Quotes with present

  • 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.
  • To grow, you must be willing to let your present and future be totally unlike your past. Your history is not your destiny.
  • Children have neither a past nor a future. Thus they enjoy the present - which seldom happens to us.
  • The construction of life is at present in the power of facts far more than convictions.
  • To sit for one's portrait is like being present at one's own creation.
  • The most accomplished way of using books at present is to serve them as some do lords, learn their titles, and then boast of their acquaintance.
  • Negative people present us with an accelereted personal growth opportunity.
  • A cold atheistical materialism is the tendency of the so-called material philosophy of the present day.
  • In each action we must look beyond the action at our past, present, and future state, and at others whom it affects, and see the relations of all those things. And then we shall be very cautious.
  • Every man's life lies within the present; for the past is spent and done with, and the future is uncertain.
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  • Henry David Thoreau How many a man has dated a new era in his life from the reading of a book! The book exists for us, perchance, that will explain our miracles and reveal new ones. The at present unutterable things we may find somewhere uttered.
    Henry David Thoreau
    American writer (1817 - 1862)
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  • Benjamin Franklin Ambition has its disappointments to sour us, but never the good fortune to satisfy us. Its appetite grows keener by indulgence and all we can gratify it with at present serves but the more to inflame its insatiable desires.
    Benjamin Franklin
    American statesman and physicist (1706 - 1790)
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  • Aristotle Bring your desires down to your present means. Increase them only when your increased means permit.
    Aristotle
    Greek philosopher (384 - 322)
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  • Abraham H. Maslow I can feel guilty about the past, apprehensive about the future, but only in the present can I act. The ability to be in the present moment is a major component of mental wellness.
    Abraham H. Maslow
    American psychologist (1908 - 1970)
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  • George Washington I do not mean to exclude altogether the idea of patriotism. I know it exists, and I know it has done much in the present contest. But I will venture to assert, that a great and lasting war can never be supported on this principle alone. It must be aided b
    George Washington
    First president of the US (1732 - 1799)
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  • C. S. Lewis If you read history you will find that the Christians who did most for the present world were precisely those who thought most of the next. It is since Christians have largely ceased to think of the other world that they have become so ineffective in this.
    C. S. Lewis
    Irish novelist and poet (1898 - 1963)
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  • Frederick Douglass We have to do with the past only as we can make it useful to the present and the future.
    Frederick Douglass
    African-American social reformer, abolitionist, orator and writer (1818 - 1895)
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  • C. P. Snow A good many times I have been present at gatherings of people who, by the standards of the traditional culture, are thought highly educated and who have with considerable gusto been expressing their incredulity at the illiteracy of scientists. Once or twice I have been provoked and have asked the company how many of them could describe the Second Law of Thermodynamics. The response was cold: it was also negative. Yet I was asking something which is about the scientific equivalent of: Have you re
    The Two Cultures (1959)
    C. P. Snow
    English novelist (1905 - 1980)
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  • Vladimir Nabokov A novelist is, like all mortals, more fully at home on the surface of the present than in the ooze of the past.
    Vladimir Nabokov
    American writer and poet (1899 - 1977)
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  • William Law Be intent on the perfection of the present day.
    William Law
    English priest (1686 - 1761)
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  • Marcus Aurelius Confine yourself to the present
    Marcus Aurelius
    Roman emperor (121 - 180)
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  • Sir John Lubbock Don't be afraid of showing affection. Be warm and tender, thoughtful and affectionate. Men are more helped by sympathy than by service. Love is more than money, and a kind word will give more pleasure than a present.
    Sir John Lubbock
    British statesman and banker (1834 - 1913)
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  • Robert Conklin Dreams get you into the future and add excitement to the present.
    Robert Conklin
    American teacher, writer
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  • Friedrich Nietzsche Existence really is an imperfect tense that never becomes a present.
    Friedrich Nietzsche
    German poet and philosopher (1844 - 1900)
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  • Kate Millet However muted its present appearance may be, sexual dominion obtains nevertheless as perhaps the most pervasive ideology of our culture and provides its most fundamental concept of power.
    Kate Millet
    American writer (1934 - 2017)
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  • Dale Carnegie I deal with the obvious. I present, reiterate and glorify the obvious - because the obvious is what people need to be told.
    Dale Carnegie
    American writer and lecturer (1888 - 1955)
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  • Barbara Hepworth My works are an imitation of my own past and present.
    Barbara Hepworth
    English artist and sculptor (1903 - 1975)
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  • George Orwell Power-worship blurs political judgment because it leads, almost unavoidably, to the belief that present trends will continue. Whoever is winning at the moment will always seem to be invincible.
    George Orwell
    English writer (ps. of Eric Blair) (1903 - 1950)
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  • G.W.F. Hegel The East knew and to the present day knows only that One is Free; the Greek and the Roman world, that some are free; the German World knows that All are free. The first political form therefore which we observe in History, is Despotism, the second Democracy and Aristocracy, the third, Monarchy.
    G.W.F. Hegel
    German philosopher (1770 - 1831)
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  • Roland Barthes There is only one way left to escape the alienation of present day society: to retreat ahead of it.
    Roland Barthes
    French writer, literary critic, linguist and philosopher (1915 - 1980)
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