Motivational Quotes

The future

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

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

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 men speak of the future, the Gods laugh.

Proverb, Chinese

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

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

Rivkin, Steve

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

Weil, Simone

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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

Smith, Roger

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

William Gibson

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

Bible

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

Pickford, Mary

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Kundera, Milan

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

Rand, Ayn

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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 future influences the present just as much as the past.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Boom, Corrie Ten

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

Proverb, Arabian

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

Laura Moncur

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

John Sladek

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

Gibran, Kahlil

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

Berra, Yogi

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

Eliot, George

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

Grillparzer, Franz

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Whatever your past has been your future is spotless.

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Create your future from your future not your past.

Erhard, Werner

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Prediction is very difficult, especially about the future.

Niels Bohr

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

Robert Fulford

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

Maugham, W. Somerset

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

Galsworthy, John