Charles Mackay Quotes

You want to have a future where you’re expecting things to be better, not one where you’re expecting things to be worse.

I'm sort of a pessimist about tomorrow and an optimist about the day after tomorrow.

Kids feel so strongly about what's going on today and what's happening to the world, and that's very inspiring. I feel more hopeful than ever before about the future.

I'm excited about what the future will bring and I think the best is yet to come.

I have great expectations for the future, because the past was highly overrated.

The best part is still ahead of me - I haven't experienced my 'good old days' yet.

The last decade has been a little rough, so I'm hoping to start this one on the right foot.

One day the good times had to keep on rolling, and all of life's horseshit would turn to circuses.

The best is yet to come, and won't that be fine? You think you've seen the sun, but you ain't seen it shine.

The best is yet to come and won't that be fine.

There is hope for the future, and when the world is ready for a new and better life, all these things will some day come to pass, - in God's good time

The best is yet to come.

I believe a radiant, light-filled tomorrow should be normal to the experience of living.

The good old days were never that good, believe me. The good new days are today, and better days are coming tomorrow. Our greatest songs are still unsung.

I've been smiling lately, dreaming about the world as one. And I believe it could be someday it's going to come.

The worst is likely to be behind us.

Who doesn't need hope in their lives: hope that something can change, that someone cares, that not only bad things happen unexpectedly but good things can happen to us too?

What this country needs is more people to inspire others with confidence, and fewer people to discourage any initiative in the right direction more to get into the thick of things, fewer to sit on the sidelines, merely finding fault more to point out what's right with the world, and fewer to keep harping on what's wrong with it and more who are interested in lighting candles, and fewer who blow them out.

Bad times, hard times, this is what people keep saying; but let us live well, and times shall be good. We are the times: Such as we are, such are the times.

I know that you don't believe it, but indeed, life will bring you through. You will live it down in time. What you need now is fresh air, fresh air, fresh air!

I want to say to you that there is life and dreams and surprises after 30-and 40, and 50, and 60, and 77! Believe me, life is one long surprise.

The early Christians did not say, in dismay, 'Look what the world has come to,' but, in delight, 'Look what has come to the world!”

If you want light to come into your life, you need to stand where it is shining.

It is only through opening your hearts will you be able to see that by promoting freedom for all, you are unchaining yourself. I guess I'm an optimist. I have faith in people and our government ultimately to do the right thing. And to my brothers and sisters in California, I'm there with you every step of the way until that day comes...

A single gentle rain makes the grass many shades greener. So our prospects brighten . . .