Motivational Quotes

Present

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

- Thoreau, Henry David

Best Quotes about 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

We can live forever, a minute at a time.

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

Our main business is not to see what lies dimly at a distance, but to do what clearly lies at hand.

Carlyle, Thomas

Remember, today is the tomorrow you worried about yesterday.

Carnegie, Dale

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

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

Malouf, Doug

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No one ever complains about a speech being too short!

Hayes, Ira

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Each day is a special gift from God, and while life may not always be fair, you must never allow the pains, hurdles, and handicaps of the moment to poison your attitude and plans for yourself and your future. You can never win when you wear the ugly cloak of self-pity, and the sour sound of whining will certainly frighten away any opportunity for success. Never again. There is a better way.

Mandino, Og

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

Horace

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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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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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No one can remember more than three points.

Crosby, Philip

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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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One today is worth two tomorrows.

Franklin, Benjamin

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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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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

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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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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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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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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.

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

Kent, Sister Corita

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

Eddy, Mary Baker

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

Stram, Hank

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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

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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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What is not started today is never finished tomorrow.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Today is a king in disguise.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Singer, Isaac Bashevis

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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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Forget the past and live the present hour.

Bolton, Sarah Knowles

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

Burgraff, Wayne

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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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This instant is the only time there is.

A Course In Miracles

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Humor heals the heckler.

Meyers, Gerald C.

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

Bruyere, Jean De La