Future Quotes - Page 6

• Fear not for the future, weep not for the past.

  Percy Bysshe Shelley

  Positive, Fear, Moving Forward

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  I know of no way of judging the future but by the past.

  Patrick Henry

  Past, Judging, Investing

  Speech at Second Virginia Convention, March 23, 1775

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• There is no present or future-only the past, happening over and over again-now.

  Eugene O'Neill

  Time, Memories, Past

  Bhagwat S. Goyal, Eugene O'Neill (1975). “The Strategy of Survival: Human Significance of O'Neill's Plays”, Ghaziabad : Vimal Prakashan

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• The past does not equal the future.

  Tony Robbins

  Inspirational, Humorous, Past

  Twitter post from Jun 30, 2009

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• Map out your future - but do it in pencil. The road ahead is as long as you make it. Make it worth the trip.

  Jon Bon Jovi

  Travel, Journey, Long

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• We are the echo of the future.

  W. S. Merwin

  Echoes

  William Stanley Merwin, “The River Of Bees”

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• Until a person takes responsibility for where he is, there is no basis for moving on. The bad news is that the past was in your hands, but the good news is that the future, my friend, is also in your hands.

  Andy Andrews

  Moving On, Moving Forward, Responsibility

  Andy Andrews (2005). “The Traveler's Gift: Seven Decisions that Determine Personal Success”, p.28, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• A speculator is a man who observes the future, and acts before it occurs.

  Bernard Baruch

  Business, Men, Finance

  Bernard Mannes Baruch (1970). “Baruch: My own story”

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• Education, therefore, is a process of living and not a preparation for future living.

  John Dewey

  Education, Learning, Preparation

  John Dewey (1972). “The Early Works, 1882-1898: 1895-1898. Early essays”, p.87, SIU Press

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

  Anatole France

  Fear, Men, Events

  Anatole France (2007). “Golden Tales of Anatole France”, p.12, Wildside Press LLC

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• The best way to predict the future is to study the past, or prognosticate.

  Robert Kiyosaki

  Inspirational, Motivational, Positive

  Twitter post from Jan 30, 2017

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• Go forth to meet the shadowy future without fear and with a manly heart.

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Heart, Iron Will, Magellan

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (Illustrated)”, p.2016, Delphi Classics

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• Trying to predict the future is like trying to drive down a country road at night with no lights while looking out the back window.

  Peter Drucker

  Country, Business, Night

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• There is nothing like a dream to create the future.

  Victor Hugo

  Inspirational, Life, Graduation

  Victor Hugo (1862). “Marius”, p.49

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• Change is not merely necessary to life - it is life.

  Alvin Toffler

  Change, Spiritual, Past

  ALVIN TOFFLER (1970). “FUTURE SHOCK”

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• The future is no more uncertain than the present.

  Walt Whitman

  Inspirational, Life, Leaves Of Grass

  Walt Whitman “Annotated LEAVES OF GRASS with English Grammar Exercises: by Walt Whitman (Author), Robert Powell (Editor)”, Powell Publications, LLC

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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

  Past, Greatness, Able

  FaceBook post by Jim Rohn from Mar 18, 2017

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• To live only for some future goal is shallow. It's the sides of the mountain that sustain life, not the top.

  Robert M. Pirsig

  Life, Wisdom, Hiking

  "Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: An Inquiry into Values (ZAMM)". Book by Robert M. Pirsig, 1974.

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• When a scientist is ahead of his times, it is often through misunderstanding of current, rather than intuition of future truth. In science there is never any error so gross that it won't one day, from some perspective, appear prophetic.

  Jean Rostand

  Truth, Science, Errors

  Jean Rostand (1962). “The substance of man”

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• Some things are so unexpected that no one is prepared for them.

  Leo Rosten

  Unexpected, Prepared

  Leo Calvin Rosten (1972). “Rome wasn't burned in a day: the mischief of language”

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• If you can look into the seeds of time, and say which grain will grow and which will not, speak then unto me.

  William Shakespeare

  Time, Knowledge, Looks

  'Macbeth' (1606) act 1, sc. 3, l. 58

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• We can chart our future clearly and wisely only when we know the path which has led to the present.

  Adlai E. Stevenson

  Understanding, Vision, Path

  Speech in Richmond, Virginia, September 20, 1952.

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• Optimism is a strategy for making a better future. Because unless you believe that the future can be better, you are unlikely to step up and take responsibility for making it so.

  Noam Chomsky

  Believe, Optimistic, Responsibility

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• We work day after day, not to finish things; but to make the future better ... because we will spend the rest of our lives there.

  Charles Kettering

  Hard Work, Science, Work Day

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• The future of peace and prosperity that we seek for all the world's peoples needs a foundation of tolerance, security, equality and justice.

  Kofi Annan

  Justice, Tolerance, Foundation

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