Motivational Quotes

Present

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

- Bruyere, Jean De La

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

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

Wright, Frank Lloyd

We can live forever, a minute at a time.

Yesterday is a canceled check; tomorrow is a promissory note; today is the only cash you have; so spend it wisely.

Lyons, Kay

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

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

Singer, Isaac Bashevis

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

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

Horace

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Forget the past and live the present hour.

Bolton, Sarah Knowles

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Confine yourself to the present

Aurelius, Marcus

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One today is worth two tomorrows.

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Dyer, Wayne

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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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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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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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No one can remember more than three points.

Crosby, Philip

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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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Today is a king in disguise.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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 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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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

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I never use notes, they interfere with me.

Blanchard, Ken

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

Burgraff, Wayne

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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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What is not started today is never finished tomorrow.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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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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Today is yesterday's pupil.

Fuller, Thomas

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

Eddy, Mary Baker

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

Kent, Sister Corita

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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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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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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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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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Today must not borrow from tomorrow.

Proverb, German

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