Motivational Quotes

The future

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

- Joel, Billy

Best Quotes about The future

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

William Gibson

The future comes one day at a time.

Acheson, Dean

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

France, Anatole

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

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

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

Rostand, Jean

A preoccupation with the future not only prevents us from seeing the present as it is but often prompts us to rearrange the past.

Eric Hoffer

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

John Sladek

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

Bible

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

Johnson, Samuel

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

Rand, Ayn

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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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Whatever your past has been your future is spotless.

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

Eliot, George

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Life wouldn't be worth living if I worried over the future as well as the present.

W. Somerset Maugham

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

Mccay, James T.

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

Rivkin, Steve

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

Graf, Steffi

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

Graham, Billy

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

Mitchell, Juliet

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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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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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We should all be concerned about the future because we will have to spend the rest of our lives there.

Kettering, Charles F.

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When all else is lost, the future still remains.

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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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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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 influences the present just as much as the past.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

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

Weil, Simone

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

Pickford, Mary

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

Alan Kay

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When men speak of the future, the Gods laugh.

Proverb, Chinese

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

Albert Einstein

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

Gibran, Kahlil

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

Smith, Roger

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

Berra, Yogi

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

Grillparzer, Franz

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The future will be better tomorrow.

Dan Quayle

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The future? Like unwritten books and unborn children, you don't talk about it.

Fischer-Dieskau, Dietrich

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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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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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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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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