Motivational Quotes

The future

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

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

Take no thought for tomorrow; for tomorrow shall take thought for the things of itself. [Matthew 6:34]

Bible

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

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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

Cornish, Merelene

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

Tomorrow, you promise yourself, will be different, yet, tomorrow is too often a repetition of today.

Mccay, James T.

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

When all else is lost, the future still remains.

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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

Fischer-Dieskau, Dietrich

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

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

Glasgow, Arnold H.

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

Berra, Yogi

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

W. Somerset Maugham

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

John Sladek

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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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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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Create your future from your future not your past.

Erhard, Werner

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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 way to predict the future is to invent it.

Alan Kay

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The future comes one day at a time.

Acheson, Dean

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

Pickford, Mary

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

Galsworthy, John

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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

Graham, Billy

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

Lindbergh, Anne Morrow

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

Gibran, Kahlil

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

Lardner, Ring

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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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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 future is as bright as the promises of God.

Carey, William

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

Johnson, Samuel

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The future ain't what it used to be.

Yogi Berra

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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 never think of the future - it comes soon enough.

Albert Einstein

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

Drucker, Peter F.

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

Graf, Steffi

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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