Vance Havner Quotes

If you have one foot in yesterday and one foot in tomorrow, you're pissing all over today.

Live today. Not yesterday. Not tomorrow. Just today. Inhabit your moments. Don’t rent them out to tomorrow. Do you know what you’re doing when you spend a moment wondering how things are going to turn out with Perry? You’re cheating yourself out of today. Today is calling to you, trying to get your attention, but you’re stuck on tomorrow, and today trickles away like water down a drain. You wake up the next morning and that today you wasted is gone forever. It’s now yesterday. Some of those moments may have had wonderful things in store for you , but now you’ll never know.

Stop talking about tomorrow. You owe it to yourself to do whatever you can to live you can to live a better life today.

In any weather, at any hour of the day or night, I have been anxious to improve the nick of time, and notch it on my stick too; to stand on the meeting of two eternities, the past and future, which is precisely the present moment; to toe that line.

Half of today is better than all of tomorrow.

It sometimes seems that we live as if we wonder when life is going to begin. It isn't always clear just what we are waiting for, but some of us sometimes persist in waiting so long that life slips by - finding us still waiting for something that has been going on all the time. . . . This is the life in which the work of this life is to be done. Today is as much a part of eternity as any day a thousand years ago or as will be any day a thousand years hence. This is it, whether we are thrilled or disappointed, busy or bored! This is life, and it is passing.

You can either waste time worrying about a death that might not come or concentrate on what’s left to you.

Life is precarious, and life is precious. Don't presume you will have it tomorrow, and don't waste it today.

We spend our lives dreaming of the future, not realizing that a little of it slips away every day.

There's a saying I remember from my grandmother: One today is worth two tomorrows.

In this world, all--men, women, and kings--must live for the present. We can only live for the future for God

My focus, my life, my world is now. You just can't plan the future.

The right time is always right now.

The quality of your moments produces the quality of your life. So, as thoughts come and go and the waves of mind rush on, Carpe punctum-Seize this moment. It deserves your full attention, for it will not pass your way again.

Now is almost always the better choice. You never know about later.

There is only one time that is important -- NOW! It is the most important time because it is the only time hat we have any power.

Never, in peace or war, commit your virtue or your happiness to the future. Happy work is best done by the man who takes his long-term plans somewhat lightly and works from moment to moment 'as to the Lord.' It is only our daily bread that we are encouraged to ask for. The present is the only time in which any duty can be done or any grace received.

I really think that if you live for today, tomorrow takes care of itself.

If we are forever yearning for more time, we are forever discounting what is offered.

To make money, to gather knowledge, to learn a new skill, to explore new territory, even to get from A to B - for all these things you need time. For almost everything you need time, except for one thing: to embrace the present moment.

If you've got a today, don't wear it tomorrow. Tomorrow never happens. It's all the same day.

Tomorrow-drop that word from your vocabulary! Tomorrow does not exist, it cannot exist: it is not in the nature of things. Only this day exists.

Remember the past, live the present, think a little less about the future.

If you think about the future, you lose perspective of the present.

You know most people live ninety per cent in the past, seven per cent in the present, and that only leaves them three per cent for the future.