Present Quotes
If there were a verb meaning to believe falsely, it would not have any significant first person, present indicative.Ludwig Wittgenstein
Learning to live in the present moment is part of the path of joy.Sarah Ban Breathnach
Pick a man for his human qualities, his values, his compatibility with you, rather than what he represents in status, power or good looks.Carol Botwin
Experience is the worst teacher it gives the test before presenting the lesson.Vernon Law
Heal the past, Live the present, Dream the future.Unknown
When they call the roll in the Senate, the Senators do not know whether to answer Present or Not Guilty.Theodore Roosevelt
Wherever a set of alternative possible routes toward achieving a given end presents itself, a student movement will tend to choose the one which involves a higher measure of violence or humiliation directed against the older generation.Lewis S Feue
One of the illusions of life is that the present hour is not the critical, decisive hour. Write it on your heart that every day is the best day of the year.Ralph Waldo Emerson
Thanks to his constant habit of shaking the bottle in which life handed him the wine of experience, he presently found the taste of the lees rising as usual into his draught.Henry James, "The Ambassadors", Book Fourth, Chapter 2
One day at a time - This is enough. Do not look back and grieve over the past, for it is gone; and do not be troubled about the future, for it has not yet come. Live in the present, and make it so beautiful that it will be worth remembering.Ida Scott Taylor.
The future depends on what we do in the present.Mahatma Gandhi
There has never been an age that did not applaud the past and lament the present.Lillian Eichler Watson
Let him who would enjoy a good future waste none of his present.Roger Babson
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
Look not mournfully into the Past. It comes not back again. Wisely improve the Present. In is thine. Go forth to meet the shadowy Future, without fear, and a manly heart.Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Fatherhood is pretending the present you love most is soap - On - A - Rope.Bill Cosby
We live in the present, we dream of the future, but we learn eternal truths from the past.Madame Chiang
Trust no future, however pleasant Let the dead past bury its dead Act, - Act in the living Present Heart within and God overhead.Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
For there is no greater pain, than to remember in present grief, past happinesses.Dante, The Divine Comedy
Life is eating us up. We shall be fables presently. Keep cool it will be all one a hundred years hence.Ralph Waldo Emerson
The only use of a knowledge of the past is to equip us for the present. The present contains all that there is. It is holy ground; for it is the past, and it is the future.Alfred North Whitehead
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
For Africa to me is more than a glamorous fact. It is a historical truth. No man can know where he is going unless he knows exactly where he has been and exactly how he arrived at his present place.Maya Angelou
History is a relentless master. It has no present, only the past rushing into the future. To try to hold fast is to be swept aside.John Fitzgerald Kennedy
It is the contention of this observer that few homicides due to shooting could be avoided merely if a firearm were not immediately present, and that the offender would select some other weapon to achieve the same destructive goal.Marvin E. Wolfgang
It is by no means an irrational fancy that, in a future existence, we shall look upon what we think our present existence, as a dream.Edgar Allan Poe
A gift, with a kind countenance, is a double present.Thomas Fulle
As the same fire assumes different shapes When it consumes objects differing in shape, So does the one Self take the shape Of every creature in whom he is present.Maitri Upanishads
Enjoy present pleasures in such a way as not to injure future ones.Seneca
Be intent upon the perfection of the present day.William Law
That orgy of wishful thinking that has passed for logic in the present century.F. W. Lawvere
The secret of health for both mind and body is not to mourn for the past, worry about the future, or anticipate troubles but to live in the present moment wisely and earnestly.Buddha
It is my belief, Watson, founded upon my experience, that the lowest and vilest alleys in London do not present a more dreadful record of sin than does the smiling and beautiful countryside.Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Sherlock Holmes in The Copper Beeches
Life is a culmination of the past, an awareness of the present, an indication of a future beyond knowledge, the quality that gives a touch of divinity to matter.Charles Augustus Lindbergh, Jr.
Philosophy triumphs easily over past evils and future evils but present evils triumph over it.La Rochefoucauld
A friendship can weather most things and thrive in thin soil but it needs a little mulch of letters and phone calls and small, silly presents every so often - Just to save it from drying out completely.Pam Brown
If we value independence, if we are disturbed by the growing conformity of knowledge, of values, of attitudes, which our present system induces, then we may wish to set up conditions of learning which make for uniqueness, for self - Direction, and for self - Initiated learning.Carl R. Rogers
