Motivational Quotes

The future

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

- Mitchell, Juliet

Best Quotes about The future

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

Pickford, Mary

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

Graf, Steffi

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

Rivkin, Steve

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

Maugham, W. Somerset

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.

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 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.

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

Proverb, Arabian

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

Eliot, George

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

Albert Einstein

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Create your future from your future not your past.

Erhard, Werner

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

W. Somerset Maugham

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

Galsworthy, John

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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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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

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

Alan Kay

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

Rand, Ayn

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

Cornish, Merelene

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Prediction is very difficult, especially about the future.

Niels Bohr

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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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That man is prudent who neither hopes nor fears anything from the uncertain events of the future.

France, Anatole

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

Grillparzer, Franz

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They gave each other a smile with a future in it.

Lardner, Ring

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

Robert Fulford

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

Gibran, Kahlil

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

William Gibson

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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 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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Tomorrow, you promise yourself, will be different, yet, tomorrow is too often a repetition of today.

Mccay, James T.

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

Lindbergh, Anne Morrow

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

Johnson, Samuel

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