Present Quotes
6568 Present quotes by 3495 unique authors
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The present is determined by our past actions, and the future by the present.
— Swami Vivekananda
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Everything is present in its cause, in its fine form.
— Swami Vivekananda
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There cannot be a cause without an effect, the present must have had its cause in the past and will have its effect in the…
— Swami Vivekananda
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Don't try to innovate for the future. Innovate for the present!
— Peter Drucker
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The thought of the future life with its prerogatives and joys helps to make the trials of the present seem light and transient.
— Billy Graham
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The existence of nuclear weapons presents a clear and present danger to life on Earth.
— Oscar Arias
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The existence of nuclear weapons presents a clear and present danger to life on Earth. Nuclear arms cannot bolster the security of any nation because…
— Oscar Arias
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Moral disarmament is to safeguard the future; material disarmament is to save for the present, that there may be a future to safeguard.
— Elihu Root
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Command that your marshal be careful to be present over the household, and especially in the hall, to keep the household, within doors and without,…
— Robert Grosseteste
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Real actors are the most courageous people I know. They dare to live vibrantly in the present and to state in a clear way, and…
— Larry Silverberg
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Our immediate striving must be aimed at preventing what, in the present situation, is the greatest threat to the very survival of mankind, the nuclear…
— Alva Myrdal
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Let be the future: mind the present need and leave the rest to whom the rest concerns ... present tasks claim our care: the ordering…
— Sophocles
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I urge you to celebrate the extraordinary courage and contributions of refugees past and present.
— Kofi Annan
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Sanctification is not to be understood here as a separation from ordinary use or consecration to some special use, although this meaning is often present…
— William Ames
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The present moment is all you ever have.
— Eckhart Tolle
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Among those whose reputation is exhausted in a short time by its own luxuriance are the writers who take advantage of present incidents or characters…
— Samuel Johnson
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The artist, viewing his fellows through his personal vision, has through the ages attempted to portray what he sees and to present his understanding of…
— Unknown Author
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Men need to know the elemental challenges that sea and mountains present. They need to know what it is to be alive and to survive…
— William O. Douglas
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Our idea of what constitutes social good has advanced with the procession of the ages, from those desperate times when just to keep body and…
— Frances Perkins
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A man is as much affected pleasurably or painfully by the image of a thing past or future as by the image of a thing…
— Baruch Spinoza
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...The body is affected by the image of the thing, in the same way as if the thing were actually present.
— Baruch Spinoza
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Gratitude never radicalized anybody. I don't care if they recognize the past, I just want them to get angry about the present and keep going.
— Gloria Steinem
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Your past, present, and future are taken care of as you put your trust in Jesus.
— Rick Warren
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I should favour anything that would increase the present enormous authority of women and their creative action in their own homes. The average woman...is a…
— Gilbert K. Chesterton
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Every true history must force us to remember that the past was once as real as the present and as uncertain as the future.
— G. M. Trevelyan
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