An Uncertain Future Quotes

#1. Really, each era has its own false nostalgia. We all put a picket fence up around something. For my generation it was the '50s, and for other generations it will be something else. Change is scary for everyone, as is complexity, contradiction, and an uncertain future.

Gary Ross

#2. With each passing month, I was introduced to other aspects of a new and pleasant world. Yet, though most of my days were spent in happy pursuit, always, underlying, was the tenuous feeling of an uncertain future.

Kathleen Grissom

#3. Let us each of us now embrace with solemn duty, and awesome joy, what is our lasting birthright. With common effort and common purpose, with passion and dedication, let us answer the call of history and carry into an uncertain future that precious light of freedom.

Barack Obama

#4. In the darkness of a thousand
withered souls, it was Er Lang's hand that I
sought, and his voice that I longed to hear. Perhaps
it is selfish of me, but an uncertain future
with him, in all its laughter and quarrels, is better
than being left behind.

Yangsze Choo

#5. Anxiety, in short, is a conscious feeling. It can arise in a bottom-up way, driven by activity in defensive circuits or from higher processes that conceptualize worry, either about an uncertain future or about existence itself.

Joseph E. Ledoux

#6. It is always a starkly private moment when a governor first apprehends his subject as a man - perhaps not as an equal, but at least as a being, irreducible, possessed of frailties, enthusiasms, a real past, and an uncertain future.

Eleanor Catton

#7. No one knows what the future holds, and loving something means you're willing to face an uncertain future together. That you're better together than apart.

Joanna Shupe

#8. Heralds don't sing about men who lived in orthodoxy or played it safe, they sing about men who lived an uncertain future and took enough risks to make your head spin.

Evan Meekins

#9. Making provision for an uncertain future has taken the very simple form of an investment (usually leveraged, that is debt-financed) in a house,

Niall Ferguson

#10. Peril, loneliness, an uncertain future, are not oppressive evils, so long as the frame is healthy and the faculties are employed; so long, especially, as Liberty lends us her wings, and Hope guides us by her star.

Charlotte Bronte

#11. A leader knows it's not so hard to die for your people. It's hard to order your people to die for you. And leading with certainty in an uncertain future doesn't require sight. It requires vision. It requires holding on. And no matter what happens, never letting go.

Paul Jenkins

#12. Religion often partakes of the myth of progress that shields us from the terrors of an uncertain future.

Frank Herbert

#13. It is foolishness to want what never was or will never will be, lament the passage of time, and live in fearfulness of an uncertain future. The moods generated by regret including depression and self-loathing congeal in our sentient consciousness creating the painful landscape of the self.

Kilroy J. Oldster

#14. Latin Americans hold on tight even to pain and suffering, preferring a certain present to an uncertain future. Some of this is only natural, entirely human. But for us, the fear is paralyzing; it generates not only anxiety but also paralysis.

Oscar Arias

#15. If the past has uncertain effect on the present, there is no need to dwell on the past. And if the present has little effect on the future,

Alan Lightman

#16. But as your horizons contract - when you see the future ahead of you as finite and uncertain - your focus shifts to the here and now, to everyday pleasures and the people closest to you.

Atul Gawande

#17. Your future is uncertain, and I can tell you nothing that can help you. You are singular and dangerous, and so it is that you are sought by both the Dark and the Light.

Alison Croggon

#18. Ari Shavit's My Promised Land is without question one of the most important books about Israel and Zionism that I have ever read ... This is the book that has the capacity to reinvent and reshape the long-overdue conversation about how Israel's complex past ought to shape its still-uncertain future.

Daniel Gordis

#19. Speculating is the application of intellectual examination and systematic analysis to the problem of the uncertain future.

Jim Paul

#20. Our future is entirely within our own control. It is not at the mercy of any capricious or uncertain external power.

Charles F. Haanel

#21. There was always an uncertain promise dangling in the future like a golden fruit hanging from some fantastic bough.

Gustave Flaubert

#22. When man is born, the human race as well as the individual, he is thrown out of a situation which was definite, as definite as the instincts, into a situation which is indefinite, uncertain and open. There is certainty only about the past - and about the future only as far as that it is death.

Erich Fromm

#23. I wonder if they'll be able to resist. It's not exactly easy to save things for the future when the present is so uncertain.

Ally Condie

#24. It's not exactly easy to save things for the future when the present is so uncertain. (Xander)

Ally Condie

#25. We may be able to predict when it shall rain but the exact second when the first rain drop shall hit the ground is always uncertain all.

Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

#26. To be hopeful means to be uncertain about the future, to be tender toward possibilities, to be dedicated to change all the way down to the bottom of your heart.

Rebecca Solnit

#27. These are hard and uncertain times we're living in," he said. "You never know what will still be here tomorrow. That's why we must take joy every day in what we do have, so it's something we can carry in our memories when things change.

Jaye L. Knight

#28. Those living in rural areas as well as those with a planning policy remit for those areas have an important responsibility to protect green belt agricultural land for the wider benefit of feeding the UK into the uncertain future that we all face

Phil Harding

#29. We live in uncertain times when it comes to the future of life on Earth.

Jeff Corwin

#30. I have met too many people who are looking for work, worrying about their mortgage, uncertain about their health insurance, and doubting that things will get any better anytime soon. Not just concerned about the present, many of us are doubting the future.

Brad Schneider

#31. Abandon certainty! That's life's deepest command. That's what life's all about. We're a probe into the unknown, into the uncertain. Why can't you hear Muad'Dib? If certainty is knowing absolutely an absolute future, then that's only death disguised! Such a future becomes now!

Frank Herbert

#32. Through first-class education, a generation marches down the long uncertain road of the future with confidence.

Wynton Marsalis

#33. Not moving because things are unfamiliar-and you haven't bothered to learn how to operate on them-I think is really a crime. The uncertain is the unknown and the unknown is the future, and you cannot predict the future. But the unfamiliar? You can learn how to operate in that.

Orit Gadiesh

#34. The future is uncertain ... but this uncertainty is at the very heart of human creativity.

Ilya Prigogine

#35. She cried for the life she could not control. She cried for the mentor who had died before her eyes. She cried for the profound loneliness that filled her heart. But, above all, she cried for the future ... which suddenly felt so uncertain.

Dan Brown

#36. Do we miss not only the past but every future the lost past describes? Is that just the nature of missing? All the lost might-have-beens? The certainty that those uncertain futures are gone? If we can't embrace uncertainty do we miss the point of love?

Mark Z. Danielewski

#37. The nation seems to slouch onward into its uncertain future like some huge inarticulate beast, too much attainted by wounds and ailments to be robust, but too strong and resourceful to succumb.

Richard Hofstadter

#38. When the uncertain future becomes the past, the past in turn becomes uncertain.

Mohsin Hamid

#39. Every line we succeed in publishing today - no matter how uncertain the future to which we entrust it - is a victory wrenched from the powers of darkness.

Walter Benjamin

#40. Real Love for ourselves by definition includes every aspect of our lives - the good, the bad, the difficult, the challenging past, the uncertain future, as well as all the shameful, upsetting experiences and encounters we'd just as soon forget.

Sharon Salzberg

#41. Life is unresolved, confusing, bewildering, puzzling, ambiguous. You don't really know what's going to happen. The future is uncertain for everybody.

Woody Allen

#42. But the future is uncertain, and he can't get up enough enthusiasm even to masurbate.

M.R. Carey

#43. We recognized only one thing as our duty and destiny: every one of us had to become himself, had to be true to and live for the sake of the seed of nature at work in himself, so completely that the uncertain future would find us ready for anything and everything it might bring.

Hermann Hesse

#44. Every true history must force us to remember that the past was once as real as the present and as uncertain as the future.

G. M. Trevelyan

#45. I am a Filipino, inheritor of a glorious past, hostage to the uncertain future. As such, I must prove equal to a two-fold task -- the task of meeting my responsibility to the past, and the task of performing my obligation to the future.

Carlos P. Romulo

#46. The utility, or intrinsic value of gold as a commodity is now considerably less than in the past; its monetary status has become extraordinarily ambiguous; and its future is highly uncertain.

Benjamin Graham

#47. In the future if my mother tries to shame me with her disapproval, I will let her know in no uncertain terms that I reject her and all of her codependent baggage. I am Codependent No More.

Susan Juby

#48. The future is uncertain but the end is always near.

Jim Morrison

#49. Every man's life lies within the present; for the past is spent and done with, and the future is uncertain.

Marcus Aurelius

#50. The future remains uncertain and so it should, for it is the canvas upon which we paint our desires. Thus always the human condition faces a beautifully empty canvas. We possess only this moment in which to dedicate ourselves continuously to the sacred presence which we share and create.

Frank Herbert

#51. That man is prudent who neither hopes nor fears anything from the uncertain events of the future.

Anatole France

#52. A pessimist is a person who is always right but doesn't get any enjoyment out of it, while an optimist, is one who imagines that the future is uncertain. It is a duty to be an optimist, because if you imagine that the future is uncertain, then you mu

Victor Cherbuliez

#53. The planetary phase of history has begun, but the future shape of global society remains profoundly uncertain. Though perhaps improbable, a shift toward a planetary civilization of enriched lives, human solidarity, and environmental sustainability is still possible.

Paul Raskin

#54. In a simpler world, perhaps unilateral power held by a single, smart, capable leader could rule the day. In a complex world, as we'll explore together, it takes a collective sharing of power, creativity, and perspectives to become agile and nuanced enough to lead into the uncertain future.

Jennifer Garvey Berger

#55. You can't prepare for the details of every single possible thing that might come your way in the future, because the future is uncertain.

Auliq Ice

#56. Many decisions are based on beliefs concerning the likelihood of uncertain events such as the outcome of an election, the guilt of a defendant, or the future value of the dollar.

Daniel Kahneman

#57. The planet's survival has become so uncertain that any effort, any thought that presupposes an assured future amounts to a mad gamble.

Elias Canetti

#58. Past is dead
Future is uncertain;
Present is all you have,
So eat, drink and live merry.

Albert Einstein

#59. The optimist regards the future as uncertain.

Eugene Wigner

#60. History constantly reminds us that in an uncertain world there is no visibility of prospects. Future earnings cannot be predicted with accuracy.

David Dreman

#61. However, at 17 years old, I was ready to face any challenge and tackle any obstacles blocking the road to my dreams. I was ready to take on the world. I was unstoppable. Bygones were bygones. The future, however uncertain it might be, awaited me.

Teodor Flonta

#62. When we lack a sense of past and future, the present feels like a shaky platform, an uncertain basis for action.

Timothy Snyder

#63. There is no freeway to the future, no paved highway from here to there. There is only wilderness, uncertain terrain. There are no roadmaps, no signposts. So pioneering leaders rely upon a compass and a dream

James M. Kouzes

#64. If the future remains uncertain, we know the past history of nationalism. And that should be sufficient to encourage a habit of watchful suspicion.

Michael Billig

#65. We all act on what we know, what we see, what we are told and how we feel. The simple fact of the matter is that not a single one of us operates under identical influences. That is why the future is always uncertain.

Mark Hodder

#66. The future is no more uncertain than the present.

Walt Whitman

#67. We live in a very uncertain world, and I think that uncertainty of itself generates an environment which we should not make a decision that deprives future generations of the deterrent effect that the nuclear weapons have provided for us and for almost all of my life.

Des Browne

#68. Let the future remain uncertain, for that is the canvas to receive our desires.

Brian Herbert

#69. The future is uncertain, but that can be a good thing.

Jennifer Niven

#70. The future was uncertain, absolutely, and there were many hurdles, twists, and turns to come, but as long as I kept moving forward, one foot in front of the other, the voices of fear and shame, the messages from those who wanted me to believe that I wasn't good enough, would be stilled.

Chris Gardner

#71. I've never seen such a hunger in people for spiritual things ... People realize the past is gone, the future is uncertain, and the present seems to be hopeless. As a result, many [in Moscow] were open to God.

Billy Graham

#72. Life changes when you least expect it to. The future is uncertain. So, seize this day, seize this moment, and make the most of it.

Jim Valvano

#73. You can't have the past. Only the future, and the future is, of course, completely uncertain.

Jean Oram

#74. Everyone's future is, in reality, uncertain and full of unknown treasures from which all may draw unguessed prizes.

Lord Dunsany

#75. Discovery requires courage and acceptance that we are not in control, and that the future is uncertain.

Bryant McGill

#76. when the Bible speaks of hope, it is not referring to a desire for a future outcome that is uncertain, but rather a desire for a future outcome that is absolutely sure.

R.C. Sproul