Today Quotes: Inspirations for Living in the Present Moment

"The best preparation for good work tomorrow is to do good work today"

"I like to use the hard times in the past to motivate me today"

"In thinking about nanotechnology today, what's most important is understanding where it leads, what nanotechnology will look like after we reach the assembler breakthrough"

K. Eric Drexler, Scientist

"If today I stand here as a revolutionary, it is as a revolutionary against the Revolution"

Adolf Hitler, Criminal

"Today I bent the truth to be kind, and I have no regret, for I am far surer of what is kind than I am of what is true"

Robert Brault, Philosopher

"The science of today is the technology of tomorrow"

Edward Teller, Physicist

"Work as though you would live forever, and live as though you would die today. Go another mile!"

Og Mandino, Author

"I am tomorrow, or some future day, what I establish today. I am today what I established yesterday or some previous day"

James Joyce, Novelist

"When truth is no longer free, freedom is no longer real: the truths of the police are the truths of today"

Jacques Prevert, Poet

"The politician's promises of yesterday are the taxes of today"

Mackenzie King, Statesman

"One fifth of human kind depend on fish to live. Today now 70 percent of the fish stock are over-exploited. According to FAO if we don't change our system of fishing the main sea resources will be gone in 2050. We don't want to believe what we know"

Yann Arthus-Bertrand, Photographer

"He who laughs best today, will also laughs last"

Friedrich Nietzsche, Philosopher

"Today I love myself as I love my god: who could charge me with a sin today? I know only sins against my god; but who knows my god?"

Friedrich Nietzsche, Philosopher

"On the mountains of truth you can never climb in vain: either you will reach a point higher up today, or you will be training your powers so that you will be able to climb higher tomorrow"

Friedrich Nietzsche, Philosopher

"One today is worth two tomorrows"

Benjamin Franklin, Politician

"What is not started today is never finished tomorrow"

Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe, Writer

"Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow. The important thing is not to stop questioning"

Albert Einstein, Physicist

"To assert in any case that a man must be absolutely cut off from society because he is absolutely evil amounts to saying that society is absolutely good, and no-one in his right mind will believe this today"

Albert Camus, Philosopher

"I, not events, have the power to make me happy or unhappy today. I can choose which it shall be. Yesterday is dead, tomorrow hasn't arrived yet. I have just one day, today, and I'm going to be happy in it"

Groucho Marx, Comedian

"The outer passes away; the innermost is the same yesterday, today, and forever"

Thomas Carlyle, Writer

"Beginning today, treat everyone you meet as if they were going to be dead by midnight. Extend to them all the care, kindness and understanding you can muster, and do it with no thought of any reward. Your life will never be the same again"

Og Mandino, Author

"Two races share today the soil of Canada. These people had not always been friends. But I hasten to say it. There is no longer any family here but the human family. It matters not the language people speak, or the altars at which they kneel"

Wilfrid Laurier, Statesman

"It is change, continuing change, inevitable change, that is the dominant factor in society today. No sensible decision can be made any longer without taking into account not only the world as it is, but the world as it will be"

Isaac Asimov, Scientist

"In a few decades, the relationship between the environment, resources and conflict may seem almost as obvious as the connection we see today between human rights, democracy and peace"

Wangari Maathai, Activist

"Today you are you! That is truer than true! There is no one alive who is you-er than you!"

Dr. Seuss, Writer

"Worrying is carrying tomorrow's load with today's strength- carrying two days at once. It is moving into tomorrow ahead of time. Worrying doesn't empty tomorrow of its sorrow, it empties today of its strength"

Corrie Ten Boom, Celebrity

"Today we no longer regard the universe as the cause of our own undeserved troubles but perhaps, on the contrary, as the last refuge from the mismanagement of our earthly affairs"

Rudolf Arnheim, Artist

"We only had enough money really to cut 10 things and be in there for a month because it's expensive, you know. And, singer/songwriters, today are lucky if they can get a deal, you know. So, we actually worked so fast that we really cut 20 things"

Graham Nash, Musician

"So long as the laws remain such as they are today, employ some discretion: loud opinion forces us to do so; but in privacy and silence let us compensate ourselves for that cruel chastity we are obliged to display in public"

Marquis de Sade, Novelist

"Boxing gave me the opportunities to grow into the person that I am today"

Alexis Arguello, Athlete

"An economist is an expert who will know tomorrow why the things he predicted yesterday didn't happen today"

Laurence J. Peter, Writer

"Now, Marlon and I - for some reason, even today - even today, we can't say two words to each other. We really can't talk to each other. You know, I say to him - Marlon can't talk. I mean, he'd talk to you. But he can't talk"

Anthony Quinn, Actor

"I praise the Lord here today. I know that all my talent and all my ability comes from him, and without him I'm nothing and I thank him for his great blessing"

Ernie Harwell, Celebrity

"I never had the exposure to techniques and so forth that children have today with art workshops, but I always had crayons and pencils and still have work going right back to when I was five or six years old"

Robert Indiana, Artist

"And also I assert our interest in respecting all our obligations and implementing all our commitments. And will save no effort whatever to protect this newborn opportunity of peace, that is provided through what we have already declared here today"

Mahmoud Abbas, Statesman

"From the world wars of Europe to the jungles of the Far East, from the deserts of the Middle East to the African continent, and even here in our own hemisphere, our veterans have made the world a better place and America the great country we are today"

John Hoeven, Politician

"But I think that any young drummer starting out today should get himself a great teacher and learn all there is to know about the instrument that he wants to play"

Buddy Rich, Musician

"Glorify who you are today, do not condemn who you were yesterday, and dream of who you can be tomorrow"

Neale Donald Walsch, Author

"Judicial judgment must take deep account of the day before yesterday in order that yesterday may not paralyze today"

Felix Frankfurter, Judge

"Have we so soon forgotten those four years of terrible carnage, the greatest war of all time; forgotten the millions of men who gave their lives, who made the supreme sacrifice and who today, beneath the soil of France and Belgium, sleep the eternal sleep?"

Frank B. Kellogg, Politician

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