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

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

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

Robert Fulford

The future ain't what it used to be.

Yogi Berra

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

Drucker, Peter F.

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

Lindbergh, Anne Morrow

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

Fischer-Dieskau, Dietrich

The future will one day be the present and will seem as unimportant as the present does now.

Maugham, W. Somerset

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

Pickford, Mary

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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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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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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When all else is lost, the future still remains.

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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

Berra, Yogi

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

Cornish, Merelene

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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Prediction is very difficult, especially about the future.

Niels Bohr

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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 best way to predict the future is to invent it.

Alan Kay

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

Winfrey, Oprah

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

Johnson, Samuel

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

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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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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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 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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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

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

Boom, Corrie Ten

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When men speak of the future, the Gods laugh.

Proverb, Chinese

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The future is as bright as the promises of God.

Carey, William

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

Graf, Steffi

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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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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 inherited the past; we can create the future.

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

Mccay, James T.

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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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I have always been delighted at the prospect of a new day, a fresh try, one more start, with perhaps a bit of magic waiting somewhere behind the morning...

Priestley, J. B.

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

Joel, Billy

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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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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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Whatever your past has been your future is spotless.

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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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All futurity seems teeming with endless destruction never to be repelled; Desperate remorse swallows the present in a quenchless rage.

Blake, William