Quotes about Future
A youth is to be regarded with respect. How do we know that his future will not be equal to our present?
- Confucius
A youth is to be regarded with respect. How do we know that his future will not be equal to our present? If he reach the age of forty or fifty, and has not made himself heard of, then indeed he will not be worth being regarded with respect.
- Confucius
I think people regret what they didnt do more than what they did. I think everbody has things they failed to do. You cant see what is coming, Bobby. And if you could it is no guarantee you'd make the right choice even then. I believe in God's design.
- Cormac McCarthy
So they won't be able to blow out my wanting you, nor the little glow there is between you and me. We'll be together next year. And though I'm frightened, I believe in your being with me.
- DH Lawrence
There's a bad time coming, boys, there's a bad time coming! If things go on as they are, there's nothing lies in the future but death and destruction, for these industrial masses.
- DH Lawrence
Wisdom has reference only to the past. The future remains for ever an infinite field for mistakes.
- DH Lawrence
He had no future in the world: of that he was conscious. He had no future in this life. Even if he lived on, it would only be a kind of enduring. But he felt the after-life belonged to him. Future in the world he could not give her. Life in the world he had not to offer her. Better go on alone. Surely better go on alone.
- DH Lawrence
And I will show that there is no imperfection in the present, and can be none in the future, And I will show that whatever happens to anybody it may be turn'd to beautiful results, And I will show that nothing can happen more beautiful than death, And I will thread a thread through my poems that time and events are compact, And that all the things of the universe are perfect miracles, each as profound as any.
- Walt Whitman
The law of the past can't be eluded, The law of the present and future cannot be eluded, The law of the living cannot be eluded
- Walt Whitman
Enough - the Centenarian's story ends; The two, past and present, have interchanged; I myself, as connector, as chansonnier of a great future, am now speaking.
- Walt Whitman
In a few years all our restless and angry hearts will be quiet in death, but those who come after us will live in the world which our sins have blighted or which our love of right has redeemed.
- Walter Rauschenbusch
Life is full of disappointments, but we have to take some risks. None of us can predict the future, for only God knows what's to come.
- Wanda Brunstetter