Motivational Quotes

The future

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

Best Quotes about The future

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

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

Mitchell, Juliet

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

Dressler, Fritz R. S.

I don't ever look back. I look forward.

Graf, Steffi

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.

When all else is lost, the future still remains.

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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

Robertson Davies

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.

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

Cornish, Merelene

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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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Future: That period of time in which our affairs prosper, our friends are true and our happiness is assured.

Bierce, Ambrose

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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 past is of no importance. The present is of no importance. It is with the future that we have to deal. For the past is what man should not have been. The present is what man ought not to be. The future is what artists are.

Wilde, Oscar

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Tomorrow, you promise yourself, will be different, yet, tomorrow is too often a repetition of today.

Mccay, James T.

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Create your future from your future not your past.

Erhard, Werner

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

Winfrey, Oprah

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

Johnson, Samuel

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

Pickford, Mary

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If you do not think about your future, you cannot have one.

Galsworthy, John

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The future will be better tomorrow.

Dan Quayle

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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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Those who foretell the future lies, even if he tells the truth.

Proverb, Arabian

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A man that donÆt believe in destiny donÆt need to know what his destiny is.

Laura Moncur

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

Drucker, Peter F.

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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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The future comes one day at a time.

Acheson, Dean

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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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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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Whatever your past has been your future is spotless.

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We have inherited the past; we can create the future.

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The future ain't what it used to be.

Yogi Berra

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I desire no future that will break the ties with the past.

Eliot, George

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The future is made of the same stuff as the present.

Weil, Simone

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Prediction is very difficult, especially about the future.

Niels Bohr

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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 seen the future and it doesn't work.

Robert Fulford

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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 Antoninus

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

Alan Kay

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The future influences the present just as much as the past.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

William Gibson

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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

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

Rand, Ayn

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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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Yesterday is but today's memory, and tomorrow is today's dream.

Gibran, Kahlil

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Imagine a baseball thrown thru the air. A high speed camera takes pictures of it showing very great detail -- names, laces, etc. Someone shows you a picture -- can you tell what direction it is travelling? or even if it is moving? NO. You would have to know where it was thrown FROM to know what direction it is going. In times of high change, it's good to know a little bit about the PAST to understand the present freeze frame of the NOW and project to some degree of accuracy where we are GOING (The Future).

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

Bradbury, Ray

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

Bible

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I never think of the future - it comes soon enough.

Albert Einstein