Present Time Quotes

• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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 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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• 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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• Concentrate the mind on the present moment.

  Gautama Buddha

  Life, Buddhist, Buddhism

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• He who controls the past controls the future.

  Laozi

  Future, Past, Political Language

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• The present time is seldom able to fill desire or imagination with immediate enjoyment, and we are forced to supply its deficiencies by recollection or anticipation.

  Samuel Johnson

  Past, Imagination, Desire

  Samuel Johnson, Elizabeth Carter, Samuel Richardson, Catherine Talbot (1825). “The Rambler: A Periodical Paper, Published in 1750, 1751, 1752”, p.344

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• Men of the present time testify of heaven and hell, and have never seen either.

  Joseph Smith, Jr.

  Men, Heaven, Religion

  "Teachings of the Prophet Joseph Smith", p. 160,

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• What I am interested in is the present time

  Sophie Marceau

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• In rivers, the water that you touch is the last of what has passed and the first of that which comes; so with present time.

  Leonardo da Vinci

  Life, Time, Rivers

  Leonardo da Vinci (2008). “Notebooks”, p.258, OUP Oxford

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• My favorite anything is always relative to the context of present time, place and mood. When I finish a book and want to immediately find another by the same author and no other, that author is elevated to my favorite.

  Amy Tan

  Book, Want, My Favorite

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• Are there not some places where we seem to breathe sadness? — why, we cannot tell. It is a chain of recollections — an idea which carries you back to other times, to other places — which, very likely, have no connection with the present time and place.

  Alexandre Dumas

  Sadness, Ideas, Connections

  Alexandre Dumas (2013). “Delphi Works of Alexandre Dumas (Illustrated)”, p.3681, Delphi Classics

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