Motivational Quotes

Present

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

- Dickinson, Emily

Best Quotes about Present

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

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

Singer, Isaac Bashevis

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

Spitz, Mark

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

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

Eddy, Mary Baker

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

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

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

Ade, George

10.

I never use notes, they interfere with me.

Blanchard, Ken

11.

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

Chiang Kai-Shek, Madame

12.

Remember, today is the tomorrow you worried about yesterday.

Carnegie, Dale

13.

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

Dickinson, Emily

15.

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

Bruyere, Jean De La

16.

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

Eliot, T. S.

18.

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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Confine yourself to the present

Aurelius, Marcus

20.

What is not started today is never finished tomorrow.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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Every day is just one day.

23.

No one ever complains about a speech being too short!

Hayes, Ira

24.

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

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Be glad today. Tomorrow may bring tears. Be brave today. The darkest night will pass. And golden rays will usher in the dawn.

Bolton, Sarah Knowles

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

Burgraff, Wayne

27.

No one can remember more than three points.

Crosby, Philip

28.

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

Stram, Hank

29.

Forget the past and live the present hour.

Bolton, Sarah Knowles

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

Murdoch, Iris

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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

35.

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

Crosby, Philip

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

Cezanne, Paul

37.

One today is worth two tomorrows.

Franklin, Benjamin

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Humor heals the heckler.

Meyers, Gerald C.

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

Lyons, Kay

45.

Today is yesterday's pupil.

Fuller, Thomas

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This instant is the only time there is.

A Course In Miracles

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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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Today is a king in disguise.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Dyer, Wayne

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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