Present Quotes

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.

The future depends on what we do in the present.

We are responsible for what we are, and whatever we wish ourselves to be, we have the power to make ourselves. If what we are now has been the result of our own past actions, it certainly follows that whatever we wish to be in the future can be produced by our present actions; so we have to know how to act.

The present is determined by our past actions, and the future by the present.

We shall have no better conditions in the future if we are satisfied with all those which we have at present.

The distinction between the past, present and future is only a stubbornly persistent illusion.

Politics is for the present, but an equation is for eternity.

The distinction between past, present and future is only an illusion, however persistent.

In times like the present, men should utter nothing for which they would not willingly be responsible through time and in eternity.

What is our present condition? We have just carried an election on principles fairly stated to the people. Now we are told in advance, the government shall be broken up, unless we surrender to those we have beaten, before we take the offices.

Is he [youth] not the inventor and owner of the present, and sole hope of the future?

I have become my own version of an optimist. If I can't make it through one door, I'll go through another door - or I'll make a door. Something terrific will come no matter how dark the present.