Motivational Quotes

The future

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

- Rand, Ayn

Best Quotes about The future

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.

We should all be concerned about the future because we will have to spend the rest of our lives there.

Kettering, Charles F.

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

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

Create your future from your future not your past.

Erhard, Werner

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

Bradbury, Ray

We are made wise not by the recollection of our past, but by the responsibility for our future.

Shaw, George Bernard

When all else is lost, the future still remains.

Bovee, Christian Nevell

The future ain't what it used to be.

Yogi Berra

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

Drucker, Peter F.

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

Gibran, Kahlil

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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 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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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 future is as bright as the promises of God.

Carey, William

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

Johnson, Samuel

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Whatever your past has been your future is spotless.

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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 future influences the present just as much as the past.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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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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When men speak of the future, the Gods laugh.

Proverb, Chinese

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

Eliot, George

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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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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

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

Rostand, Jean

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

Lardner, Ring

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

Rand, Ayn

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

Albert Einstein

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

Joel, Billy

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

William Gibson

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

W. Somerset Maugham

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

Robert Fulford

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

Boom, Corrie Ten

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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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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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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 best way to predict the future is to invent it.

Alan Kay

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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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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 future is an opaque mirror. Anyone who tries to look into it sees nothing but the dim outlines of an old and worried face.