Quotes About Future

Yesterday is gone forever. Make the most of today and tomorrow if you wish to make up for lost time.

Part of the glamour of being a poet was always this long reach into the future. You knew you were managing time.

He who influences the thought of his times influences the times that follow.

Not much longer shall we have time for reading lessons of the past. An inexorable present calls us to the defense of a great future.

Carpe diem, quam minime credula postero. Enjoy the present day, trusting very little to the morrow.

The future is like heaven-everyone exalts it but no one wants to go there now.

People look to time in expectation that it will eventually make them happy, but you cannot find true happiness by looking toward the future.

Every man regards his own life as the New Year's Eve of time.

I mentioned that one of the tripartite formulas in American worldview involves time: past, present, and future.

Today is the tomorrow we worried about yesterday.

I know one thing: There are a billion Islamic people in the world today, and there will be about 2 billion by the time we're dead. They're not going to give up their religion.

I hope that all of us who were fortunate enough to have benefited will put our time, our resources and our efforts into making sure that kids, particularly kids without means, have a way to achieve.

It's like . . . time is flowing backward. We're caveman archeologists in the ruins of the future.

The future comes one day at a time [so don't fear and try to solve all the worries and problems of the future today].

Now is the best time to start becoming the person we eventually want to be—not only 20 years from now but also for all eternity.

I try to spend my time on areas that I think are important for the future, and where I think I can add value.

The destiny of any nation at any given time depends on the opinion of its young people, those under twenty-five.

The house was so quiet, as if everyone had been spirited out of sight. I had a feeling of moving through time itself. I saw myself as a small, scurrying animal rushing into my future. But I was not afraid.

It's hard to imagine yourself in the future. It's why people do so many dumb things, because they're mired in the moment. Smoking, drinking, making disastrous marriages, putting off medical tests. The reason we've made a mess of the planet is that being its stewards required us to imagine not our own futures but those four or five generations removed.

People go through life thinking they're making decisions, when they're really just making plans, which is not the same thing at all.

The curse of having young people about the house was that they were always so redolent of possibility.

The reason we've made a mess of the planet is that being its stewards required us to imagine not our own futures but those four or five generations removed.

This book was not written 'so that it will not happen again', as the cliché would have it. This book was written because it almost certainly will happen again. Totalitarian philosophies have had, and will continue to have, a profound appeal to many millions of people.

Adieu! but let me cherish, still, The hope with which I cannot part. Contempt may wound, and coldness chill, But still it lingers in my heart. And who can tell but Heaven, at last, May answer all my thousand prayers, And bid the future pay the past With joy for anguish, smiles for tears?