Quotes about Present
Don't waste your life waiting until everything is perfect before you start enjoying it.
— Joyce Meyer
Happiness is not something you postpone for the future it is something you design for the present.
— Jim Rohn
Pay attention to the beauty surrounding you.
— Anne Lamott
If you worry about what might be, and wonder what might have been, you will ignore what is.
— Anonymous
It is youth's felicity as well as its insufficiency that it can never live in the present, but must always be measuring up the day against its own radiantly imagined future
— F Scott Fitzgerald
It is youth's felicity as well as its insufficiency that it can never live in the present, but must always be measuring up the day against its own radiantly imagined future - flowers and gold, girls and stars, they are only prefigurations and prophecies of that incomparable, unattainable young dream.
— F Scott Fitzgerald
There was a midsummer restlessness abroad--early August with imprudent loves and impulsive crimes. With little more to expect from summer, one tried anxiously to live in the present--or, if there was no present, to invent one.
— F Scott Fitzgerald
The present was the thing--work to do and someone to love. But not to love too much, for he knew the injury that a father can do to a daughter or a mother to a son by attaching them too closely: afterward, out in the world, the child would seek in the marriage partner the same blind tenderness and, failing probably to find it, turn against love and life
— F Scott Fitzgerald
The past is what the present is doing now.
— Rowan Williams
God never gives strength for tomorrow, or for the next hour, but only for the strain of the minute.
— Oswald Chambers
Perfection of character is this: to live each day as if it were your last, without frenzy, without apathy, without pretence.
— Marcus Aurelius
You must live in the present, launch yourself on every wave, find your eternity in each moment.
— Henry David Thoreau