Present Quotes

• I'm perceived as someone who goes out and searches for new music, but it was all present in my household.

  

  Henry Saint Clair Fredericks
  • Music
  • Present
  • New

• All death in nature is birth, and at the moment of death appears visibly the rising of life. There is no dying principle in nature, for nature throughout is unmixed life, which, concealed behind the old, begins again and develops itself. Death as well as birth is simply in itself, in order to present itself ever more brightly and more like to itself.

  

  Johann Gottlieb Fichte
  • Life
  • Nature
  • Death

• In times like the present men should utter nothing for which they would not willingly be responsible through time and in eternity.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • Time
  • Men
  • Present

• There is surely nothing other than the single purpose of the present moment. A man's whole life is a succession of moment after moment. If one fully understands the present moment, there will be nothing else to do, and nothing else to pursue. Live being true to the single purpose of the moment.

  

  Yamamoto Tsunetomo
  • Life
  • Live
  • True

• To write our constitution is for the past, the present, and the future to come together all at once in one single motion, in one single heave, one single cry. For we correct the errors of the past and chart a new course for the future, based on the experience of the present.

  

  Ferdinand Marcos
  • Experience
  • Together
  • Future

• It takes a long time to bring the past up to the present.

  

  Franklin D. Roosevelt
  • Up
  • Time
  • Long

• By keeping the mind in the present, unless you deliberately want to contemplate the past or future, it's possible to firmly face life without fear. Then, no thoughts of past failures or future problems will exist in the mind, and a truly positive mental state will result-fudoshin, the "immovable mind".

  

  H. E. Davey
  • Life
  • Mind
  • Future

• I don't know about hiding away, but I really only like to present myself when I'm working on something - it's more my work I like to present to the world rather than myself.

  

  Kate Bush
  • World
  • Work
  • Myself

• I'm a big proponent of young women dressing appropriately in the workplace to get ahead. We need to demand respect as women, and part of that involves how we present ourselves.

  

  Rachel Roy
  • Women
  • Respect
  • Young

• Iranians defend and present their Islamic and Iranian identity to other people worldwide.

  

  Mahmoud Ahmadinejad
  • People
  • Identity
  • Islamic

• The usefulness of a meeting rises with the square of the number of people present.

  

  Lane Kirkland
  • People
  • Present
  • Meeting

• If mankind were to continue in other than the present barbarism, a new path must be found, a new civilization based on some other method than technology.

  

  Clifford D. Simak
  • Technology
  • Present
  • Path

• I just try to show up and be relaxed and present and honest. And that's my only trick. And sometimes it works, and sometimes it doesn't. Honestly, sometimes it really doesn't work.

  

  Gaby Hoffmann
  • Up
  • Work
  • Sometimes

• Celibacy for the sake of the Kingdom means embracing a life completely devoted to love, a love that enables you to commit yourselves fully to God's service and to be totally present to your brothers and sisters, especially those in need.

  

  Pope Benedict XVI
  • Life
  • God
  • Service

• 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 precious. We are tomorrow's past.

  

  Mary Webb
  • Past
  • Present

• In dwelling, live close to the ground. In thinking, keep to the simple. In conflict, be fair and generous. In governing, don't try to control. In work, do what you enjoy. In family life, be completely present.

  

  Lao Tzu
  • Life
  • Work
  • Thinking

• In the cotton States, after the war...the Jew came down in force, set up shop on the plantation, supplied all the negro's wants on credit, and at the end of the season was proprietor of the negro's share of the present crop and of part of his share of the next one. Before long, the whites detested the Jew, and it is doubtful if the negro loved him.

  

  Mark Twain
  • Up
  • Long
  • War

• I am purposeful in how I present myself to the world. I want my ideas to be taken seriously, and so I present myself in a way that allows people to see me and listen to what I have to say.

  

  Marley Dias
  • People
  • World
  • Taken

• In my case, I write in the past because I'm not really part of the present. I have nothing valid to say about anything current, though I have something to say about what existed then.

  

  Patrick O'Brian
  • Past
  • Present
  • Write

• You may shelve your Shakespearian plans for the present. I am going to play Peter Pan.

  

  Maude Adams
  • May
  • Present

• I think of the past and the future as well as the present to determine where I am, and I move on while thinking of these things.

  

  Tadao Ando
  • Thinking
  • Future
  • Past

• The works of present life are more important that the whole and entire reliance on wholesale blind fate.

  

  Dayananda Saraswati
  • Life
  • Important
  • Fate

• Endure the hardships of your present state,Live, and reserve yourselves for better fate.

  

  John Dryden
  • Live
  • Present
  • Fate

• As you move through the application process, keep refining the way you present yourself. Like any skill, you'll only get better with practice, and you'll only hurt yourself if you get discouraged too early. This is one race that's definitely a marathon, not a sprint.

  

  Kathryn Minshew
  • Present
  • Practice
  • Hurt

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