1,208 Quotes About Present

If you're constantly ruminating about what you just did- or what you should have done- or what you would have done if you only had the chance, you will miss your life. Ok, you will fail to connect with it. You will fail to connect with other people.

It only takes one thought in one moment to alter the course of your life.

If our condition were truly happy we should not need to divert ourselves from thinking about it. (12)

And I have fitted up some chambers thereLooking towards the golden Eastern air,And level with the living winds, which flowLike waves above the living waves below.—I have sent books and music there, and allThose instruments with which high spirits callThe future from its cradle, and the pastOut of its grave, and make the present lastIn thoughts and joys which sleep, but cannot die,Folded within their own eternity.

There is a present because it works with my theories. If you find a better one than mine, then I may reconsider, but for the sake of the universe—and oh, how we philosophers make the universe weep—there is a present, and it is the time you just left.

Don't you be thinking,' she says, 'on things that are done and can't be changed. All right, dear girl? You think of the time to come.

Success happens when you keep an eye on the future while continuing to work on your present.

To some education is just a bore; to most education is food for the brain and enrichment for the present and future.

Faith does not work based on your past or your present circumstances. It works based on God’s Word.