His Present Quotes
42 quotes by 41 authors
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Let him who would enjoy a good future waste none of his present.
— Roger Babson
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Man is an artifact designed for space travel. He is not designed to remain in his present biologic state any more than a tadpole is…
— William S. Burroughs
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For Africa to me... is more than a glamorous fact. It is a historical truth. No man can know where he is going unless he…
— Maya Angelou
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Man is a megalomaniac among animals-if he sees mountains he will try to imitate them by pyramids, and if he sees some grand process like…
— Jacques Loeb
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Our purpose is to be able to measure the intellectual capacity of a child who is brought to us in order to know whether he…
— Alfred Binet
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The Bible contains more knowledge necessary to man in his present state than any other book in the world.
— Benjamin Rush
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In the history of the individual is always an account of his condition, and he knows himself to be a party to his present estate.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Instead of complaining at his lot, a contented man is thankful that his condition and circumstances are no worse than they are. Instead of greedily…
— Arthur W. Pink
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And I honor the man who is willing to sink half his present repute for the freedom to think, and, when he has thought, be…
— James Russell Lowell
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In fact, the history of North America has been perhaps more profoundly influenced by man's inheritance from his past homes than by the physical features…
— Ellsworth Huntington
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Christmas is a time when everybody wants his past forgotten and his present remembered.
— Phyllis Diller
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Were an Asiatic to ask me for a definition of Europe, I should be forced to answer him: It is that part of the world…
— Arthur Schopenhauer
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Very few live by choice. Every man is placed in his present condition by causes which acted without his foresight, and with which he did…
— Samuel Johnson
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For we must consider that we shall be as a City upon a hill. The eyes of all people are upon us. Soe that if…
— John Winthrop
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Only as one is willing to give up his present limitations and identity can he become that which he desires to be.
— Neville Goddard
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The great piano virtuoso Paderewski was once playing before an audience of the rich and the royal. After a brilliant performance, an elegant lady waxed…
— Eric Butterworth
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The power of a man is his present means to obtain some future apparent good.
— Thomas Hobbes
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All human life is sunk deep in untruth; the individual cannot pull it out of this well without growing profoundly annoyed with his entire past,…
— Friedrich Nietzsche
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I can forgive a man’s past faults, his present shortcomings, and his future failures if every minute of every day he loves me like it’s…
— Nicole Williams
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Don't judge the future of a person based on his present conditions, becausetime has the power to change black coal to shiny diamond.
— Chanakya
Who Wrote These His Present Quotes
41 authors contributed a total of 42 His Present Quotes, led by these top contributors: