Present Quotes
Our repeated failure to fully act as we would wish must not discourage us. It is the sincere intention that is the essential thing, and this will in time release us from the bondage of habits which at present seem almost insuperable.Thomas Troward
Forget the past and live the present hour.Sarah Knowles Bolton
Money, which represents the prose of life, and which is hardly spoken of in parlors without an apology, is, in its effects and laws, as beautiful as roses.Ralph Waldo Emerson
Instead of being presented with stereotypes by age, sex, color, class, or religion, children must have the opportunity to learn that within each range, some people are loathsome and some are delightful.Margaret Mead
The absent are never without fault, nor the present without excuse.Benjamin Franklin
I was born old and get younger every day. At present I am sixty years young.Herbert Beerbohm Tree
My dear boy, no woman is a genius. They are a decorative sex. They never have anything to say, but they say it charmingly. Women represent the triumph of matter over mind, just as men represent the triumph of mind over morals.Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray
The secret of health for both mind and body is not to mourn for the past, nor to worry about the future, but to live the present moment wisely and earnestly.Buddha
God will be present, whether asked or not.Latin Prove
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
If I had the time to sit down and write a thank - You note to everyone who sent me a nice, expensive present, what a wonderful world that would be.Jack Handey Deep Thoughts
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 present is theirs the future, for which I really worked, is mine.Nikola Tesla
Present your religion to a little child, set him in the midst of those who profess it. If it frightens him, and freezes the smiles on his lips, then whatever sort of religion it is, it is not Christianity.Unknown
Learning to live in the present moment is part of the path of joy.Sarah Ban Breathnach
Only those books come down which deserve to last. All the gilt edges, vellum and morocco, all the presentation copies to all the libraries will not preserve a book in circulation beyond its intrinsic date.Ralph Waldo Emerson
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
Reflect on your present blessings, of which every man has many; not on your past misfortunes, of which all men have some.Charles Dickens
Philosophy triumphs easily over past evils and future evils but present evils triumph over it.La Rochefoucauld
I have realized that the past and future are real illusions, that they exist in the present, which is what there is and all there is.Alan Watts
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
The future is much like the present, only longer.Don Quisenberry
Geschichte ist... ein Dialog zwischen Gegenwart und Vergangenheit. re - Transl.: History is... a dialogue between the present and the past.Edward Hallet Carr, Was ist Geschichte?, S. 54
Look not mournfully into the Past. It comes not back again. Wisely improve the Present. In is thine. Go forth to meet the shadowy Future, without fear, and a manly heart.Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
That orgy of wishful thinking that has passed for logic in the present century.F. W. Lawvere
We are different from previous generations of conservatives. We are no longer working to preserve the status quo. We are radicals, working to overturn the present power structure of this country.Paul Weyrich
Each present joy or sorrow seems the chief.William Shakespeare
When the present is full of gloom, the past becomes haven of refuge that provides relief and inspiration.Jawahar Lal Neheru
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 said an Eastern monarch once charged his wise men to invent him a sentence, to be ever in view, and which should be true and appropriate in all times and situations. They presented him the words And this, too, shall pass away.Abraham Lincoln
Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past.George Orwell
Change is the law of life. And those who look only to the past or present are certain to miss the future.John Fitzgerald Kennedy
We think very little of time present; we anticipate the future, as being too slow, and with a view to hasten it onward, we recall the past to stay it as too swiftly gone. We are so thoughtless, that we thus wander through the hours which are not here, regardless only of the moment that is actually our own.Blaise Pascal
A fool judges people by the presents they give him.Chinese Prove
If the past cannot teach the present and the father cannot teach the son, then history need not have bothered to go on, and the world has wasted a great deal of time.Russell Hoban
Your representative owes you, not his industry only, but judgment; and he betrays, instead of serving you, if he sacrifices it to your opinion.Edmund Burke, Speech to the electors of Bristol. 3 Nov. 1774
My past is my wisdom to use today... my future is my wisdom yet to experience. Be in the present because that is where life resides.Gene Oliver, Life and the Artistry of Change
