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

1.

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

2.

When men speak of the future, the Gods laugh.

Proverb, Chinese

3.

We are made wise not by the recollection of our past, but by the responsibility for our future.

Shaw, George Bernard

4.

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

Drucker, Peter F.

5.

The future will be better tomorrow.

Dan Quayle

6.

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

Rivkin, Steve

7.

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

Winfrey, Oprah

8.

Create your future from your future not your past.

Erhard, Werner

9.

The future will one day be the present and will seem as unimportant as the present does now.

Maugham, W. Somerset

10.

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

Lardner, Ring

11.

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

12.

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

Johnson, Samuel

13.

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

Glasgow, Arnold H.

14.

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

Lindbergh, Anne Morrow

15.

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

Pickford, Mary

16.

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

Robert Fulford

17.

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

18.

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

Proverb, Arabian

19.

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

20.

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

Mitchell, Juliet

21.

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

Smith, Roger

22.

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

23.

America, which has the most glorious present still existing in the world today, hardly stops to enjoy it, in her insatiable appetite for the future.

Lindbergh, Anne Morrow

24.

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

Albert Einstein

25.

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

Alan Kay

26.

The future comes slowly, the present flies and the past stands still forever.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

27.

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

William Gibson

28.

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

Blake, William

29.

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

John Sladek

30.

When all else is lost, the future still remains.

Bovee, Christian Nevell

31.

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

Graham, Billy

32.

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

Grass, Gunther

33.

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

W. Somerset Maugham

34.

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

Lincoln, Abraham

35.

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.

36.

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.

37.

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

France, Anatole

38.

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

39.

Prediction is very difficult, especially about the future.

Niels Bohr

40.

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

Rand, Ayn

41.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

42.

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

Eliot, George

43.

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

Galsworthy, John

44.

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

Rostand, Jean

45.

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.

46.

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

47.

The future is as bright as the promises of God.

Carey, William

48.

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

Cornish, Merelene

49.

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.

50.

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