Motivational Quotes

The future

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

Best Quotes about The future

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

Glasgow, Arnold H.

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

Eliot, George

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

Grass, Gunther

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

The future is as bright as the promises of God.

Carey, William

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

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

Kettering, Charles F.

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

Cornish, Merelene

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

Bradbury, Ray

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

Weil, Simone

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

Lindbergh, Anne Morrow

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

Rand, Ayn

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The future will be better tomorrow.

Dan Quayle

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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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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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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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Whatever your past has been your future is spotless.

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

Galsworthy, John

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

Pickford, Mary

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

Rivkin, Steve

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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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Create your future from your future not your past.

Erhard, Werner

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

Lardner, Ring

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

Winfrey, Oprah

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

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

Mccay, James T.

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

Boom, Corrie Ten

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The future ain't what it used to be.

Yogi Berra

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When all else is lost, the future still remains.

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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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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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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Prediction is very difficult, especially about the future.

Niels Bohr

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The cradle of the future is the grave of the past.