Motivational Quotes

The future

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

- Alan Kay

Best Quotes about The future

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

We have inherited the past; we can create the future.

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

Rivkin, Steve

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

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.

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

The good days weren't really so good, and tomorrow ain't as bad as it seems.

Joel, Billy

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

Pickford, Mary

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

Robert Fulford

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

Boom, Corrie Ten

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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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The future will be better tomorrow.

Dan Quayle

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

Rostand, Jean

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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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Prediction is very difficult, especially about the future.

Niels Bohr

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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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Whatever your past has been your future is spotless.

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

Grillparzer, Franz

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

Weil, Simone

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

Cornish, Merelene

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

Rand, Ayn

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Create your future from your future not your past.

Erhard, Werner

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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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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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The future is as bright as the promises of God.

Carey, William

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

Proverb, Arabian

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

Graham, Billy

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

Drucker, Peter F.

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

Berra, Yogi

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

Smith, Roger

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

Albert Einstein

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The future comes one day at a time.

Acheson, Dean

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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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A man that donÆt believe in destiny donÆt need to know what his destiny is.

Laura Moncur

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

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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

Bradbury, Ray

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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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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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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 future ain't what it used to be.

Yogi Berra