Quotes with present-giving

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  • Wayne Dyer When I chased after money, I never had enough. When I got my life on purpose and focused on giving of myself and everything that arrived into my life, then I was prosperous.
    Wayne Dyer
    American philosopher, self-help author, and a motivational speaker. (1940 - 2015)
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  • Booth Tarkington When I get to be a man! Being human, though boys, they considered their present estate too commonplace to be dwelt upon. So, when the old men gather, they say: When I was a boy! It really is the land of nowadays that we never discover.
    Booth Tarkington
    American novelist and dramatist (1869 - 1946)
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  • Bruce Coville When I go into schools to speak, I am not giving a speech - it's really a one-man show. I call it 'didactic standup.'
    Bruce Coville
    American author (1950 - )
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  • Adelbert von Chamisso When I spoke, I was listened to; and I was at a loss to know how I had so easily acquired the art of commanding attention, and giving the tone to the conversation.
    Adelbert von Chamisso
    German writer, liar and explorer (1781 - 1838)
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  • Bob Verdi When is it too late to say it's still early for the Cubs? Try now. Their magic number is 1998, at least until it becomes 1999, but in lieu of a present, they offer you a future.
    Bob Verdi
     
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  • Hector Hugh Munro When people grow gradually rich their requirements and standard of living expand in proportion, while their present-giving instincts often remain in the undeveloped condition of their earlier days. Something showy and not-too-expensive in a shop is their only conception of the ideal gift.
    Hector Hugh Munro
    British Novelist, Writer (1870 - 1916)
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  • Martin Amis When the past is forgotten, the present is unforgettable.
    Source:  (2012)
    Martin Amis
    British novelist (1949 - 2023)
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  • Helen Schucman When the wish for peace is genuine, the means for finding it is giving in a form each mind that seeks for it in honesty can understand.
    Helen Schucman
    American psychologist
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  • Theodore Roosevelt When they call the roll in the Senate, the senators do not know whether to answer ''present'' or ''not guilty.''
    Theodore Roosevelt
    American statesman (1858 - 1919)
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  • Jack Kornfield When we come into the present, we begin to feel the life around us again, but we also encounter whatever we have been avoiding. We must have the courage to face whatever is present - our pain, our desires, our grief, our loss, our secret hopes our love - everything that moves us most deeply.
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  • Norman Vincent Peale When you become detached mentally from yourself and concentrate on helping other people with their difficulties, you will be able to cope with your own more effectively. Somehow, the act of self-giving is a personal power-releasing factor.
    Norman Vincent Peale
    American minister and author (1898 - 1993)
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  • Cass Elliot When you're famous, you don't get to meet people because they want you to like them when the present themselves to you, and you don't see the real people.
    Cass Elliot
    American singer and actress (1941 - 1974)
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  • Bill Viola When you're making video, you're giving structure to time, which is what a composer does.
    Bill Viola
    American video artist (1951 - )
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  • Henry Louis Mencken Whenever a husband and wife begin to discuss their marriage they are giving evidence at a coroner's inquest.
    Henry Louis Mencken
    American journalist and critic (1880 - 1956)
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  • William James Whenever two people meet there are really six people present. There is each man as he sees himself, each man as the other person sees him, and each man as he really is.
    William James
    American philosopher (1842 - 1910)
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  • Epictetus Whenever you are angry, be assured that it is not only a present evil, but that you have increased a habit.
    Epictetus
    Roman philosopher (50 - 130)
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  • Desiderius Erasmus Whether a party can have much success without a woman present I must ask others to decide, but one thing is certain, no party is any fun unless seasoned with folly.
    Desiderius Erasmus
    Dutch humanist and philosopher (1469 - 1536)
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  • George Orwell Who controls the past controls the future: who controls the present controls the past.
    George Orwell
    English writer (ps. of Eric Blair) (1903 - 1950)
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  • George Orwell Who controls the past, controls the future. Who controls the present, controls the past.
    Source: 1984 Hfd. 2
    George Orwell
    English writer (ps. of Eric Blair) (1903 - 1950)
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  • Sir Walter Raleigh Who so desireth to know what will be hereafter, let him think of what is past, for the world hath ever been in a circular revolution; whatsoever is now, was heretofore; and things past or present, are no other than such as shall be again: Redit orbis in orbem.
    Sir Walter Raleigh
    British courtier, writer (1552 - 1618)
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