Present Quotes

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

"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

"Yes, we have to divide up our time like that, between our politics and our equations. But to me our equations are far more important, for politics are only a matter of present concern. A mathematical equation stands forever."
-Albert Einstein

"People like us, who believe in physics, know that the distinction between past, present, and future is only a stubbornly persistent illusion."
-Albert Einstein

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

"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

"In the morning, when you are sluggish about getting up, let this thought be present: 'I am rising to a man's work.'"
-Marcus Aurelius Antoninus

"Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past."
-George Orwell

"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

"Endure the present, and watch for better things."
-Virgil

"There is no pain so great as the memory of joy in present grief."
-Aeschylus

"The future depends on what we do in the present."
-Mahatma Gandhi

"I know [patriotism] exists, and I know it has done much in the present contest. But a great and lasting war can never be supported on this principle alone. It must be aided by a prospect of interest, or some reward."
-George Washington

"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

"A gift, with a kind countenance, is a double present."
-Dr. Thomas Fuller

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

"Feeling gratitude and not expressing it is like wrapping a present and not giving it."
-William Arthur Ward

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

"Enjoy present pleasures in such a way as not to injure future ones."
-Seneca

"The greatest loss of time is delay and expectation, which depend upon the future. We let go the present, which we have in our power, and look forward to that which depends upon chance, and so relinquish a certainty for an uncertainty."
-Seneca

"When they call the roll in the Senate, the Senators do not know whether to answer 'Present' or 'Not guilty.'"
-Theodore Roosevelt

"Every serious-minded person knows that a large part of the effort required in moral discipline consists in the courage needed to acknowledge the unpleasant consequences of one's past and present acts."
-John Dewey

"Reflect on your present blessings, of which every man has many; not on your past misfortunes, of which all men have some."
-Charles Dickens

"Fatherhood is pretending the present you love most is soap-on-a-rope."
-Bill Cosby

"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

"The absent are never without fault, nor the present without excuse."
-Benjamin Franklin

"Write down the advice of him who loves you, though you like it not at present."
-English Proverb

"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