Present Quotes

Today's tears water tomorrow's gardens.

Matshona Dhliwayo

Present opportunities are neglected and attainable good is slighted by minds busied in extensive ranges and intent upon future advantages.

To live only for some future goal is shallow. It's the sides of the mountain that sustain life not the top.

Robert M. Pirsig

Light tomorrow with today.

Elizabeth Barrett-Browning

The habit of looking into the future and thinking that the whole meaning of the present lies in what it will bring forth is a pernicious one. There can be no value in the whole unless there is value in the parts.

Bertrand Russell

You don't save a pitcher for tomorrow. Tomorrow it may rain.

Very strange is this quality of our human nature which decrees that unless we feel a future before us we do not live completely in the present.

Phillips Brooks

Just do your best today and tomorrow will come ... tomorrow's going to be a busy day a happy day.

Do today's duty fight today's temptation do not weaken and distract yourself by looking forward to things you cannot see and could not understand if you saw them.

Charles Kingsley

The best preparation for good work tomorrow is to do good work today.

Live for today. Multitudes of people have failed to live for today. ... What they have had within their grasp today they have missed entirely because only the future has intrigued them.

William Allen White

A preoccupation with the future not only prevents us from seeing the present as it is but often prompts us to rearrange the past.

The man least dependent upon the morrow goes to meet the morrow most cheerfully.

Epicurus

Today's egg is better than tomorrow's hen.

Turkish Proverb

T'were too absurd to slight for the hereafter the day's delight!

Robert Browning

The best part of our lives we pass in counting on what is to come.

William Hazlitt

It seems to be the fate of man to seek all his consolations in futurity.

The prospect of being pleased tomorrow will never console me for the boredom of today.

François de La Rochefoucauld

We steal if we touch tomorrow. It is God's.

Henry Ward Beecher

The past and present are only our means the future is always our end. Thus we never really live but only hope to live.

I have always been waiting for something better-sometimes to see the best I had snatched from me.

Dorothy Reed Mendenhall

The future belongs to those who live intensely in the present.

Anonymous

Freedom from worries and surcease from strain are illusions that always inhabit the distance.

Edwin Way Teale

Study as if you were to live forever. Live as if you were to die tomorrow.

Saint Isidore of Seville

The best preparation for a better life next year is a full complete harmonious joyous life this year.

If you spend your whole life waiting for the storm you'll never enjoy the sunshine.

Some people are making such thorough preparation for rainy days that they aren't enjoying today's sunshine.

William Feather

The greater part of our lives is spent in dreaming over the morrow and when it comes it too is consumed in the anticipation of a brighter morrow and so the cheat is prolonged even to the grave.

Mark Rutherford

It is cheap generosity which promises the future in compensation for the present.

Who knows if the gods above will add tomorrow's span to this day's sum?

Horace

Defer not till tomorrow to be wise tomorrow's sun to thee may never rise.

William Congreve

My head is buried in the sands of tomorrow while my tail feathers are singed by the hot sun of today.

Today well lived will prepare me for both the pleasure and the pain of tomorrow.

Anonymous

Every moment that I am centered in the future I suffer a temporary loss of this life.

We know nothing of tomorrow our business is to be good and happy today.

We are always beginning to live but are never living.

Manilius

Live wastes itself while we are preparing to live.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Men spend their lives in anticipation 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.... 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

You do well to have visions of a better life than of every day but it is the life of every day from which the elements of a better life must come.

Maurice Maeterlinck

The most effective way to ensure the value of the future is to confront the present courageously and constructively.

Rollo May

I have realized that the past and the future are real illusions that they exist only in the present which is what there is and all that there is.

There is no present or future only the past happening over and over again now.

Today was once the future from which you expected so much in the past.

Anonymous

Today is yesterday's pupil.

Benjamin Franklin

Today is yesterday's effect and tomorrow's cause.

Phillip Gribble

Through loyalty to the past our mind refuses to realize that tomorrow's joy is possible only if today's makes way for it that each wave owes the beauty of its line only to the withdrawal of the preceding one.

The present is the now the here through which all future plunges to the past.

I have everything I need to enjoy my here and now-unless I am letting my consciousness be dominated by demands and expectations based on the dead past or the imagined future.

Ken Keyes

Today is the blocks with which we build.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

In order to be utterly happy the only thing necessary is to refrain from comparing this moment with other moments in the past which I often did not fully enjoy because I was comparing them with other moments of the future.

Seize from every moment its unique novelty and do not prepare your joys.

You don't need endless time and perfect conditions. Do it now. Do it today. Do it for twenty minutes and watch your heart start beating.

Do not manage as if you had ten thousand years before you. Look you death stands at your elbow make the most of your minute and be good for something while it is in your power.

And if not now when?

Talmud

As we are always preparing to be happy it is inevitable that we should never be so.

Why not seize the pleasure at once? How often is happiness destroyed by preparation foolish preparation!

When shall we live if not now?

We cannot put off living until we are ready. The most salient characteristic of life is its coerciveness: it is always urgent "here and now " without any possible postponement. Life is fired at us point-blank.

José Ortega y Gasset

Very few men properly speaking live at present but are providing to live another time.

Real generosity toward the future lies in giving all to the present.

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