Motivational Quotes

Present

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

- Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Remember, today is the tomorrow you worried about yesterday.

Carnegie, Dale

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

Dyer, Wayne

I'm trying to do the best I can. I'm not concerned with tomorrow, but with what goes on today.

Spitz, Mark

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

Crosby, Philip

I never use notes, they interfere with me.

Blanchard, Ken

A loser seldom lives in the present, but instead destroys the present by focusing on past memories or future expectations.

James, Muriel

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

Wright, Frank Lloyd

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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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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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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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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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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What is not started today is never finished tomorrow.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Ade, George

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Every day is just one day.

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Forget the past and live the present hour.

Bolton, Sarah Knowles

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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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No one ever complains about a speech being too short!

Hayes, Ira

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Today is yesterday's pupil.

Fuller, Thomas

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One today is worth two tomorrows.

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Murdoch, Iris

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

Burgraff, Wayne

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Confine yourself to the present

Aurelius, Marcus

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

Kent, Sister Corita

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

Stram, Hank

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Today must not borrow from tomorrow.

Proverb, German

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We can live forever, a minute at a time.

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

Malouf, Doug

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

Cezanne, Paul

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This instant is the only time there is.

A Course In Miracles

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

Eddy, Mary Baker

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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.