Quotes

That man is prudent who neither hopes nor fears anything from the uncertain events of the future.
-Anatole France

Never be afraid to trust an unknown future to a known God.
-Corrie Ten Boom

That what will come, and must come, shall come well.
-Edwin Arnold

Predicting the future is easy. It's trying to figure out what's going on now that's hard.
-Fritz R S Dressler

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

There are certain moments when we might wish the future were built by men of the past.
-Jean Rostand

A fixed image of the future is in the worst sense a historical.
-Juliet Mitchell

The future belongs to those who prepare for it today.
-Malcolm X

There shall be no more snow No weary noontide heat, So we lift our trusting eyes From the hills our Fathers trod: To the quiet of the skies: To the Sabbath of our God.
-Mrs Felicia D Hemans

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

So often do the spirits Of great events stride on before the events, And in to-day already walks to-morrow.
-Samuel Taylor Coleridge

The future lies before you, like paths of pure white snow. Be careful how you tread it, for every step will show.
-Anonymous Author

Everything that looks to the future elevates human nature. Never is life so low or so little as when occupied with the present.
-Walter Savage Landor

Trust no future, howe'er pleasant! Let the dead past bury its dead! Act,--act in the living Present! Heart within and God o'erhead.
-Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Take therefore no thought for the morrow: for the morrow shall take thought for the things of itself. Sufficient unto the day is the evil thereof.
-Bible

The future is much like the present, only longer.
-Don Quisenberry

With whom there is no place of toil, no burning heat, no piercing cold, nor any briars there . . . this place we call the Bosom of Abraham.
-Flavius Josephus

We already have the statistics for the future: the growth percentages of pollution, overpopulation, desertification. The future is already in place.
-Gunther Grass

A wise God shrouds the future in obscure darkness.
-Horatius Flaccus

It is difficult to live in the present, ridiculous to live in the future, and impossible to live in the past. Nothing is as far away as one minute ago.
-Jim Bishop

The year goes wrong, and tares grow strong, Hope starves without a crumb; But God's time is our harvest time, And that is sure to come.
-Lewis J Bates

The past cannot be changed. The future is yet in your power.
-Mary Pickford

There was the Door to which I found no key; There was the Veil through which I might not see.
-Omar Khayyam

A generation which ignores history has no past and no future.
-Robert Heinlein

I never think of the futur - it comes soon enough.
-Samuel Taylor Coleridge

The more unpredictable the world is the more we rely on predictions.
-Steve Rivkin

Create your future from your future not your past.
-Werner Erhard

The best thing about the future is that it comes only one day at a time.
-Abraham Lincoln

My interest is in the future because I am going to spend the rest of my life there.
-Charles F Kettering

You can never plan the future by the past.
-Edmund Burke

The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today. Let us move forward with strong and active faith.
-Franklin Delano Roosevelt

Telling the future by looking at the past assumes that conditions remain constant. This is like driving a car by looking in the rearview mirror.
-Herb Brody

When you make a mistake, don't look back at it long. Take the reason of the thing into your mind and then look forward. Mistakes are lessons of wisdom. The past cannot be changed. The future is yet in your power.
-Hugh White

For if Freedom and Communism were to compete for man's allegiance in a world at peace, I would look to the future with ever increasing confidence.
-John Fitzgerald Kennedy

Some day Love shall claim his own Some day Right ascend his throne, Some day hidden Truth be known; Some day--some sweet day.
-Lewis J Bates

Your day will come is another way of saying you get yours.
-Merelene Cornish

The trouble with our times is that the future is not what it used to be.
-Paul Valery

The present is big with the future.
-Rudyard Kipling

What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.
-Samuel Taylor Coleridge

'Tis the sunset of life gives me mystical lore, And coming events cast their shadows before.
-Thomas Campbell

The future is as bright as the promises of God.
-William Carey

I never think of the future - it comes soon enough.
-Albert Einstein

When all else is lost, the future still remains.
-Christian Nestell Bovee

Making all future fruits of all the pasts.
-Edwin Arnold

The cradle of the future is the grave of the past.
-Franz Grillparzer

And better skilled in dark events to come.
-Homer

The future is like heaven. Everyone exalts it, but no one wants to go there now.
-James Baldwin

The future, according to some scientists, will be exactly like the past, only far more expensive.
-John Sladek

The future ain't what it used to be.
-Lewis J Bates

By the street of by-and-by, one arrives at the house of never.
-Miguel de Cervantes

Be careful that victories do not carry the seed of future defeats.
-Ralph W Sockman

With mortal crisis doth portend, My days to appropinque an end.
-Samuel Butler

Enjoy present pleasures in such a way as not to injure future one.
-Seneca

You'll see that, since our fate is ruled by chance, Each man, unknowing, great, Should frame life so that at some future hour Fact and his dreamings meet.
-Victor Hugo

Certain signs precede certain events.
-Marcus Tullius Cicero