H. Rider Haggard Quotes

Rash indeed is he who reckons on the morrow, or happily on days beyond it; for tomorrow is not, until today is past.

You're never guaranteed about next year. People ask what you think of next season, you have to seize the opportunities when they're in front of you.

The future is open, and I never make plans. As long as it's interesting to me, I try to live my life to the fullest.

I do not want to foresee the future. I am concerned with taking care of the present. God has given me no control over the moment following.

I live in the present with an eye on the future.

People sacrifice the present for the future. But life is available only in the present. That is why we should walk in such a way that every step can bring us to the here and the now.

I try to learn from the past, but I plan for the future by focusing exclusively on the present. That's where the fun is.

Do not dwell in the past, do not dream of the future, concentrate the mind on the present moment.

No valid plans for the future can be made by those who have no capacity for living now.

Neither man nor nation can prosper unless, in dealing with the present, thought is steadily taken for the future.

The future comes one day at a time.

There is only one conflict, and that’s between short-term and long-term thinking.

As I look down the path to the future I see before me the footprint of the hand of fate.

The long run is a misleading guide to current affairs. In the long run we are all dead.

It would be foolish, in forming our expectations, to attach great weight to matters which are very uncertain.

People say to me, 'What are you going to be doing in five years?' The thing is, I don't care! It's what I'm doing today that matters.

It does not do to dwell on dreams and forget to live.

If you ask me what is going to happen in a month or a year, I can't tell you. We're focused on the present.

As for the future, you can never predict it, so I don't even think about it.

I never look forward. I live for today. And if you think about what's going to happen in a year, in two years, then you begin to plan. And plans never come true.

I naturally believe there will be a future, but I do not waste my time imagining its radiant beauty. ... It seems to me that we ought to think first about the present. Even if the present is desperately dark, I do not wish to leave it. Will tomorrow be free from darkness? We'll talk about that tomorrow.

Seize today and put as little trust as you can in tomorrow.

But I dare not think too far into the future on the risk that I'll miss the present.

The past explains how I got here, but the future is up to me - and I love to live life at full throttle.

It is difficult to live in the present, ridiculous to live in the future and impossible to live in the past. Nothing is as far away as one minute ago.