#Future Quotes

“My grief lies onward, and my joy behind.”

“O! that a man might know The end of this day's business, ere it come; But it sufficeth that the day will end, And then the end is known.”

“The bitter past, more welcome is the sweet.”

“The day shall not be up so soon as I,To try the fair adventure of tomorrow.”

“Tomorrow, and tomorrow, and tomorrow,Creeps in this petty pace from day to day”

“The golden age is before us, not behind us.”

“Hereafter, in a better world than this, I shall desire more love and knowledge of you”

“There is a history in all men's lives, Figuring the nature of the times deceased, The which observed, a man may prophesy, With a near aim, of the main chance of things As yet not come to life, which in their seeds And weak beginnings lie intreasured.”

“For the success,Although particular, shall give a scantlingOf good or bad unto the general;And in such indexes, although small pricksTo their subsequent volumes, there is seenThe baby figure of the giant massOf things to come at large.”

“Keep cool: it will be all one a hundred years hence.”

“The happiest youth, viewing his progress through,What perils past, what crosses to ensue,Would shut the book, and sit him down and die.”

“I wish you well and so I take my leave,I Pray you know me when we meet again.”

“Luckily for us, now that steam has narrowed the Atlantic to a strait, the nervous, rocky West is intruding a new and continental element into the national mind, as we shall yet have an American genius.”

“Meantime the education of the general mind never stops. The reveries of the true and simple are prophetic. What the tender poeticyouth dreams, and prays, and paints today, but shuns the ridicule of saying aloud, shall presently be the resolutions of public bodies, then shall be carried as grievance and bill of rights through conflict and war, and then shall be triumphant law and establishment for a hundred years, until it gives place, in turn, to new prayers and pictures.”

“Women, as most susceptible, are the best index of the coming hour.”

“The health of the eye seems to demand a horizon. We are never tired, so long as we can see far enough.”

“He who would be a great soul in the future, must be a great soul now.”

“Let us advance on Chaos and the Dark”

“How many ages henceShall this our lofty scene be acted overIn states unborn and accents yet unknown!”

“But genius looks forward: the eyes of men are set in his forehead, not in his hindhead: man hopes: genius creates.”

“Among the map makers of each generation are the risk takers, those who see the opportunities, seize the moment and expand man's vision of the future”

“Genius appeals to the future.”

“Don't waste life in doubts and fears; spend yourself on the work before you, well assured that the right performance of this hour's duties will be the best preparation for the hours and ages that will follow it.”

“Be not the slave of your own past - plunge into the sublime seas, dive deep, and swim far.”

“Let the river roll which way it will, cities will rise on its banks.”

“No man ever came to an experience which was satiating, but his good is tidings of a better. Onward and onward!”

“The end of the human race will be that it will eventually die of civilization.”

“The Times are the masquerade of the eternities; trivial to the dull, tokens of noble and majestic agents to the wise; the receptacle in which the Past leaves its history; the quarry out of which the genius of today is building up the Future.”

“God mark thee to His grace! Thou was the prettiest babe that e'er I nursed. And might I live to see thee married once, I have my wish.”

“Danger gathers upon our path. We cannot afford - we have no right - to look back. We must look forward... The stronger the advocate of monarchical principle a man may be, the more zealously he must now endeavor to fortify the Throne and to give to His Majesty's successor that strength which can only come from the love of a united nation and Empire.”

“Everything is prospective, and man is to live hereafter. That the world is for his education is the only sane solution of the enigma.”

“That long (Canadian) frontier from the Atlantic to the Pacific Ocean, guarded only by neighbourly respect and honourable obligations, as an example to every country and a pattern for the future of the world.”

“There are no limits to the majestic future which lies before the mighty expanse of Canada with its virile, aspiring, cultured, and generous-hearted people.”

“Good night, then - sleep to gather strength for the morning. For the morning will come. Brightly will it shine on the brave and true, kindly on all who suffer for the cause, glorious upon the tombs of heroes. Thus will shine the dawn.”

“We need to be strong in order to avoid war; and to win. A politician looks forward only to the next election. A statesman looks forward to the next generation. Any person who is over 30 and is not a conservative, has no brains.”

“The acts we engage in for appeasment today, we will have to remedy at far greater cost and remorse tomorrow.”

“For here, I hope, begins our lasting joy.”

“We can see well into the past; we can guess shrewdly into the future, but that which is rolled up and muffled in impenetrable folds is today.”

“All his successors gone before him have done 't; and all his ancestors that come after him may.”

“O' thinkest thou we shall ever meet again? I doubt it not; and all these woes shall serve For sweet discourses in our times to come.”

“[T]omorrow is a new day. You shall begin it well & serenely, & with too high a spirit to be cumbered with your old nonsense. This day ... is too dear with its hopes & invitations to waste a moment on the rotten yesterdays.”

“Few people have any next, they live from hand to mouth without a plan, and are always at the end of their line.”

“It takes a good deal of character to judge a person by his future instead of his past”

“There is the solution which I respectfully offer to you in this Address to which I have given the title "The Sinews of Peace."”

“Make for the children an evening of happiness in a world of storm. Let the children have their night of fun and laughter... resolved that by our daring, these same children shall not be denied their right to live in a free and decent world.”

“There are two processes which we adopt consciously or unconsciously when we try to prophesy. We can seek a period in the past whose conditions resemble as closely as possible those of our day, and presume that the sequel to that period will, save for some minor alterations, be similar. Secondly, we can survey the general course of development in our immediate past, and endeavor to prolong it into the near future. The first is the method the historian; the second that of the scientist. Only the second is open to us now, and this only in a partial sphere.”

“A friend is Janus-faced: he looks to the past and the future. He is the child of all my foregoing hours, the prophet of those to come, and the harbinger of a greater friend.”

“If you don't take change by the hand, it will take you by the throat.”

“I cannot but think we have much to be thankful for, and more still to hope for in the future.”

“If the past sits in judgment on the present, the future will be lost.”