Motivational Quotes

The future

The future is made of the same stuff as the present.

- Weil, Simone

Best Quotes about The future

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

Bible

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

Lardner, Ring

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

Laura Moncur

Never let the future disturb you. You will meet it, if you have to, with the same weapons of reason which today arm you against the present.

Marcus Aurelius Antoninus

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

Bradbury, Ray

Create your future from your future not your past.

Erhard, Werner

The future looks extremely bright indeed, with lots of possibilities ahead -- big possibilities. Like the song says, We've just begun.

Lee, Bruce

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

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

Joel, Billy

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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 best way to predict the future is to invent it.

Alan Kay

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

Proverb, Arabian

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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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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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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 ain't what it used to be.

Yogi Berra

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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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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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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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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 trouble with the future is that is usually arrives before we're ready for it.

Glasgow, Arnold H.

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

Robert Fulford

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

Rivkin, Steve

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

William Gibson

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

Mitchell, Juliet

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

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

Pickford, Mary

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

Rand, Ayn

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

John Sladek

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

Boom, Corrie Ten

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The future is as bright as the promises of God.

Carey, William

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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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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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You don't just stumble into the future. You create your own future.

Smith, Roger

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

Graf, Steffi

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

Eliot, George

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

Rostand, Jean

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

Fischer-Dieskau, Dietrich

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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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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 cradle of the future is the grave of the past.

Grillparzer, Franz