Motivational Quotes

The future

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

- Mitchell, Juliet

Best Quotes about The future

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

Eliot, George

Create your future from your future not your past.

Erhard, Werner

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

W. Somerset Maugham

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

Graf, Steffi

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

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

Fischer-Dieskau, Dietrich

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

Blake, William

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

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

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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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I have a Vision of the Future, chum. The workers flats in fields of soya beans tower up like silver pencils, score on score.

Betjeman, John

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

Berra, Yogi

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

Rivkin, Steve

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

Rostand, Jean

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

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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

Bradbury, Ray

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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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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 ain't what it used to be.

Yogi Berra

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

John Sladek

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

Grillparzer, Franz

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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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 is made of the same stuff as the present.

Weil, Simone

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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

Albert Einstein

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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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Prediction is very difficult, especially about the future.

Niels Bohr

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

Winfrey, Oprah

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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 is as bright as the promises of God.

Carey, William

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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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When all else is lost, the future still remains.

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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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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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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The future will be better tomorrow.