Motivational Quotes

The future

When men speak of the future, the Gods laugh.

- Proverb, Chinese

Best Quotes about The future

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

Bradbury, Ray

We already have the statistics for the future: the growth percentages of pollution, overpopulation, desertification. The future is already in place.

Grass, Gunther

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

Weil, Simone

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

Albert Einstein

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

Create your future from your future not your past.

Erhard, Werner

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

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

Maugham, W. Somerset

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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Prediction is very difficult, especially about the future.

Niels Bohr

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The future comes one day at a time.

Acheson, Dean

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

Boom, Corrie Ten

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

Pickford, Mary

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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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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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When men speak of the future, the Gods laugh.

Proverb, Chinese

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

Proverb, Arabian

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

Johnson, Samuel

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

Winfrey, Oprah

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

Bible

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

Rand, Ayn

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Ignorance of God's prophetic outline, failure to know God's program for the Church, the nations, and Israel, is the cause of the overwhelming amount of error and misunderstanding of the events of the future.

Dehaan, M. R.

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

Glasgow, Arnold H.

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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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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 will be better tomorrow.

Dan Quayle

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

William Gibson

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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 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 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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Whatever your past has been your future is spotless.

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We have inherited the past; we can create 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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I desire no future that will break the ties with the past.

Eliot, George

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

Mitchell, Juliet

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

John Sladek

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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