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.

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.

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

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

I don't try to describe the future. I try to prevent it.

I'm not sure what the future holds but I do know that I'm going to be positive and not wake up feeling desperate. As my dad said 'Nic, it is what it is, it's not what it should have been, not what it could have been, it is what it is.'

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.

Cease to inquire what the future has in store, and take as a gift whatever the day brings forth.

There is nothing like a dream to create the future.

Trying to predict the future is like trying to drive down a country road at night with no lights while looking out the back window.