Motivational Quotes

Present

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

- Dickinson, Emily

Best Quotes about Present

What is not started today is never finished tomorrow.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

Today is yesterday's pupil.

Fuller, Thomas

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

Lyons, Kay

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

Spitz, Mark

This instant is the only time there is.

A Course In Miracles

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

Marcia, Wieder

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

Murdoch, Iris

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

Cezanne, Paul

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

10.

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

Singer, Isaac Bashevis

11.

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

Dickinson, Emily

12.

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

Dyer, Wayne

13.

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

Fromm, Erich

14.

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

Kent, Sister Corita

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

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

Crosby, Philip

21.

One today is worth two tomorrows.

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Malouf, Doug

23.

Remember, today is the tomorrow you worried about yesterday.

Carnegie, Dale

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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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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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No one can remember more than three points.

Crosby, Philip

27.

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

Eliot, T. S.

28.

I never use notes, they interfere with me.

Blanchard, Ken

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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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The present reeks of mediocrity and the atom bomb.

Magritte, Rene

31.

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

Bruyere, Jean De La

32.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Moreo, Judy

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

Eddy, Mary Baker

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

Horace

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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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We can live forever, a minute at a time.

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

Ogden, Tom

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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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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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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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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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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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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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Humor heals the heckler.

Meyers, Gerald C.

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Every day is just one day.

49.

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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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