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Quotes About Present

Every second you dwell on the past you steal from your future. Every minute you spend focusing on your problems you take away from finding your solutions.
~ Robin Sharma
Time is the most undefinable yet paradoxical of things; the past is gone, the future is not come, and the present becomes the past, even while we attempt to define it.
~ Charles Caleb Colton
Do not follow after the past; do not go forward to meet the future. Instead, just rest the mind naturally in the present awareness.
~ Gampopa
Past is dead Future is uncertain; Present is all you have, So eat, drink and live merry.
~ Albert Einstein
The present is big with the future, the future might be read in the past, the distant is expressed in the near.
~ Gottfried Leibniz
If you give the future all your attention, the present will pass you by.
~ Phil Jackson
Our faith in the present dies out long before our faith in the future.
~ Ruth Benedict
I am timeless being. I am free of desire or fear, because I do not remember the past or imagine the future.
~ Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj
I remember the past, and I learn from it. I rejoice and celebrate in the present, and I re-imagine the future. Now is the moment that never ends.
~ Deepak Chopra
People don't realize that now is all there ever is; there is no past or future except as memory or anticipation in your mind.
~ Eckhart Tolle
See things in the present, even if they are in the future.
~ Larry Ellison
Risk concerns future happenings - as related to present practices - and the colonising of the future therefore opens up new settings of risk, some of which are institutionally organised.
~ Anthony Giddens
Don't shortchange the future, because of fear in the present.
~ Barack Obama
There's great release, really, in not seeing into the future.
~ Gangaji
The present is determined by our past actions, and the future by the present.
~ Swami Vivekananda
It's OK to quote from your past. But I'm more interested in quoting from my present and pointing towards the future.
~ Robert Plant
If the past sits in judgment on the present, the future will be lost.
~ Winston Churchill
How can I know anything about the past or the future, when the light of the Beloved shines only Now.
~ Rumi
It is never too late or too soon. It is when it is supposed to be.
~ Mich Albom
I feel like the blues is actually some kind of documentary of the past and the present - and something to give people inspiration for the future.
~ Willie Dixon
A mind that worries about the past is distracted, and a mind that worries about the future is delusional.
~ Cheng Yen
We keep ourselves so tied up in regretting the past and fearing the future that we don't have any energy left to figure out who we are and what we want to create right now.
~ Gay Hendricks
The future doesn't exist. It hasn't happened yet. The past doesn't exist. It has already happened.
~ John Daido Loori
Heal the past, live the present, dream the future.
~ Mary Engelbreit