Motivational Quotes

Present

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

Best Quotes about Present

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

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

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

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

Crosby, Philip

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

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

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

Dickinson, Emily

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

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

Dyer, Wayne

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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.

11.

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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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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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 never use notes, they interfere with me.

Blanchard, Ken

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Humor heals the heckler.

Meyers, Gerald C.

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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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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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No one can remember more than three points.

Crosby, Philip

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

21.

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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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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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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Today is yesterday's pupil.

Fuller, Thomas

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Today must not borrow from tomorrow.

Proverb, German

26.

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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One today is worth two tomorrows.

Franklin, Benjamin

28.

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

Marcia, Wieder

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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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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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No one ever complains about a speech being too short!

Hayes, Ira

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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

33.

Every day is just one day.

34.

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

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

Singer, Isaac Bashevis

41.

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

Ade, George

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

Kent, Sister Corita

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

Stram, Hank

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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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Today is a king in disguise.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

48.

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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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