Motivational Quotes

The future

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

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

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

Johnson, Samuel

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

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

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

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

Robert Fulford

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

Weil, Simone

Prediction is very difficult, especially about the future.

Niels Bohr

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

Glasgow, Arnold H.

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

Graf, Steffi

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

Mitchell, Juliet

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

Rivkin, Steve

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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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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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Never be afraid to trust an unknown future to a known God.

Boom, Corrie Ten

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The future ain't what it used to be.

Yogi Berra

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

Rand, Ayn

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

Berra, Yogi

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Whatever your past has been your future is spotless.

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

Bible

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

Rostand, Jean

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

William Gibson

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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 as bright as the promises of God.

Carey, William

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When men speak of the future, the Gods laugh.

Proverb, Chinese

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

Cornish, Merelene

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All futurity seems teeming with endless destruction never to be repelled; Desperate remorse swallows the present in a quenchless rage.

Blake, William

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

France, Anatole

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

Galsworthy, John

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

Gibran, Kahlil

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

Mccay, James T.

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

Albert Einstein

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

John Sladek

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