Quotes About Present

Hold to the now, the here, through which all future plunges to the past.

Reality includes both the past and the future, but existence includes only the present and is totally dependent on the reality of past and future universes. Without them there is no existence now.

The trouble with worrying so much about your security in the future is that you feel so insecure in the present.

The constant nagging in your mind of undone things pulls you out of the present--tethers you to a mind-set of the future so that you're never fully in the moment and enjoying what's now.

You know most people live ninety per cent in the past, seven per cent in the present, and that only leaves them three per cent for the future.

Live in the present. Do the things that need to be done. Do all the good you can each day. The future will unfold

The future is beyond knowing, but the present is beyond belief.

The present is no more exempt from the sneer of the future than the past has been.

All too often, the security of a mediocre present is more comfortable than the adventure of trying to be more in the future.

What is really momentous and all-important with us is the present, by which the future is shaped and colored.

The great secret about goals and visions is not the future they describe but the change in the present they engender.

The past always seems better when you look back on it than it did at the time. And the present never looks as good as it will in the future.

And imagining that future keeps you going, but you never do it. You just use the future to escape the present.

This moment is your portal to the future. Use it wisely!

But the only possible guarantee of the future is responsible behavior in the present.

Affirmation statements are going beyond the reality of the present into the creation of the future through the words you use in the now.

The future was with Fate. The present was our own.

Well, the past is gone, I know that. The future isn't here yet, whatever it's going to be. So, all there is, is this. The present. That's it.

You can wish for things in the future to be different, but in this moment you have to accept things as they are.

The future is an infinite succession of presents.

Upon arriving in the capital-F Future, we discover it, invariably, to be the lower-case now.

Neurotics think of the past with resentment, and the future with dread; the present just doesn't exist.

Don't live in the past, don't ponder about the future, stay at the PRESENT moment NOW...always.

To the being of fully alive, the future is not ominous but a promise; it surrounds the present like a halo.