Motivational Quotes

The future

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

Best Quotes about The future

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

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Blake, William

Prediction is very difficult, especially about the future.

Niels Bohr

When men speak of the future, the Gods laugh.

Proverb, Chinese

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

Gibran, Kahlil

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

Bible

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

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

William Gibson

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

Drucker, Peter F.

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

Berra, Yogi

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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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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

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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 future comes one day at a time.

Acheson, Dean

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

Galsworthy, John

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

Lindbergh, Anne Morrow

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

Albert Einstein

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

Rivkin, Steve

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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 future is made of the same stuff as the present.

Weil, Simone

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Whatever your past has been your future is spotless.

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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 don't ever look back. I look forward.

Graf, Steffi

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

Johnson, Samuel

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

Eliot, George

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

Boom, Corrie Ten

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

Mitchell, Juliet

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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 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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Create your future from your future not your past.

Erhard, Werner

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

Lardner, Ring

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

Robertson Davies

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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

Grillparzer, Franz

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

Fischer-Dieskau, Dietrich

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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 future ain't what it used to be.

Yogi Berra