Present Action Quotes

Planning is bringing the future into the present so that you can do something about it now.

Fears, indecision, and frustration feed on words. Without words they usually stop. . . . Words are at times good for looking back, but they are confining when I need to act in the present.

When you cut into the present the future leaks out.

Your future is created by what you do today, not tomorrow.

Ends are for yesterday, not tomorrows.

People who died could not come back to life, so guaranteeing the right to life should not be a thing of the future, but should be advancing right now.

First things first; take care of what can be done now before worrying too long over what might never be.

Today's belief is tomorrow's behavior. If you want to be happier person tomorrow, sow seeds of happiness today.

He who would be a great soul in the future, must be a great soul now.

Everyone has a common, yet unique, responsibility to the future: to make the most of today.

If we are worried about the future, then we must look today at the upbringing of children.

Imagine for a moment your own version of a perfect future. See yourself in that future with everything you could wish for at this very moment fulfilled. Now take the memory of that future and bring it here into the present. Let it influence how you will behave from this moment on.

What's important now? - To evaluate the past, focus on the future, and tell you what you have to do in the present

Mind concentrates: it acts out of the past. Meditation acts in the present, out of the present.

Be mindful of the link between present action and desired future outcome. Ask yourself: if I repeat today’s actions 365 times, will I be where I want to be in a year?

I believe how I act today will affect how I am tomorrow.

It’s what you do in the present that will redeem the past and thereby change the future.

Setting goals helps bring your future into your present and the present is the only time we can take action.

Integration is a word of the past, the word of the future and the word of the present is contribution.

Political activity means working for the future; the more we look into the future the more far-sighted will our policy be - so much the more clear and decided. The less far we try to see into the future, the more we content ourselves with the daily routine (Alltäglichkeit), the more weak and uncertain will be our policy of to-day. Every politician of note must, therefore endeavor out of the present to conclude what the future will be, and, if he wants to win the masses to his politics then he must attempt to make his expectations of the future plausible

What is the future you're creating right now?

What is Perfected hereafter, must be begun here.

What you are going to be tomorrow, you are becoming today.

In a serious sense, wanting to change something from the past doesn't work for me - change something you don't enjoy now rather than regretting it later.

No way exists in the present to accurately determine the future effect of the least of our actions.