Motivational Quotes

Present

Today must not borrow from tomorrow.

- Proverb, German

Best Quotes about Present

The present reeks of mediocrity and the atom bomb.

Magritte, Rene

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

Marcia, Wieder

Live not in yesterdays, Look back and you may sorrow. Live precisely for today, Look forward to tomorrow.

Hulsgen, J.J.

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

Singer, Isaac Bashevis

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

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

Chiang Kai-Shek, Madame

This instant is the only time there is.

A Course In Miracles

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

Murdoch, Iris

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

10.

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

11.

What is not started today is never finished tomorrow.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Burgraff, Wayne

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Every day is just one day.

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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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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

19.

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

Kent, Sister Corita

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Forget the past and live the present hour.

Bolton, Sarah Knowles

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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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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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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

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Humor heals the heckler.

Meyers, Gerald C.

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

Cezanne, Paul

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

Dickinson, Emily

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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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No one can remember more than three points.

Crosby, Philip

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

Horace

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

Ade, George

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

41.

Today must not borrow from tomorrow.

Proverb, German

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

Wright, Frank Lloyd

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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

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

Dyer, Wayne

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Today is a king in disguise.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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