true civilization and to this we must look as our guide in the future.

Ulysses S. Grant

It is not enough to understand, or to see clearly. The future will be shaped in the arena of human activity, by those willing to commit their minds and their bodies to the task.

Robert Kennedy

My interest is in the future because I am going to spend the rest of my life there.

Charles Kettering

The future influences the present just as much as the past.

Friedrich Nietzsche

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

Choose your friends with caution; plan your future with purpose, and frame your life with faith.

Thomas S. Monson

Without forgiveness, there's no future.

Desmond Tutu

For time and the world do not stand still. Change is the law of life. And those who look only to the past or the present are certain to miss the future.

John F. Kennedy

I can look at the future with anticipation. And it's comforting to know that someday, as Christians, we'll be able to look back and have a little more clarity on why certain things in life happened.

Amy Grant

You know when you're young you think you will always be. As you become more fragile, you reflect and you realize how much comfort can come from the past. Hymns can carry you into the future.

Andy Griffith

We are made wise not by the recollection of our past, but by the responsibility for our future.

George Bernard Shaw

Let us make our future now, and let us make our dreams tomorrow's reality.

Malala Yousafzai