Motivational Quotes

The future

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

Best Quotes about The future

When men speak of the future, the Gods laugh.

Proverb, Chinese

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

Bible

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

Alan Kay

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

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

William Gibson

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.

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

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

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The future is as bright as the promises of God.

Carey, William

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

Proverb, Arabian

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

Johnson, Samuel

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

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

John Sladek

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Prediction is very difficult, especially about the future.

Niels Bohr

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

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

Eliot, George

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

Joel, Billy

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

Smith, Roger

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

Pickford, Mary

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

Robert Fulford

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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

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Whatever your past has been your future is spotless.

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When all else is lost, the future still remains.

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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

Graf, Steffi

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

Graham, Billy

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

Drucker, Peter F.

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Glasgow, Arnold H.

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

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

Grillparzer, Franz

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

Rostand, Jean