Motivational Quotes

Present

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.

- Baldwin, James

Best Quotes about Present

To live is so starling it leaves little time for anything else.

Dickinson, Emily

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.

Carlyle, Thomas

Yesterday is a cancelled check. Today is cash on the line. Tomorrow is a promissory note.

Stram, Hank

This instant is the only time there is.

A Course In Miracles

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

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.

Kornfield, Jack

Yesterday is a canceled check; tomorrow is a promissory note; today is the only cash you have; so spend it wisely.

Lyons, Kay

We can live forever, a minute at a time.

Today is yesterday's pupil.

Fuller, Thomas

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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

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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

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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.

Roberts, Wess

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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.

Dyer, Wayne

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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.

Baudelaire, Charles

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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.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Humor heals the heckler.

Meyers, Gerald C.

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If it were not for the presents, an elopement would be preferable.

Ade, George

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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.

Stravinsky, Igor

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We usually lose today, because there has been a yesterday, and tomorrow is coming.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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The audience only pays attention as long as you know where you are going.

Crosby, Philip

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Yesterday's the past and tomorrow's the future. Today is a gift -- which is why they call it the present.

Keane, Bill

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Remember, today is the tomorrow you worried about yesterday.

Carnegie, Dale

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Give me insight into today and you may have the antique and future worlds.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Confine yourself to the present

Aurelius, Marcus

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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.

Carnegie, Dale

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Live one day at a time emphasizing ethics rather than rules.

Dyer, Wayne

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No one ever complains about a speech being too short!

Hayes, Ira

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A theme is a memory aid, it helps you through the presentation just as it also provides the thread of continuity for your audience.

Carey, Dave

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A loser seldom lives in the present, but instead destroys the present by focusing on past memories or future expectations.

James, Muriel

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I never use notes, they interfere with me.

Blanchard, Ken

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One today is worth two tomorrows.

Franklin, Benjamin

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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.

Eckhart, Meister

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I'm trying to do the best I can. I'm not concerned with tomorrow, but with what goes on today.

Spitz, Mark

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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.

Dyer, Wayne

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We live in the present, we dream of the future and we learn eternal truths from the past.

Chiang Kai-Shek, Madame

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Today is a king in disguise.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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The second half of the twentieth century is a complete flop.

Singer, Isaac Bashevis

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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.

Pease, Alan

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Trust no future, however pleasant! Let the dead past bury its dead! Act -- act in the living Present! Heart within and God overhead.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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Right now a moment of time is passing by! We must become that moment.

Cezanne, Paul

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Ask a heckler to identify himself and his company. They usually prefer to be anonymous.

Moreo, Judy

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Nothing is worth more than this day. You cannot relive yesterday. Tomorrow is still beyond your reach