“True happiness is... to enjoy the present, without anxious dependence upon the future.”
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“Real generosity toward the future lies in giving all to the present.”
“The danger of the past was that men became slaves. The danger of the future is that man may become robots.”
“Not only our future economic soundness but the very soundness of our democratic institutions depends on the determination of our government to give employment to idle men.”
“It is said that the present is pregnant with the future.”
“Without libraries what have we? We have no past and no future.”
“I tell you the past is a bucket of ashes, so live not in your yesterdays, no just for tomorrow, but in the here and now. Keep moving and forget the post mortems and remember, no one can get the jump on the future.”
“The essence of statesmanship is not a rigid adherence to the past, but a prudent and probing concern for the future.”
“Neither a wise man nor a brave man lies down on the tracks of history to wait for the train of the future to run over him.”
“How paramount the future is to the present when one is surrounded by children.”
“At some future period, not very distant as measured by centuries, the civilized races of man will almost certainly exterminate, and replace the savage races throughout the world.”
“I have realized that the past and future are real illusions, that they exist in the present, which is what there is and all there is.”
“To make no mistakes is not in the power of man but from their errors and mistakes the wise and good learn wisdom for the future.”
“Conservatism discards Prescription, shrinks from Principle, disavows Progress having rejected all respect for antiquity, it offers no redress for the present, and makes no preparation for the future.”
“What is history? An echo of the past in the future a reflex from the future on the past.”
“To apologize is to lay the foundation for a future offense.”
“For the first time in the history of mankind, one generation literally has the power to destroy the past, the present and the future, the power to bring time to an end.”
“If we examine our thoughts, we shall find them always occupied with the past and the future.”
“In each action we must look beyond the action at our past, present, and future state, and at others whom it affects, and see the relations of all those things. And then we shall be very cautious.”
“Philosophy finds it an easy matter to vanquish past and future evils, but the present are commonly too hard for it.”
“Look to the future, because that is where you'll spend the rest of your life.”
“I desire no future that will break the ties with the past.”
“No valid plans for the future can be made by those who have no capacity for living now.”
“The future is purchased by the present.”