Motivational Quotes

The future

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.

Best Quotes about The future

Prediction is very difficult, especially about the future.

Niels Bohr

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

Bradbury, Ray

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

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

Boom, Corrie Ten

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

Rostand, Jean

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

Johnson, Samuel

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

Maugham, W. Somerset

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

Pickford, Mary

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

Mitchell, Juliet

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

Lardner, Ring

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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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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 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

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The future ain't what it used to be.

Yogi Berra

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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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The future will be better tomorrow.

Dan Quayle

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

Gibran, Kahlil

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

Winfrey, Oprah

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Whatever your past has been your future is spotless.

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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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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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Create your future from your future not your past.

Erhard, Werner

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

Laura Moncur

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

Graf, Steffi

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Occasionally in life there are those moments of unutterable fulfillment which cannot be completely explained by those symbols called words. Their meaning can only be articulated by the inaudible language of the heart. Such is the moment I am presently experiencing. I experience this high and joyous moment not for myself alone but for those devotees of nonviolence who have moved so courageously against the ramparts of racial injustice and who in the process have acquired a new estimate of their own human worth. Many of them are young and cultured. Others are middle aged and middle class. The majority are poor and untutored. But they are all united in the quiet conviction that it is better to suffer in dignity than to accept segregation in humiliation. These are the real heroes of the freedom struggle: they are the noble people for whom I accept the Nobel Peace Prize.

King Jr. Martin Luther

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

Graham, Billy

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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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When men speak of the future, the Gods laugh.

Proverb, Chinese

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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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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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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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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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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 future influences the present just as much as the past.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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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 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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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 here. It's just not widely distributed yet.

William Gibson