Motivational Quotes

Present

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

Best Quotes about Present

Children have neither a past nor a future. Thus they enjoy the present -- which seldom happens to us.

Bruyere, Jean De La

Believe that each day that shines on you is your last.

Horace

Live not in yesterdays, Look back and you may sorrow. Live precisely for today, Look forward to tomorrow.

Hulsgen, J.J.

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

Cezanne, Paul

No one ever complains about a speech being too short!

Hayes, Ira

One today is worth two tomorrows.

Franklin, Benjamin

I use many props. The props act as cue cards reminding me of what to say next.

Ogden, Tom

What is not started today is never finished tomorrow.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

Today is yesterday's pupil.

Fuller, Thomas

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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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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

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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

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Ask yourself, If I had only sixty seconds on the stage, what would I absolutely have to say to get my message across.

Dewar, Jeff

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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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Use your precious moments to live life fully every single second of every single day.

Marcia, Wieder

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

Stram, Hank

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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.

Sher, Barbara

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Confine yourself to the present

Aurelius, Marcus

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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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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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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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Life is a succession of moments. To live each one is to succeed.

Kent, Sister Corita

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It takes one hour of preparation for each minute of presentation time.

Burgraff, Wayne

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Every day is just one day.

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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.

Bradshaw, John

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In the nineteenth century the problem was that God is dead. In the twentieth century the problem is that man is dead.

Fromm, Erich

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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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I never use notes, they interfere with me.

Blanchard, Ken

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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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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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The present reeks of mediocrity and the atom bomb.

Magritte, Rene

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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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We shall be better prepared for the future if we see how terrible, how doomed the present is.

Murdoch, Iris

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No one can remember more than three points.

Crosby, Philip

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Time past and time future what might have been and what has been point to one end, which is always present.

Eliot, T. S.

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

Ade, George

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To those leaning on the sustaining infinite, today is big with blessings.

Eddy, Mary Baker

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

Dyer, Wayne

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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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Look well to this day, for it, and it alone is life.

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You must live in the present, launch yourself on every wave, find your eternity in each moment.

Thoreau, Henry David

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Humor heals the heckler.

Meyers, Gerald C.

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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.

Maltz, Maxwell

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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.

Stevenson, Robert Louis

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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.

Trump, Donald

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Our main business is not to see what lies dimly at a distance, but to do what clearly lies at hand.

Carlyle, Thomas

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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

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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.