Quotes about present
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This instant is the only time there is.
— A Course In Miracles
If it were not for the presents, an elopement would be preferable.
— George Ade
labor not after riches first, and think thou afterwards wilt enjoy them. He who neglecteth the present moment, throweth away all that he hath. As the arrow passeth through the heart, while the warrior knew not that it was
— Akhenaton
Confine yourself to the present
— Marcus Aurelius
Write down the thoughts of the moment. Those that come unsought for are commonly the most valuable.
— Francis Bacon
There is never time in the future in which we will work out our salvation. The challenge is in the moment; the time is always now.
— James Baldwin
The pleasure we derive from the representation of the present is due, not only to the beauty it can be clothed in, but also to its essential quality of being the present.
— Charles Baudelaire
No matter what looms ahead, if you can eat today, enjoy the sunlight today, mix good cheer with friends today, enjoy it and bless God for it. Do not look back on happiness -- or dream of it in the future. You are only sure of today; do not let yourself be cheated out of it.
— Henry Ward Beecher
Where were you... when the morning stars sang together, and all the sons (and daughters) of God shouted for joy? [4-7, Job 38:}
— Bible
Forget the past and live the present hour.
— Sarah Knowles Bolton
Be glad today. Tomorrow may bring tears. Be brave today. The darkest night will pass. And golden rays will usher in the dawn.
— Sarah Knowles Bolton
It is a mark of soulfulness to be present in the here and now. When we are present, we are not fabricating inner movies. We are seeing what is before us.
— John Bradshaw
Children have neither a past nor a future. Thus they enjoy the present -- which seldom happens to us.
— Jean De La Bruyere
The secret of health for both mind and body is not to mourn for the past, not to worry about the future, or not to anticipate troubles, but to live in the present moment wisely and earnestly.
— Buddha
There's no present. There's only the immediate future and the recent past.
— George Carlin
We were wise indeed, could we discern truly the signs of our own time; and by knowledge of its wants and advantages, wisely adjust our own position in it. Let us, instead of gazing idly into the obscure distance, look calmly around us, for a little, on the perplexed scene where we stand. Perhaps, on a more serious inspection, something of its perplexity will disappear, some of its distinctive characters and deeper tendencies more clearly reveal themselves; whereby our own relations to it, our own true aims and endeavors in it, may also become clearer.
— Thomas Carlyle
Our main business is not to see what lies dimly at a distance, but to do what clearly lies at hand.
— Thomas Carlyle
Remember, today is the tomorrow you worried about yesterday.
— Dale Carnegie
Today is life-the only life you are sure of. Make the most of today. Get interested in something. Shake yourself awake. Develop a hobby. Let the winds of enthusiasm sweep through you. Live today with gusto.
— Dale Carnegie
Right now a moment of time is passing by! We must become that moment.
— Paul Cezanne
We live in the present, we dream of the future and we learn eternal truths from the past.
— Madame Chiang Kai-Shek
To live is so starling it leaves little time for anything else.
— Emily Dickinson
Present-moment living, getting in touch with your now, is at the heart of effective living. When you think about it, there really is no other moment you can live. Now is all there is, and the future is just another present moment to live when it arrives. One thing is certain, you cannot live it until it does appear.
— Wayne Dyer
Live one day at a time emphasizing ethics rather than rules.
— Wayne Dyer
Stop acting as if life is a rehearsal. Live this day as if it were your last. The past is over and gone. The future is not guaranteed.
— Wayne Dyer
There exists only the present instant... a Now which always and without end is itself new. There is no yesterday nor any tomorrow, but only Now, as it was a thousand years ago and as it will be a thousand years hence.
— Meister Eckhart
To those leaning on the sustaining infinite, today is big with blessings.
— Mary Baker Eddy
Time past and time future what might have been and what has been point to one end, which is always present.
— T. S. Eliot
Today is a king in disguise.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
Those who live to the future must always appear selfish to those who live to the present.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
Give me insight into today and you may have the antique and future worlds.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
Finish each day before you begin the next, and interpose a solid wall of sleep between the two. This you cannot do without temperance.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
One today is worth two tomorrows.
— Benjamin Franklin
In the nineteenth century the problem was that God is dead. In the twentieth century the problem is that man is dead.
— Erich Fromm
Today is yesterday's pupil.
— Thomas Fuller
What is not started today is never finished tomorrow.
— Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
Since Time is not a person we can overtake when he is gone, let us honor him with mirth and cheerfulness of heart while he is passing.
— Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
We usually lose today, because there has been a yesterday, and tomorrow is coming.
— Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
Nothing is worth more than this day. You cannot relive yesterday. Tomorrow is still beyond your reach
— Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
Believe that each day that shines on you is your last.
— Horace
Seize the day.
— Horace
Live not in yesterdays, Look back and you may sorrow. Live precisely for today, Look forward to tomorrow.
— J.J. Hulsgen
A loser seldom lives in the present, but instead destroys the present by focusing on past memories or future expectations.
— Muriel James
Yesterday's the past and tomorrow's the future. Today is a gift -- which is why they call it the present.
— Bill Keane
Life is a succession of moments. To live each one is to succeed.
— Sister Corita Kent
When we come into the present, we begin to feel the life around us again, but we also encounter whatever we have been avoiding. We must have the courage to face whatever is present -- our pain, our desires, our grief, our loss, our secret hopes our love -- everything that moves us most deeply.
— Jack Kornfield
Trust no future, however pleasant! Let the dead past bury its dead! Act -- act in the living Present! Heart within and God overhead.
— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Yesterday is a canceled check; tomorrow is a promissory note; today is the only cash you have; so spend it wisely.
— Kay Lyons
The present reeks of mediocrity and the atom bomb.
— Rene Magritte
Live in the present. The past is gone; the future is unknown -- but the present is real, and your opportunities are now. You must see these opportunities; they must be real for you. The catch is that they can't seem real if your mind is buried in past failures, if you keep reliving old mistakes, old guilts, old tragedies. Fight your way above the many inevitable Traumatizations of your ego, escape damnation by the past, and look to the opportunities of the present. I don't mean some vague moment in the present -- next week or next month, perhaps. I mean today, this minute.
— Maxwell Maltz
Each day is a special gift from God, and while life may not always be fair, you must never allow the pains, hurdles, and handicaps of the moment to poison your attitude and plans for yourself and your future. You can never win when you wear the ugly cloak of self-pity, and the sour sound of whining will certainly frighten away any opportunity for success. Never again. There is a better way.
— Og Mandino
Use your precious moments to live life fully every single second of every single day.
— Wieder Marcia
We shall be better prepared for the future if we see how terrible, how doomed the present is.
— Iris Murdoch
Today must not borrow from tomorrow.
— German Proverb
Each today, well-lived, makes yesterday a dream of happiness and each tomorrow a vision of hope. Look, therefore, to this one day, for it and it alone is life.
— Sanskrit Poem
I have a new philosophy. I'm only going to dread one day at a time.
— Charles M. Schulz
Too many people miss the silver lining because they're expecting gold.
— Maurice Setter
Now is the operative word. Everything you put in your way is just a method of putting off the hour when you could actually be doing your dream. You don't need endless time and perfect conditions. Do it now. Do it today. Do it for twenty minutes and watch your heart start beating.
— Barbara Sher
The second half of the twentieth century is a complete flop.
— Isaac Bashevis Singer
I'm trying to do the best I can. I'm not concerned with tomorrow, but with what goes on today.
— Mark Spitz
The obscurest epoch is to-day.
— Robert Louis Stevenson
Anyone can carry his burden, however hard, until nightfall. Anyone can do his work, however hard, for one day. Anyone can live sweetly, patiently, lovingly, purely, until the sun goes down. And this is all that life really means.
— Robert Louis Stevenson
Yesterday is a cancelled check. Today is cash on the line. Tomorrow is a promissory note.
— Hank Stram
I am in the present. I cannot know what tomorrow will bring forth. I can know only what the truth is for me today. That is what I am called upon to serve, and I serve it in all lucidity.
— Igor Stravinsky
You must live in the present, launch yourself on every wave, find your eternity in each moment.
— Henry David Thoreau
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
Every day is just one day.
— Source Unknown
Look well to this day, for it, and it alone is life.
— Source Unknown
Today is the first day of the rest of your life.
— Source Unknown
Today is the tomorrow you worried about yesterday.
— Source Unknown
We can live forever, a minute at a time.
— Source Unknown
Learn from the past, set vivid, detailed goals for the future, and live in the only moment of time over which you have any control: now.
— Denis Waitley
We convince by our presence.
— Walt Whitman
He to whom the present is the only thing that is present, knows nothing of the age in which he lives.
— Oscar Wilde
There is no such thing in anyone's life as an unimportant day.
— Alexander Woollcott
The present is the ever moving shadow that divides yesterday from tomorrow. In that lies hope.
— Frank Lloyd Wright
I never use notes, they interfere with me.
— Ken Blanchard
It takes one hour of preparation for each minute of presentation time.
— Wayne Burgraff
A theme is a memory aid, it helps you through the presentation just as it also provides the thread of continuity for your audience.
— Dave Carey
There are always three speeches, for every one you actually gave. The one you practiced, the one you gave, and the one you wish you gave.
— Dale Carnegie
The audience only pays attention as long as you know where you are going.
— Philip Crosby
No one can remember more than three points.
— Philip Crosby
Ask yourself, If I had only sixty seconds on the stage, what would I absolutely have to say to get my message across.
— Jeff Dewar
No one ever complains about a speech being too short!
— Ira Hayes
Top presenters have total control of their fears. They make fear their slave, not the master.
— Doug Malouf
Humor heals the heckler.
— Gerald C. Meyers
Ask a heckler to identify himself and his company. They usually prefer to be anonymous.
— Judy Moreo
I use many props. The props act as cue cards reminding me of what to say next.
— Tom Ogden
The simplest way to customize is to phone members of the audience in advance and ask them what they expect from your session and why they expect it. Then use their quotes throughout your presentation.
— Alan Pease
They expect a professional presentation, so they expect to see a professional. Dress appropriately for the occasion, but don't be one of the crowd.
— Wess Roberts
The clock is running. Make the most of today. Time waits for no man. Yesterday is history. Tomorrow is a mystery. Today is a gift. That’s why it is called the present.
— Alice Morse Earle
Divorce the past to marry the present and be blessed with a lovely child of future.~Anuj Somany
— Anujsomany
There is only one time that is important -- NOW! It is the most important time because it is the only time hat we have any power.
— Count Leo Tolstoy