Present Quotes
6568 quotes by 3662 authors
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Our present control of the sea is so absolute that it is sometimes taken for granted.
— Chester W. Nimitz
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Not to have an adequate air force in the present state of the world is to compromise the foundations of national freedom and independence.
— Winston Churchill
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Asking ourselves, 'Where am I right now?' gives us a chance to step outside the internal dialogue for a moment of peace. Look around you,…
— Laura Harvey
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Your past history and all of your hurts are no longer here in your physical reality. Don't allow them to be here in your mind,…
— Wayne Dyer
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Working for peace in the future is to work for peace in the present moment.
— Nhat Hanh
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Ambition has its disappointments to sour us, but never the good fortune to satisfy us. Its appetite grows keener by indulgence and all we can…
— Benjamin Franklin
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The ultimate Consciousness is always present everywhere. It is beyond space and time, with not before or after. It is undeniable and obvious. So what…
— Abhinavagupta
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The incarnate Word is with us, is still speaking, is present always, yet leaves no sign but everything that is.
— Wendell Berry
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Losers live in the past. Winners learn from the past and enjoy working in the present toward the future.
— Denis Waitley
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Who so desireth to know what will be hereafter, let him think of what is past, for the world hath ever been in a circular…
— Walter Raleigh
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The East knew and to the present day knows only that One is Free; the Greek and the Roman world, that some are free; the…
— Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
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You have to be able to risk your identity for a bigger future than the present you are living.
— Fernando Flores
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For eternally and always there is only one now, one and the same now; the present is the only thing that has no end.
— Erwin Schrodinger
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Time is not a linear flow, as we think it is, into past, present, and future. Time is an indivisible whole, a great pool in…
— Frank Waters
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Experiencing the present purely is being empty and hollow; you catch grace as a man fills his cup under a waterfall.
— Annie Dillard
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I have seen the future and it's like the present, only longer.
— Dan Quisenberry
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Half the interest of a garden is the constant exercise of the imagination. You are always living three, or indeed six, months hence. I believe…
— Alice Morse Earle
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Eternity is the Absolute present.
— Daisetz Teitaro Suzuki
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Do not be attached to the past or wait for the future. Be grateful for each day, that is enough. I do not believe in…
— Santoka Taneda
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How interesting it would be to write the story of the experiences in this life of a man who killed himself in his previous life;…
— Leo Tolstoy
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