Present Quotes

You can’t worry about the yesterdays or even the todays. All you can think of are the tomorrows. They are what keep you going when your life seems to be falling apart. Trust me on this.

~ Katlyn Charlesworth

Yesterday is the history chapter in the book of life, isn't it time you turned the page?

~ Rob Liano

But bid life seize the present? It lives less in the present Than in the future always, And less in both together Than in the past. The present Is too much for the senses, Too crowding, too confusing— Too present to imagine.

~ Robert Frost

Each age selects its own geniuses from the past to suit its own needs. It's always been that way.

~ Seb Kirby

Present, rather than past, is the mother of future. So, your future must take after your present. But if it resembles more your past, the granny must be a slut!

~ Raheel Farooq

Life's all about balance. To move on in life you have to strike a balance between your past, present, and your future; you may either be jerked off or left behind.

~ Richmond Akhigbe

That's the funny thing about life. We're rarely aware of the bullets we dodge. The just-misses. The almost-never-happeneds. We spend so much time worrying about how the future is going to play out and not nearly enough time admiring the precious perfection of the present.

~ Lauren Miller

There is not past, no future; everything flows in an eternal present.

~ James Joyce

You can't know what it is like for us now--you will always be one step behind.Be thankful for that.You can't know what it was like for us then--you will always be one step ahead.Be thankful for that, too.

~ David Levithan

Temporality temporalizes as a future which makes present in the process of having been.

~ Martin Heidegger

Never, in peace or war, commit your virtue or your happiness to the future.

~ C.s. Lewis

In a tired time, with the light outside drifting away for another day and the lights inside flickering as they come to life, I cup my hands together and prepare to give thanks ... to the life of a day given to me. A day shared with past and present, living and dying, of body and not, and a realization that in everything that is, there is something that was.

~ R.j. Heller

When trees fall on trees, the topmost tree must first be removed before others. Don't be too concerned about the problems of the past. What matters most is the challenge at hand now!

~ Israelmore Ayivor

The past always seems better when you look back on it than it did at the time. And the present never looks as good as it will in the future. It's depressing if you spend too much time reliving old joys. You think you'll never have anything as good again.

~ Peter Benchley

The present is the closest that you will ever get to the future.

~ Mokokoma Mokhonoana

Yesterday was the last day on the calender of the past. Tomorrow will be the first day on the calender of the future. Today is both the first and the last day of the present. Use it well.

~ Israelmore Ayivor

Contrary to popular belief: Knowing where you are from will not really tell you where you are going. It will merely tell you why you are where you are.

~ Mokokoma Mokhonoana

Look at this site - it is beautiful and deep. When we come here, we get ourselves lost in its beauty and vastness. Years of sorrow and pain lies in the depth of this lake. You do not know what was here 40-50 years back. Probably, a ditch full of stagnant water and mud breeding mosquitoes. Now here we have beautiful lake surrounded by lush green bushes and beautiful flowers. The place is beautiful today, so we come and enjoy its company, its presence. We do not think about its past or we do not to know what will happen here years later. We enjoy the beauty of its present.

~ Ravindra Shukla

When we walk with knowledge in our present and wisdom from our past we are able to discern how to prepare for tomorrow. HS/el

~ Evinda Lepins

The past is far behind. If you still want to look at it, you will painfully stretch your neck muscles. Don't live in the past, leave the past, but learn from it.

~ Israelmore Ayivor

Everything we think we know, everything we think we see, everything we believe we feel, taste, smell, or hear, everything we “remember” (our pasts), everything we want to happen (our futures), everything that has ever existed or will ever exist, only exists right now. All of these things are nothing more than electric signals being passed through our brains and bodies, right now. It is all energy flowing through us right now. “The past” exists only in our minds. We are the ones who bring it into reality. We are the ones who bring it into the present. We are the ones who make it “real”.

~ Dan Pearce

Don't recide in the past. Instead, refer to it, else you will remain in the remand of high demand but with low command

~ Israelmore Ayivor

The success of the future does not lie solely on the safety of the past, but relies broadly on the security of the present.

~ Israelmore Ayivor

Pakistan not only means freedom and independence but the Muslim Ideology which has to be preserved, which has come to us as a precious gift and treasure and which, we hope other will share with us.

~ Muhammad Ali Jinnah

There’s been terrible things we seen, en’t there? And more a coming, more’n likely. So I think I’d rather not know what’s in the future. I’ll stick to the present.

~ Philip Pullman

Writers are never fully present because they’re always imagining a different version of the way things are happening; imagining the past in a different way, imagining the present in a different way, imagining the future in a different way.

~ Jessica Soffer

There are two schools of thought about the resilience of time. The first is that time is highly volatile, with every small event altering the possible outcome of the earth's future. The other view is that time is rigid, and no matter how hard you try, it will always spring back toward a determined present. Myself, I do not worry about such trivialities. I simply sell ties to anyone who wants to buy one...

~ Jasper Fforde

The future depends on what we do in the present.

~ Mahatma Gandhi

Time…Once it’s gone, it belongs to the past.We do not hold on to the now, andWe do not treasure the future…We keep receiving this present, but we never open and cherish it until it is too late.Until it comes no more.

~ Michelle Horst

The future was something I had resolutely ignored. If didn't put my full attention to the day at hand, I was afraid that the impenetrable dark on the horizon would engulf me

~ Barbara Morgenroth

My love for you spans over the lines of my past, present, and future. You are what I love remembering, what I love experiencing, and what I love looking forward to.

~ Steve Maraboli

Don’t live in the past – you’ve already been there. And don’t live in the future, either. Tomorrow will be here soon enough. Live in this moment now – it is sacred and unrepeatable. This moment alone holds valuable gifts that should not be missed.

~ Steve Goodier

Live in the present, but live for the future.

~ Lorii Myers

What is our life: (Pause.) it’s looking forward or it’s looking back. And that’s our life. That’s it. Where is the moment?

~ David Mamet

In the West we cling to the past like limpets. In Haiti the present is the axis of all life. As in Africa, past and future are but distant measures of the present, and memories are as meaningless as promises.

~ Wade Davis

Imagining that future keeps you going, but you never do it. You just use the future to escape the present.

~ John Green

Rather than having regrets over events in the past, or worrying whether or not the future will bring you what you need or desire, allow yourself to rest in the present, the now. Understand that all that has transpired has brought you to this moment, and in this very moment, riches that far outweigh those of the world already lie within you.

~ Kristi Bowman

The only way for you to know that you can really make a change is by knowing the future.

~ Toba Beta

It is difficult to live in the present, pointless to live in the future and impossible to live in the past.

~ Frank Herbert

Leave off asking what tomorrow will bring, andwhatever days fortune will give, count themas profit.

~ Horace