Present Quotes

One cannot and must not try to erase the past merely because it does not fit the present. (Golda Meir)
If you want the present to be different from the past, study the past. View quote
Baruch Spinoza
Men are so simple, and so subject to present necessities, that he who seeks to deceive will always find someone who will allow himself to be deceived. View quote
Niccolò Machiavelli
I do not know which makes a man more conservative - to know nothing but the present, or nothing but the past. View quote
John Maynard Keynes
Confine yourself to the present. View quote
Marcus Aurelius
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. View quote
Marcus Aurelius
Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past. View quote
George Orwell
Never let the future disturb you. You will meet it, if you have to, with the same weapons of reason which today arm you against the present. View quote
Marcus Aurelius
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. View quote
Laozi
I love my past, I love my present. I am not ashamed of what I have had, and I am not sad because I no longer have it. View quote
Colette
The distinction between the past, present and future is only a stubbornly persistent illusion. (Albert Einstein)
Change is the law of life. And those who look only to the past or the present are certain to miss the future. View quote
John F. Kennedy
We live in a moment of history where change is so speeded up that we begin to see the present only when it is already disappearing. View quote
Ronald David Laing
An author in his book must be like God in the universe, present everywhere and visible nowhere. View quote
Gustave Flaubert
In the present crisis, government is not the solution to our problem government is the problem. View quote
Ronald Reagan
History is the depository of great actions, the witness of what is past, the example and instructor of the present, and monitor to the future. View quote
Miguel de Cervantes
There's no present. There's only the immediate future and the recent past. View quote
George Carlin
Look not mournfully into the past, it comes not back again. Wisely improve the present, it is thine. Go forth to meet the shadowy future without fear and with a manly heart. View quote
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Great literature must spring from an upheaval in the author's soul. If that upheaval is not present then it must come from the works of any other author which happens to be handy and easily adapted. View quote
Robert Benchley
I think it's bad to talk about one's present work, for it spoils something at the root of the creative act. It discharges the tension. View quote
Norman Mailer
Philosophy triumphs easily over past and future evils But present evils triumph over it. (François de La Rochefoucauld)
Those who compare the age in which their lot has fallen with a golden age which exists only in imagination, may talk of degeneracy and decay; but no man who is correctly informed as to the past, will be disposed to take a morose or desponding view of the present. View quote
Thomas Babington Macaulay
When they call the roll in the Senate, the Senators do not know whether to answer "Present" or "Not guilty." View quote
Theodore Roosevelt
Real generosity toward the future lies in giving all to the present. View quote
Albert Camus
The discovery of truth is prevented more effectively, not by the false appearance things present and which mislead into error, not directly by weakness of the reasoning powers, but by preconceived opinion, by prejudice. View quote
Arthur Schopenhauer
📖 Present Proverbs