267 quotes found
“Live wastes itself while we are preparing to live.”
“Men spend their lives in anticipation in determining to be vastly happy at some period when they have time. But the present time has one advantage over every other-it is our own.... We may lay in ...”
“You do well to have visions of a better life than of every day but it is the life of every day from which the elements of a better life must come.”
“The most effective way to ensure the value of the future is to confront the present courageously and constructively.”
“The habit of looking into the future and thinking that the whole meaning of the present lies in what it will bring forth is a pernicious one. There can be no value in the whole unless there is valu...”
“You don't save a pitcher for tomorrow. Tomorrow it may rain.”
“Very strange is this quality of our human nature which decrees that unless we feel a future before us we do not live completely in the present.”
“Just do your best today and tomorrow will come ... tomorrow's going to be a busy day a happy day.”
“Do today's duty fight today's temptation do not weaken and distract yourself by looking forward to things you cannot see and could not understand if you saw them.”
“Live for today. Multitudes of people have failed to live for today. ... What they have had within their grasp today they have missed entirely because only the future has intrigued them.”
“A preoccupation with the future not only prevents us from seeing the present as it is but often prompts us to rearrange the past.”
“The man least dependent upon the morrow goes to meet the morrow most cheerfully.”
“Today's egg is better than tomorrow's hen.”
“T'were too absurd to slight for the hereafter the day's delight!”
“The best part of our lives we pass in counting on what is to come.”
“It seems to be the fate of man to seek all his consolations in futurity.”
“The prospect of being pleased tomorrow will never console me for the boredom of today.”
“The past and present are only our means the future is always our end. Thus we never really live but only hope to live.”
“Heaven gives us hope and makes our present burdens easier to bear.”
“Modernity exists in the form of a desire to wipe out whatever came earlier, in the hope of reaching at least a point that could be called a true present, a point of origin that marks a new departure.”
