Dale Carnegie Quotes

The future could go this way, that way. The future's futures have never looked so rocky. Don't put money on it. Take my advice and stick to the present. It's the real stuff, the only stuff, it's all there is, the present, the panting present.

All is flux, nothing is stationary.

Everything is change; and you cannot step twice into the same river.

Things of this world are in so constant a flux, that nothing remains long in the same state.

Everything is in a state of flux, including the status quo.

Things change all the time, so why do people make such a philosophical to-do that things are constantly in transition?

I am trying so hard to live in the moment and enjoy it while it's happening, because it feels like a moving freight train that I just got on, and I'm trying not to look back and get dizzy!

You could not step twice into the same rivers; for other waters are ever flowing on to you.

Faith? Haven't any. I'm not a nihilist or a relativist. I don't believe in anything but change. I'm a Heraclitean - you can't step in the same river twice.

Time is a circus, always packing up and moving away.

Changing, everything is changing.

It is not wise to neglect the present for the future, for who knows what the future will be.

Nothing always stays the same. You don't stay happy forever. You don't stay sad forever.

I never look forward. I live for today. And if you think about what's going to happen in a year, in two years, then you begin to plan. And plans never come true.

Living here in California, I think one of the scariest things about California is the fact that it is rewriting its script and changing constantly and so many people don't know who they will be and who they will be with a year from now.

Everything is transient. Everything is constantly changing. The only thing we have is now.

It was evident to him that the world composed and recomposed itself constantly in an endless process of dissatisfaction.

To-day is thine to spend, but not to-morrow; Counting on morrows breedeth bankrupt sorrow: O squander not this breath that Heaven hath lent thee; Make not too sure another breath to borrow.

You cannot step twice into the same river.

Everything flows and nothing abides. Everything gives way and nothing stays fixed.

Nothing ever is, everything is becoming.

All things flow, nothing abides.

I always live in the present. I don’t know the future and no longer have the past. The former oppresses me as the possibility of everything, the latter as the reality of nothing.

Heraclitus somewhere says that all things are in process and nothing stays still, and likening existing things to the stream of a river he says that you would not step twice into the same river.

Nothing's ever the same," she said. "Be it a second later or a hundred years. It's always churning and roiling. And people change as much as oceans.