Quotes about the future

"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 on the future   

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

Lardner, Ring on the future   

"The future looks extremely bright indeed, with lots of possibilities ahead -- big possibilities. Like the song says, We've just begun."

Lee, Bruce on the future
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"The best thing about the future is that it comes only one day at a time."

Lincoln, Abraham on the future
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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 on the future   

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

Lindbergh, Anne Morrow on the future   

"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 on the future
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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 on the future   

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

Mccay, James T. on the future   

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

Mitchell, Juliet on the future   

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich on the future
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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 on the future   

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

Pickford, Mary on the future
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"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. on the future
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"Tomorrow never comes."

Proverb on the future   

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

Proverb, Arabian on the future   

"When men speak of the future, the Gods laugh."

Proverb, Chinese on the future
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"Upper classes are a nation's past, the middle class its future."

Rand, Ayn on the future   

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

Rivkin, Steve on the future   

"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. on the future   

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

Rostand, Jean on the future   

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

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von on the future
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"We know what we are, but know not what we may be."

Shakespeare, William on the future
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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 on the future   

"The gigantic shadows which futurity casts upon the present."

Shelley, Percy Bysshe on the future   

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

Smith, Roger on the future
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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 on the future   

"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)."

Unknown, Source on the future   

"Whatever your past has been your future is spotless."

Unknown, Source on the future   

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

Unknown, Source on the future   

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

Unknown, Source on the future   

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

Unknown, Source on 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."

Unknown, Source on the future   

"The trouble with our times is that the future is not what it used to be."

Valery, Paul on the future   

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

Weil, Simone on the future   

"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. on the future   

"I am not afraid of tomorrow, for I have seen yesterday and I love today."

White, William Allen on the future
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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 on the future
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"When I look into the future, it is so bright it burns my eyes."

Winfrey, Oprah on the future   

"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 on the future
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