Motivational Quotes

Present

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

Best Quotes about Present

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

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

Lyons, Kay

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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

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

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

Marcia, Wieder

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

Dyer, Wayne

The present reeks of mediocrity and the atom bomb.

Magritte, Rene

I never use notes, they interfere with me.

Blanchard, Ken

10.

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

11.

Remember, today is the tomorrow you worried about yesterday.

Carnegie, Dale

12.

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

James, Muriel

13.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

14.

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

15.

Today must not borrow from tomorrow.

Proverb, German

16.

Give me insight into today and you may have the antique and future worlds.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

17.

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

18.

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

Murdoch, Iris

19.

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

Fromm, Erich

20.

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

Eddy, Mary Baker

21.

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

22.

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

23.

Humor heals the heckler.

Meyers, Gerald C.

24.

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

Kent, Sister Corita

25.

Forget the past and live the present hour.

Bolton, Sarah Knowles

26.

Confine yourself to the present

Aurelius, Marcus

27.

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

28.

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

29.

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

30.

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

Malouf, Doug

31.

Since Time is not a person we can overtake when he is gone, let us honor him with mirth and cheerfulness of heart while he is passing.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

32.

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

Eliot, T. S.

33.

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

34.

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

Moreo, Judy

35.

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

Dickinson, Emily

36.

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

37.

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

38.

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

39.

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

Horace

40.

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

Hulsgen, J.J.

41.

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

Singer, Isaac Bashevis

42.

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

43.

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

Bruyere, Jean De La

44.

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

Cezanne, Paul

45.

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

Burgraff, Wayne

46.

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

47.

Every day is just one day.

48.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

49.

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

Spitz, Mark

50.

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

Wright, Frank Lloyd