Motivational Quotes

The future

When men speak of the future, the Gods laugh.

- Proverb, Chinese

Best Quotes about The future

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

Future: That period of time in which our affairs prosper, our friends are true and our happiness is assured.

Bierce, Ambrose

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

Graham, Billy

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

Bible

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

William Gibson

When all else is lost, the future still remains.

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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

Robert Fulford

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

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 future ain't what it used to be.

Yogi Berra

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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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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

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

Lindbergh, Anne Morrow

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Create your future from your future not your past.

Erhard, Werner

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

Rand, Ayn

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

Proverb, Arabian

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

Eliot, George

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The future comes one day at a time.

Acheson, Dean

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

Johnson, Samuel

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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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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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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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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 made of the same stuff as the present.

Weil, Simone

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

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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

Galsworthy, John

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

Drucker, Peter F.

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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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When men speak of the future, the Gods laugh.

Proverb, Chinese

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

Gibran, Kahlil

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

Pickford, Mary

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

Mitchell, Juliet

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

Mccay, James T.

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

Lardner, Ring

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Everything that looks to the future elevates human nature. Never is life so low or so little as when occupied with the present.