Motivational Quotes

Present

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

Best Quotes about 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

Every day is just one day.

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

Crosby, Philip

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

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

Keane, Bill

Today must not borrow from tomorrow.

Proverb, German

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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

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

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We can live forever, a minute at a time.

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

Stram, Hank

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

Ogden, Tom

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

Eddy, Mary Baker

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

Ade, George

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

Burgraff, Wayne

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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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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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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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One today is worth two tomorrows.

Franklin, Benjamin

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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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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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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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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

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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

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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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Remember, today is the tomorrow you worried about yesterday.

Carnegie, Dale

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I never use notes, they interfere with me.

Blanchard, Ken

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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Eckhart, Meister

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

Moreo, Judy

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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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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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The present reeks of mediocrity and the atom bomb.

Magritte, Rene

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

Dyer, Wayne

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

Horace

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Confine yourself to the present

Aurelius, Marcus