Motivational Quotes

The future

The future comes one day at a time.

- Acheson, Dean

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

Robertson Davies

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

Alan Kay

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

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 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.

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

Graham, Billy

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

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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When men speak of the future, the Gods laugh.

Proverb, Chinese

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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 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.

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

Berra, Yogi

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

Rand, Ayn

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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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Create your future from your future not your past.

Erhard, Werner

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Whatever your past has been your future is spotless.

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

Weil, Simone

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

Pickford, Mary

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The future is as bright as the promises of God.

Carey, William

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

Grillparzer, Franz

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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

Lardner, Ring

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

Glasgow, Arnold H.

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Prediction is very difficult, especially about the future.

Niels Bohr

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I have seen the future and it doesn't work.

Robert Fulford

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

Boom, Corrie Ten

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

Johnson, Samuel

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

Blake, William

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

John Sladek

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

Lindbergh, Anne Morrow

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Those who foretell the future lies, even if he tells the truth.

Proverb, Arabian

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

Winfrey, Oprah

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

Drucker, Peter F.