Present Quotes
Opportunity does not knock, it presents itself when you beat down the door.Kyle Chandle
History is a relentless master. It has no present, only the past rushing into the future. To try to hold fast is to be swept aside.John Fitzgerald Kennedy
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.
Alienation as our present destiny is achieved only by outrageous violence perpetrated by human beings on human beings.R. D. Laing
You are young, my son, and, as the years go by, time will change and even reverse many of your present opinions. Refrain therefore awhile from setting yourself up as a judge of the highest matters.Plato, Dialogues, Theatetus
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
The present is theirs the future, for which I really worked, is mine.Nikola Tesla
God will be present, whether asked or not.Latin Prove
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
Children have neither a past nor a future. Thus they enjoy the present - - which seldom happens to us.La Bruyere
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
Do not dwell in the past, do not dream of the future, concentrate the mind on the present moment.Buddha
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
If we value independence, if we are disturbed by the growing conformity of knowledge, of values, of attitudes, which our present system induces, then we may wish to set up conditions of learning which make for uniqueness, for self - Direction, and for self - Initiated learning.Carl R. Rogers
Where fear is present, wisdom cannot be.Lactantius
It is impossible for ideas to compete in the marketplace if no forum for their presentation is provided or available.Thomas Mann
Since I do not foresee that atomic energy is to be a great boon for a long time, I have to say that for the present it is a menace. Perhaps it is well that it should be. It may intimidate the human race into bringing order into its international affairs, which, without the pressure of fear, it would not do.Albert Einstein
Perhaps the feelings that we experience when we are in love represent a normal state. Being in love shows a person who he should be.Anton Chekhov
In the modern world of business, it is useless to be a creative original thinker unless you can also sell what you create. Management cannot be expected to recognize a good idea unless it is presented to them by a good salesman.David M. Ogilvy
The greatest loss of time is delay and expectation, which depend upon the future. We let go the present, which we have in our power, and look forward to that which depends upon chance, and so relinquish a certainty for an uncertainty.Seneca
The whole drift of my education goes to persuade me that the world of our present consciousness is only one out of many worlds of consciousness that exist.William James
Your children need your presence more than your presents.Jesse Louis Jackson
A gift, with a kind countenance, is a double present.Thomas Fulle
A youth is to be regarded with respect. How do you know that his future will not be equal to our present?Confucius, Analects
Not only the studying and writing of history but also the honoring of it both represent affirmations of a certain defiant faith - A desperate, unreasoning faith, if you will - But faith nevertheless in the endurance of this threatened world - Faith in the total essentiality of historical continuity.George Frost Kennan
Thanks to his constant habit of shaking the bottle in which life handed him the wine of experience, he presently found the taste of the lees rising as usual into his draught.Henry James, "The Ambassadors", Book Fourth, Chapter 2
Reflect on your present blessings, of which every man has many not on your past misfortunes, of which all men have some.Charles Dickens
You must live in the present, launch yourself on every wave, find your eternity in each moment. Fools stand on their island opportunities and look toward another land. There is no other land, this is no other life but this.Henry David Thoreau
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
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
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
I consider it useless and tedious to represent what exists, because nothing that exists satisfies me. Nature is ugly, and I prefer the monsters of my fancy to what is positively trivial.Charles Baudelaire
Our achievements speak for themselves. What we have to keep track of are our failures, discouragements and doubts. We tend to forget the past difficulties, the many false starts, and the painful groping. We see our past achievements as the end results of a clean forward thrust, and our present difficulties as signs of decline and decay.Eric Hoffe
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
It is impossible to live in the past, difficult to live in the present and a waste to live in the future.Frank Herbert, Dune
Art can only be truly Art by presenting an adequate outward symbol of some fact in the interior life.Margaret Fulle
Each friend represents a world in us, a world possibly not born until they arrive, and it is only by this meeting that a new world is born.Anais Nin
