Motivational Quotes

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

Best Quotes about The future

1.

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

Lindbergh, Anne Morrow

2.

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

William Gibson

3.

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

Mitchell, Juliet

4.

There are certain moments when we might wish the future were built by men of the past.

Rostand, Jean

5.

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

Weil, Simone

6.

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

Khayyam, Omar

7.

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

Eliot, George

8.

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

Bradbury, Ray

9.

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

10.

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

Mccay, James T.

11.

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

W. Somerset Maugham

12.

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

Smith, Roger

13.

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

Alan Kay

14.

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.

15.

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

Shaw, George Bernard

16.

The future is as bright as the promises of God.

Carey, William

17.

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

Fischer-Dieskau, Dietrich

18.

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

19.

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

20.

Whatever your past has been your future is spotless.

21.

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

Boom, Corrie Ten

22.

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

Berra, Yogi

23.

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

24.

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

Grillparzer, Franz

25.

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

Rand, Ayn

26.

The future ain't what it used to be.

Yogi Berra

27.

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

28.

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

Joel, Billy

29.

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

Graham, Billy

30.

A man that donÆt believe in destiny donÆt need to know what his destiny is.

Laura Moncur

31.

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

32.

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

Albert Einstein

33.

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

Lardner, Ring

34.

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

35.

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

Glasgow, Arnold H.

36.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

37.

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

Winfrey, Oprah

38.

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

39.

Create your future from your future not your past.

Erhard, Werner

40.

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.

41.

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

Rivkin, Steve

42.

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

43.

The future comes one day at a time.

Acheson, Dean

44.

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

Lincoln, Abraham

45.

The future, according to some scientists, will be exactly like the past, only far more expensive.

John Sladek

46.

The future lies before you, like paths of pure white snow. Be careful how you tread it, for every step will show.

47.

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

Maugham, W. Somerset

48.

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

Galsworthy, John

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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

50.

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

Robert Fulford