Motivational Quotes

The future

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

Best Quotes about The future

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

Rivkin, Steve

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).

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

Galsworthy, John

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

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

Winfrey, Oprah

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 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

The future influences the present just as much as the past.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Bible

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

Fischer-Dieskau, Dietrich

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Prediction is very difficult, especially about the future.

Niels Bohr

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

Johnson, Samuel

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

Mccay, James T.

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

Pickford, Mary

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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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When men speak of the future, the Gods laugh.

Proverb, Chinese

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

Cornish, Merelene

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

Bradbury, Ray

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Create your future from your future not your past.

Erhard, Werner

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

Shaw, George Bernard

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

Proverb, Arabian

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

Smith, Roger

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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.