Inspirational Quotations

Inspirational Quotations on Present

Look well to this day, for it, and it alone is life.
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Men spend their lives in anticipations, in determining to be vastly happy at some period when they have time. But the present time has one advantage over every other—it is our own. Past opportunities are gone, future are not come. We may lay in a stock of pleasures, as we would lay in a stock of wine; but if we defer the tasting of them too long, we shall find that both are soured by age.
Charles Caleb Colton (c.1780–1832) English Clergyman, Aphorist

There’s no present. There’s only the immediate future and the recent past.
George Carlin (1937–2008) American Stand-up Comedian

Every day is just one day.
Anonymous

When we come into the present, we begin to feel the life around us again, but we also encounter whatever we have been avoiding. We must have the courage to face whatever is present—our pain, our desires, our grief, our loss, our secret hopes our love—everything that moves us most deeply.
Jack Kornfield (b.1945) American Buddhist Teacher

Let any man examine his thoughts, and he will find them ever occupied with the past or the future. We scarcely think at all of the present; or if we do, it is only to borrow the light which it gives for regulating the future. The present is never our object; the past and the present we use as means; the future only is our end. Thus, we never live, we only hope to live.
Blaise Pascal (1623–62) French Mathematician, Physicist, Theologian

To live is so startling, it leaves but little room for other occupations.
Emily Dickinson (1830–86) American Poet

Today must not borrow from tomorrow.
German Proverb

Today is a king in disguise.
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–82) American Philosopher

Each present joy or sorrow seems the chief.
William Shakespeare (1564–1616) British Playwright

Live in the present. The past is gone; the future is unknown—but the present is real, and your opportunities are now. You must see these opportunities; they must be real for you. The catch is that they can’t seem real if your mind is buried in past failures, if you keep reliving old mistakes, old guilts, old tragedies. Fight your way above the many inevitable Traumatizations of your ego, escape damnation by the past, and look to the opportunities of the present. I don’t mean some vague moment in the present—next week or next month, perhaps. I mean today, this minute.
Maxwell Maltz (1899–1975) American Surgeon, Motivational Writer

Bad times, hard times-this is what people keep saying; but let us live well, and times shall be good. We are the times: Such as we are, such are the times.
Augustine of Hippo (354–430) Roman-African Christian Philosopher

We usually lose today, because there has been a yesterday, and tomorrow is coming.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749–1832) German Poet

Children have neither a past nor a future. Thus they enjoy the present—which seldom happens to us.
Jean de La Bruyere (1645–96) French Satiric Moralist, Author

The second half of the twentieth century is a complete flop.
Isaac Bashevis Singer (1902–91) Polish-born American Children’s Books Writer, Novelist, Short Story Writer

To those leaning on the sustaining infinite, today is big with blessings.
Mary Baker Eddy (1821–1910) American Christian Science Religious Leader, Humanitarian, Writer

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, till the sun goes down. And this is all that life really means.
Robert Louis Stevenson (1850–94) Scottish Novelist

Enjoy the blessings of this day, if God sends them; and the evils bear patiently and sweetly; for only this day is ours; we are dead to yesterday, and not born tomorrow.
Jeremy Taylor

Live one day at a time emphasizing ethics rather than rules.
Wayne Dyer (1940–2015) American Self-Help Author

What is not started today is never finished tomorrow.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749–1832) German Poet

We convince by our presence.
Walt Whitman (1819–92) American Poet, Essayist, Journalist, American, Poet, Essayist, Journalist

Let us enjoy the fugitive hour. Man has no harbor, time has no shore, it rushes on and carries us with it.
Alphonse de Lamartine (1790–1869) French Poet, Politician, Historian

I have a new philosophy. I’m only going to dread one day at a time.
Charles M. Schulz (1922–2000) American Cartoonist, Writer, Artist

Use your precious moments to live life fully every single second of every single day.
Marcia Wieder

Everyman’s life lies within the present; for the past is spent and done with, and the future is uncertain.
Marcus Aurelius (121–180) Emperor of Rome, Stoic Philosopher

The present is the ever moving shadow that divides yesterday from tomorrow. In that lies hope.
Frank Lloyd Wright (1867–1959) American Architect

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.
John Bradshaw (1933–2016) American Motivational Speaker

He to whom the present is the only thing that is present, knows nothing of the age in which he lives.
Oscar Wilde (1854–1900) Irish Poet, Playwright

This time, like all times, is a very good one if we but know what to do with it.
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–82) American Philosopher

We can live forever, a minute at a time.
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