Uncertain Future Quotes

• 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

  Stars, Loneliness, Wings

  Charlotte Bronte (2016). “Villette”, p.56, Xist Publishing

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

  Ilya Prigogine

  Future, Heart, Creativity

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• The future is no more uncertain than the present.

  Walt Whitman

  Inspirational, Life, Future

  Walt Whitman “Annotated LEAVES OF GRASS with English Grammar Exercises: by Walt Whitman (Author), Robert Powell (Editor)”, Powell Publications, LLC

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• Never let the future disturb you. You will meet it, if you have to, with the same weapons of reason which today arm you against the present.

  Marcus Aurelius

  Fear, Future, Adventure

  "Meditations" by Marcus Aurelius, Book VII, (8), (c. 161 - 180 AD).

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• We live in changing times, and many people experience the challenges that come with it. In the face of uncertain futures, no one will know what to expect.

  Ai Weiwei

  People, Challenges, Faces

  "Freely Speaking". Interview with Paul D. Miller, realitysandwich.com. August 22, 2012.

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• Live life for the moment, because everything else is uncertain.

  Louis Tomlinson

  Live Life, One Direction, Live In The Moment

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• True genius resides in the capacity for evaluation of uncertain, hazardous, and conflicting information.

  Winston Churchill

  Decision, Genius, Information

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• 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

  Heart, Mean, Hopeful

  "We could be heroes: an election-year letter" by Rebecca Solnit, www.theguardian.com. October 15, 2012.

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• Uncertainty and expectation are the joys of life. Security is an insipid thing.

  William Congreve

  Expectations, Joy, Risk

  William. II Congreve William Wycherley (John Vanbrugh and Farquhar George), William. II Wycherley, William Congreve, George Farquhar, John Vanbrugh (1840). “Dramatic Works with Biographical and Critical Notices by Leigh Hunt. - London, Moxon 1840”, p.229

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

  Marcus Aurelius

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  Marcus Aurelius (Emperor of Rome), André Dacier, Thomas Gataker, Cebes (of Thebes.) (1708). “The Emperor Marcus Antoninus His Conversation with Himself: Together with the Preliminary Discourse of the Learned Gataker ; as Also the Emperor's Life”, p.193

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  Neither a wise man nor a brave man lies down on the tracks of history to wait for the train of the future to run over him.

  Dwight D. Eisenhower

  Life, Change, Wise

  1952 In Time, 6 Oct.

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• The future is uncertain but the end is always near.

  Jim Morrison

  Time, Ends, Uncertain

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• There is nothing more difficult to take in hand, more perilous to conduct, or more uncertain in its success, than to take the lead in the introduction of a new order of things.

  Niccolo Machiavelli

  Inspirational, Change, Leadership

  Niccolo Machiavelli (2010). “The Prince”, p.21, FastPencil Inc

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• Nothing is perfect. Life is messy. Relationships are complex. Outcomes are uncertain. People are irrational.

  Hugh Mackay

  Relationship, Perfect, Dating

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• 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

  Passion, Dedication, Common Purpose

  Second Presidential Inaugural Address, delivered 21 January 2013, Washington, D.C.

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• 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

  Strong, Too Much, Beast

  Quoted in Hedrick Smith The Power Game (1988).

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

  Anatole France

  Fear, Future, Men

  Anatole France (2007). “Golden Tales of Anatole France”, p.12, Wildside Press LLC

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• Liberty lends us her wings and Hope guides us by her star.

  Charlotte Bronte

  Stars, Wings, Liberty

  1853 Villette, ch.6.

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• You can't blow an uncertain trumpet.

  Theodore Hesburgh

  Leadership, Blow, Common Vision

  Interview with Philip Scarpino, tobiascenter.iu.edu. January 6, 2009.

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• The good we secure for ourselves is precarious and uncertain until it is secured for all of us and incorporated into our common life.

  Jane Addams

  Inspiring, Peace, Equality

  Jane Addams (2012). “Twenty Years at Hull-House: With Autobiographical Notes”, p.76, Courier Corporation

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• Man's role is uncertain, undefined, and perhaps unnecessary.

  Margaret Mead

  Men, Roles, Unnecessary

  Margaret Mead (1975). “Male and female: a study of the sexes in a changing world”, William Morrow & Co

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• When the uncertain future becomes the past, the past in turn becomes uncertain.

  Mohsin Hamid

  Past, Uncertain, Turns

  Mohsin Hamid (2012). “Moth Smoke”, p.9, Penguin

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• Teenagers blithely skip off to uncertain futures, while their parents sit weeping curbside in the Volvo, because the adolescent brain isn't yet formed enough to recognize and evaluate risk.

  Michael J. Fox

  Teenager, Parent, Risk

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• Raising children is an uncertain thing; success is reached only after a life of battle and worry.

  Democritus

  Children, Worry, Battle

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• Religions often partake of the myth of progress that shields us from the terrors of an uncertain future.

  Frank Herbert

  Religion, Progress, Statistics

  Frank Herbert (1999). “Dune”, Ace Hardcover

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