Motivational Quotes

The future

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

- Grass, Gunther

Best Quotes about The future

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

Robertson Davies

The future looks extremely bright indeed, with lots of possibilities ahead -- big possibilities. Like the song says, We've just begun.

Lee, Bruce

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

Cornish, Merelene

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

Mitchell, Juliet

Create your future from your future not your past.

Erhard, Werner

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

William Gibson

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

Laura Moncur

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

Lindbergh, Anne Morrow

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

John Sladek

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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.

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They gave each other a smile with a future in it.

Lardner, Ring

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

Robert Fulford

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Proverb, Arabian

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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 future comes one day at a time.

Acheson, Dean

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When men speak of the future, the Gods laugh.

Proverb, Chinese

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It's tough to make predictions, especially about the future.

Berra, Yogi

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

Rostand, Jean

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Ignorance of God's prophetic outline, failure to know God's program for the Church, the nations, and Israel, is the cause of the overwhelming amount of error and misunderstanding of the events of the future.

Dehaan, M. R.

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

Grillparzer, Franz

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

Drucker, Peter F.

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

Smith, Roger

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

Gibran, Kahlil

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That man is prudent who neither hopes nor fears anything from the uncertain events of the future.

France, Anatole

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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 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.

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

Alan Kay

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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.

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

Albert Einstein

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When all else is lost, the future still remains.

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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

Galsworthy, John

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

Rand, Ayn

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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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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 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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Whatever your past has been your future is spotless.

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Everything that looks to the future elevates human nature. Never is life so low or so little as when occupied with the present.

Landor, Walter Savage

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

Winfrey, Oprah

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

Graham, Billy