Motivational Quotes

Present

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

Best Quotes about Present

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

Marcia, Wieder

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

Fromm, Erich

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

Ogden, Tom

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

Singer, Isaac Bashevis

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

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

No one ever complains about a speech being too short!

Hayes, Ira

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

Malouf, Doug

I never use notes, they interfere with me.

Blanchard, Ken

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

Burgraff, Wayne

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Today is a king in disguise.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

16.

No one can remember more than three points.

Crosby, Philip

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

18.

Today is yesterday's pupil.

Fuller, Thomas

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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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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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Confine yourself to the present

Aurelius, Marcus

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

Crosby, Philip

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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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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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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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We can live forever, a minute at a time.

28.

What is not started today is never finished tomorrow.

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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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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This instant is the only time there is.

A Course In Miracles

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

Kent, Sister Corita

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

Dickinson, Emily

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

Ade, George

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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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Humor heals the heckler.

Meyers, Gerald C.

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

Murdoch, Iris

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Every day is just one day.

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

Moreo, Judy

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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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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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Remember, today is the tomorrow you worried about yesterday.

Carnegie, Dale