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Quotations
Quotations on the topic of ‘future’ from all listed authors (click on the ‘click to view listing’ links to view each quote in full).
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“The trouble with the future is that is usually arrives before we’re ready for it.” -Arnold H. Glasow
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“Life is a culmination of the past, an awareness of the present, an indication of a future beyond knowledge, the quality that gives a touch of divinity to matter.” -Charles Lindbergh
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“Most people are prisoners, thinking only about the future or living in the past. They are not in the present, and the present is where everything begins.” -Carlos Santana
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“That man is prudent who neither hopes nor fears anything from the uncertain events of the future.” -Anatole France
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“I have learned to live each day as it comes, and not to borrow trouble by dreading tomorrow. It is the dark menace of the future that makes cowards of us.” -Dorothy Dix
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“The problem with the future is that it keeps turning into the present.” -Bill Watterson
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“I believe that children are our future. Teach them well and let them lead the way. Show them all the beauty they possess inside.” -Whitney Houston
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“I believe life is a series of near misses. A lot of what we ascribe to luck is not luck at all. It’s seizing the day and accepting responsibility for your future. It’s seeing what other people don’t see And pursuing that vision.” -Howard Schultz
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“Do your duty and a little more and the future will take care of itself.” -Andrew Carnegie
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“To me, the black black woman is our essential mother, the blacker she is the more us she is and to see the hatred that is turned on her is enough to make me despair, almost entirely, of our future as a people.” -Alice Walker
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“In love, unlike most other passions, the recollection of what you have had and lost is always better than what you can hope for in the future.” -Stendhal
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“If I advocate cautious optimism it is not because I do not have faith in the future but because I do not want to encourage blind faith.” -Aung San Suu Kyi
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“When all else is lost, the future still remains.” -Christian Nestell Bovee
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“Los Angeles gives one the feeling of the future more strongly than any city I know of. A bad future, too, like something out of Fritz Lang’s feeble imagination.” -Henry Miller
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“Invest three percent of your income in yourself (self-development) in order to guarantee your future.” -Brian Tracy
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“Memories are the key not to the past, but to the future.” -Corrie Ten Boom
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“My parents taught me to never give up and to always believe that my future could be whatever I dreamt it to be.” -Susana Martinez
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“Evolution never looks to the future.” -Richard Dawkins
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“I can look at the future with anticipation. And it’s comforting to know that someday, as Christians, we’ll be able to look back and have a little more clarity on why certain things in life happened.” -Amy Grant
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“If we have to use force, it is because we are America. We are the indispensable nation. We stand tall. We see further into the future.” -Madeleine Albright
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“Nobody gets to live life backward. Look ahead, that is where your future lies.” -Ann Landers
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“Children are not casual guests in our home. They have been loaned to us temporarily for the purpose of loving them and instilling a foundation of values on which their future lives will be built.” -James Dobson
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“But blind to former as to future fate, what mortal knows his pre-existent state?” -Alexander Pope
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“People who live in the past generally are afraid to compete in the present. I’ve got my faults, but living in the past is not one of them. There’s no future in it.” -Sparky Anderson
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“Sometimes your disappointments make you a stronger person for the future.” -Blanka Vlasic
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“I keep dreaming of a future, a future with a long and healthy life, not lived in the shadow of cancer but in the light.” -Patrick Swayze
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“The future is like heaven, everyone exalts it, but no one wants to go there now.” -James A. Baldwin
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“The future is purchased by the present.” -Samuel Johnson
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“When the people become involved in their government, government becomes more accountable, and our society is stronger, more compassionate, and better prepared for the challenges of the future.” -Arnold Schwarzenegger
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“Whoso neglects learning in his youth, loses the past and is dead for the future.” -Euripides
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“Since God knows our future, our personalities, and our capacity to listen, He isn’t ever going to say more to us than we can deal with at the moment.” -Charles Stanley
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“If you are truly serious abut preparing your child for the future, don’t teach him to subtract teach him to deduct.” -Fran Lebowitz
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“Education, therefore, is a process of living and not a preparation for future living.” -John Dewey
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“Trying to tear down the past prohibits you from building up your future.” -Lil Wayne
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“Depression is the inability to construct a future.” -Rollo May
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“Every one rushes elsewhere and into the future, because no one wants to face one’s own inner self.” -Michel de Montaigne
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“We cannot always assure the future of our friends we have a better chance of assuring our future if we remember who our friends are.” -Henry A. Kissinger
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“We are at the very beginning of time for the human race. It is not unreasonable that we grapple with problems. But there are tens of thousands of years in the future. Our responsibility is to do what we can, learn what we can, improve the solutions, and pass them on.” -Richard P. Feynman
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“No valid plans for the future can be made by those who have no capacity for living now.” -Alan Watts
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“Look to the future, because that is where you’ll spend the rest of your life.” -George Burns
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“Keep all special thoughts and memories for lifetimes to come. Share these keepsakes with others to inspire hope and build from the past, which can bridge to the future.” -Mattie Stepanek
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“We live in an age when to be young and to be indifferent can be no longer synonymous. We must prepare for the coming hour. The claims of the Future are represented by suffering millions and the Youth of a Nation are the trustees of Posterity.” -Benjamin Disraeli
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“My goal is more to be remembered. They’ll remember this thing and like it in the future. The trick is to stay remembered long enough for that to happen.” -Chuck Palahniuk
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“In each action we must look beyond the action at our past, present, and future state, and at others whom it affects, and see the relations of all those things. And then we shall be very cautious.” -Blaise Pascal
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“The future hasn’t happened yet and the past is gone. So I think the only moment we have is right here and now, and I try to make the best of those moments, the moments that I’m in.” -Annie Lennox
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“I would feel more optimistic about a bright future for man if he spent less time proving that he can outwit Nature and more time tasting her sweetness and respecting her seniority.” -E. B. White
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“In every conceivable manner, the family is link to our past, bridge to our future.” -Alex Haley
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“Philosophy finds it an easy matter to vanquish past and future evils, but the present are commonly too hard for it.” -Francois de La Rochefoucauld
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“If education is always to be conceived along the same antiquated lines of a mere transmission of knowledge, there is little to be hoped from it in the bettering of man’s future. For what is the use of transmitting knowledge if the individual’s total development lags behind?” -Maria Montessori
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“A revolution is a struggle to the death between the future and the past.” -Fidel Castro
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“I desire no future that will break the ties with the past.” -George Eliot
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“The future is not Big Government. Self-serving politicians. Powerful bureaucrats. This has been tried, tested throughout history. The result has always been disaster. President Obama, your agenda is not new. It’s not change, and it’s not hope.” -Rush Limbaugh
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“The failure of national economic policy is costing us more than jobs it has begun to weaken that uniquely American spirit of risk-taking, large ambition, and optimism about the future. We must rally them now to bold departures that rebuild our national morale as well as our material prosperity.” -Mitch Daniels
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“I think the future of psychotherapy and psychology is in the school system. We need to teach every child how to rarely seriously disturb himself or herself and how to overcome disturbance when it occurs.” -Albert Ellis
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“The only thing we know about the future is that it will be different.” -Peter Drucker
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“To apologize is to lay the foundation for a future offense.” -Ambrose Bierce
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“We have to do with the past only as we can make it useful to the present and the future.” -Frederick Douglass
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“For the first time in the history of mankind, one generation literally has the power to destroy the past, the present and the future, the power to bring time to an end.” -Hubert H. Humphrey
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“We have a close, unshakable bond between the United States and Israel, and between the American and Israeli people. We share common values and a commitment to a democratic future for the world, and we are both committed to a two-state solution. But that doesn’t mean that we’re going to agree.” -Hillary Clinton
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“The country that is more developed industrially only shows, to the less developed, the image of its own future.” -Karl Marx
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“Solitude is not something you must hope for in the future. Rather, it is a deepening of the present, and unless you look for it in the present you will never find it.” -Thomas Merton
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“We cannot turn the clock back nor can we undo the harm caused, but we have the power to determine the future and to ensure that what happened never happens again.” -Paul Kagame
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“I had faith in Israel before it was established, I have in it now. I believe it has a glorious future before it – not just another sovereign nation, but as an embodiment of the great ideals of our civilization.” -Harry S. Truman
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“The future enters into us, in order to transform itself in us, long before it happens.” -Rainer Maria Rilke
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“Let your hopes, not your hurts, shape your future.” -Robert H. Schuller
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“Girls are the future mothers of our society, and it is important that we focus on their well-being.” -Miriam Makeba
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“What is history? An echo of the past in the future a reflex from the future on the past.” -Victor Hugo
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“The mind that is anxious about the future is miserable.” -Lucius Annaeus Seneca
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“I am running for president to help create a better future. A future where everyone who wants a job can find one. Where no senior fears for the security of their retirement. An America where every parent knows that their child will get an education that leads them to a good job and a bright…
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“Innovations that are guided by smallholder farmers, adapted to local circumstances, and sustainable for the economy and environment will be necessary to ensure food security in the future.” -Bill Gates
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“I know I’m going to blow one day. My life is doomed the way it is. I have no future.” -Mike Tyson
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“At some future period, not very distant as measured by centuries, the civilized races of man will almost certainly exterminate, and replace the savage races throughout the world.” -Charles Darwin
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“To make no mistakes is not in the power of man but from their errors and mistakes the wise and good learn wisdom for the future.” -Plutarch
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“Humanity has the stars in its future, and that future is too important to be lost under the burden of juvenile folly and ignorant superstition.” -Isaac Asimov
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“When the past no longer illuminates the future, the spirit walks in darkness.” -Alexis de Tocqueville
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“Every time I see an adult on a bicycle, I no longer despair for the future of the human race.” -H. G. Wells
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“I was a peripheral visionary. I could see the future, but only way off to the side.” -Steven Wright
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“I know why I am here and my only real focused goal is to live each day to the fullest and to try and honor God and be an encouragement to others. What the future holds is firmly in God’s hands, and I am very happy about that!” -Ken Hensley
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“A liberal is a man or a woman or a child who looks forward to a better day, a more tranquil night, and a bright, infinite future.” -Leonard Bernstein
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“There are necessary evils. Money is an important thing in terms of representing freedom in our world. And now I have a daughter to think about. It’s really the first time I’ve thought about the future and what it could be.” -Johnny Depp
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“I try to learn from the past, but I plan for the future by focusing exclusively on the present. That’s were the fun is.” -Donald Trump
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“The best way to predict the future is to invent it.” -Alan Kay
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“We should regret our mistakes and learn from them, but never carry them forward into the future with us.” -Lucy Maud Montgomery
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“I think the teaching profession contributes more to the future of our society than any other single profession.” -John Wooden
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“I tell you the past is a bucket of ashes, so live not in your yesterdays, no just for tomorrow, but in the here and now. Keep moving and forget the post mortems and remember, no one can get the jump on the future.” -Carl Sandburg
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“The children have been a wonderful gift to me, and I’m thankful to have once again seen our world through their eyes. They restore my faith in the family’s future.” -Jackie Kennedy
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“Neither a wise man nor a brave man lies down on the tracks of history to wait for the train of the future to run over him.” -Dwight D. Eisenhower
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“Losers live in the past. Winners learn from the past and enjoy working in the present toward the future.” -Denis Waitley
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“Here is the rule to remember in the future, When anything tempts you to be bitter: not, ‘This is a misfortune’ but ‘To bear this worthily is good fortune.’” -Marcus Aurelius
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“God is more interested in your future and your relationships than you are.” -Billy Graham
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“When I look into the future, it’s so bright it burns my eyes.” -Oprah Winfrey
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“Not only our future economic soundness but the very soundness of our democratic institutions depends on the determination of our government to give employment to idle men.” -Franklin D. Roosevelt
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“Deficits mean future tax increases, pure and simple. Deficit spending should be viewed as a tax on future generations, and politicians who create deficits should be exposed as tax hikers.” -Ron Paul
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“It is by no means an irrational fancy that, in a future existence, we shall look upon what we think our present existence, as a dream.” -Edgar Allan Poe
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“We are the only beings on the planet who lead such rich internal lives that it’s not the events that matter most to us, but rather, it’s how we interpret those events that will determine how we think about ourselves and how we will act in the future.” -Tony Robbins
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“Yesterday’s the past, tomorrow’s the future, but today is a gift. That’s why it’s called the present.” -Bil Keane
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“The danger of the past was that men became slaves. The danger of the future is that man may become robots.” -Erich Fromm
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“Just what future the Designer of the universe has provided for the souls of men I do not know, I cannot prove. But I find that the whole order of Nature confirms my confidence that, if it is not like our noblest hopes and dreams, it will transcend them.” -Henry Norris Russell
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“We should not fret for what is past, nor should we be anxious about the future men of discernment deal only with the present moment.” -Chanakya
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“Times and conditions change so rapidly that we must keep our aim constantly focused on the future.” -Walt Disney
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“It is said that the present is pregnant with the future.” -Voltaire
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“Business, more than any other occupation, is a continual dealing with the future it is a continual calculation, an instinctive exercise in foresight.” -Henry R. Luce
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“We’ve demonstrated a strong track record of being very disciplined with the use of our cash. We don’t let it burn a hole in our pocket, we don’t allow it to motivate us to do stupid acquisitions. And so I think that we’d like to continue to keep our powder dry, because we do feel…
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“Take time to gather up the past so that you will be able to draw from your experience and invest them in the future.” -Jim Rohn
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“Go for it now. The future is promised to no one.” -Wayne Dyer
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“All political thinking for years past has been vitiated in the same way. People can foresee the future only when it coincides with their own wishes, and the most grossly obvious facts can be ignored when they are unwelcome.” -George Orwell
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“People respond when you tell them there is a great future in front of you, you can leave your past behind.” -Joel Osteen
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“A women who doesn’t wear perfume has no future.” -Coco Chanel
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“The future influences the present just as much as the past.” -Friedrich Nietzsche
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“Do not brood over your past mistakes and failures as this will only fill your mind with grief, regret and depression. Do not repeat them in the future.” -Sivananda
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“A mother’s happiness is like a beacon, lighting up the future but reflected also on the past in the guise of fond memories.” -Honore de Balzac
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“I can’t speak for the future. I have no crystal ball.” -Michael Jordan
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“The hardships that I encountered in the past will help me succeed in the future.” -Philip Emeagwali
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“I go to school the youth to learn the future.” -Robert Frost
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“Infuse your life with action. Don’t wait for it to happen. Make it happen. Make your own future. Make your own hope. Make your own love. And whatever your beliefs, honor your creator, not by passively waiting for grace to come down from upon high, but by doing what you can to make grace happen……
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“You can never plan the future by the past.” -Edmund Burke
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“Without culture, and the relative freedom it implies, society, even when perfect, is but a jungle. This is why any authentic creation is a gift to the future.” -Albert Camus
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“The direction in which education starts a man will determine his future in life.” -Plato
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“History is a relentless master. It has no present, only the past rushing into the future. To try to hold fast is to be swept aside.” -John F. Kennedy
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“There is hope for the future because God has a sense of humor and we are funny to God.” -Bill Cosby
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“Prejudice is a burden that confuses the past, threatens the future and renders the present inaccessible.” -Maya Angelou
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“Some mischievous people always there. Last several thousand years, always there. In future, also.” -Dalai Lama
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“The future is something which everyone reaches at the rate of 60 minutes an hour, whatever he does, whoever he is.” -C. S. Lewis
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“Once I knew only darkness and stillness… my life was without past or future… but a little word from the fingers of another fell into my hand that clutched at emptiness, and my heart leaped to the rapture of living.” -Helen Keller
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“You are always free to change your mind and choose a different future, or a different past.” -Richard Bach
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“Forgiving does not erase the bitter past. A healed memory is not a deleted memory. Instead, forgiving what we cannot forget creates a new way to remember. We change the memory of our past into a hope for our future.” -Lewis B. Smedes
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“While I take inspiration from the past, like most Americans, I live for the future.” -Ronald Reagan
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“With the past, I have nothing to do nor with the future. I live now.” -Ralph Waldo Emerson
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“Do not dwell in the past, do not dream of the future, concentrate the mind on the present moment.” -Buddha
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“The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.” -Eleanor Roosevelt
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“Let him who would enjoy a good future waste none of his present.” -Roger Babson
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“The assertion that ‘all men are created equal’ was of no practical use in effecting our separation from Great Britain and it was placed in the Declaration not for that, but for future use.” -Abraham Lincoln
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“Change your life today. Don’t gamble on the future, act now, without delay.” -Simone de Beauvoir
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“Learn to enjoy every minute of your life. Be happy now. Don’t wait for something outside of yourself to make you happy in the future. Think how really precious is the time you have to spend, whether it’s at work or with your family. Every minute should be enjoyed and savored.” -Earl Nightingale
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“When you forgive, you in no way change the past – but you sure do change the future.” -Bernard Meltzer
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“Pick the day. Enjoy it – to the hilt. The day as it comes. People as they come… The past, I think, has helped me appreciate the present – and I don’t want to spoil any of it by fretting about the future.” -Audrey Hepburn
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“I like the dreams of the future better than the history of the past.” -Thomas Jefferson
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“We are made wise not by the recollection of our past, but by the responsibility for our future.” -George Bernard Shaw
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“Set your sights high, the higher the better. Expect the most wonderful things to happen, not in the future but right now. Realize that nothing is too good. Allow absolutely nothing to hamper you or hold you up in any way.” -Eileen Caddy
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“Never make predictions, especially about the future.” -Casey Stengel
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“You know when you’re young you think you will always be. As you become more fragile, you reflect and you realize how much comfort can come from the past. Hymns can carry you into the future.” -Andy Griffith
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“In the future everyone will be famous for 15 minutes.” -Andy Warhol
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“The past cannot be changed. The future is yet in your power.” -Mary Pickford
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“We must respect the past, and mistrust the present, if we wish to provide for the safety of the future.” -Joseph Joubert
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“The future is called ‘perhaps,’ which is the only possible thing to call the future. And the important thing is not to allow that to scare you.” -Tennessee Williams
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“There is always one moment in childhood when the door opens and lets the future in.” -Graham Greene
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“The past, the present and the future are really one: they are today.” -Harriet Beecher Stowe
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“I know not why there is such a melancholy feeling attached to the remembrance of past happiness, except that we fear that the future can have nothing so bright as the past.” -Julia Ward Howe
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“Enjoy present pleasures in such a way as not to injure future ones.” -Seneca
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“The wise man must remember that while he is a descendant of the past, he is a parent of the future.” -Herbert Spencer
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“But I dare not think too far into the future on the risk that I’ll miss the present.” -Colin Farrell
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“The key to making healthy decisions is to respect your future self. Honor him or her. Treat him or her like you would treat a friend or a loved one. A Stanford study showed that those who saw a photo of their future self made smarter financial decisions.” -A. J. Jacobs
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“They gave each other a smile with a future in it.” -Ring Lardner
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“Look not mournfully into the past, it comes not back again. Wisely improve the present, it is thine. Go forth to meet the shadowy future without fear and with a manly heart.” -Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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“Cease to inquire what the future has in store, and take as a gift whatever the day brings forth.” -Horace
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“If future generations are to remember us more with gratitude than sorrow, we must achieve more than just the miracles of technology. We must also leave them a glimpse of the world as it was created, not just as it looked when we got through with it.” -Lyndon B. Johnson
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“The future is no more uncertain than the present.” -Walt Whitman
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“Hold fast to the Bible. To the influence of this Book we are indebted for all the progress made in true civilization and to this we must look as our guide in the future.” -Ulysses S. Grant
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“We must welcome the future, remembering that soon it will be the past and we must respect the past, remembering that it was once all that was humanly possible.” -George Santayana
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“The secret of your future is hidden in your daily routine.” -Mike Murdock
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“I am tomorrow, or some future day, what I establish today. I am today what I established yesterday or some previous day.” -James Joyce
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“Fear not for the future, weep not for the past.” -Percy Bysshe Shelley
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“A great source of calamity lies in regret and anticipation therefore a person is wise who thinks of the present alone, regardless of the past or future.” -Oliver Goldsmith
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“The future belongs to those who prepare for it today.” -Malcolm X
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“Well, the future for me is already a thing of the past.” -Bob Dylan
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“If you believe that feeling bad or worrying long enough will change a past or future event, then you are residing on another planet with a different reality system.” -William James
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“Upper classes are a nation’s past the middle class is its future.” -Ayn Rand
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“Prediction is very difficult, especially if it’s about the future.” -Niels Bohr
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“It is not enough to understand, or to see clearly. The future will be shaped in the arena of human activity, by those willing to commit their minds and their bodies to the task.” -Robert Kennedy
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“The reason people find it so hard to be happy is that they always see the past better than it was, the present worse than it is, and the future less resolved than it will be.” -Marcel Pagnol
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“The essence of optimism is that it takes no account of the present, but it is a source of inspiration, of vitality and hope where others have resigned it enables a man to hold his head high, to claim the future for himself and not to abandon it to his enemy.” -Dietrich Bonhoeffer
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“A person often meets his destiny on the road he took to avoid it.” -Jean de La Fontaine
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“Choose your friends with caution plan your future with purpose, and frame your life with faith.” -Thomas S. Monson
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