Motivational Quotes

The future

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

- John Sladek

Best Quotes about The future

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

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

Gibran, Kahlil

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

Berra, Yogi

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

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

Robert Fulford

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.

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

Bradbury, Ray

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

Pickford, Mary

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

Johnson, Samuel

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

Rivkin, Steve

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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 future influences the present just as much as the past.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Lee, Bruce

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

Winfrey, Oprah

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

William Gibson

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

Lindbergh, Anne Morrow

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

Rand, Ayn

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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

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

Graf, Steffi

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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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Prediction is very difficult, especially about the future.

Niels Bohr

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The future comes one day at a time.

Acheson, Dean

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

Alan Kay

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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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When men speak of the future, the Gods laugh.

Proverb, Chinese

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The future ain't what it used to be.

Yogi Berra

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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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Occasionally in life there are those moments of unutterable fulfillment which cannot be completely explained by those symbols called words. Their meaning can only be articulated by the inaudible language of the heart. Such is the moment I am presently experiencing. I experience this high and joyous moment not for myself alone but for those devotees of nonviolence who have moved so courageously against the ramparts of racial injustice and who in the process have acquired a new estimate of their own human worth. Many of them are young and cultured. Others are middle aged and middle class. The majority are poor and untutored. But they are all united in the quiet conviction that it is better to suffer in dignity than to accept segregation in humiliation. These are the real heroes of the freedom struggle: they are the noble people for whom I accept the Nobel Peace Prize.

King Jr. Martin Luther

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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 is made of the same stuff as the present.

Weil, Simone

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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

John Sladek

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

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

Proverb, Arabian

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

Lardner, Ring

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When all else is lost, the future still remains.

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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

Dressler, Fritz R. S.

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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