Motivational Quotes

Present

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

- Burgraff, Wayne

Best Quotes about Present

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

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

Yesterday's the past and tomorrow's the future. Today is a gift -- which is why they call it the present.

Keane, Bill

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

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

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

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

Hulsgen, J.J.

Today is a king in disguise.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Wright, Frank Lloyd

10.

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

11.

What is not started today is never finished tomorrow.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

12.

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

Murdoch, Iris

13.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

14.

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

15.

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

16.

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

Moreo, Judy

17.

Every day is just one day.

18.

No one ever complains about a speech being too short!

Hayes, Ira

19.

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

20.

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

21.

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

Ogden, Tom

22.

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

23.

We can live forever, a minute at a time.

24.

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

25.

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

26.

Confine yourself to the present

Aurelius, Marcus

27.

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

Spitz, Mark

28.

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

Eliot, T. S.

29.

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

Dickinson, Emily

30.

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

Singer, Isaac Bashevis

31.

Today must not borrow from tomorrow.

Proverb, German

32.

The present reeks of mediocrity and the atom bomb.

Magritte, Rene

33.

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

34.

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

Burgraff, Wayne

35.

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

Dyer, Wayne

36.

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

Lyons, Kay

37.

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

Marcia, Wieder

38.

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

39.

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

Horace

40.

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

41.

Humor heals the heckler.

Meyers, Gerald C.

42.

No one can remember more than three points.

Crosby, Philip

43.

Today is yesterday's pupil.

Fuller, Thomas

44.

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

45.

Remember, today is the tomorrow you worried about yesterday.

Carnegie, Dale

46.

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

47.

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

48.

One today is worth two tomorrows.

Franklin, Benjamin

49.

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

50.

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

Chiang Kai-Shek, Madame