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Quotes About Future

Eternity is a clock which says 'tick' in one century and 'tock' in the next.
~ Author Unknown
I have come here today not to talk about the past but to focus on the future. That future will be shaped more by what happens on November 8th in voting booths across our nation than by any other event in the world.
~ Bernie Sanders, 2016
Teacher: Johnny, you only got half the answers right on your test! Johnny: No problem, Teech! Teacher: How can you say that? Johnny: I'm going to be a meteorologist.
~ Johnny Hart, B.C.
We are, perhaps, uniquely among the earth's creatures, the worrying animal. We worry away our lives, fearing the future, discontent with the present, unable to take in the idea of dying, unable to sit still.
~ Lewis Thomas
During National Cancer Control Month, let us remember those who lost their battle with cancer, and let us renew our efforts to save lives and spare heartbreak by reaching a future without this devastating disease.
~ Barack Obama, 2016
Do not be afraid of tomorrow; for God is already there.
~ Author Unknown
Shape tomorrow by voting today.
~ Author Unknown
May Jack-o-lanterns burning bright Of soft and golden hue Pierce through the future's veil and show What fate now holds for you. By goblins of the cornfield stark By witches dancing on the green By pumpkins grinning in the dark I wish you luck this Hallowe'en.
~ Postcard from the early 1900s
Hope, not fear, is the creative principle in human affairs... Those who are taught in this spirit will be filled with life and hope and joy, able to bear their part in bringing to mankind a future less somber than the past, with faith in the glory that human effort can create.
~ Bertrand Russell, 1917
We have King as our tomorrow.
~ Shun P. Govender
How sure I feel, how warm and strong and happy For the future! How sure the future is within me; I am like a seed with a perfect flower enclosed...
~ D. H. Lawrence, "Wedlock"
...I am so happy, I feel like a firm, rich, healthy root, Rejoicing in what is to come. How I depend on you utterly... How everything that will be, will not be of me, Nor of either of us, But of both of us.
~ D. H. Lawrence, "Wedlock"
Criminal Minds, Mixed Signals: "Holding on is believing that there's only a past; letting go is knowing that there's a future."
~ Daphne Rose Kingma
The generation of babies born 9 months from now will be known as Children of the Quarn.
~ Internet meme, March 2020
If you want to touch the past, touch a rock. If you want to touch the present, touch a flower. If you want to touch the future, touch a life.
~ Author Unknown
I want to live each day for itself like a string of colored beads, and not kill the present by cutting it up in cruel little snippets to fit some desperate architectural draft for a taj mahal in the future.
~ Sylvia Plath, 1955
If ever the future should bring to you a time when you need a man's help, believe me, you will not call in vain. God grant that no such time may ever come to you to break the sunshine of your life; but if it should ever come, promise me that you will let me know.
~ Bram Stoker, Dracula, 1897
...teachers touch the future...
~ Sandford Reichart
Only you can control your future.
~ Dr. Seuss
It is imperative that the past of the pilgrims' progress be intentionally carried forward into the present as we work into our future. Without it we cannot know who we are, why we are here, or where we can go. Without a common past to live out of we become aimless and wandering individuals instead of a pilgrim people.
~ H. Richard Niebuhr
sense of pride that I write these few lines introducing this book dedicated to the exceptional individual that was Harvey Spencer Lewis. With an extraordinary personality, he was a great figure of Rosicrucianism. He was an avant-garde pioneer and was resolutely modern. Harvey Spencer Lewis directed his gaze toward the future and toward that which he liked to call "the Cosmic.
~ H. Spencer Lewis
R&D is a special class of spending that often is equated, mistakenly, with investment spending. Investments presume knowledge, albeit imperfect, about future costs and returns. R&D represents an effort to gain a stake in future opportunities before anything is known about future costs and returns.
~ H. Thomas Johnson
Those who are unwilling to invest in the future haven't earned one.
~ H. W. Lewis
Our past cannot be changed, and to be preoccupied with it is inefficient in time and effort. Likewise, by fretting over the future, we only exhaust ourselves, making us less able to effectively respond when the future is actually upon us. By worrying about a mishap that may or may not take place, we're forced to undergo the event twice—once when imagining it and once again if and when we actually experience it.
~ H.E. Davey