Motivational Quotes

Present

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

- Burgraff, Wayne

Best Quotes about Present

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

Singer, Isaac Bashevis

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

Murdoch, Iris

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

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

Horace

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

Confine yourself to the present

Aurelius, Marcus

Today is a king in disguise.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

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

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

Burgraff, Wayne

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Remember, today is the tomorrow you worried about yesterday.

Carnegie, Dale

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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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We can live forever, a minute at a time.

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One today is worth two tomorrows.

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Dyer, Wayne

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What is not started today is never finished tomorrow.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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Humor heals the heckler.

Meyers, Gerald C.

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

Ade, George

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Today must not borrow from tomorrow.

Proverb, German

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

Moreo, Judy

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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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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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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 never use notes, they interfere with me.

Blanchard, Ken

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

Kent, Sister Corita

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

Cezanne, Paul

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

Dickinson, Emily

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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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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

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No one ever complains about a speech being too short!

Hayes, Ira

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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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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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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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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The present reeks of mediocrity and the atom bomb.

Magritte, Rene

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

Crosby, Philip

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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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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