Future Quotes

People living deeply have no fear of death.

~ Anaïs Nin

The fear of life is the favorite disease of the twentieth century.

~ William Lyon Phelps

Too many people are thinking of security instead of opportunity. They are more afraid of life than death.

~ James F. Byrnes

Death does not frighten me but dying obscurely and above all uselessly does.

~ Isabelle Eberhardt

Fear of life in one form or another is the great thing to exorcise.

~ William James

If we let things terrify us life will not be worth living.

~ Marcus Annaeus Seneca

A good life fears not life nor death.

~ Thomas Fuller

He who fears death cannot enjoy life.

~ Spanish Proverb

Healthy children will not fear life if their elders have integrity enough not to fear death.

~ Erik H. Erikson

To live your life in the fear of losing it is to lose the point of life.

~ Malcolm Forbes

It is not death we fear but the thought of it.

~ Marcus Annaeus Seneca

It is not death or pain that is to be dreaded but the fear of pain or death.

~ Epictetus

Death is not the enemy living in constant fear of it is.

~ Norman Cousins

We must act in spite of fear ... not because of it.

~ Anonymous

I have accepted fear as a part of life-specifically the fear of change. ... I have gone ahead despite the pounding in the heart that says: turn back....

~ Erica Jong

Go forth to meet the shadowy Future without fear and with a manly heart.

~ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

I may be compelled to face danger but never fear it and while our soldiers can stand and fight I can stand and feed and nurse them.

~ Clara Barton

The fishermen know that the sea is dangerous and the storm terrible but they have never found these dangers sufficient reason for remaining ashore.

~ Vincent Van Gogh

Fear is one thing. To let fear grab you and swing you around by the tail is another.

~ Katherine Paterson

I have not ceased being fearful but I have ceased to let fear control me.

~ Erica Jong

Napster has pointed the way for a new direction for music distribution, and we believe it will form the basis of important and exciting new business models for the future of the music industry.

~ Barry Diller

Business, more than any other occupation, is a continual dealing with the future; it is a continual calculation, an instinctive exercise in foresight.

~ Henry R. Luce

We kinda look at this as the second or third chapter of our lives. After college, most people figure out what they want to do with their lives. But we already know what we want to do in the future and that is to continue to further our business goals.

~ Mary-Kate Olsen

After all, it's the future of business communication that we're looking toward.

~ Jim Barksdale

We love our business. We have never been more enthusiastic about cable and its future.

~ Brian Roberts

The greatest discovery of all time is that a person can change his future by merely changing his attitude.

~ Oprah Winfrey

I believe that when you think of the negative, and you get up discouraged - 'There's nothing good in my future' - I really believe it almost ties the hands of God. God works where there's an attitude of faith. I believe faith is all about hope.

~ Joel Osteen

Any revolutionary change must be preceded by a passive, affirmative, non-challenging attitude toward change among the mass of our people. They must feel so frustrated, so defeated, so lost, so futureless in the prevailing system that they are willing to let go of the past and chance the future.

~ Saul Alinsky

To get nostalgic about other people's music, or even about your own, makes a terrible statement about the condition of your life and your prospects for the future. I have no patience with that kind of attitude, whether it's on radio or among friends.

~ Neil Peart

Our future cannot depend on the government alone. The ultimate solutions lie in the attitudes and the actions of the American people.

~ Joe Biden

The attitude of 'every nation unto itself' is a destructive one for the future of Israel.

~ Tzipi Livni

A society is defined as much by how it comes to terms with its past as by its attitude toward the future: its memories are no less revealing than its aims.

~ Octavio Paz

Even if people do wrong, we're social animals, so what can we do about stopping them doing the same things in future? Saying people are 'bad' or 'evil' is just an unwillingness to engage; an unwillingness to try to empathise. That sanctimonious attitude doesn't help anyone.

~ Denise Mina

Let your hopes, not your hurts, shape your future.

~ Robert H. Schuller

Our human compassion binds us the one to the other - not in pity or patronizingly, but as human beings who have learnt how to turn our common suffering into hope for the future.

~ Nelson Mandela

Keep all special thoughts and memories for lifetimes to come. Share these keepsakes with others to inspire hope and build from the past, which can bridge to the future.

~ Mattie Stepanek

Darkness comes. In the middle of it, the future looks blank. The temptation to quit is huge. Don't. You are in good company... You will argue with yourself that there is no way forward. But with God, nothing is impossible. He has more ropes and ladders and tunnels out of pits than you can conceive. Wait. Pray without ceasing. Hope.

~ John Piper

The youth is the hope of our future.

~ José Rizal

We must restore hope to young people, help the old, be open to the future, spread love. Be poor among the poor. We need to include the excluded and preach peace.

~ Pope Francis

The Gospel offers forgiveness for the past, new life for the present, and hope for the future.

~ John Sentamu