Motivational Quotes

The future

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

Best Quotes about The future

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

Alan Kay

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

Galsworthy, John

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

William Gibson

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

Rivkin, Steve

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

Shaw, George Bernard

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

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

Whatever your past has been your future is spotless.

Life wouldn't be worth living if I worried over the future as well as the present.

W. Somerset Maugham

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Prediction is very difficult, especially about the future.

Niels Bohr

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

Graf, Steffi

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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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The best thing about the future is that it comes only one day at a time.

Lincoln, Abraham

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

Boom, Corrie Ten

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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 will be better tomorrow.

Dan Quayle

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

Grillparzer, Franz

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

Smith, Roger

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

Pickford, Mary

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

Proverb, Arabian

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

Berra, Yogi

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

Bible

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

Glasgow, Arnold H.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Weil, Simone

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

Lindbergh, Anne Morrow

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

Cornish, Merelene

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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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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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Create your future from your future not your past.

Erhard, Werner

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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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I never think of the future - it comes soon enough.

Albert Einstein

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

Robert Fulford

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

Joel, Billy