Motivational Quotes

The future

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

- Lindbergh, Anne Morrow

Best Quotes about The future

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

Rivkin, Steve

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

Lindbergh, Anne Morrow

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

Rostand, Jean

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

Johnson, Samuel

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

Weil, Simone

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

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

Blake, William

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

Eliot, George

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Albert Einstein

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

Berra, Yogi

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

Cornish, Merelene

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

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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 cradle of the future is the grave of the past.

Grillparzer, Franz

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

France, Anatole

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

Lardner, Ring

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

Bible

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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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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

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

Gibran, Kahlil

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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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The future is as bright as the promises of God.

Carey, William

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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

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When all else is lost, the future still remains.

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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

Rand, Ayn

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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 don't ever look back. I look forward.

Graf, Steffi

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

Smith, Roger

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Prediction is very difficult, especially about the future.

Niels Bohr

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Create your future from your future not your past.

Erhard, Werner

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

Bradbury, Ray

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

Alan Kay

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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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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.