Present Quotes

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Like the marathon, life can sometimes be difficult, challenging and present obstacles, however if you believe in your dreams and never ever give up, things… — Meb Keflezighi
Creative people are all there, totally immersed, fascinated and absorbed in the present, in the current situation, in the here-now, with the matter-in-hand. — Abraham Maslow
There is too much sour grapes for my taste in the present American attitude. The time to denounce the bankers was when we were all… — Edith Wharton
I suppose it was that in courtship everything is regarded as provisional and preliminary, and the smallest sample of virtue or accomplishment is taken to… — George Eliot
The immense wealth of doctrine and institutions can become a handicap if we are trying to present all of that to a person who has… — Raniero Cantalamessa
Faith enables the believing soul to treat the future as present and the invisible as seen. — J. Oswald Sanders
God is using your present circumstances to make you more useful for later roles in His unfolding story. — Louie Giglio
Trust the past to the mercy of God, the present to His love, and the future to His providence. — Saint Augustine
You can't escape the past in Paris, and yet what's so wonderful about it is that the past and present intermingle so intangibly that it… — Allen Ginsberg
Love affairs have always greatly interested me, but I do not greatly care for them in books or moving pictures. In a love affair, I… — E. W. Howe
The elemental fact, present in our consciousness every moment of our existence, is: I am life that wills to live, in the midst of life… — Albert Schweitzer
The past doesn't define you, your present does. It's okay to create a vision of the future because it affects your behavior in the "now,"… — Jillian Michaels
There are indeed, in the present corruption of mankind, many incitements to forsake truth: the need of palliating our own faults and the convenience of… — Samuel Johnson
Commit to growing yourself. Do not avoid problems and or complain about problems. Don't let them bother you. In fact, don't even call them problems;… — T. Harv Eker
Fears, indecision, and frustration feed on words. Without words they usually stop. . . . Words are at times good for looking back, but they… — Hugh Prather
In my travels I have found that those who keep Heaven in view remain serene and cheerful in the darkest day. If the glories of… — Billy Graham
Civilization is an active deposit which is formed by the combustion of the present with the past. Neither in countries without a Present nor in… — Cyril Connolly
I do not know which makes a man more conservative - to know nothing but the present, or nothing but the past. — John Maynard Keynes
Education has become a prisoner of contemporaneity. It is the past, not the dizzy present, that is the best door to the future. — Camille Paglia
Children enjoy the present because they have neither a past nor a future. — Jean de la Bruyere

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