Motivational Quotes

Present

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

- Malouf, Doug

Best Quotes about Present

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

Stram, Hank

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

Fromm, Erich

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

Burgraff, Wayne

The present is the ever moving shadow that divides yesterday from tomorrow. In that lies hope.

Wright, Frank Lloyd

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Moreo, Judy

This instant is the only time there is.

A Course In Miracles

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

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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No one ever complains about a speech being too short!

Hayes, Ira

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

Eddy, Mary Baker

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One today is worth two tomorrows.

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Singer, Isaac Bashevis

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

Cezanne, Paul

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

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

Ogden, Tom

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

Crosby, Philip

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

Dyer, Wayne

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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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No one can remember more than three points.

Crosby, Philip

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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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Today is yesterday's pupil.

Fuller, Thomas

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

Malouf, Doug

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Kent, Sister Corita

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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

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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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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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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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Every day is just one day.

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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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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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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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Today must not borrow from tomorrow.

Proverb, German

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

Dickinson, Emily

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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