The Zen of Success – Successful Thoughts on Present
One of the most important and effective ways to gain knowledge, enlightenment and understanding about the PRESENT and the great importance of it to our lives, is to learn from Successful people in history that have gone before us and become a priceless part of our past and PRESENT, and who were and are generous with their thoughts, experience and understanding.
Do not dwell in the past, and do not dream of the future, concentrate the mind on the present moment. – Buddha
The secret of health for both mind and body is not to mourn for the past, nor to worry about the future, but to live the present moment wisely and earnestly. – Buddha
If the present Congress errs in too much talking, how can it be otherwise in a body to which the people send one hundred and fifty lawyers, whose trade it is to question everything, yield nothing, and talk by the hour? – Thomas Jefferson
Peace and abstinence from European interferences are our objects, and so will continue while the present order of things in America remain uninterrupted. – Thomas Jefferson
The distinction between the past, present and future is only a stubbornly persistent illusion. – Albert Einstein
Politics is for the present, but an equation is for eternity. – Albert Einstein
The dogmas of the quiet past are inadequate to the stormy present. The occasion is piled high with difficulty, and we must rise with the occasion. As our case is new, so we must think anew and act anew. – Abraham Lincoln
Prejudice is a burden that confuses the past, threatens the future and renders the present inaccessible. – Maya Angelou
For Africa to me… is more than a glamorous fact. It is a historical truth. No man can know where he is going unless he knows exactly where he has been and exactly how he arrived at his present place. – Maya Angelou
If we open a quarrel between past and present we shall find that we have lost the future. – Winston Churchill
I do not want to foresee the future. I am concerned with taking care of the present. God has given me no control over the moment following. - Mohandas Gandhi
It may be hard for an egg to turn into a bird: it would be a jolly sight harder for it to learn to fly while remaining an egg. We are like eggs at present. And you cannot go on indefinitely being just an ordinary, decent egg. We must be hatched or go bad. – 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
The absent are never without fault, nor the present without excuse. – Benjamin Franklin
There’s no present. There’s only the immediate future and the recent past. – George Carlin
The future influences the present just as much as the past. – Friedrich Nietzsche
Existence really is an imperfect tense that never becomes a present. – Friedrich Nietzsche
When they call the roll in the Senate the Senators do not know whether to answer “Present” or “Not guilty.” – Theodore Roosevelt
Freedom from effort in the present merely means that there has been effort stored up in the past. – Theodore Roosevelt
Fatherhood is pretending the present you love most is soap-on-a-rope. – Bill Cosby
The problem with the future is that it keeps turning into the present. – Bill Watterson
I do not know which makes a man more conservative – to know nothing but the present, or nothing but the past. – John Maynard Keynes
The importance of money flows from it being a link between the present and the future. – John Maynard Keynes
Often it takes some calamity to make us live in the present. Then suddenly we wake up and see all the mistakes we have made. – Bill Watterson
The future is keeping you out of the present time. – Van Morrison
The more anger towards the past you carry in your heart, the less capable you are of loving in the present. – Barbara de Angelis