Present Quotes
Conservatism discards Prescription, shrinks from Principle, disavows Progress having rejected all respect for antiquity, it offers no redress for the present, and makes no preparation for the future.Benjamin Disraeli
The present is a rope stretched over the past. The secret to walking it is, you never look down.Sean Stewart, Perfect Circle, 2004
Instead of being presented with stereotypes by age, sex, color, class, or religion, children must have the opportunity to learn that within each range, some people are loathsome and some are delightful.Margaret Mead
There is no pain so great as the memory of joy in present grief.Aeschylus
I am treating you as my friend, asking you to share my present minuses in the hope that I can ask you to share my future pluses.Katherine Mansfield
The whole drift of my education goes to persuade me that the world of our present consciousness is only one out of many worlds of consciousness that exist.William James
No mind is much employed upon the present recollection and anticipation fill up almost all our moments.Samuel Johnson
I was born old and get younger every day. At present I am sixty years young.Herbert Beerbohm Tree
Change is the law of life; and those who look only to the past or the present are certain to miss the future.John F. Kennedy
All human situations have their inconveniences. We feel those of the present but neither see nor feel those of the future; and hence we often make troublesome changes without amendment, and frequently for the worse.Benjamin Franklin
Change is the law of life. And those who look only to the past or present are certain to miss the future.John Fitzgerald Kennedy
The only difference between a genius and one of common capacity is that the former anticipates and explores what the latter accidentally hits upon; but even the man of genius himself more frequently employs the advantages that chance presents him; it is the lapidary who gives value to the diamond which the peasant has dug up without knowing its value.Abbe Guillaume Raynal
In this present moment we are either smaller than we once were or else are on our knees.Alan Moore, Birth Caul
Children have neither a past nor a future. Thus they enjoy the present - which seldom happens to us.Jean De La Bruyere
Realize deeply that the present moment is all you ever have.Eckhart Tolle
Had I been present at the creation, I would have given some useful hints for the better ordering of the universe.Alfonso the Wise
The more anger towards the past you carry in your heart, the less capable you are for loving in the present.Barbara de Angelis
When the present is full of gloom, the past becomes haven of refuge that provides relief and inspiration.Jawahar Lal Neheru
Reflect on your present blessings, of which every man has many not on your past misfortunes, of which all men have some.Charles Dickens
Real generosity toward the future consists in giving all to what is present.Albert Camus
Never let the future disturb you. You will meet it, if you have to, with the same weapons of reason which today arm you against the present.Marcus Aurelius Antoninus, Meditations, 200 A. D.
If the present world go astray, the cause is in you, in you it is to be sought.Dante Alighieri, The Divine Comedy
We do not live to extenuate the miseries of the past nor to accept as incurable those of the present.Fairfield Osborne
The beautiful, which is perhaps inseparable from art, is not after all tied to the subject, but to the pictorial representation. In this way and in no other does art overcome the ugly without avoiding it.Paul Klee
I consider it useless and tedious to represent what exists, because nothing that exists satisfies me. Nature is ugly, and I prefer the monsters of my fancy to what is positively trivial.Charles Baudelaire
The path we have chosen for the present is full of hazards, as all paths are. ... The cost of freedom is always high, but Americans have always paid it. And one path we shall never choose, and that is the path of surrender, or submission. Announcing blockade of Cuba.John Fitzgerald Kennedy
Our government is the potent, the omnipresent teacher. For good or ill, it teaches the whole people by its example.Louis D. Brandeis
Alienation as our present destiny is achieved only by outrageous violence perpetrated by human beings on human beings.R. D. Laing
Laws alone can not secure freedom of expression; in order that every man present his views without penalty there must be spirit of tolerance in the entire population.Albert Einstein
Do not dwell in the past, do not dream of the future, concentrate the mind on the present moment.Buddha
Where fear is present, wisdom cannot be.Lactantius
It is said an Eastern monarch once charged his wise men to invent him a sentence, to be ever in view, and which should be true and appropriate in all times and situations. They presented him the words And this, too, shall pass away.Abraham Lincoln
Most successful men have not achieved their distinction by having some new talent or opportunity presented to them. They have developed the opportunity that was at hand.Bruce Marton
It is when we notice the dirt that God is most present in us.Clive Staples Lewis
Quality is never an accident; it is always the result of high intention, sincere effort, intelligent direction and skillful execution; it represents the wise choice of many alternatives.William A. Foste
My past is my wisdom to use today... my future is my wisdom yet to experience. Be in the present because that is where life resides.Gene Oliver, Life and the Artistry of Change
He who has gone, so we but cherish his memory, abides with us, more potent, nay, more present than the living man.Antoine De Saint - Exupery
