Fate leads the willing and drags along those who hang back.
—Cleanthes, c. 250 BC
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All progress is based upon a universal, innate desire on the part of every organism to live beyond its income.
—Samuel Butler, c. 1890Men are able to assist fortune but not to thwart her. They can weave her designs, but they cannot destroy them.
—Niccolò Machiavelli, 1531The future...something which everyone reaches at the rate of sixty minutes an hour, whatever he does, whoever he is.
—C.S. Lewis, 1941Real generosity toward the future lies in giving all to the present.
—Albert Camus, 1951