Motivational Quotes

Present

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

Best Quotes about Present

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

Dickinson, Emily

Today is a king in disguise.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Every day is just one day.

We can live forever, a minute at a time.

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

Burgraff, Wayne

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

Humor heals the heckler.

Meyers, Gerald C.

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

Moreo, Judy

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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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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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Maltz, Maxwell

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Remember, today is the tomorrow you worried about yesterday.

Carnegie, Dale

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

Wright, Frank Lloyd

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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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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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One today is worth two tomorrows.

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Crosby, Philip

21.

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Stram, Hank

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

Dyer, Wayne

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

Singer, Isaac Bashevis

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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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No one ever complains about a speech being too short!

Hayes, Ira

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

Cezanne, Paul

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

Murdoch, Iris

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

Marcia, Wieder

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The present reeks of mediocrity and the atom bomb.

Magritte, Rene

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Forget the past and live the present hour.

Bolton, Sarah Knowles

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

Horace

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

Eddy, Mary Baker

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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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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