Quotes About Future

A race preserves its vigour so long as it harbours a real contrast between what has been and what may be, and so long as it is nerved by the vigour to adventure beyond the safeties of the past. Without adventure, civilization is in full decay.

We must learn to view change as a natural phenomenon-to anticipate it and to plan for it. The future is ours to channel in the direction we want to go ... we must continually ask ourselves, "What will happen if ... ?" or better still, "How can we make it happen?"

Every crowd has a silver lining.

A cynic is not merely one who reads bitter lessons from the past; he is one who is prematurely disappointed in the future.

Human foresight often leaves its proudest possessor only a choice of evils.

One faces the future with one's past.

When possible make the decisions now, even if action is in the future. A revised decision usually is better than one reached at the last moment.

Where will I be five years from now? I delight in not knowing.

The future is no more uncertain than the present.

Nobody can really guarantee the future. The best we can do is size up the chances, calculate the risks involved, estimate our ability to deal with them and make our plans with confidence.

Many live in dread of what is coming. Why should we? The unknown puts adventure into life. ... The unexpected around the corner gives a sense of anticipation and surprise. Thank God for the unknown future.

I'm delighted that the future is unsure. That's the way it should be.

The enemies of the future are always the very nicest people.

Memories are the key not to the past, but to the future.

Failure really isn't terrible if you can say to yourself, hey, I know I'm gonna be successful at what I want to do someday. Failure doesn't become a big hangup then because it's only temporary. If failure is absolute, then it would be a disaster, but as long as it's only temporary you can just go and achieve almost anything.

From their errors and mistakes the wise and good learn wisdom for the future.

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.

A farmer is always going to be rich next year.

I am treating you as my friend, asking you to share my present minuses in the hope I can ask you to share my future pluses.

The present is great with the future

Trust no Future, howe'er pleasant! Let the dead Past bury its dead!

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.

Someday, someone will follow in my footsteps and preside over the White House as the President's spouse. And I wish him well.

I am always more interested in what I am about to do than in what I have already done.