Quotes about Present
Life admits not of delays; when pleasure can be had, it is fit to catch it. Every hour takes away part of the things that please us, and perhaps part of our disposition to be pleased.
— Samuel Johnson
Learn that the present hour alone is man's.
— Samuel Johnson
Today is the only time we can possibly live.
— Dale Carnegie
The present is the only time in which any duty may be done or grace received.
— CS Lewis
With the Eucharist, therefore, heaven comes down to earth, the tomorrow of God descends into the present and it is as if time remains embraced by divine eternity.
— Pope Benedict XVI
I am influenced at the present time by far higher considerations and by a nobler idea of duty than I ever was when I held the Evangelical belief.
— George Eliot
The only time you'll ever have is now.
— Brian Tracy
Limit time to the present. Meditate upon your last hour.
— Marcus Aurelius
The future is the result of what we do right now.
— Pema Chodron
The present time is seldom able to fill desire or imagination with immediate enjoyment, and we are forced to supply its deficiencies by recollection or anticipation.
— Samuel Johnson
Hours and days and months and years go by; the past returns no more, and what is to be we cannot know; but whatever the time gives us in which we live, we should therefore be content.
— Cicero
Now is the time to be doing, now is the time to be stirring, now is the time to amend myself.
— Thomas a Kempis