Motivational Quotes

Present

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

- Lyons, Kay

Best Quotes about Present

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

Spitz, Mark

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

Horace

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

Eddy, Mary Baker

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

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

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

Cezanne, Paul

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

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

Time past and time future what might have been and what has been point to one end, which is always present.

Eliot, T. S.

10.

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

Murdoch, Iris

11.

Our main business is not to see what lies dimly at a distance, but to do what clearly lies at hand.

Carlyle, Thomas

12.

The present reeks of mediocrity and the atom bomb.

Magritte, Rene

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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

14.

I never use notes, they interfere with me.

Blanchard, Ken

15.

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

16.

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

Bruyere, Jean De La

17.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

18.

Remember, today is the tomorrow you worried about yesterday.

Carnegie, Dale

19.

Forget the past and live the present hour.

Bolton, Sarah Knowles

20.

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

21.

Confine yourself to the present

Aurelius, Marcus

22.

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

Stram, Hank

23.

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

Fromm, Erich

24.

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

Lyons, Kay

25.

No one ever complains about a speech being too short!

Hayes, Ira

26.

No one can remember more than three points.

Crosby, Philip

27.

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

Chiang Kai-Shek, Madame

28.

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

29.

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

30.

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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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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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

33.

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

Burgraff, Wayne

34.

This instant is the only time there is.

A Course In Miracles

35.

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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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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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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What is not started today is never finished tomorrow.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Crosby, Philip

41.

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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We can live forever, a minute at a time.

43.

Today is yesterday's pupil.

Fuller, Thomas

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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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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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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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Yesterday's the past and tomorrow's the future. Today is a gift -- which is why they call it the present.

Keane, Bill

48.

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

Thoreau, Henry David

49.

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

Ade, George