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.
—William Jennings Bryan, 1899Quotes
He alone who owns the youth gains the future.
—Adolf Hitler, 1935Tomorrow never comes, man. It’s all the same fucking day.
—Janis Joplin, 1972My interest is in the future, because I am going to spend the rest of my life there.
—Charles F. Kettering, 1946Little folks become their little fate.
—Horace, c. 20 BCGod seems to have left the receiver off the hook, and time is running out.
—Arthur Koestler, 1967Real generosity toward the future lies in giving all to the present.
—Albert Camus, 1951All progress is based upon a universal, innate desire on the part of every organism to live beyond its income.
—Samuel Butler, c. 1890The future is no more uncertain than the present.
—Walt Whitman, 1856The future comes like an unwelcome guest.
—Edmund Gosse, 1873As natural selection works solely by and for the good of each being, all corporeal and mental endowments will tend to progress toward perfection.
—Charles Darwin, 1859The less a man knows about the past and the present, the more insecure must prove to be his judgment of the future.
—Sigmund Freud, 1927I don’t try to describe the future. I try to prevent it.
—Ray Bradbury, 1992