The past is a source of knowledge, and the future is a source of hope. Love of the past implies faith in the future.
-Stephen E. Ambrose
Quotations
Future
The reason people find it so hard to be happy is that they always see the past better than it was, the present worse than it is, and the future less resolved than it will be.
-Marcel Pagnol
A preoccupation with the future not only prevents us from seeing the present as it is but often prompts us to rearrange the past.
-Eric Hoffer
The future influences the present just as much as the past.
-Friedrich Nietzsche
I have memories - but only a fool stores his past in the future.
-David Gerrold
If we open a quarrel between past and present, we shall find that we have lost the future.
-Winston S. Churchill
The future belongs to those who prepare for it today.
-Malcolm X
Pile up too many tomorrows and you'll find that you've collected nothing but a bunch of empty yesterdays.
-Meredith Wilson
One today is worth two tomorrows.
-Benjamin Franklin
You realize that our mistrust of the future makes it hard to give up the past.
-Charles Michael "Chuck" Palahniuk
"Survivor"
