Present Time Quotes

• Tomorrow is a mystery. Today is a gift. That is why it is called the present.

  Eleanor Roosevelt

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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• Concentrate the mind on the present moment.

  Gautama Buddha

  Life, Buddhist, Buddhism

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• The best thing about the future is that it comes one day at a time.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Inspirational, Funny, Life

  Abraham Lincoln (1992). “The Wit and Wisdom of Abraham Lincoln”, Plume

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

  Gautama Buddha

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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• The distinction between the past, present and future is only a stubbornly persistent illusion.

  Albert Einstein

  Love, Life, God

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• The time for action is now. It's never too late to do something.

  Antoine de Saint-Exupery

  Motivational, Time, Attitude

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• Treat every moment as a gift, that is why it is called the present.

  Deepak Chopra

  Clever, Cheer Up, Kung Fu Panda

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• I don't think of the past. The only thing that matters is the everlasting present.

  W. Somerset Maugham

  Time, Past, Thinking

  W. Somerset Maugham (2012). “The Moon and Sixpence”, p.59, Courier Corporation

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• There is never time in the future in which we will work out our salvation. The challenge is in the moment; the time is always now.

  James A. Baldwin

  Time, Future, Blessing

  "James Baldwin: 10 insightful quotes on his birthday" by Elizabeth Drake, www.csmonitor.com. August 02, 2012.

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

  Oprah Winfrey

  Inspirational, Life, Positive

  FaceBook post by Oprah Winfrey from Dec 02, 2011

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• I have realized that the past and future are real illusions, that they exist in the present, which is what there is and all there is.

  Alan Watts

  Love, Life, Relationship

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• The best thing about the future is that it comes only one day at a time. The best thing about the future is that it comes only one day at a time.

  Dean Acheson

  Future, Live In The Moment, One Day

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• Today is a gift from God - that is why it is called the present.

  Sri Sri Ravi Shankar

  Inspirational, Clever, Cheer Up

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• He who controls the past controls the future.

  Laozi

  Future, Past, Political Language

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• Why should we live with such hurry and waste of life? We are determined to be starved before we are hungry.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Time, Live In The Moment, Waste

  Henry David Thoreau (1995). “Walden, Or, Life in the Woods”, p.60, Courier Corporation

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• Time always seems long to the child who is waiting - for Christmas, for next summer, for becoming a grownup: long also when he surrenders his whole soul to each moment of a happy day.

  Dag Hammarskjold

  Christmas, Summer, Time

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• There is no time like the present.

  Georgia Byng

  Helping Others, Making A Difference, Giving Help

  Georgia Byng (2009). “Molly Moon's Hypnotic Time-Travel Adventure”, p.113, Pan Macmillan

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• Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past.

  George Orwell

  Dream, Time, Peace

  Nineteen Eighty-Four pt. 1, ch. 3 (1949) See Orwell 19

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• The challenge is in the moment; the time is always now.

  James A. Baldwin

  Children, Challenges, Live In The Moment

  "James Baldwin: My Uncle and His Love Life" by T. Better Baldwin, www.huffingtonpost.com. July 30, 2014.

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• I feel, as never before, how justly, from the dawn of history to the present time, men have paid the homage of their gratitude and admiration to the memory of those who nobly sacrifice their lives, that their fellow-men may live in safety and in honor.

  Edward Everett

  Gratitude, Memories, Grateful

  Svend Petersen, Edward Everett (1963). “The Gettysburg addresses: the story of two orations”

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• It's not a matter of emancipating truth from every system of power (which would be a chimera, for truth is already power) but of detaching the power of truth from the forms of hegemony, social, economic and cultural, within which it operates at the present time

  Michel Foucault

  Would Be, Hegemony, Matter

  Noam Chomsky, Michel Foucault (2006). “The Chomsky-Foucault Debate: On Human Nature”, The New Press

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• I think Virgin Blue is still a very promising and exciting business.
  Now, I know that's not a view that's widely held in the market but I think the market is simply throwing it into the too-hard basket at the present time because of the oil price events.
  But we think it is still a very exciting business.

  Chris Corrigan

  Inspirational, Business, Optimistic

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• I have to say that one of the most important things Scientology has given me is the ability to keep my integrity together. I understand how people can get into unethical situations, and Scientology has always helped me keep my head clear and be in present time.

  Danny Masterson

  Integrity, People, Together

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  The convent, which belongs to the West as it does to the East, to antiquity as it does to the present time, to Buddhism and Muhammadanism as it does to Christianity, is one of the optical devices whereby man gains a glimpse of infinity.

  Victor Hugo

  Buddhism, Men, Glimpse

  Victor Hugo (1980). “Les misérables”, Viking Pr

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• What I am interested in is the present time

  Sophie Marceau

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