Moment Quotes

"You must live in the present, launch yourself on every wave, find your eternity in each moment."
-Henry David Thoreau

"Man is free at the moment he wishes to be."
-Voltaire

"Every great and commanding moment in the annals of the world is the triumph of some enthusiasm."
-Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Whoever is winning at the moment will always seem to be invincible."
-George Orwell

"Do not dwell in the past, do not dream of the future, concentrate the mind on the present moment."
-Buddha

"If you are distressed by anything external, the pain is not due to the thing itself, but to your estimate of it; and this you have the power to revoke at any moment."
-Marcus Aurelius Antoninus

"Seize from every moment its unique novelty, and do not prepare your joys."
-Andre Gide

"A minute of perfection was worth the effort. A moment was the most you could ever expect from perfection."
-Chuck Palahniuk

"I dread success. To have succeeded is to have finished one's business on earth, like the male spider, who is killed by the female the moment he has succeeded in his courtship. I like a state of continual becoming, with a goal in front and not behind."
-George Bernard Shaw

"Suffering is one very long moment. We cannot divide it by seasons."
-Oscar Wilde

"The impossible talked of is less impossible from the moment words are laid to it."
-Storm Jameson

"Who you are moment to moment is just a story."
-Chuck Palahniuk

"Government is not reason, it is not eloquence, it is force; like fire, a troublesome servant and a fearful master. Never for a moment should it be left to irresponsible action."
-George Washington

"Popularity is a crime from the moment it is sought; it is only a virtue where men have it whether they will or no."
-Sir George Savile

"Learning to live in the present moment is part of the path of joy."
-Sarah Ban Breathnach

"Be more splendid, more extraordinary. Use every moment to fill yourself up."
-Oprah Winfrey

"Breathe. Let go. And remind yourself that this very moment is the only one you know you have for sure."
-Oprah Winfrey

"My philosophy is that not only are you responsible for your life, but doing the best at this moment puts you in the best place for the next moment."
-Oprah Winfrey

"Death is one moment, and life is so many of them."
-Tennessee Williams

"Life is all memory, except for the one present moment that goes by you so quickly you hardly catch it going."
-Tennessee Williams

"Mix a little foolishness with your serious plans; it's lovely to be silly at the right moment."
-Horace Mann

"Mix a little foolishness with your prudence: It's good to be silly at the right moment."
-Horace Mann

"Pause you who read this, and think for a moment of the long chain of iron or gold, of thorns or flowers, that would never have bound you, but for the formation of the first link on one memorable day."
-Charles Dickens

"You and I are essentially infinite choice-makers. In every moment of our existence, we are in that field of all possibilities where we have access to an infinity of choices."
-Deepak Chopra

"In the name of God, stop a moment, cease your work, look around you."
-Leo Tolstoy

"The art of life is to live in the present moment, and to make that moment as perfect as we can by the realization that we are the instruments and expression of God Himself."
-Emmet Fox

"Be grateful for the home you have, knowing that at this moment, all you have is all you need."
-Sarah Ban Breathnach

"I have never been able, really, to regret anything in all my life. I have always been far much too absorbed in the present moment or the immediate future to think back."
-Albert Camus