Future Is Uncertain Quotes

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

Marcus Aurelius

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

Jim Morrison

#3. The paths people choose in life can lead to the creation or destruction of people, places, things, and relationships. The future is uncertain, but what is certain is there will be change.

Stephen Black

#4. Changes occur and expectations change. Reality brings new possibilities, while destroying some too. It's true: the future is uncertain.

Innocent Mwatsikesimbe

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

M.R. Carey

#6. 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

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

Ilya Prigogine

#8. 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

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

Bryant McGill

#10. 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

#11. 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

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

Jennifer Niven

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

Albert Einstein

#14. 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

#15. 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

#16. 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

#17. 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

#18. 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

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

Charles F. Haanel

#20. 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

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

Jim Paul

#22. 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

#23. 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

#24. 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

#25. 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

#26. 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

#27. 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

#28. 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

#29. 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

#30. 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

#31. I'm not itching to sue Amazon or Wal-Mart ... they sell a lot of books. But the future is very uncertain with books.

John Grisham

#32. 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

#33. If in the modern world wars have unfortunately to be fought (and they do, it seems) then they must be stopped at the first possible moment, otherwise they corrupt us, they create new problems and make our future even more uncertain. That is more than morality; it's sense.

Jawaharlal Nehru

#34. 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

#35. 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

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

Anatole France

#37. 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

#38. 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

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

David Dreman

#40. 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

#41. 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

#42. 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

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

Ally Condie

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

Walt Whitman

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

Brian Herbert

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

Jean Oram

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

Lord Dunsany

#48. 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

#49. No graduation speaker will ever tell you that the future is anything but uncertain. It never is. But graduations need not only be obsessed with looking ahead; a graduation can be a day on which we turn back and trace our steps to see how we ended up where we are.

Taylor Mali

#50. 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

#51. 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