Motivational Quotes

Present

Today is a king in disguise.

- Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Best Quotes about Present

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

James, Muriel

We live in the present, we dream of the future and we learn eternal truths from the past.

Chiang Kai-Shek, Madame

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

The present reeks of mediocrity and the atom bomb.

Magritte, Rene

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

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

Ade, George

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

Murdoch, Iris

Today is a king in disguise.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Malouf, Doug

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No one can remember more than three points.

Crosby, Philip

15.

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

Crosby, Philip

16.

Confine yourself to the present

Aurelius, Marcus

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Forget the past and live the present hour.

Bolton, Sarah Knowles

18.

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

Cezanne, Paul

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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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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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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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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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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

24.

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

Ogden, Tom

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

Moreo, Judy

26.

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

Marcia, Wieder

27.

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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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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Today must not borrow from tomorrow.

Proverb, German

30.

Remember, today is the tomorrow you worried about yesterday.

Carnegie, Dale

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

Kent, Sister Corita

32.

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

Stram, Hank

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

Eddy, Mary Baker

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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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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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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

41.

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

Singer, Isaac Bashevis

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We can live forever, a minute at a time.

43.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

45.

One today is worth two tomorrows.

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Horace

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

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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