Motivational Quotes

The future

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

- Blake, William

Best Quotes about The future

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

Galsworthy, John

The future comes one day at a time.

Acheson, Dean

The future looks extremely bright indeed, with lots of possibilities ahead -- big possibilities. Like the song says, We've just begun.

Lee, Bruce

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

Bible

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

Albert Einstein

Whatever your past has been your future is spotless.

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 cradle of the future is the grave of the past.

Grillparzer, Franz

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

Winfrey, Oprah

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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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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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That man is prudent who neither hopes nor fears anything from the uncertain events of the future.

France, Anatole

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

Pickford, Mary

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

Maugham, W. Somerset

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

Smith, Roger

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

William Gibson

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I desire no future that will break the ties with the past.

Eliot, George

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

Mitchell, Juliet

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

Gibran, Kahlil

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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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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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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 lies before you, like paths of pure white snow. Be careful how you tread it, for every step will show.

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Rand, Ayn

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

Weil, Simone

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

Alan Kay

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

Fischer-Dieskau, Dietrich

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

Lindbergh, Anne Morrow

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When men speak of the future, the Gods laugh.

Proverb, Chinese

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

Robert Fulford