Quotes about Future

A child, more than all other gifts That earth can offer to declining man, Brings hope with it, and forward-looking thoughts. —WORDSWORTH.

it seemed to him as if he were beholding in a magic panorama a future where he himself was sliding into that pleasureless yielding to the small solicitations of circumstance, which is a commoner history of perdition than any single momentous bargain.

There is no hopelessness so sad as that of early youth, when the soul is made up of wants, and has no long memories, no superadded life in the life of others; though we who looked on think lightly of such premature despair, as if our vision of the future lightened the blind sufferer's present.

We have come to a turning point in the road. If we turn to the right mayhap our children and our children's children will go that way; but if we turn to the left, generations yet unborn will curse our names for having been unfaithful to God and to His Word.

Prejudice is a burden that confuses the past, threatens the future and renders the present inaccessible.

this is what we hope for, the objective reality of our future inheritance, not the feeling of hope or expectation in our hearts. So

The mind is never satisfied with the objects immediately before it, but is always breaking away from the present moment, and losing itself in schemes of future felicity... The natural flights of the human mind are not from pleasure to pleasure, but from hope to hope.

It's time to stop letting your history control your destiny.

Your time is too valuable, your destiny is too great, and your future is too bright to waste a single moment. Be a now person.

It is all a matter of time scale. An event that would be unthinkable in a hundred years may be inevitable in a hundred million.

While time lasts there will always be a future, and that future will hold both good and evil, since the world is made to that mingled pattern.

The sun has not yet set for all time.