Motivational Quotes

The future

When men speak of the future, the Gods laugh.

- Proverb, Chinese

Best Quotes about The future

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

Galsworthy, John

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

France, Anatole

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

William Gibson

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

Grass, Gunther

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

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

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

The future ain't what it used to be.

Yogi Berra

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

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

Graf, Steffi

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

Johnson, Samuel

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

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

Cornish, Merelene

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

Mitchell, Juliet

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When all else is lost, the future still remains.

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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

Proverb, Arabian

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

Alan Kay

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

Graham, Billy

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When men speak of the future, the Gods laugh.

Proverb, Chinese

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

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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

Pickford, Mary

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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

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

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

Boom, Corrie Ten

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

Lardner, Ring

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The future comes one day at a time.

Acheson, Dean

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

Mccay, James T.

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Whatever your past has been your future is spotless.

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

Winfrey, Oprah

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