Present Quotes
Conservatism discards Prescription, shrinks from Principle, disavows Progress having rejected all respect for antiquity, it offers no redress for the present, and makes no preparation for the future.Benjamin Disraeli
I know patriotism exists, and I know it has done much in the present contest. But a great and lasting war can never be supported on this principle alone. It must be aided by a prospect of interest, or some reward.George Washington
The whole drift of my education goes to persuade me that the world of our present consciousness is only one out of many worlds of consciousness that exist.William James
History is a relentless master. It has no present, only the past rushing into the future. To try to hold fast is to be swept aside.John Fitzgerald Kennedy
Men moving only in an official circle are apt to become merely official - - Not to say arbitrary - - In their ideas, and are apter and apter with each passing day to forget that they only hold power in a representative capacity.William Adams
Reflect on your present blessings, of which every man has many not on your past misfortunes, of which all men have some.Charles Dickens
For there is no greater pain, than to remember in present grief, past happinesses.Dante, The Divine Comedy
At the present rate of progress, it is almost impossible to imagine any technical feat that cannot be achieved - If it can be achieved at all - within the next few hundred years.Arthur C. Clarke, 1983
It is when we notice the dirt that God is most present in us.Clive Staples Lewis
Your representative owes you, not his industry only, but judgment; and he betrays, instead of serving you, if he sacrifices it to your opinion.Edmund Burke, Speech to the electors of Bristol. 3 Nov. 1774
Forget the past and live the present hour.Sarah Knowles Bolton
I came into the world either too early or too late at present, I am good for nothing.Prince Klemens Wenzel Nepomuk Lothar von Metternich
We are living the events which for centuries to come will be minutely studied by scholars who will undoubtedly describe these days as probably the most exciting and creative in the history of mankind. But preoccupied with our daily chores, our worries and personal hopes and ambitions, few of us are actually living in the present.Lawrence K. Frank
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
The beautiful, which is perhaps inseparable from art, is not after all tied to the subject, but to the pictorial representation. In this way and in no other does art overcome the ugly without avoiding it.Paul Klee
Our first responsibility is not to build the Church or even to get souls saved - - It is to represent Christ and to bring His message to the world. As God beholds us in Christ, so the world must behold Christ in us. As Christ represents us before the Father, so we must represent Christ before the world.Cornelius Stam
Last Monday a string of amendments were presented to the lower House these altogether respect personal liberty...Senator William Grayson
Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past.George Orwell
Instead of being presented with stereotypes by age, sex, color, class, or religion, children must have the opportunity to learn that within each range, some people are loathsome and some are delightful.Margaret Mead
Genius is present in every age, but the men carrying it within them remain benumbed unless extraordinary events occur to heat up and melt the mass so that it flows forth.Denis Diderot
My mind to me a kingdom is, Such present joys therein I find, That it excels all other bliss.Sir Edward Dye
Look not mournfully into the past. It comes not back again. Wisely improve the present. It is thine. Go forth to meet the shadowy future, without fear.Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
The greatest loss of time is delay and expectation, which depend upon the future. We let go the present, which we have in our power, and look forward to that which depends upon chance, and so relinquish a certainty for an uncertainty.Seneca
There is no longer a way out of our present situation except by forging a road toward our objective, violently and by force, over a sea of blood and under a horizon blazing with fire.Gamal Abdel Nasse
I was born old and get younger every day. At present I am sixty years young.Herbert Beerbohm Tree
We do not live to extenuate the miseries of the past nor to accept as incurable those of the present.Fairfield Osborne
Make yourself familiar with the angels, and behold them frequently in spirit for without being seen, they are present with you.Saint Francis de Sales
The secret of health for both mind and body is not to mourn for the past, nor to worry about the future, but to live the present moment wisely and earnestly.Buddha
The absent are never without fault, nor the present without excuse.Benjamin Franklin
A youth is to be regarded with respect. How do you know that his future will not be equal to our present?Confucius, Analects
Trust no future, however pleasant Let the dead past bury its dead Act, - Act in the living Present Heart within and God overhead.Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Look not mournfully into the Past. It comes not back again. Wisely improve the Present. In is thine. Go forth to meet the shadowy Future, without fear, and a manly heart.Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
The present is theirs the future, for which I really worked, is mine.Nikola Tesla
Perhaps the feelings that we experience when we are in love represent a normal state. Being in love shows a person who he should be.Anton Chekhov
The true felicity of life is to be free from anxieties and perturbations to understand and do our duties to God and man, and to enjoy the present without any serious dependence on the future.Lucius Annaeus Seneca
Heal the past, Live the present, Dream the future.Unknown
Children have neither a past nor a future. Thus they enjoy the present - - which seldom happens to us.La Bruyere
