Motivational Quotes

The future

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

- Nietzsche, Friedrich

Best Quotes about The future

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

Graf, Steffi

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

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

Winfrey, Oprah

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

Robert Fulford

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

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.

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

Albert Einstein

The world is full of people whose notion of a satisfactory future is, in fact, a return to the idealised past.

Robertson Davies

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

Mccay, James T.

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

Proverb, Arabian

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

Drucker, Peter F.

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

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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

Alan Kay

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

Maugham, W. Somerset

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The future will be better tomorrow.

Dan Quayle

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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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Prediction is very difficult, especially about the future.

Niels Bohr

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

Lardner, Ring

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Whatever your past has been your future is spotless.

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

Graham, Billy

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

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

Fischer-Dieskau, Dietrich

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When men speak of the future, the Gods laugh.

Proverb, Chinese

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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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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Occasionally in life there are those moments of unutterable fulfillment which cannot be completely explained by those symbols called words. Their meaning can only be articulated by the inaudible language of the heart. Such is the moment I am presently experiencing. I experience this high and joyous moment not for myself alone but for those devotees of nonviolence who have moved so courageously against the ramparts of racial injustice and who in the process have acquired a new estimate of their own human worth. Many of them are young and cultured. Others are middle aged and middle class. The majority are poor and untutored. But they are all united in the quiet conviction that it is better to suffer in dignity than to accept segregation in humiliation. These are the real heroes of the freedom struggle: they are the noble people for whom I accept the Nobel Peace Prize.

King Jr. Martin Luther

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

Galsworthy, John

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

William Gibson

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

Berra, Yogi

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

Smith, Roger

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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

Gibran, Kahlil

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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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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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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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Create your future from your future not your past.

Erhard, Werner