#Present Quotes

“The present eye praises the present object.”

“He who would be a great soul in the future, must be a great soul now.”

“Old & New put their stamp to everything in Nature. The snowflake that is now falling is marked by both. The present moment gives the motion & the color of the flake: Antiquity, its form & properties. All things wear a luster which is the gift of the present & a tarnish of time.”

“With most men, scarce a link of memory holds yesterday and to-day together.”

“We can see well into the past; we can guess shrewdly into the future, but that which is rolled up and muffled in impenetrable folds is today.”

“It seems to be a rule of wisdom never to rely on your memory alone, scarcely even in acts of pure memory, but to bring the past for judgment into the thousand-eyed present, and live ever in a new day.”

“Old and new make the warp and woof of every moment. There is no thread that is not a twist of these two strands.”

“If the past sits in judgment on the present, the future will be lost.”

“We cannot build our lives around what might happen tomorrow.”

“I am quite sure, that if we open a quarrel between the past and the present, we shall find that we have lost the future.”

“We are not free to use today, or to promise tomorrow, because we are already mortgaged to yesterday.”

“We cannot overstate our debt to the Past, but the moment has the supreme claim.”

“Today is the tomorrow you were optimistic about yesterday. What are you doing today to make tomorrow as rewarding as you had hoped today would be?”

“In the past we have had a light which flickered, in the present we have a light which flames, and in the future there will be a light which shines over all the land and sea.”

“The past is your LESSON. The present is your GIFT. The future is your MOTIVATION.”

“If the present tries to sit in judgment of the past, it will lose the future.”

“The good old horse-and-buggy days: then you lived until you died and not until you were run over.”

“You are a success when you have made friends with your past, are focused on the present, and are optimistic about your future”

“Let the new faces play what tricks they willIn the old rooms; night can outbalance day,Our shadows rove the garden gravel still,The living seem more shadowy than they.”

“Don't let yesterday use up too much of today.”

“Why should we grope among the dry bones of the past, or put the living generation into masquerade out of its faded wardrobe?”

“There will never be any more perfection than there is now.”

“With her foot on the threshold she waited a moment longer in a scene which was vanishing even as she looked, and then, as she moved and took Minta's arm and left the room, it changed, it shaped itself differently; it had become, she knew, giving one last look at it over her shoulder, already the past.”

“The Past -- the dark unfathomed retrospect! The teeming gulf --the sleepers and the shadows! The past! the infinite greatness of the past! For what is the present after all but a growth out of the past?”

“Here or henceforward it is all the same to me, I accept Time absolutely.”

“The future is no more uncertain than the present.”

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

“We never live; we are always in the expectation of living.”

“There is something about the present which we would not exchange, though we were offered a choice of all past ages to live in.”

“And I will show that there is no imperfection in the present, and can be none in the future, And I will show that whatever happens to anybody it may be turned to beautiful results.”

“I never look back, darling. It distracts from the now.”

“Everything's fine today, that is our illusion.”

“Why should we grope among the dry bones of the past? The sun shines today also.”

“We see past time in a telescope and present time in a microscope. Hence the apparent enormities of the present.”

“Take all reasonable advantage of that which the present may offer you. It is the only time which is ours. Yesterday is buried forever, and to-morrow we may never see.”

“He to whom the present is the only thing that is present, knows nothing of the age in which he lives.”

“Our life seems not present, so much as prospective; not for the affairs on which it is wasted, but as a hint of this vast- flowingvigor.”

“I do not believe that any man can adequately appreciate the world of to-day unless he has some knowledge of -- a little more than a slight knowledge, some feeling for and of -- the history of the world of the past.”

“We face the future with our past and our present as guarantors of our promises; and we are content to stand or to fall by the record which we have made and are making.”

“It is of little use for us to pay lip-loyalty to the mighty men of the past unless we sincerely endeavor to apply to the problems of the present precisely the qualities which in other crises enabled the men of that day to meet those crises.”

“Yesterday is gone and took away its tale.Today we must live a fresh story again.”

“Yesterday was glory and joy. Today, a blackened burn everywhere. On the record of my life, these two days will be put down as one”

“Confidence is the present tense of hope.”

“...why bother remembering a past that cannot be made into a present?”

“The vanishing, volatile froth of the present which any shadow will alter, any thought blow away, any event annihilate, is every moment converted into the adamantine.”

“The past was gone and the future had yet to unfold, and he knew he should focus his life on the present. Yet his day-to-day existence suddenly struck him as endless and unbearable.”

“There was always a minority afraid of something, and a great majority afraid of the dark, afraid of the future, afraid of the past, afraid of the present, afraid of themselves and shadows of themselves”

“Be not the slave of your own past.”

“I have no expectation that any man will read history aright who thinks that what was done in a remote age, by men whose names have resounded far, has any deeper sense than what he is doing today.”

“Decisions exist only in the present.”