Motivational Quotes

Present

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

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

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

Marcia, Wieder

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

Ogden, Tom

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

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

Burgraff, Wayne

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

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

Moreo, Judy

Every day is just one day.

Today is yesterday's pupil.

Fuller, Thomas

10.

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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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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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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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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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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What is not started today is never finished tomorrow.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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One today is worth two tomorrows.

Franklin, Benjamin

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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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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

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

Kent, Sister Corita

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I never use notes, they interfere with me.

Blanchard, Ken

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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

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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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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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Confine yourself to the present

Aurelius, Marcus

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

Cezanne, Paul

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

Singer, Isaac Bashevis

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

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Remember, today is the tomorrow you worried about yesterday.

Carnegie, Dale

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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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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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No one ever complains about a speech being too short!

Hayes, Ira

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

Eddy, Mary Baker

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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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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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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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Forget the past and live the present hour.

Bolton, Sarah Knowles

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

Dickinson, Emily

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Humor heals the heckler.

Meyers, Gerald C.

42.

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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Today is a king in disguise.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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We can live forever, a minute at a time.

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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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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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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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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

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

Wright, Frank Lloyd