Motivational Quotes

The future

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

- Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

Best Quotes about The future

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

Khayyam, Omar

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

Bradbury, Ray

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

Glasgow, Arnold H.

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

Berra, Yogi

The future comes one day at a time.

Acheson, Dean

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

Johnson, Samuel

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.

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).

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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When all else is lost, the future still remains.

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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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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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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Create your future from your future not your past.

Erhard, Werner

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

Robert Fulford

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

Eliot, George

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

Proverb, Arabian

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

Rand, Ayn

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

Albert Einstein

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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

Grass, Gunther

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

John Sladek

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

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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

Mitchell, Juliet

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

Grillparzer, Franz

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

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

Mccay, James T.

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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 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 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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That man is prudent who neither hopes nor fears anything from the uncertain events of the future.

France, Anatole

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

Pickford, Mary

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

Lardner, Ring

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

Weil, Simone

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The future ain't what it used to be.

Yogi Berra

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The future will be better tomorrow.

Dan Quayle

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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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Prediction is very difficult, especially about the future.

Niels Bohr

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

Cornish, Merelene

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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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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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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