Present Quotes
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The past is never there when you try to go back. It exists, but only in memory. To pretend otherwise is to invite a mess. (Quote by - Chris Cobbs)
The present moment is significant, not as the bridge between past and future, but by reason of its contents, which can fill our emptiness and become ours, if we are capable of receiving them (Quote by - Dag Hammarskjold)
There is no distance on this earth as far away as yesterday. (Quote by - Robert Nathan, So Love Returns)
The other day a man asked me what I thought was the best time of life. Why, I answered without a thought, now. (Quote by - David Grayson)
One today is worth two tomorrows. (Quote by - Benjamin Franklin)
Let the credit card companies market as they will, the only thing that's priceless is Now. (Quote by - Caleb Baylor Hive)
You can clutch the past so tightly to your chest that it leaves your arms too full to embrace the present. (Quote by - Jan Glidewell)
He to whom the present is the only thing that is present, knows nothing of the age in which he lives. (Quote by - Oscar Wilde)
We cannot carry our father's corpse with us everywhere we go. (Quote by - Guillaume Apollinaire)
Enjoy yourself, drink, call the life you live today your own-but only that; the rest belongs to chance. (Quote by - Euripides)
It's but little good you'll do a-watering the last year's crops. (Quote by - George Eliot, Adam Bede)
Old times never come back and I suppose it's just as well. What comes back is a new morning every day in the year, and that's better. (Quote by - George E. Woodberry)
Seize the day, and put the least possible trust in tomorrow. (Quote by - Horace)
No man is rich enough to buy back his past. (Quote by - Oscar Wilde)
Waste not fresh tears over old griefs. (Quote by - Euripides)
With the past, I have nothing to do; nor with the future. I live now. (Quote by - Ralph Waldo Emerson)
We want to live in the present, and the only history that is worth a tinker's damn is the history we make today. (Quote by - Henry Ford)
Eternity is not something that begins after you are dead. It is going on all the time. (Quote by - Charlotte Perkins Gilman)
Man, living, feeling man, is the easy sport of the over-mastering present. (Quote by - Johann Von Schiller)
I have memories - but only a fool stores his past in the future. (Quote by - David Gerrold)
The Past is the textbook of tyrants; the Future the Bible of the Free. Those who are solely governed by the Past stand like Lot's wife, crystallized in the act of looking backward, and forever incapable of looking before. (Quote by - Herman Melville)
Don't let the past steal your present. (Quote by - Cherralea Morgen)
This is not a dress rehearsal. This is It. (Quote by - Tom Cunningham)
The past is a guidepost, not a hitching post. (Quote by - L. Thomas Holdcroft)
Tomorrow's life is too late. Live today. (Quote by - Martial)
Don't let yesterday use up too much of today. (Quote by - Cherokee Indian Proverb)
One problem with gazing too frequently into the past is that we may turn around to find the future has run out on us. (Quote by - Michael Cibenko)
All of us tend to put off living. We are all dreaming of some magical rose garden over the horizon instead of enjoying the roses that are blooming outside our windows today. (Quote by - Dale Carnegie)
We seem to be going through a period of nostalgia, and everyone seems to think yesterday was better than today. I don't think it was, and I would advise you not to wait ten years before admitting today was great. If you're hung up on nostalgia, pretend today is yesterday and just go out and have one hell of a time. (Quote by - Art Buchwald)
People are always asking about the good old days. I say, why don't you say the good now days? (Quote by - Robert M. Young)
Would you keep a chive on your tooth just because you enjoyed last night's potato? (Quote by - From the television show Boston Common)
Today is the first day of the rest of your life. (Quote by - Abbie Hoffman)
The future is purchased by the present. (Quote by - Samuel Johnson)
Forever is composed of nows. (Quote by - Emily Dickinson)
Living the past is a dull and lonely business; looking back strains the neck muscles, causing you to bump into people not going your way. (Quote by - Edna Ferber)
Yesterday is history. Tomorrow is a mystery. And today? Today is a gift. That's why we call it the present. (Quote by - Babatunde Olatunji)
Those who live to the future must always appear selfish to those who live to the present. (Quote by - Ralph Waldo Emerson)
It's not that "today is the first day of the rest of my life," but that now is all there is of my life. (Quote by - Hugh Prather)
Could we see when and where we are to meet again, we would be more tender when we bid our friends goodbye. (Quote by - Marie Louise De La Ramee)
I need neither future nor past, but to learn to take today not too fast. (Quote by - Jeb Dickerson)
No yesterdays are ever wasted for those who give themselves to today. (Quote by - Brendan Francis)
Only when your consciousness is totally focused on the moment you are in can you receive whatever gift, esson, or delight that moment has to (Quote by - Barbara De Angelis)
I tell you the past is a bucket of ashes. (Quote by - Carl Sandburg)
It is only possible to live happily-ever-after on a day-to-day basis. (Quote by - Margaret Bonnano)
