• Ralph Waldo Emerson (from the 'Self Reliance' essay, 1841)

  • "But man postpones or remembers; he does not live in the present, but with reverted eye laments the past, or, heedless of the riches that surround him, stands on tiptoe to foresee the future. He cannot be happy and strong until he too lives with nature in the present, above time."
     
• Henry Ford (Founder of Ford Motor Company, quoted in 1916)
  • "History is more or less bunk.  It's tradition.  We don't want tradition.  We want to live in the present and the only history that's worth a tinker's damn is the history we make today." 
     
• Jesus Christ
  • "Therefore do not worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will worry about itself.  Each day has enough troubles of its own." Matthew 6:24, The Bible
     
• Wayne Dyer (self-help author)
  • "The more I give myself permission to live in the moment and enjoy it without feeling guilty . . . the better I feel about
    the quality of my work."
     
• Fenelon (Author of The Seeking Heart)
  • "You really don't even own the present moment, for even this belongs to God."
  • "Above all, live in the present moment and God will give you all the grace you need."
     
• John Kuypers (author of What's Important Now and The Non-Judgmental Christian)
  • "The core principle for feeling at peace in the present moment is to act or accept, but never stay stuck." 
     
• Mother Teresa (1910-1997); Nun, missionary
  • "I believe in person to person. Every person is Christ to me, and since there is only one Jesus, that person is the one person in the world at that moment."
     
• Mark Van Doren (1894-1972) poet, author, American professor
  • "There is one thing we can do, and the happiest people are those who can do it to the limit of their ability.  We can be completely present.   We can be all here.  We can give all our attention to the opportunity before us."
     
• Dr. Viktor Frankl (author of Man's Search For Meaning)
  • "We had to learn...that it did not really matter what we expected from life but rather what life expected from us." Man's Search For Meaning © 1946
     
• Sir Winston Churchill
  • "It is a mistake to look too far ahead.  The chain of destiny can only be grasped one link at a time."
     
• Mahatma Gandhi (Spiritual Leader, India)
  • "When I despair, I remember that all through history, the way of truth and love has always won. There have been tyrants and murderers and for a time they seem invincible but in the end they always fall. Think of it.  Always."
     
• Spencer Johnson (Author, The Present, The One Minute Manager, Who Moved My Cheese?)
  • "Look at what happened in the Past.  Learn something valuable from it.  Do things differently in the present." pg 81, The Present  © 2003
     
• Eckhart Tolle (author of The Power of Now, and A New Earth)
  •  "...the foundation for greatness is honoring the small things of the present moment instead of pursuing the idea of greatness."  p 266,  A New Earth  © 2005
  • "By watching the mechanics of the mind, you step out of its resistance patterns, and you can then allow the present moment to be." The Power of Now © 1997
     
• Blaise Pascal (1623-1662); French mathematician & philosopher
  •  “ The present is never our goal: the past and present are our means: the future alone is our goal. Thus, we never live but we hope to live; and always hoping to be happy, it is inevitable that we will never be so.

The Serenity Prayer - a vision for being the real you in the present moment.