FUTURE

Related Subjects: Destiny, Fate, Progress, Providence, Tomorrow

1. The old frontier called chiefly for muscle, physical endurance, courage, individualism, and a vision of the future. The conquest of the new frontier will demand the highest qualities of thought and character. Success can be won only by wisdom, knowledge, willingness for sacrifice, and the strongest possible sense of social justice and obligation.—JAMES TRUSLOW ADAMS, The Record of America
   

2. You can never plan the future by the past.—BURKE

3. I am pleading for the future; I am pleading for a time when hatred and cruelty will not control the hearts of men. When we can learn by reason and judgment and understanding and faith that all life is worth saving, and that mercy is the highest attribute of man.—CLARENCE DARROW
   

4. All hopes for the future and, so to say, restfulness of outlook, lie in our having something at last built up, instead of this everlasting destruction, instead of chips flying in all directions, rubbish and disorder which has led to nothing for two hundred years.—DOSTOYEVSKY, A Raw Youth
   

5. I never think of the future. It comes soon enough.—ALBERT EINSTEIN
   

6. On the thirty-second day of the thirteenth month of the eighth day of the week,
   On the twenty-fifth hour and the sixty-first minute, we'll find all things we seek.—SAM W. Foss, The Eighth Day of the Week
   

7. The future is a convenient place for dreams.—ANATOLE FRANCE
   

8. I know of no way of judging of the future but by the past.—PATRICK HENRY
   

9. Remember this also, and be well persuaded of its truth: the future is not in the hands of Fate, but in ours.—JULES JUSSERAND
   

10. If the future belongs to anybody it belongs to those to whom it has always belonged, to those, that is to say, too absorbed in living to feel the need for thought and they will come, as the barbarians have always come, absorbed in the processes for their own sake, eating without asking if it is worthwhile to eat, begetting children without asking why they should produce them, and conquering without asking why they should conquer.—J. W. KRUTCH, The Modern Temper
    

11. The future is a world limited by ourselves; in it we discover only what concerns us and, sometimes, by chance, what interests those whom we love the most.—MAETERLINCK, Joyzelle
    

12. The never-ending flight Of future days.—MILTON, Paradise Lost
    

13. I believe the future is only the past again, entered through another gate.—PINERO, The Second Mrs. Tangueray
    

14. No one can walk backwards into the future.—Proverb
    

15. The golden age is before us not behind us.—SAINT-SIMON
    

16. How many ages hence
    Shall this our lofty scene be acted o'er,
    In states unborn and accents yet unknown!—SHAKESPEARE, Julius Caesar
    

17. The baby figure of the giant mass
    Of things to come.—SHAKESPEARE, Troilus and Cressida