“Posterity! You will never know how much it cost the present generation to preserve your freedom! I hope you will make a good use of it.”
John Adams
Future GenerationsSacrifice
Future Quotes
200 FAMOUS QUOTES · FUTURE
Future Quotes
Read the best future quotes from Seneca, Shakespeare, Thomas Carlyle, Lord Byron, the Bible and more, with timeless words on hope, planning and what lies ahead.
“Let us develop the resources of our land, call forth its powers, build up its institutions, promote all its great interests, and see whether we also, in our day and generation, may not perform something worthy to be remembered.”
Daniel Webster
Nation BuildingLegacy
“If there must be trouble, let it be in my day, that my child may have peace.”
Thomas Paine
Future GenerationsSacrifice
“The earth belongs in usufruct to the living.”
Thomas Jefferson
Future GenerationsStewardship
“Time, thou devourer of things.”
Ovid
TimeShort Quotes
“One must wait until the evening to see how splendid the day has been.”
Sophocles
PatiencePerspective
“Of all sound of all bells, most solemn and touching is the peal which rings out the Old Year.”
Charles Lamb
New YearReflection
“To-morrow, n. The day of good deeds and of my good resolution.”
Ambrose Bierce
ProcrastinationFunny
“To-morrow, and to-morrow, and to-morrow, creeps in this petty pace from day to day, to the last syllable of recorded time.”
William Shakespeare
TimeReflection
“If you can look into the seeds of time, and say which grain will grow and which will not, speak then to me.”
William Shakespeare
PredictionsUncertainty
“What is love? 'tis not hereafter; present mirth hath present laughter; what's to come is still unsure.”
William Shakespeare
Live NowLove
“For surely there is an end; and thine expectation shall not be cut off.”
The Bible (Proverbs 23:18)
HopeFaith
“Eye hath not seen, nor ear heard, neither have entered into the heart of man, the things which God hath prepared for them that love him.”
The Bible (1 Corinthians 2:9)
HopeFaith
“For the vision is yet for an appointed time, but at the end it shall speak, and not lie: though it tarry, wait for it; because it will surely come.”
The Bible (Habakkuk 2:3)
VisionPatience
“Declaring the end from the beginning, and from ancient times the things that are not yet done.”
The Bible (Isaiah 46:10)
God's PlanFaith
“And there is hope in thine end, saith the Lord, that thy children shall come again to their own border.”
The Bible (Jeremiah 31:17)
HopeFuture Generations
“They shall beat their swords into plowshares, and their spears into pruninghooks.”
The Bible (Micah 4:3)
PeaceHope
“For, behold, I create new heavens and a new earth: and the former shall not be remembered, nor come into mind.”
The Bible (Isaiah 65:17)
New BeginningsFaith
“For the things which are seen are temporal; but the things which are not seen are eternal.”
The Bible (2 Corinthians 4:18)
EternityPerspective
“Beloved, now are we the sons of God, and it doth not yet appear what we shall be.”
The Bible (1 John 3:2)
PotentialFaith
“For who can tell a man what shall be after him under the sun?”
The Bible (Ecclesiastes 6:12)
UncertaintyWisdom
“For he knoweth not that which shall be: for who can tell him when it shall be?”
The Bible (Ecclesiastes 8:7)
UncertaintyHumility
“Mark the perfect man, and behold the upright: for the end of that man is peace.”
The Bible (Psalm 37:37)
PeaceCharacter
“The secret things belong unto the Lord our God: but those things which are revealed belong unto us and to our children for ever.”
The Bible (Deuteronomy 29:29)
MysteryFaith
“It is not for you to know the times or the seasons.”
The Bible (Acts 1:7)
TrustUncertainty