The present will not long endure.

Now we are engaged in a great civil war, testing whether that nation, or any nation so conceived and so dedicated, can long endure.

— Abraham Lincoln

What happens when you let an unsatisfactory present go on long enough? It becomes your entire history.

— Louise Erdrich

Without God, democracy cannot and will not long endure.

— Ronald Reagan

Without God, democracy will not and cannot long endure.

— Ronald Reagan

Focus on the present and the past will take care of itself.

— Anonymous

“Meekness is to endure injury without resentment.”

— T.F. Tenney

If you are at peace, you are living in the present.

— Laozi

If your past didn't break you, your present can't break you.

— SONYA PARKER

The past is the present, isn’t it? It’s the future too.

— Eugene O'Neill

Decisions exist only in the present.

— Peter Drucker

“The present is shaped by the past.”

— Amine A. Ayad

The present is the past biting into the future.

— Edwin Land

“What ends in a W, has no beginning, and is always in the present? Now.”

— Jarod Kintz

But you have to live in the present. You have to take the old and make it new -- that's my point.

— Lauren Myracle

“The present is the only thing we can control and is the only thing we can change.”

— William Wyatt