“You wake up in the morning, and lo! your purse is magically filled with twenty-four hours of the unmanufactured tissue of the universe of your life!”
Arnold Bennett
New DayTime
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.
“Time is the inexplicable raw material of everything.”
Arnold Bennett
TimeProductivity
“For their souls dwell in the house of tomorrow, which you cannot visit, not even in your dreams.”
Kahlil Gibran
ChildrenFuture Generations
“And let today embrace the past with remembrance and the future with longing.”
Kahlil Gibran
Present MomentBalance
“Hope is like the sun, which, as we journey toward it, casts the shadow of our burden behind us.”
Samuel Smiles
HopeMoving Forward
“Time is too slow for those who wait, too swift for those who fear, too long for those who grieve, too short for those who rejoice; but for those who love, time is eternity.”
Henry van Dyke
TimeLove
“Look up and not down; look forward and not back; look out and not in; and lend a hand.”
Edward Everett Hale
OptimismKindness
“Far and away the best prize that life offers is the chance to work hard at work worth doing.”
Theodore Roosevelt
PurposeHard Work
“The world must be made safe for democracy.”
Woodrow Wilson
DemocracyHistory
“You can't wait for inspiration. You have to go after it with a club.”
Jack London
ActionCreativity
“There are no rules of architecture for a castle in the clouds.”
G. K. Chesterton
DreamsImagination
“Hope means hoping when things are hopeless, or it is no virtue at all.”
G. K. Chesterton
HopeHard Times
“Somebody said that it couldn't be done, but he with a chuckle replied that 'maybe it couldn't,' but he would be one who wouldn't say so till he'd tried.”
Edgar Guest
DeterminationOptimism
“It's the plugging away that will win you the day.”
Robert W. Service
PerseveranceSuccess
“And when old words die out on the tongue, new melodies break forth from the heart; and where the old tracks are lost, new country is revealed with its wonders.”
Rabindranath Tagore
New BeginningsHope
“To die will be an awfully big adventure.”
J. M. Barrie
AdventureCourage
“It's a poor sort of memory that only works backwards.”
Lewis Carroll
ImaginationFunny
“Unborn To-morrow, and dead Yesterday, why fret about them if To-day be sweet!”
Omar Khayyam
Present MomentWorry
“Be wise to-day; 'tis madness to defer.”
Edward Young
ProcrastinationWisdom
“He that would pass the latter part of his life with honour and decency, must, when he is young, consider that he shall one day be old.”
Samuel Johnson
Planning AheadAging
“The every-day cares and duties, which men call drudgery, are the weights and counterpoises of the clock of time, giving its pendulum a true vibration and its hands a regular motion.”
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Daily RoutineTime
“The ripeness or unripeness of the occasion must ever be well weighed.”
Francis Bacon
TimingWisdom
“Tomorrow in the battle think on me.”
William Shakespeare
ConsequencesGuilt
“It is ten o'clock: thus we may see how the world wags.”
William Shakespeare
TimeFunny
“But thought's the slave of life, and life time's fool; and time, that takes survey of all the world, must have a stop.”
William Shakespeare
TimeMortality