Motivational Quotes

Present

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

- Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Best Quotes about Present

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

Ade, George

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

Dyer, Wayne

We were wise indeed, could we discern truly the signs of our own time; and by knowledge of its wants and advantages, wisely adjust our own position in it. Let us, instead of gazing idly into the obscure distance, look calmly around us, for a little, on the perplexed scene where we stand. Perhaps, on a more serious inspection, something of its perplexity will disappear, some of its distinctive characters and deeper tendencies more clearly reveal themselves; whereby our own relations to it, our own true aims and endeavors in it, may also become clearer.

Carlyle, Thomas

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

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

Crosby, Philip

Humor heals the heckler.

Meyers, Gerald C.

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

Stram, Hank

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

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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No one ever complains about a speech being too short!

Hayes, Ira

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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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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

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Today is yesterday's pupil.

Fuller, Thomas

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

Ogden, Tom

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Today must not borrow from tomorrow.

Proverb, German

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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No one can remember more than three points.

Crosby, Philip

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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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One today is worth two tomorrows.

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Moreo, Judy

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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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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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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

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Confine yourself to the present

Aurelius, Marcus

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

34.

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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Every day is just one day.

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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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Remember, today is the tomorrow you worried about yesterday.

Carnegie, Dale

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

Horace

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Dickinson, Emily

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

Burgraff, Wayne

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Wright, Frank Lloyd