“What man can you show me who places any value on his time, who reckons the worth of each day, who understands that he is dying daily?”
Seneca
TimeStoicism
Future Quotes
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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.
“They live ill who are always beginning to live.”
Seneca
ProcrastinationLive Now
“Time is the wisest of all counsellors.”
Plutarch
TimeWisdom
“Know thy opportunity.”
Pittacus
OpportunityShort Quotes
“Time is the wisest of all things that are; for it brings everything to light.”
Thales
TimeTruth
“Forethought in all things.”
Periander
Planning AheadShort Quotes
“Time as he grows old teaches all things.”
Aeschylus
TimeLearning
“All things the long and countless lapse of time brings forth from darkness into light, and hides again from sight.”
Sophocles
TimeChange
“No one can confidently say that he will still be living tomorrow.”
Euripides
UncertaintyLive Now
“Do not put your work off till to-morrow and the day after; for a sluggish worker does not fill his barn, nor one who puts off his work.”
Hesiod
ProcrastinationHard Work
“Life's short span forbids us to enter on far-reaching hopes.”
Horace
Live NowPerspective
“Remember when life's path is steep to keep your mind even.”
Horace
CalmResilience
“Tomorrow's life is too late. Live today.”
Martial
Live NowShort Quotes
“The next day is never so good as the day before.”
Publilius Syrus
NostalgiaTime
“What then is time? If no one asks me, I know: if I wish to explain it to one that asketh, I know not.”
Saint Augustine
TimePhilosophy
“To-day man is, and to-morrow he will be seen no more.”
Thomas a Kempis
MortalityFaith
“Old Time the clock-setter, that bald sexton Time.”
William Shakespeare
TimePoetry
“O gentlemen, the time of life is short! To spend that shortness basely were too long.”
William Shakespeare
Life Is ShortPurpose
“The childhood shows the man, as morning shows the day.”
John Milton
ChildrenPotential
“Hope is the poor man's bread.”
George Herbert
HopeShort Quotes
“It is always darkest just before the day dawneth.”
Thomas Fuller
HopeHard Times
“Work without hope draws nectar in a sieve, and hope without an object cannot live.”
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
GoalsHope
“Past, n. That part of Eternity with some small fraction of which we have a slight and regrettable acquaintance.”
Ambrose Bierce
PastSatire
“Let not thy thoughts at once embrace all the various troubles which thou expectest to befall thee.”
Marcus Aurelius
WorryOne Day At A Time
“No one is so old as to think he cannot live one more year.”
Cicero
AgingHope