Motivational Quotes

The future

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

- John Sladek

Best Quotes about The future

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Rostand, Jean

The future is as bright as the promises of God.

Carey, William

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

Glasgow, Arnold H.

We all need to take great interest in the future because we will spend the rest of our life there.

We are made wise not by the recollection of our past, but by the responsibility for our future.

Shaw, George Bernard

There was a door to which I found no key: There was the veil through which I might not see.

Khayyam, Omar

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

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

Drucker, Peter F.

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The future will be better tomorrow.

Dan Quayle

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

Albert Einstein

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

Winfrey, Oprah

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

Pickford, Mary

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

Proverb, Arabian

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

Johnson, Samuel

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

Bradbury, Ray

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

Blake, William

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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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Create your future from your future not your past.

Erhard, Werner

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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Whatever your past has been your future is spotless.

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

Eliot, George

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

Rivkin, Steve

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

Galsworthy, John

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

John Sladek

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

Cornish, Merelene

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

Mitchell, Juliet

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

Berra, Yogi

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

Lardner, Ring

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

Mccay, James T.

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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 cradle of the future is the grave of the past.

Grillparzer, Franz

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

Lindbergh, Anne Morrow