Quotes About Present

We cannot put off living until we are ready. The most salient characteristic of life is its coerciveness: it is always urgent, "here and now," without any possible postponement. Life is fired at us point-blank.

Real generosity toward the future lies in giving all to the present.

Some people are making such thorough preparation for rainy days that they aren't enjoying today's sunshine.

It is cheap generosity which promises the future in compensation for the present.

My head is buried in the sands of tomorrow, while my tail feathers are singed by the hot sun of today.

Every moment that I am centered in the future, I suffer a temporary loss of this life.

Men spend their lives in anticipation, in determining to be vastly happy at some period when they have time. But the present time has one advantage over every other-it is our own.... We may lay in a stock of pleasures, as we would lay in a stock of wine; but if we defer the tasting of them too long, we shall find that both are soured by age.

The most effective way to ensure the value of the future is to confront the present courageously and constructively.

The habit of looking into the future and thinking that the whole meaning of the present lies in what it will bring forth is a pernicious one. There can be no value in the whole unless there is value in the parts.

Very strange is this quality of our human nature which decrees that unless we feel a future before us we do not live completely in the present.

Do today's duty, fight today's temptation; do not weaken and distract yourself by looking forward to things you cannot see, and could not understand if you saw them.

A preoccupation with the future not only prevents us from seeing the present as it is, but often prompts us to rearrange the past.

Today's egg is better than tomorrow's hen.

T'were too absurd to slight for the hereafter, the day's delight!

The prospect of being pleased tomorrow will never console me for the boredom of today.

Every second is of infinite value.

Let me tell thee, time is a very precious gift of God; so precious that it's only given to us moment by moment.

I have the happiness of the passing moment, and what more can mortal ask?

The sole life which a man can lose is that which he is living at the moment.

The present moment is creative, creating with an unheard-of intensity.

I live now and only now, and I will do what I want to do this moment and not what I decided was best for me yesterday.

Be always resolute with the present hour. Every moment is of infinite value.

Life is all memory except for the one present moment that goes by so quick you can hardly catch it going.

It is privilege of living to be ... acutely, agonizingly conscious of the moment that is always present and always passing.