Quotes
Quotes about Future
Never be afraid to trust an unknown future to a known God.
Sin bravely...We will never have all the facts to make a perfect judgement, but with the aid of basic experience we must leap bravely into the future.
I have but one lamp by which my feet are guided; and that is the lamp of experience. I know of no way of judging the future but by the past.
We know nothing of what will happen in future, but by the analogy of experience.
Faith makes the discords of the present the harmonies of the future.
The future is just old age and illness and pain.... I must have peace and this is the only way.
Our supplies of natural resources are not finite in any economic sense. Nor does past experience give reason to expect natural resources to become more scarce. Rather, if history is any guide, natural resources will progressively become less costly, hence less scarce, and will constitute a smaller proportion of our expenses in future years.
Only positive consequences encourage good future performances.
The dynamics of capitalism is postponement of enjoyment to the constantly postponed future.
New ideas stir from every corner. The show up disguised innocently as interruptions, contradictions and embarrasing dilemmas. Beware of total strangers and friends alike who shower you with comfortable sameness, and remain open to those who make you uneasy, for they are the true messengers of the future. -Rob Lebow.
I try to learn from the past, but I plan for the future by focusing exclusively on the present. That's were the fun is.
I am treating you as my friend asking you share my present minuses in the hope I can ask you to share my future pluses.
Making all future fruits of all the pasts.
The future ain't what it used to be.
You can never plan the future by the past.
I never think of the future--it comes soon enough.
Cease to inquire what the future has in store, and to take as a gift whatever the day brings forth. [Lat., Quid sit futurum cras, fuge quaerere: et Quem Fors dierum cunque dabit, lucro Appone.]
A wise God shrouds the future in obscure darkness. [Lat., Prudens futuri temporis exitum Caliginosa nocte premit deus.]
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.
The present is big with the future. [Fr., Le present est gros de l'avenir.]
Look not mournfully into the Past; it comes not back again. Wisely improve the Present; it is thine. Go forth to meet the shadowy Future without fear and with a manly heart.
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.
The future is like heaven. Everyone exalts it, but no one wants to go there now.
I would sum up my fear about the future in one word: boring. And that's my one fear: that everything has happened; nothing exciting or new or interesting is ever going to happen again... the future is just going to be a vast, conforming suburb of the soul.
Never be afraid to trust an unknown future to a known God.
