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

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

Bring your desires down to your present means. Increase them only when your increased means permit.
Aristotle

You must live in the present, launch yourself on every wave, find your eternity in each moment.
Henry David Thoreau

As in geology, so in social institutions, we may discover the causes of all past changes in the present invariable order of society.
Henry David Thoreau

There is always a present and extant life, be it better or worse, which all combine to uphold.
Henry David Thoreau

In dwelling, live close to the ground. In thinking, keep to the simple. In conflict, be fair and generous. In governing, don't try to control. In work, do what you enjoy. In family life, be completely present.
Lao Tzu

It is by no means an irrational fancy that, in a future existence, we shall look upon what we think our present existence, as a dream.
Edgar Allan Poe

The ability to be in the present moment is a major component of mental wellness.
Abraham Maslow

Happiness is not something you postpone for the future; it is something you design for the present.
Jim Rohn

We don't want tradition. We want to live in the present and the only history that is worth a tinker's dam is the history we make today.
Henry Ford

Feeling sorry for yourself, and your present condition, is not only a waste of energy but the worst habit you could possibly have.
Dale Carnegie

In rivers, the water that you touch is the last of what has passed and the first of that which comes; so with present time.
Leonardo da Vinci

The future is no more uncertain than the present.
Walt Whitman

It is my intention to present - through the medium of photography - intuitive observations of the natural world which may have meaning to the spectators.
Ansel Adams

The meaning of life is contained in every single expression of life. It is present in the infinity of forms and phenomena that exist in all of creation.
Michael Jackson

On a level plain, simple mounds look like hills; and the insipid flatness of our present bourgeoisie is to be measured by the altitude of its great intellects.
Karl Marx

I try to learn from the past, but I plan for the future by focusing exclusively on the present. That's were the fun is.
Donald Trump