Quotes About Present

As a culture, were so worried about whats going to happen to us 30 years from now that we are not taking care of our brothers and sisters who need help today.

Destiny is what is happening to you right now.

What happened yesterday is history. What happens tomorrow is a mystery. What we do today makes a difference - the precious present moment.

Do not die in the history of your past hurts and past experiences, but live in the now and future of your destiny.

You have to know the past to understand the present.

Today is a gift of God, which is why we call it the present.

Yesterday's History. Tomorrow's a Mystery. So live for today.

Crazy Horse saw history as integrated in the present, incorporated into daily life.

The challenge of history is to recover the past and introduce it to the present.

[T]he historian must serve two masters, the past and the present.

We ought not to endeavor to revise history according to our latter day notions of what things ought to have been, or upon the theory that the past is simply a reflection of the present

All history must be mobilized if one would understand the present.

Oh, things always get better. Tomorrow will always be better. Just think about it . . . is there any time in history in which you'd rather live than now?

Every true history must force us to remember that the past was once as real as the present and as uncertain as the future.

Live in the moment. Moments make history.

History isn't really about the past - settling old scores. It's about defining the present and who we are.

History, in illuminating the past, illuminates the present, and in illuminating the present, illuminates the future.

The study of the past with one eye upon the present is the source of all sins and sophistries in history. It is the essence of what we mean by the word "unhistorical."

The future is dark, the present burdensome. Only the past, dead and buried, bears contemplation.

We are never completely contemporaneous with our present. History advances in disguise; it appears on stage wearing a mask of the preceding scene, and we tend to lose the meaning of the play.

History, as they say, is alive and well and living in London.

History is, in its essence, exciting; to present it as dull is, to my mind, stark and unforgivable misrepresentation.

There is no creature so perfect in wisdom and knowledge but may learn something for time present, and to come, by times past.

We read the past by the light of the present, and the forms vary as the shadows fall, or as the point of vision alters.