Motivational Quotes

The future

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

- Nietzsche, Friedrich

Best Quotes about The future

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

France, Anatole

We should all be concerned about the future because we will have to spend the rest of our lives there.

Kettering, Charles F.

The future ain't what it used to be.

Yogi Berra

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.

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.

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

Alan Kay

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

Robert Fulford

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

Graham, Billy

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

Weil, Simone

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

William Gibson

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When all else is lost, the future still remains.

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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When men speak of the future, the Gods laugh.

Proverb, Chinese

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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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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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Prediction is very difficult, especially about the future.

Niels Bohr

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

Proverb, Arabian

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

Winfrey, Oprah

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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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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 is as bright as the promises of God.

Carey, William

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

Bradbury, Ray

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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

Eliot, George

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

Lardner, Ring

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

Rivkin, Steve

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

Albert Einstein

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

Smith, Roger

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

Cornish, Merelene

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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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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 comes one day at a time.

Acheson, Dean

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

Mitchell, Juliet

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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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Create your future from your future not your past.

Erhard, Werner

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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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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 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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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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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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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