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

Destiny is not a matter of chance, it is a matter of choice; it is not a thing to be waited for, it is a thing to be achieved.

Fate leads the willing and drags along those who hang back.

Time will reveal everything. It is a babbler and speaks even when not asked.

All progress is based upon a universal, innate desire on the part of every organism to live beyond its income.

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

I like the dreams of the future better than the history of the past.

Little folks become their little fate.

He alone who owns the youth gains the future.

God seems to have left the receiver off the hook, and time is running out.

The world is dying of machinery; that is the great disease, that is the plague that will sweep away and destroy civilization; man will have to rise against it sooner or later.

People will not look forward to posterity who never look backward to their ancestors.

Every saint has a past, and every sinner has a future.