Present Quotes

To dream the future is much more better than to regret the past.But the best of all, to live in the present life with all of your power.

Toba Beta

Je suis vivant. Et pendant que je mange, je ne fais rien d'autre que manger. Quand je marcherai, je marcherai, c'est tout. Et s'il faut un jour me battre, n'importe quel jour en vaut un autre pour mourir. Parce que je ne vis ni dans mon passé ni dans mon avenir. Je n'ai que le présent, et c'est lui seul qui m'intéresse. Si tu peux demeurer toujours dans le présent, alors tu seras un homme heureux.

Paulo Coelho

In magic - and in life - there is only the present moment, the now. You can't measure time the way you measure the distance between two points. 'Time' doesn't pass. We human beings have enormous difficulty in focusing on the present; we're always thinking about what we did, about how we could have done it better, about the consequences of our actions, and about why we didn't act as we should have. Or else we think about the future, about what we're going to do tomorrow, what precautions we should take, what dangers await us around the next corner, how to avoid what we don't want and how to get what we have always dreamed of.

Paulo Coelho

The obscurest epoch is to-day.

Robert Louis Stevenson

That's all anyone has, and it's always brief, although, of course, some people believe they have a past where they can accumulate things and a future where they will accumulate still more. By the way, speaking of the present moment, do you masturbate a lot?

Paulo Coelho

Memories do one no good, not when one knew the truth in the present.

Cassandra Clare

Witness also that when we talk about literature, we do so in the present tense. When we speak of the dead, we are not so kind.

John Green

If you can concentrate always on the present, you'll be a happy man.

Paulo Coelho

Every day is just one day.

Source Unknown

In any weather, at any hour of the day or night, I have been anxious to improve the nick of time, and notch it on my stick too; to stand on the meeting of two eternities, the past and the future, which is precisely the present moment; to toe that line. You will pardon some obscurities, for there are more secrets in my trade than in most men's, and yet not voluntarily kept, but inseparable from its very nature.

Henry David Thoreau

Each day is a special gift from God, and while life may not always be fair, you must never allow the pains, hurdles, and handicaps of the moment to poison your attitude and plans for yourself and your future. You can never win when you wear the ugly cloak of self-pity, and the sour sound of whining will certainly frighten away any opportunity for success. Never again. There is a better way.

Og Mandino

Now is the operative word. Everything you put in your way is just a method of putting off the hour when you could actually be doing your dream. 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.

Barbara Sher

Too many people miss the silver lining because they're expecting gold.

Maurice Setter

We shall be better prepared for the future if we see how terrible, how doomed the present is.

Iris Murdoch

Give me insight into today and you may have the antique and future worlds.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Finish each day before you begin the next, and interpose a solid wall of sleep between the two. This you cannot do without temperance.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Today is a king in disguise.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Those who live to the future must always appear selfish to those who live to the present.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

I'm trying to do the best I can. I'm not concerned with tomorrow, but with what goes on today.

Mark Spitz

A loser seldom lives in the present, but instead destroys the present by focusing on past memories or future expectations.

Muriel James