Motivational Quotes

Present

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

- James, Muriel

Best Quotes about Present

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

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

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

Moreo, Judy

Confine yourself to the present

Aurelius, Marcus

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

James, Muriel

We can live forever, a minute at a time.

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

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

Bruyere, Jean De La

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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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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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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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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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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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

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Crosby, Philip

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

Malouf, Doug

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The present reeks of mediocrity and the atom bomb.

Magritte, Rene

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

Ogden, Tom

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

Chiang Kai-Shek, Madame

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

Burgraff, Wayne

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Forget the past and live the present hour.

Bolton, Sarah Knowles

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Today is a king in disguise.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Eddy, Mary Baker

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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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One today is worth two tomorrows.

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Horace

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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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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

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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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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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What is not started today is never finished tomorrow.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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