Motivational Quotes

The future

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

- Grillparzer, Franz

Best Quotes about The future

Predicting the future is easy.It's trying to figure out what's going on now that's hard.

Dressler, Fritz R. S.

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

Fischer-Dieskau, Dietrich

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

Galsworthy, John

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

William Gibson

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

France, Anatole

The future is as bright as the promises of God.

Carey, William

Prediction is very difficult, especially about the future.

Niels Bohr

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

Pickford, Mary

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

Rostand, Jean

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

Graf, Steffi

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

Albert Einstein

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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 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 future ain't what it used to be.

Yogi Berra

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The future will be better tomorrow.

Dan Quayle

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

Mitchell, Juliet

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

Weil, Simone

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Create your future from your future not your past.

Erhard, Werner

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When men speak of the future, the Gods laugh.

Proverb, Chinese

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

Boom, Corrie Ten

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

Grillparzer, Franz

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

Rivkin, Steve

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

Mccay, James T.

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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 way to predict the future is to invent it.

Alan Kay

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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

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

Rand, Ayn

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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

Robert Fulford

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

Bradbury, Ray

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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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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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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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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.