The English essayist G. K.
Chesterton wrote, "There is one thing which gives radiance to everything.
It is the idea of something around the corner." But during times of
adversity, that "something around the corner" may provoke more fear
than hope. When fear looms large, a profound but simple antidote is required:
faith.
If you are approaching a crossroads, approach it
optimistically. And if you need a surefire prescription for "turning the
corner," consider the quotations that follow.
IN TRAVELING THE ROAD OF
LIFE, DON’T FOCUS ON THE REARVIEW MIRROR…
"There is a future that makes itself
and a future that you make. The real future is composed of both."
Alain
"There will always be a frontier where
there is an open mind and a willing hand."
Charles F. Kettering
"The future is not ominous, but a promise;
it surrounds the present like a halo."
John Dewey
"You don’t just stumble into the future.
You create your own future."
Roger Smith
THOUGHTS ABOUT THE FUTURE
"Life is a series of collisions with the future; it
is not a sum of what we have been but what we yearn to be."
José Ortega y Gasset
"If you are afraid of your future, you don't have
a present."
James Petersen
"Fear not for the future, weep not for the
past."
Percy Bysshe Shelly
"The future fairly startles me with its impending
greatness. We are on the verge of undreamed progress."
Henry Ford
"Imagine first that the present is past and, second, that the past may
yet be changed and amended."
Victor Frankl
Forward-looking Leaders Invest Energy
in the Future, Not the Past
"You can’t have a better tomorrow if
you are thinking about yesterday all the time."
Charles Kettering
"Waste no tears over the griefs of yesterday."
Euripides
"Acceptance of what has happened is the first step to overcoming the
consequences of any mistake."
William James
"I’m more concerned about the future because I intend on spending the
rest of my life there."
Charles Kettering
"Seeds of faith are always within us; sometimes it takes a crisis to
nourish and encourage their growth."
Susan L. Taylor
"The future is in our hands. Our lives are what we choose to make
them."
Winston Churchill
"Perpetual optimism is a force multiplier."
Colin Powell
HAVE FAITH IN THE FUTURE AND GET BUSY
"Alas! The fearful unbelief is unbelief
in yourself."
Thomas Carlyle
"Begin to weave and God will provide
the thread."
German Proverb.
"In actual life, every great enterprise begins with and takes its first
forward step in faith."
Friedrich von Schlegel
"Nothing is impossible to a willing
heart."
John Heywood
"Great hopes make great men."
Thomas Fuller
"Worry and anxiety are sand in the
machinery of life; faith is the oil."
E. Stanley Jones
"Honor begets honor; trust begets trust; faith begets faith, and hope is
the mainspring of life."
Henry Lewis Stimson
Written
and Compiled by Cris Freeman, Psy.D.
