Motivational Quotes

Present

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

Best Quotes about Present

Humor heals the heckler.

Meyers, Gerald C.

Trust no future, however pleasant! Let the dead past bury its dead! Act -- act in the living Present! Heart within and God overhead.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

I never use notes, they interfere with me.

Blanchard, Ken

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

Keane, Bill

Be glad today. Tomorrow may bring tears. Be brave today. The darkest night will pass. And golden rays will usher in the dawn.

Bolton, Sarah Knowles

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

Crosby, Philip

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

Hulsgen, J.J.

What is not started today is never finished tomorrow.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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We can live forever, a minute at a time.

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The present reeks of mediocrity and the atom bomb.

Magritte, Rene

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

Spitz, Mark

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Forget the past and live the present hour.

Bolton, Sarah Knowles

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

Chiang Kai-Shek, Madame

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

Marcia, Wieder

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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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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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Every day is just one day.

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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.

Baldwin, James

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

Stram, Hank

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

Eddy, Mary Baker

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No one ever complains about a speech being too short!

Hayes, Ira

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

Ade, George

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One today is worth two tomorrows.

Franklin, Benjamin

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Today is yesterday's pupil.

Fuller, Thomas

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

Singer, Isaac Bashevis

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

Cezanne, Paul

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

Wright, Frank Lloyd

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Lyons, Kay

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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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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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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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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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This instant is the only time there is.

A Course In Miracles

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

Moreo, Judy

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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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Today must not borrow from tomorrow.

Proverb, German