Present Quotes
We are different from previous generations of conservatives. We are no longer working to preserve the status quo. We are radicals, working to overturn the present power structure of this country.Paul Weyrich
The future depends on what we do in the present.Mahatma Gandhi
Prejudice is a burden that confuses the past, threatens the future and renders the present inaccessible.Maya Angelou
Men are so stupid and concerned with their present needs, they will always let themselves be deceived.Machiavelli, The Prince
Our achievements speak for themselves. What we have to keep track of are our failures, discouragements and doubts. We tend to forget the past difficulties, the many false starts, and the painful groping. We see our past achievements as the end results of a clean forward thrust, and our present difficulties as signs of decline and decay.Eric Hoffe
The secret of health for both mind and body is not to mourn for the past, nor to worry about the future, but to live the present moment wisely and earnestly.Buddha
Our religious faith gives us the answer to the false beliefs of Communism... I have the feeling that God has created us and brought us to our present position of power and strength for some great purpose.President Harry Truman, Public Papers of the President of the United States: Harry S. Truman - 1951 U. S. Gov. 1966 pp548 - 549
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
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
I came into the world either too early or too late at present, I am good for nothing.Prince Klemens Wenzel Nepomuk Lothar von Metternich
Equation 1. 2 - 9 is a second order, nonlinear, vector, differential equation which has defied solution in its present form. It is here therefore we depart from the realities of nature to make some simplifying assumptions...Bate, Mueller & White, 1971, "Fundamentals of Astrodynamics".
We live in a moment of history where change is so speeded up that we begin to see the present only when it is already disappearing.R. D. Laing
Alienation as our present destiny is achieved only by outrageous violence perpetrated by human beings on human beings.R. D. Laing
I believe that individuals can make a difference in society. Since periods of change such as the present one come so rarely in human history, it is up to each of us to make the best use of our time to help create a happier world.The Dalai Lama, 1992 Speech
Not only the studying and writing of history but also the honoring of it both represent affirmations of a certain defiant faith - A desperate, unreasoning faith, if you will - But faith nevertheless in the endurance of this threatened world - Faith in the total essentiality of historical continuity.George Frost Kennan
Live neither in the present nor the future, but in the eternal. The giant weed of evil cannot flower there this blot upon existence is wiped out by the very atmosphere of eternal thought.H Hahn Blavatsky
The present is theirs the future, for which I really worked, is mine.Nikola Tesla
Education a debt due from present to future generations.George Peabody
The true felicity of life is to be free from anxieties and perturbations to understand and do our duties to God and man, and to enjoy the present without any serious dependence on the future.Lucius Annaeus Seneca
If the present world go astray, the cause is in you, in you it is to be sought.Dante Alighieri, The Divine Comedy
Life can be found only in the present moment. The past is gone, the future is not yet here, and if we do not go back to ourselves in the present moment, we cannot be in touch with life.Thich Nhat Hanh
Creativity represents a miraculous coming together of the uninhibited energy of the child with it apparent opposite and enemy, the sense of order imposed on the disciplined adult intelligence.Norman Podhoretz
A youth is to be regarded with respect. How do you know that his future will not be equal to our present?Confucius, Analects
Our test of truth is a reference to either a present or imagined future majority in favour of our view.Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.
Taxation without representation is tyranny.James Otis
The essence of optimism is that it takes no account of the present, but it is a source of inspiration, of vitality and hope where others have resigned it enables a man to hold his head high, to claim the future for himself and not to abandon it to his enemy.Dietrich Bonhoeffe
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
For health and the constant enjoyment of life, give me a keen and ever - Present sense of humor it is the next best thing to an abiding faith in providence.George Barrell Cheeve
Most people live ninety percent in the past, seven percent in the present, and that only leaves three percent for the future.John Steinbeck, The Winter of our Discontent
In this present moment we are either smaller than we once were or else are on our knees.Alan Moore, Birth Caul
Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired, represents, in the final analysis, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, who are cold and are not clothed. This world in arms is not spending money alone. It is spending the sweat of its laborers, the genius of its scientists, the hopes of its children.Dwight D. Eisenhowe
The honey from the flowers of the senses, Ever present within, ruler of time, Goes beyond fear. For this Self is Supreme.Maitri Upanishads
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
Fatherhood is pretending the present you love most is soap - On - A - Rope.Bill Cosby
Men have no right to put the well - Being of the present generation wholly out of the question. Perhaps the only moral trust with any certainty in our hands is the care of our own time.Edmund Burke
If there were a verb meaning to believe falsely, it would not have any significant first person, present indicative.Ludwig Wittgenstein
Money, which represents the prose of life, and which is hardly spoken of in parlors without an apology, is, in its effects and laws, as beautiful as roses.Ralph Waldo Emerson
