Motivational Quotes

Present

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

- Carlyle, Thomas

Best Quotes about 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

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

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.

Carnegie, Dale

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.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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

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

Ogden, Tom

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

James, Muriel

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

No one can remember more than three points.

Crosby, Philip

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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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Today is yesterday's pupil.

Fuller, Thomas

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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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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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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.

Tolstoy, Count Leo

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This instant is the only time there is.

A Course In Miracles

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

Hulsgen, J.J.

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

Bruyere, Jean De La

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We can live forever, a minute at a time.

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

Singer, Isaac Bashevis

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

Ade, George

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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.

Waitley, Denis

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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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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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Forget the past and live the present hour.

Bolton, Sarah Knowles

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Confine yourself to the present

Aurelius, Marcus

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

Burgraff, Wayne

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Top presenters have total control of their fears. They make fear their slave, not the master.

Malouf, Doug

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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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One today is worth two tomorrows.

Franklin, Benjamin

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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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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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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

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

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

Cezanne, Paul

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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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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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Remember, today is the tomorrow you worried about yesterday.

Carnegie, Dale

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Today must not borrow from tomorrow.

Proverb, German

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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.

Mandino, Og

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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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

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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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Today is a king in disguise.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Marcia, Wieder