Quotes about Present

John Wooden focused almost entirely on improvement in the present moment. He let the score—winning—take care of itself. Don't let yesterday take up too much of today.

Our children are our only hope for the future, but we are their only hope for their present and their future.

Though we cannot experience our life as an endless present, we are eternal in God's eyes; that is, in our deepest reality.

Begin at once to live, and count each separate day as a separate life.

Execute every act of thy life as though it were thy last.

Remember that man lives only in the present, in this fleeting instant; all the rest of his life is either past and gone, or not yet revealed. Short, therefore, is man's life, and narrow is the corner of the earth wherein he dwells.

You will find rest from vain fancies if you perform every act in life as though it were your last.

Forget everything else. Keep hold of this alone and remember it: Each of us lives only now, this brief instant. The rest has been lived already, or is impossible to see. The span we live is small - small as the corner of the earth in which we live it. Small as the greatest renown, passed from mouth to mouth by short-lived stick figures, ignorant alike of themselves and those long dead.

You will give yourself relief, if you do every act of your life as if it were the last.

No one sees what is before his feet: they scan the tracks of heaven.

God exists in eternity. The only point where eternity meets time is in the present. The present is the only time there is.

The moment is freedom. — I couldn't live by a rigid schedule. I try to live freely from moment to moment, letting things happen and adjusting to them.