Motivational Quotes

The future

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

- Maugham, W. Somerset

Best Quotes about The future

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

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

Lindbergh, Anne Morrow

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.

Whatever your past has been your future is spotless.

Future: That period of time in which our affairs prosper, our friends are true and our happiness is assured.

Bierce, Ambrose

We should all be concerned about the future because we will have to spend the rest of our lives there.

Kettering, Charles F.

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

Lardner, Ring

When all else is lost, the future still remains.

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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

Cornish, Merelene

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

Berra, Yogi

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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 future will be better tomorrow.

Dan Quayle

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

Winfrey, Oprah

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

Graham, Billy

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

Mitchell, Juliet

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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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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 have inherited the past; we can create the future.

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

Mccay, James T.

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When men speak of the future, the Gods laugh.

Proverb, Chinese

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Prediction is very difficult, especially about the future.

Niels Bohr

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

William Gibson

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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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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 as bright as the promises of God.

Carey, William

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

Pickford, Mary

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

Johnson, Samuel

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

Gibran, Kahlil

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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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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 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 slowly, the present flies and the past stands still forever.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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

Alan Kay

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

Rand, Ayn

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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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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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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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The child is not to be educated for the present, but for the remote future, and often is opposition to the immediate future.

Paul, Jean

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

Albert Einstein

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

Galsworthy, John

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