Motivational Quotes

The future

Prediction is very difficult, especially about the future.

- Niels Bohr

Best Quotes about The future

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

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

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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.

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

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

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

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

Grass, Gunther

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

Maugham, W. Somerset

Prediction is very difficult, especially about the future.

Niels Bohr

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

Mitchell, Juliet

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

Johnson, Samuel

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

Graf, Steffi

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

William Gibson

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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 influences the present just as much as the past.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Cornish, Merelene

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When all else is lost, the future still remains.

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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

Albert Einstein

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

Pickford, Mary

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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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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 future is as bright as the promises of God.

Carey, William

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The future comes one day at a time.

Acheson, Dean

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

Berra, Yogi

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

Galsworthy, John

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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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The future will be better tomorrow.

Dan Quayle

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

Rivkin, Steve

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

Smith, Roger

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

Bradbury, Ray

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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 cradle of the future is the grave of the past.

Grillparzer, Franz

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

Alan Kay