You cannot expect to achieve new goals or move beyond your present circumstances unless you change.
Les Brown

If you are carrying strong feelings about something that happened in your past, they may hinder your ability to live in the present.
Les Brown

We must not only cease our present desire for the growth of the state, but we must desire its decrease, its weakening.
Leo Tolstoy

It is said that the present is pregnant with the future.
Voltaire

It takes a long time to bring the past up to the present.
Franklin D. Roosevelt

Don't forget what I discovered that over ninety percent of all national deficits from 1921 to 1939 were caused by payments for past, present, and future wars.
Franklin D. Roosevelt

Art is not a treasure in the past or an importation from another land, but part of the present life of all living and creating peoples.
Franklin D. Roosevelt

The present is the ever moving shadow that divides yesterday from tomorrow. In that lies hope.
Frank Lloyd Wright

Pick the day. Enjoy it - to the hilt. The day as it comes. People as they come... The past, I think, has helped me appreciate the present - and I don't want to spoil any of it by fretting about the future.
Audrey Hepburn

The promise given was a necessity of the past: the word broken is a necessity of the present.
Niccolo Machiavelli

Never let the future disturb you. You will meet it, if you have to, with the same weapons of reason which today arm you against the present.
Marcus Aurelius

Confine yourself to the present.
Marcus Aurelius

As the same fire assumes different shapes When it consumes objects differing in shape, So does the one Self take the shape Of every creature in whom he is present.
Marcus Aurelius

There exists only the present instant... a Now which always and without end is itself new. There is no yesterday nor any tomorrow, but only Now, as it was a thousand years ago and as it will be a thousand years hence.
Meister Eckhart

Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past.
George Orwell

We have to do with the past only as we can make it useful to the present and the future.
Frederick Douglass

America is false to the past, false to the present, and solemnly binds herself to be false to the future.
Frederick Douglass

Gossip is what you say about the objects of flattery when they aren't present.
P. J. O'Rourke

Solitude is not something you must hope for in the future. Rather, it is a deepening of the present, and unless you look for it in the present you will never find it.
Thomas Merton

The present letter is a very long one, simply because I had no leisure to make it shorter.
Blaise Pascal