Motivational Quotes

The future

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

- Lee, Bruce

Best Quotes about The future

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

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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

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

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

Grass, Gunther

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

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

Khayyam, Omar

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

Kettering, Charles F.

I would sum up my fear about the future in one word: boring. And that's my one fear: that everything has happened; nothing exciting or new or interesting is ever going to happen again... the future is just going to be a vast, conforming suburb of the soul.

Ballard, J. G.

When all else is lost, the future still remains.

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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The future will be better tomorrow.

Dan Quayle

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

Johnson, Samuel

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

Proverb, Arabian

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

Lindbergh, Anne Morrow

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

Albert Einstein

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

Rivkin, Steve

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The future ain't what it used to be.

Yogi Berra

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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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I've read the last page of the Bible. It's all going to turn out all right.

Graham, Billy

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

Rostand, Jean

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

Fischer-Dieskau, Dietrich

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

Pickford, Mary

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

Rand, Ayn

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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

William Gibson

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We have inherited the past; we can create the future.

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

Bradbury, Ray

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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 best way to predict the future is to create it.

Drucker, Peter F.

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

Gibran, Kahlil

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Whatever your past has been your future is spotless.

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

Cornish, Merelene

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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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The good days weren't really so good, and tomorrow ain't as bad as it seems.

Joel, Billy

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

Laura Moncur

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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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Prediction is very difficult, especially about the future.

Niels Bohr

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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