Future Quotes - Page 38

• We cannot change the past, but we can change our attitude toward it. Uproot guilt and plant forgiveness. Tear out arrogance and seed humility. Exchange love for hate - thereby, making the present comfortable and the future promising.

  Maya Angelou

  Forgiveness, Peace, Attitude

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• Every great work of art has two faces, one towards its own time and one towards future, towards eternity.

  Daniel Barenboim

  Art, Two, Faces

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• Our history is not our destiny.

  Alan Cohen

  Destiny, Our Destiny

  Alan Cohen (1990). “Joy Is My Compass: Taking the Risk to Follow Your Bliss”, Dolphin Communications Company

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• To deal with future we have to deal with possibilities. Analysis will only tell us what is.

  Edward de Bono

  Analysis, Possibility, Deals

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• You cannot fight against future. Time is on its side.

  William E. Gladstone

  Time, Fighting, Politics

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• Never make forecasts, especially about future.

  Samuel Goldwyn

  Forecasts

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• Seize today and put as little trust as you can in tomorrow.

  Horace

  Carpe Diem, Littles, Today

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• Too many people live too much in the past. The past must be a springboard, not a sofa.

  Harold MacMillan

  Past, People, Too Much

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• The future of civilization depends on our overcoming the meaninglessness and hopelessness which characterize the thoughts and convictions of men today, and reaching a state of fresh hope and fresh determination.

  Albert Schweitzer

  Inspiring, Men, Overcoming

  "The decay and the restoration of civilization".

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• Our moral responsibility is not to stop future, but to shape it...to channel our destiny in humane directions and to ease the trauma of transition.

  Alvin Toffler

  Responsibility, Destiny, Transition

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• It is the business of future to be dangerous.... The major advances in civilization are processes that all but wreck the societies in which they occur.

  Alfred North Whitehead

  Civilization, Progress, Wrecks

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• Foreknowledge of the future makes it possible to manipulate both enemies and supporters.

  Raymond Aron

  Enemy, Manipulation, Manipulate

  The Opium of the Intellectuals Chapter IX (p. 284}

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• The future you shall know when it has come; before then, forget it.

  Aeschylus

  Leadership, Sports, Forget

  Aeschylus (2013). “Aeschylus II: The Oresteia”, p.29, University of Chicago Press

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• We have embraced the 21st century by entering such cutting-edge industries as brick, carpet, insulation and paint. Try to control your excitement.

  Warren Buffett

  Cutting, Trying, Entering

  Warren Buffett (2009). “Warren Buffett on Business: Principles from the Sage of Omaha”, p.118, John Wiley & Sons

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• The man least dependent upon the morrow goes to meet the morrow most cheerfully.

  Epicurus

  Men, Independence, He Man

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• Nobody can really guarantee the future. The best we can do is size up the chances, calculate the risks involved, estimate our ability to deal with them and then make our plans with confidence.

  Henry Ford II

  Time, Risk, Excellence

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• Some new machinery with adequate powers must be created now if our fine phrases and noble sentiments are to have substance and meaning for our children.

  J. William Fulbright

  Children, Noble, Phrases

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• The hours we pass with happy prospects in view are more pleasing than those crowded with fruition.

  Oliver Goldsmith

  Hope, Views, Perspective

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• It is a great deed to leave nothing for tomorrow.

  Baltasar Gracian

  Deeds, Tomorrow

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• I have always sought to guide the future-but it is very lonely sometimes trying to play God.

  Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

  Lonely, Play, Trying

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• The testimony of every scientist is that the frontiers that are opening out ahead of us now are far wider and more spectacular than any frontier of America in the past. Our horizons are not closed. We are going to write a greater development in America than has ever been conceived.

  Eric Johnston

  Writing, Past, America

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• The future is not in the hands of fate but in ours.

  Jean Jules Jusserand

  Fate, Hands

  Jean Jules Jusserand (1933). “What me befell: the reminiscences of J. J. Jusserand ...”, Ayer Co Pub

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• I neither complain of the past, nor do I fear the future.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Past, Complaining

  Michel de Montaigne (1872). “All the Essays of Michael Seigneur de Montaigne”, p.678

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• Humanity does not know where to go because no one is waiting for it: not even God.

  Antonio Porchia

  Waiting, Humanity, Doe

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• How narrow our souls become when absorbed in any present good or ill! It is only the thought of the future that makes them great.

  Jean Paul

  Soul, Ill

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