Present Quotes

Do not dwell in the past, do not dream of the future, concentrate the mind on the present moment.
Buddha

Future, Mind, Past

Happiness is not something you postpone for the future; it is something you design for the present.
Jim Rohn

Happiness, Future, Design

Your present circumstances don't determine where you can go; they merely determine where you start.
Nido Qubein

Start, Determine, Merely

Change is the law of life. And those who look only to the past or present are certain to miss the future.
John F. Kennedy

Life, Change, Future

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

Good, Future, Him

It may be hard for an egg to turn into a bird: it would be a jolly sight harder for it to learn to fly while remaining an egg. We are like eggs at present. And you cannot go on indefinitely being just an ordinary, decent egg. We must be hatched or go bad.
C. S. Lewis

The distinction between the past, present and future is only a stubbornly persistent illusion.
Albert Einstein

Future, Past, Between

The dogmas of the quiet past are inadequate to the stormy present. The occasion is piled high with difficulty, and we must rise with the occasion. As our case is new, so we must think anew and act anew.
Abraham Lincoln

Past, High, Act

Politics is for the present, but an equation is for eternity.
Albert Einstein

Politics, Eternity, Equation

In dwelling, live close to the ground. In thinking, keep to the simple. In conflict, be fair and generous. In governing, don't try to control. In work, do what you enjoy. In family life, be completely present.
Lao Tzu

Life, Work, Family

If you read history you will find that the Christians who did most for the present world were precisely those who thought most of the next. It is since Christians have largely ceased to think of the other world that they have become so ineffective in this.
C. S. Lewis

History, Thought, Find

Pick the day. Enjoy it - to the hilt. The day as it comes. People as they come... The past, I think, has helped me appreciate the present - and I don't want to spoil any of it by fretting about the future.
Audrey Hepburn

Future, Past, Enjoy

If we open a quarrel between past and present, we shall find that we have lost the future.
Winston Churchill

Future, Past, Lost

If the present Congress errs in too much talking, how can it be otherwise in a body to which the people send one hundred and fifty lawyers, whose trade it is to question everything, yield nothing, and talk by the hour?
Thomas Jefferson

Nothing, Everything, Talk

The only real security is not in owning or possessing, not in demanding or expecting, not in hoping, even. Security in a relationship lies neither in looking back to what it was, nor forward to what it might be, but living in the present and accepting it as it is now.
Anne Morrow Lindbergh

Forward, Real, Living

Feeling sorry for yourself, and your present condition, is not only a waste of energy but the worst habit you could possibly have.
Dale Carnegie

Yourself, Sorry, Feeling

I do not want to foresee the future. I am concerned with taking care of the present. God has given me no control over the moment following.
Mahatma Gandhi

God, Future, Care

Prejudice is a burden that confuses the past, threatens the future and renders the present inaccessible.
Maya Angelou

Future, Past, Prejudice

For Africa to me... is more than a glamorous fact. It is a historical truth. No man can know where he is going unless he knows exactly where he has been and exactly how he arrived at his present place.
Maya Angelou

Truth, Place, Fact

For time and the world do not stand still. 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

Life, Change, Time

When they call the roll in the Senate, the Senators do not know whether to answer 'Present' or 'Not guilty.'
Theodore Roosevelt

Guilty, Whether, Call

I have become my own version of an optimist. If I can't make it through one door, I'll go through another door - or I'll make a door. Something terrific will come no matter how dark the present.
Rabindranath Tagore

Through, Dark, Become

Peace and abstinence from European interferences are our objects, and so will continue while the present order of things in America remain uninterrupted.
Thomas Jefferson

Peace, America, While

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 F. Kennedy

History, Future, Past

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Confine yourself to the present.
Marcus Aurelius

Yourself, Confine

The path we have chosen for the present is full of hazards, as all paths are. The cost of freedom is always high, but Americans have always paid it. And one path we shall never choose, and that is the path of surrender, or submission.
John F. Kennedy

Freedom, Path, High

What matters is to live in the present, live now, for every moment is now. It is your thoughts and acts of the moment that create your future. The outline of your future path already exists, for you created its pattern by your past.
Sai Baba

Future, Live, Past

Bring your desires down to your present means. Increase them only when your increased means permit.
Aristotle

Down, Means, Bring

The absent are never without fault, nor the present without excuse.
Benjamin Franklin

Nor, Fault, Excuse

Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past.
George Orwell

Future, Past, Controls

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