Need some inspiration to live in the present moment? Look no further – enjoy the following 38 quotes about living in the present moment. Life may be interpreted not retroactively, but it has to be experienced today. If you’re worried about what may be and ponder what could have been, you’ll neglect what is. How will I be happy in life? 45 quotes about living a perfect life at the moment.
Life Quotes About Living
Everyone experiences failure at some point in their life — even the most successful people. Although failure can be discouraging, it’s important to never give up and keep going. Let these quotes motivate you to continue working toward your goals and be the most successful version of yourself.
“Don’t find fault, find a remedy: anyone can complain.” -Henry Ford
“If you set your goals ridiculously high and it’s a failure, you will fail above everyone else’s success.” -James Cameron
“Everything you’ve ever wanted is on the other side of fear.” -George Addair
“I have learned over the years that when one’s mind is made up, this diminishes fear.” -Rosa Parks
“If you want to make your dreams come true, the first thing you have to do is wake up.” -J.M. Power
“The only impossible journey is the one you never begin.” -Tony Robbins
“You become what you believe.” -Oprah Winfrey
“Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn’t do than by the ones you did do. So, throw off the bowlines, sail away from safe harbor, and catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore, Dream, Discover.” -Mark Twain
“Your time is limited, so don’t waste it living someone else’s life. Don’t be trapped by dogma — which is living with the results of other people’s thinking.” -Steve Jobs
“The greatest glory in living lies not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.” -Nelson Mandela
“First, have a definite, clear practical ideal; a goal, an objective. Second, have the necessary means to achieve your ends; wisdom, money, materials, and methods. Third, adjust all your means to that end.” -Aristotle
Inspiring Quotes About Living Life In The Moment
1. “Every actor has a natural animosity toward every other actor, present or absent, living or dead.” — Louise Brooks
2. “How could youths better learn to live than by at once trying the experiment of living?” — Henry David Thoreau
3. “A truly good book teaches me better than to read it. I must soon lay it down, and commence living on its hint. What I began by reading, I must finish by acting.” — Henry David Thoreau
4. “For my own part, I wish the bald eagle had not been chosen the representative of our country. He is a bird of bad moral character. He does not get his living honestly.” — Benjamin Franklin
5. “The mystic cords of memory, stretching from every battlefield and patriot grave to every living heart and hearthstone, all over this broad land, will yet swell the chorus of the Union, when again touched, as surely they will be, by the angels of our nature.” — Abraham Lincoln
6. “If there should prove to be one real, living Free State Democrat in Kansas, I suggest that it might be well to catch him and stuff and preserve his skin as an interesting specimen of that soon-to-be-extinct variety of the genus Democrat.” — Abraham Lincoln
7. “Science is a wonderful thing if one does not have to earn one’s living at it.” — Albert Einstein
8. “’A living dog is better than a dead lion.’ Judge Douglas, if not a dead lion for this work, is at least a caged and toothless one. How can he oppose the advances of slavery? He don’t care anything about it.” — Abraham Lincoln
9. “True religion is real living; living with all one’s soul, with all one’s goodness and righteousness.” — Albert Einstein
10. “We are always getting ready to live but never living.” — Ralph Waldo Emerson
11. “Let us beware of saying that death is the opposite of life. The living being is only a species of the dead, and a very rare species.” — Friedrich Nietzsche
12. “What is the fear of living? It’s being preeminently afraid of dying. It is not doing what you came here to do, out of timidity and spinelessness. The antidote is to take full responsibility for yourself – for the time you take up and the space you occupy. If you don’t know what you’re here to do, then just do some good.” — Maya Angelou
13. “An individual has not started living until he can rise above the narrow confines of his individualistic concerns to the broader concerns of all humanity.” — Martin Luther King, Jr.
14. “Living in a state of terror was new to many white people in America, but black people have been living in a state of terror in this country for more than 400 years.” — Maya Angelou
15. “Those who educate children well are more to be honored than they who produce them; for these only gave them life, those the art of living well.” — Aristotle
16. “And why not death rather than living torment? To die is to be banish’d from myself; And Silvia is myself: banish’d from her Is self from self: a deadly banishment!” — William Shakespeare
17. “I may neither choose who I would, nor refuse who I dislike; so is the will of a living daughter curbed by the will of a dead father.” — William Shakespeare
18. “A little simplification would be the first step toward rational living, I think.” — Eleanor Roosevelt
19. “The things that will destroy America are prosperity-at-any-price, peace-at-any-price, safety-first instead of duty-first, the love of soft living, and the get-rich-quick theory of life.” — Theodore Roosevelt
20. “I have worshipped woman as the living embodiment of the spirit of service and sacrifice.” — Mahatma Gandhi
21. “Just as a man would not cherish living in a body other than his own, so do nations not like to live under other nations, however noble and great the latter maybe.” — Mahatma Gandhi
22. “Freedom is never dear at any price. It is the breath of life. What would a man not pay for living?” — Mahatma Gandhi
23. “Fact: If the standard of living is your number one objective, quality of life almost never improves. But if the quality of life is your number one objective, the standard of living invariably improves.” — Zig Ziglar
24. “Man falls from the pursuit of the ideal of plan living and high thinking the moment he wants to multiply his daily wants. Man’s happiness really lies in contentment.” — Mahatma Gandhi
25. “The man who makes everything that leads to happiness depends upon himself, and not upon other men, has adopted the very best plan for living happily. This is the man of moderation, the man of manly character and of wisdom.” — Plato
26. “There is an orderliness in the universe, there is an unalterable law governing everything and every being that exists or lives. It is no blind law; for no blind law can govern the conduct of living beings.” — Mahatma Gandhi
27. “Whether you are a low-income elderly woman living at the end of a dirt road in Vermont or a wealthy CEO living on Park Avenue, you get your mail six days a week. And you pay for this service at a cost far less than anywhere else in the industrialized world.” — Bernie Sanders
28. “Hillary Clinton understands that if someone in America this country works 40 hours a week, that person should not be living in poverty. She understands that we must raise the minimum wage to a living wage.” — Bernie Sanders
29. “You go to Scandinavia, and you will find that people have a much higher standard of living, in terms of education, health care and decent paying jobs.” — Bernie Sanders
30. “I wasn’t satisfied just to earn a good living. I was looking to make a statement.” — Donald Trump
31. “In America, we understand that a nation is only living as long as it is striving.” — Donald Trump
32. “I feel very lucky to make a living from my imagination; I’m very grateful for that. I like that what I do is create. I’m feeling very lucky to have had the career I had. It’s gone much longer and bigger than I ever thought it would be.” — Steven Wright
33. “Our job is to do two things – to defeat Donald Trump and to elect Hillary Clinton. It is easy to boo, but it is harder to look your kids in the face if we are living under a Trump presidency.” — Bernie Sanders
34. “The public doesn’t mind people living together without being married, providing they don’t overdo it.” — Marilyn Monroe
35. “With fame, you know, you can read about yourself, somebody else’s ideas about you, but what’s important is how you feel about yourself – for survival and living day to day with what comes up.” — Marilyn Monroe
36. “Nothing’s ever easy as long as you go on living.” — Marilyn Monroe
37. “Sometimes, wearing a scarf and a polo coat and no makeup and with a certain attitude of walking, I go shopping or just look at people living. But then, you know, there will be a few teenagers who are kind of sharp, and they’ll say, ‘Hey, just a minute. You know who I think that is?’ And they’ll start tailing me. And I don’t mind.” — Marilyn Monroe
38. “A young man who does not have what it takes to perform military service is not likely to have what it takes to make a living. Today’s military rejects include tomorrow’s hard-core unemployed.” — John F. Kennedy
Inspiration
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