Motivational Quotes

The future

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

Best Quotes about The future

The future comes one day at a time.

Acheson, Dean

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

Proverb, Arabian

Future: That period of time in which our affairs prosper, our friends are true and our happiness is assured.

Bierce, Ambrose

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

Weil, Simone

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

Cornish, Merelene

The future will be better tomorrow.

Dan Quayle

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

The future ain't what it used to be.

Yogi Berra

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

Alan Kay

10.

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

11.

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

Shaw, George Bernard

12.

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

Mitchell, Juliet

13.

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

W. Somerset Maugham

14.

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

Smith, Roger

15.

When all else is lost, the future still remains.

Bovee, Christian Nevell

16.

The world is full of people whose notion of a satisfactory future is, in fact, a return to the idealised past.

Robertson Davies

17.

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

Eliot, George

18.

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.

19.

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

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

20.

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

Khayyam, Omar

21.

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

Lindbergh, Anne Morrow

22.

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

23.

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

24.

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.

25.

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

Berra, Yogi

26.

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

27.

The future is as bright as the promises of God.

Carey, William

28.

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

Dressler, Fritz R. S.

29.

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

30.

When men speak of the future, the Gods laugh.

Proverb, Chinese

31.

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

32.

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

Graf, Steffi

33.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

34.

Create your future from your future not your past.

Erhard, Werner

35.

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

Robert Fulford

36.

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

Bible

37.

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

Boom, Corrie Ten

38.

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

Lincoln, Abraham

39.

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).

40.

We should all be concerned about the future because we will have to spend the rest of our lives there.

Kettering, Charles F.

41.

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

42.

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

Fischer-Dieskau, Dietrich

43.

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

Winfrey, Oprah

44.

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

Lee, Bruce

45.

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

46.

We already have the statistics for the future: the growth percentages of pollution, overpopulation, desertification. The future is already in place.

Grass, Gunther

47.

Prediction is very difficult, especially about the future.

Niels Bohr

48.

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

Bradbury, Ray

49.

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.

50.

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

Grillparzer, Franz