Present Quotes

Change is the law of life; and those who look only to the past or the present are certain to miss the future.

John F. Kennedy

All human situations have their inconveniences. We feel those of the present but neither see nor feel those of the future; and hence we often make troublesome changes without amendment, and frequently for the worse.

Benjamin Franklin

The future is much like the present, only longer.

Don Quisenberry

I am treating you as my friend asking you share my present minuses in the hope I can ask you to share my future pluses.

Katherine Mansfield

Your children need your presence more than your presents.

Jesse Louis Jackson

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

Madame Chiang

Quality is never an accident. It represents the wise choice of many alternatives.

Willa Foste

It is the contention of this observer that few homicides due to shooting could be avoided merely if a firearm were not immediately present, and that the offender would select some other weapon to achieve the same destructive goal.

Marvin E. Wolfgang

Enjoy present pleasures in such a way as not to injure future one.

Seneca

Quality is never an accident; it is always the result of high intention, sincere effort, intelligent direction and skillful execution; it represents the wise choice of many alternatives.

William A. Foste

Our test of truth is a reference to either a present or imagined future majority in favour of our view.

Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.

The essence of optimism is that it takes no account of the present, but it is a source of inspiration, of vitality and hope where others have resigned it enables a man to hold his head high, to claim the future for himself and not to abandon it to his enemy.

Dietrich Bonhoeffe

When the present is full of gloom, the past becomes haven of refuge that provides relief and inspiration.

Jawahar Lal Neheru

Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past.

George Orwell

There is no pain so great as the memory of joy in present grief.

Aeschylus

Taxation without representation is tyranny.

James Otis

It is difficult to live in the present, ridiculous to live in the future, and impossible to live in the past. Nothing is as far away as one minute ago.

Jim Bishop

Fatherhood is pretending the present you love most is soap - On - A - Rope.

Bill Cosby

Write down the advice of him who loves you, though you like it not at present.

English Prove

Each present joy or sorrow seems the chief.

William Shakespeare

Where fear is present, wisdom cannot be.

Lactantius

If you see in any given situation only what everybody else can see, you can be said to be so much a representative of your culture than you are a victim of it.

S. I. Hayakawa

God will be present, whether asked or not.

Latin Prove

Memory is a giggling sprite and will not be tamed. She takes flight the moment the present becomes the past.

Real Live Preacher, weblog, 04 - 29 - 04

It is my belief, Watson, founded upon my experience, that the lowest and vilest alleys in London do not present a more dreadful record of sin than does the smiling and beautiful countryside.

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Sherlock Holmes in The Copper Beeches

Cowardice, as distinguished from panic, is almost always simply a lack of ability to suspend the functioning of the imagination. Learning to suspend your imagination and live completely in the very second of the present with no before and no after is the greatest gift a soldier can acquire.

Ernest Hemingway

Those who misrepresent the normal experiences of life, who decry being controversial, who shun risk, are the enemies of the American way of life, whatever the piety of their vocal professions and the patriotic flavor of their platitudes.

Henry M. Wriston

There was a time when we expected nothing of our children but obedience, as opposed to the present, when we expect everything of them but obedience.

Anatole Broyard

Life is a culmination of the past, an awareness of the present, an indication of a future beyond knowledge, the quality that gives a touch of divinity to matter.

Charles Augustus Lindbergh, Jr.

Make yourself familiar with the angels, and behold them frequently in spirit for without being seen, they are present with you.

Saint Francis de Sales

It is when we notice the dirt that God is most present in us.

Clive Staples Lewis

The secret of health for both mind and body is not to mourn for the past, worry about the future, or anticipate troubles but to live in the present moment wisely and earnestly.

Buddha

Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired, represents, in the final analysis, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, who are cold and are not clothed. This world in arms is not spending money alone. It is spending the sweat of its laborers, the genius of its scientists, the hopes of its children.

Dwight D. Eisenhowe

Let him who would enjoy a good future waste none of his present.

Roger Babson

Our government is the potent, the omnipresent teacher. For good or ill, it teaches the whole people by its example.

Louis D. Brandeis

A youth is to be regarded with respect. How do you know that his future will not be equal to our present?

Confucius, Analects

Enjoy present pleasures in such a way as not to injure future ones.

Seneca