Motivational Quotes

The future

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

- Glasgow, Arnold H.

Best Quotes about The future

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

Smith, Roger

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

Boom, Corrie Ten

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

Proverb, Arabian

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

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

Rand, Ayn

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

I've read the last page of the Bible. It's all going to turn out all right.

Graham, Billy

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Mitchell, Juliet

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

Johnson, Samuel

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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 future comes one day at a time.

Acheson, Dean

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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 cradle of the future is the grave of the past.

Grillparzer, Franz

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

Berra, Yogi

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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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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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Prediction is very difficult, especially about the future.

Niels Bohr

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

Bradbury, Ray

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

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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

Rivkin, Steve

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

Mccay, James T.

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

Gibran, Kahlil

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

Eliot, George

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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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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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There was a door to which I found no key: There was the veil through which I might not see.

Khayyam, Omar

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

Graf, Steffi

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

Robert Fulford

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

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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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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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The future will be better tomorrow.

Dan Quayle

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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 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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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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Whatever your past has been your future is spotless.

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When men speak of the future, the Gods laugh.

Proverb, Chinese

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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