Future Quotes

“To-day is a king in disguise.”

Ralph Waldo Emerson

“You must live in the present, launch yourself on every wave, find your eternity in each moment.”

Henry David Thoreau

“There was never any more inception than there is now, nor any more youth or age than there is now.”

Walt Whitman

“Truth forever on the scaffold, Wrong forever on the throne, - yet that scaffold sways the future, and, behind the dim unknown, standeth God within the shadow, keeping watch above his own.”

James Russell Lowell

“Yet I doubt not thro' the ages one increasing purpose runs, and the thoughts of men are widen'd with the process of the suns.”

Alfred, Lord Tennyson

“We never know how high we are till we are called to rise.”

Emily Dickinson

“Lord God of Hosts, be with us yet, lest we forget - lest we forget!”

Rudyard Kipling

“The one charm of the past is that it is the past.”

Oscar Wilde

“I never put off till tomorrow what I can possibly do - the day after.”

Oscar Wilde

“Prophecy, n. The art and practice of selling one's credibility for future delivery.”

Ambrose Bierce

“Hope, n. Desire and expectation rolled into one.”

Ambrose Bierce

“The future is a blank wall on which every man can write his own name as large as he likes.”

G. K. Chesterton

“Pause you who read this, and think for a moment of the long chain of iron or gold, of thorns or flowers, that would never have bound you, but for the formation of the first link on one memorable day.”

Charles Dickens

“We will make electricity so cheap that only the rich will burn candles.”

Thomas Edison

“Truth is rightly named the daughter of time, not of authority.”

Francis Bacon

“One to-day is worth two to-morrows.”

Benjamin Franklin

“Never leave that till to-morrow which you can do to-day.”

Benjamin Franklin

“Hope is necessary in every condition.”

Samuel Johnson

“We may consider each generation as a distinct nation, with a right, by the will of its majority, to bind themselves, but none to bind the succeeding generation.”

Thomas Jefferson

“Time makes more converts than reason.”

Thomas Paine

“Society is indeed a contract, a partnership not only between those who are living, but between those who are living, those who are dead, and those who are to be born.”

Edmund Burke

“If a man knows not to which port he sails, no wind is favorable.”

Seneca

“Do not disturb thyself by thinking of the whole of thy life.”

Marcus Aurelius

“Time is a sort of river of passing events, and strong is its current; no sooner is a thing brought to sight than it is swept by and another takes its place, and this too will be swept away.”

Marcus Aurelius

“Who knows whether the gods will add tomorrow to the present hour?”

Horace