Quotes about the future

There is but one way of refusing To-morrow, that is to die.

Would you realize what Revolution is, call it Progress; and would you realize what Progress is, call it Tomorrow.

Real generosity toward the future consists in giving all to the present.

It is what has happened, and is happening now, that determines the future. Therefore, there must be a great number of possible futures, each a possible consequence of what is being done now.

"We have had a glorious past—but a glorious past is bitterness for a child with a hopeless future."

Some aspects of the future are predictable, with the right knowledge and effort; others are impossibly hard calls. Competent futurism is built around knowing the difference.

She seemed to be contemplating a future at once monotonous and insecure with an indifference which was after all a sort of hard-won courage. (chapter 3)

I don't know how people live when they know exactly what's going to happen to them each day. (Part One, 7th section)

The people dreamed and fought and slept as much as ever. And by habit they shortened their thoughts so that they would not wander out into the darkness beyond tomorrow.

Who knows what else tomorrow will bring? So, I nod my head yes, because it is true, the future is always working, always busy unfolding better things, and even if it doesn’t seem so sometimes, we have hope of it.

Maybe she was one of those people for whom satisfaction lay only in the future, forever slightly out of reach.

Long-term thinking requires a clarity the natural human mind is not good at.