Motivational Quotes

Present

No one ever complains about a speech being too short!

- Hayes, Ira

Best Quotes about Present

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

Horace

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

Kent, Sister Corita

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

Fromm, Erich

One today is worth two tomorrows.

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Keane, Bill

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

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

Humor heals the heckler.

Meyers, Gerald C.

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 yesterday's pupil.

Fuller, Thomas

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

Murdoch, Iris

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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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We can live forever, a minute at a time.

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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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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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What is not started today is never finished tomorrow.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Forget the past and live the present hour.

Bolton, Sarah Knowles

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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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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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Confine yourself to the present

Aurelius, Marcus

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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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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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Every day is just one day.

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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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Today is a king in disguise.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Singer, Isaac Bashevis

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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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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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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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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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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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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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No one can remember more than three points.

Crosby, Philip

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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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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

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

Crosby, Philip

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

Stram, Hank

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

Dickinson, Emily

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No one ever complains about a speech being too short!