Present Quotes

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The past and present are only our means; the future is always our end. Thus we never really live, but only hope to live. — Blaise Pascal
All personal breakthroughs begin with a change in beliefs. So how do we change? The most effective way is to get your brain to associate… — Tony Robbins
Shame on the men who can court exemption from present trouble and expense at the price of their own posterity's liberty! — Samuel Adams
Man is a transitory being, and his designs must partake of the imperfections of their author. To confer duration is not always in our power.… — Samuel Johnson
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
Medicine in its present state is, it seems to me, by now completely discovered, insofar as it teaches in each instance the particular details and… — Hippocrates
He who is false to present duty breaks a thread in the loom, and will find the flaw when he may have forgotten its cause. — Henry Ward Beecher
Avarice misapprehends itself almost always. There is no passion which more often will miss its aim, nor upon which the present has so much influence… — Francois de La Rochefoucauld
If our language, our programs, our creations are not strongly present in the new media, the young generation of our country will be economically and… — Jacques Chirac
Call it "womb awe" or even "womb worship" but it's not simple envy. I don't remember even wanting to be a woman. But each of… — Sam Keen
The prophets and seers and great men and women, past and present, were made great by what they perceived from God, not by what they… — Wallace D. Wattles
...As the great Confucius said, "The one who would be in constant happiness must frequently change." Flow. But we keep looking back, don't we? We… — Anthony de Mello
The past is only the present become invisible and mute; and because it is invisible and mute, its memorized glances and its murmurs are infinitely… — Mary Webb
My past is my wisdom to use today. . . my future is my wisdom yet to experience. Be in the present because that is… — Gene Oliver
My friend, the sufi is the friend of the present moment. To say tomorrow is not our way. — Rumi
No very deep knowledge of economics is usually needed for grasping the immediate effects of a measure; but the task of economics is to foretell… — Ludwig von Mises
Not only can no one predict the future, we don't understand the present - and there isn't even any certainty about the past. — Harry Browne
The present struggle seems less about abolishing big government than about who gets to use it. — William Greider
Whatever someone did to you in the past has no power over the present. Only you give it power. — Oprah Winfrey
Our repeated failure to fully act as we would wish must not discourage us. It is the sincere intention that is the essential thing, and… — Thomas Troward

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