Motivational Quotes

The future

I would sum up my fear about the future in one word: boring. And that's my one fear: that everything has happened; nothing exciting or new or interesting is ever going to happen again... the future is just going to be a vast, conforming suburb of the soul.

- Ballard, J. G.

Best Quotes about The future

America, which has the most glorious present still existing in the world today, hardly stops to enjoy it, in her insatiable appetite for the future.

Lindbergh, Anne Morrow

Create your future from your future not your past.

Erhard, Werner

We have always held to the hope, the belief, the conviction that there is a better life, a better world, beyond the horizon.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

It is not the cares of today, but the cares of tomorrow that weigh a man down. For the needs of today we have corresponding strength given. For the morrow we are told to trust. It is not ours yet.

Macdonald, George

Predicting the future is easy.It's trying to figure out what's going on now that's hard.

Dressler, Fritz R. S.

Whatever your past has been your future is spotless.

The more unpredictable the world is the more we rely on predictions.

Rivkin, Steve

I have seen the future and it doesn't work.

Robert Fulford

The future, according to some scientists, will be exactly like the past, only far more expensive.

John Sladek

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Prediction is very difficult, especially about the future.

Niels Bohr

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You don't just stumble into the future. You create your own future.

Smith, Roger

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We all need to take great interest in the future because we will spend the rest of our life there.

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I have a Vision of the Future, chum. The workers flats in fields of soya beans tower up like silver pencils, score on score.

Betjeman, John

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The future comes one day at a time.

Acheson, Dean

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The child is not to be educated for the present, but for the remote future, and often is opposition to the immediate future.

Paul, Jean

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The past cannot be changed. The future is yet in your power.

Pickford, Mary

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The wave of the future is coming and there is no fighting it.

Lindbergh, Anne Morrow

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our day will come is another way of saying you get yours.

Cornish, Merelene

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Take no thought for tomorrow; for tomorrow shall take thought for the things of itself. [Matthew 6:34]

Bible

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We already have the statistics for the future: the growth percentages of pollution, overpopulation, desertification. The future is already in place.

Grass, Gunther

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The best thing about the future is that it comes only one day at a time.

Lincoln, Abraham

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The world is full of people whose notion of a satisfactory future is, in fact, a return to the idealised past.

Robertson Davies

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There was a door to which I found no key: There was the veil through which I might not see.

Khayyam, Omar

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The future is an opaque mirror. Anyone who tries to look into it sees nothing but the dim outlines of an old and worried face.

Jim Bishop

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The future lies before you, like paths of pure white snow. Be careful how you tread it, for every step will show.

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The trouble with the future is that is usually arrives before we're ready for it.

Glasgow, Arnold H.

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The future comes slowly, the present flies and the past stands still forever.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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The cradle of the future is the grave of the past.

Grillparzer, Franz

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The good days weren't really so good, and tomorrow ain't as bad as it seems.

Joel, Billy

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The future is as bright as the promises of God.

Carey, William

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Ballard, J. G.

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When I look into the future, it is so bright it burns my eyes.

Winfrey, Oprah

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It is extraordinary that whole populations have no projects for the future, none at all. It certainly is extraordinary, but it is certainly true.

Stein, Gertrude

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It is possible to believe that all the past is but the beginning of a beginning, and that all that is and has been is but the twilight of the dawn. It is possible to believe that all the human mind has ever accomplished is but the dream before the awakening.

Wells, H.G.

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The best way to predict the future is to invent it.

Alan Kay

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The future is here. It's just not widely distributed yet.

William Gibson

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Tomorrow is an old deceiver, and his cheat never grows stale.

Johnson, Samuel

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We are made wise not by the recollection of our past, but by the responsibility for our future.

Shaw, George Bernard

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I have always been delighted at the prospect of a new day, a fresh try, one more start, with perhaps a bit of magic waiting somewhere behind the morning...

Priestley, J. B.

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Upper classes are a nation's past, the middle class its future.

Rand, Ayn

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There are certain moments when we might wish the future were built by men of the past.

Rostand, Jean

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The danger of the past was that men became slaves. The danger of the future is that men may become robots. True enough, robots do not rebel. But given man's nature, robots cannot live and remain sane, they become Golems, they will destroy their world and themselves because they cannot stand any longer the boredom of a meaningless life.

Fromm, Erich

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When all else is lost, the future still remains.

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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The future will one day be the present and will seem as unimportant as the present does now.

Maugham, W. Somerset

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People are always shouting they want to create a better future. It's not true. The future is an apathetic void of no interest to anyone. The past is full of life, eager to irritate us, provoke and insult us, tempt us to destroy or repaint it. The only reason people want to be masters of the future is to change the past.

Kundera, Milan

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The best way to predict the future is to create it.

Drucker, Peter F.

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I've read the last page of the Bible. It's all going to turn out all right.

Graham, Billy

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I don't try to describe the future. I try to prevent it.

Bradbury, Ray

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A fixed image of the future is in the worst sense a historical.

Mitchell, Juliet

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The young sailor at sea was ordered to climb a mast to adjust a sail during a violent storm. He got halfway up, looked down, got dizzy and sick. An old sailor on deck shouted up to him Look up, son, look up. Young sailor looked up, regained his composure, and completed his mission. Moral: Look ahead, not back.