Motivational Quotes

The future

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

Grass, Gunther

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

Bradbury, Ray

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 future is made of the same stuff as the present.

Weil, Simone

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

When men speak of the future, the Gods laugh.

Proverb, Chinese

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

Proverb, Arabian

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

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

Lardner, Ring

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When all else is lost, the future still remains.

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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

Rostand, Jean

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Create your future from your future not your past.

Erhard, Werner

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

Rand, Ayn

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

Winfrey, Oprah

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

John Sladek

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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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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 best way to predict the future is to create it.

Drucker, Peter F.

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

William Gibson

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

Galsworthy, John

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A man that donÆt believe in destiny donÆt need to know what his destiny is.

Laura Moncur

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

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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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The future comes one day at a time.

Acheson, Dean

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

Alan Kay

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

Cornish, Merelene

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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 ain't what it used to be.

Yogi Berra

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It's tough to make predictions, especially about the future.

Berra, Yogi

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

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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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 cradle of the future is the grave of the past.

Grillparzer, Franz

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

Johnson, Samuel

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

Joel, Billy