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Quotes About Present

After all, the wrong is done. It is past and cannot be changed. We have only the present and the future upon which to move forward.
~ Leo Buscaglia
And I will show that there is no imperfection in the present, and can be none in the future, And I will show that whatever happens to anybody it may be turned to beautiful results.
~ Walt Whitman
Winners live each day as if their last. Not in the future, nor in the past, and someday . . . becomes now!
~ Denis Waitley
Many of my works fall into the category of "Zeitgeist novels." Yet I hope that they aren't only reportage, but also attempts to convey the sense of the present to the future.
~ Will Self
I don't want to lean back into the past, or forward into the future. I don't want to wish the present moment away.
~ Dani Shapiro
Let the past hold on to itself and let the present move forward into the future.
~ Douglas Adams
I can relate to historical characters or imaginary ones. It doesn't matter if a story takes place in the future or in the present, as long as the story is compelling.
~ Eric Stoltz
Examine the present and learn from the past to see how the future will unfold. Too often we just look at the present and base our actions solely on that.
~ Shinjo Ito
I don't think about the past, I only think about the present because what I do today sets me up for the future.
~ Vernon Davis
The future is bought with the present.
~ Samuel Johnson
Go for today, don't worry about the future, it'll come eventually
~ Greyson Chance
Worry is discounting possible future sorrows so that the individual may have present misery.
~ William George Jordan
Past and future are two aspects of the same coin. The name of the coin is mind.
~ Rajneesh
One seemed simply to be here, less an accumulation of moments than a single arrangement continuously gifted from some inaccessible future.
~ Tao Lin
Spirituality tells the seeker not to live in the hoary past, not to live in the remote future, but to live in the immediacy of today, in the eternal Now.
~ Sri Chinmoy
Today, nobody cares about European culture. We have a tradition, a vision, a culture of the past, we have legacy, but we don't have a present culture and we don't have a future.
~ Unknown
The only way I can endure the future is to ignore it.
~ Unknown
It would be no reproach to a philosopher, that he knew the future better than the past, or even than the present. It is better worth knowing.
~ Henry David Thoreau
To live in the past or in the future may be less satisfying than to live in the present, but it can never be as disillusioning.
~ R. D. Laing
Most of us are worrying about the future so much that we can't enjoy the present.
~ Harold Sherman
It is not wise to neglect the present for the future, for who knows what the future will be?
~ H. Rider Haggard
Fancy rules over two thirds of the universe, the past, and future, while reality is confined to the present
~ Jean Paul
As an actor, I only play what is in the moment, rather than in the future, but sometimes the past is more important than what is coming up in the future.
~ John Barrowman
It is vain to be always looking toward the future and never acting toward it.
~ John Frederick Boyes