Motivational Quotes

Present

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

Best Quotes about Present

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

Fromm, Erich

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

Stram, Hank

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

Cezanne, Paul

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

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

No one ever complains about a speech being too short!

Hayes, Ira

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

Murdoch, Iris

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

Marcia, Wieder

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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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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No one can remember more than three points.

Crosby, Philip

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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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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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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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We can live forever, a minute at a time.

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

Malouf, Doug

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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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Today is yesterday's pupil.

Fuller, Thomas

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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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Every day is just one day.

23.

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

Wright, Frank Lloyd

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The present reeks of mediocrity and the atom bomb.

Magritte, Rene

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Today must not borrow from tomorrow.

Proverb, German

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This instant is the only time there is.

A Course In Miracles

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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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Forget the past and live the present hour.

Bolton, Sarah Knowles

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

Singer, Isaac Bashevis

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

Ade, George

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Confine yourself to the present

Aurelius, Marcus

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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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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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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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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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Remember, today is the tomorrow you worried about yesterday.

Carnegie, Dale

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Dickinson, Emily

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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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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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Trust no future, however pleasant! Let the dead past bury its dead! Act -- act in the living Present! Heart within and God overhead.