Making the Most of Now Quotes

Be always resolute with the present hour. Every moment is of infinite value.

You must live in the present, launch yourself on every wave, find your eternity in each moment. Fools stand on their island of opportunities and look toward another land. There is no other land; there is no other life but this.

The point of power is always in the present moment.

Today will never come again.

People say to me, 'What are you going to be doing in five years?' The thing is, I don't care! It's what I'm doing today that matters.

Forget the past - the future will give you plenty to worry about.

Today is all we have, tomorrow is a mirage that may never become reality.

If tomorrow wasn’t promised, what would you give for today?

You can't afford to think about what might have been. You just be aware of what is.

Even though the future seems far away, it is actually beginning right now.

I am living my real life, this is it. Now is now, and if I waited to be happier, waited to have fun, waited to do the things that I know I ought to do, I might never get the chance.

Yet he who grasps the moment's gift, He is the proper man.

It's hard to remember that this day will never come again. That the time is now and the place is here and that there are no second chances at a single moment.

Today While the blossoms still cling to the vine I'll taste your strawberries I'll drink your sweet wine A million tomorrows shall all pass away Here I forget all the joy that is mine. Today I'll be a dandy and I'll be a rover You know who I am by the songs that I sing I'll feast at your table I'll sleep in your clover Who cares what tomorrow shall bring I can't be contented with yesterday's glory I can't live on promises winter to spring Today is my moment and now is my story I'll laugh and I'll cry and I'll sing

Don't live in the past. There's no point. You can't change anything. What a waste of time.

I do not think it worth while to wait for enjoyment until there is some real opportunity for it.

In Korean, the word 'future' is made up of two parts. The first part means 'not,' and the second means 'to come.' In that sense, 'future' means something that will not come. This is to say the future is now, and our now is us living our future.

Make the best of every moment. We're not evolving. We're not going anywhere.

Life is divided into three terms - that which was, which is, and which will be. Let us learn from the past to profit by the present, and from the present, to live better in the future.

This moment and this chance, they are the same, and they are mine if I choose them,and I do. I want them. Now and as long as I can have them they are both precious and fleeting and gone in the blink of an eye, don't waste them. A moment and an opportunity and a life, all in the unseen tick of a clock holding me nowhere. My heart is beating. The walls are pale and quiet. I am surviving.

Look not mournfully into the past, it comes not back again. Wisely improve the present, it is thine. Go forth to meet the shadowy future without fear and with a manly heart.

None of us is promised tomorrow... So whenever an opportunity has presented itself for me I'm willing to take it.

But in the meantime all the life you have or ever will have is today, tonight, tomorrow, today, tonight, tomorrow, over and over again (I hope).

And then we’ll all go off to sweet life, ‘cause now is the time and we all know time!