Motivational Quotes

The future

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

- Lindbergh, Anne Morrow

Best Quotes about The future

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

Johnson, Samuel

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

Alan Kay

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

Galsworthy, John

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

Bradbury, Ray

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.

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

Eliot, George

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

Rivkin, Steve

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

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

John Sladek

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

Weil, Simone

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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.

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The future comes one day at a time.

Acheson, Dean

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

Boom, Corrie Ten

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When men speak of the future, the Gods laugh.

Proverb, Chinese

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

Gibran, Kahlil

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

Glasgow, Arnold H.

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

Cornish, Merelene

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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 cradle of the future is the grave of the past.

Grillparzer, Franz

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

Rand, Ayn

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

Smith, Roger

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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

Albert Einstein

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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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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 have seen the future and it doesn't work.

Robert Fulford

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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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The future will be better tomorrow.

Dan Quayle

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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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The future ain't what it used to be.

Yogi Berra

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

William Gibson

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When all else is lost, the future still remains.

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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

Joel, Billy

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

Proverb, Arabian

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

Bible

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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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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.