Bernard Hopkins Quotes

But I dare not think too far into the future on the risk that I'll miss the present.

Life passes us by if all we do is focus on the future. Being present, for the present, is really what is important.

I never think of the future - it comes soon enough.

Most people treat the present moment as if it were an obstacle that they need to overcome. Since the present moment is life itself, it is an insane way to live.

I live for the present always. I accept this risk. I don't deny the past, but it's a page to turn.

One thing I've learned to do with my age, I really don't look ahead. For years, I've been preaching the precious present and having to always subscribe to it.

You are not waiting for your life to start. It's going on right now.

I'm very in the now; I don't like to look back a lot.

Idleness is only a coarse name for my infinite capacity for living in the present.

I tell you the past is a bucket of ashes, so live not in your yesterdays, no just for tomorrow, but in the here and now. Keep moving and forget the post mortems; and remember, no one can get the jump on the future.

People sacrifice the present for the future. But life is available only in the present. That is why we should walk in such a way that every step can bring us to the here and the now.

Life is a process, and you just take it a day at a time, and you can't live in tomorrow, and you can't reach back and be in yesterday. No matter how much you want to, you just have what's right there in front of you.

What I have to work with is the life that's ahead of me right this minute.

I don't think of the past. The only thing that matters is the everlasting present.

Your entire life only happens in this moment. The present moment is life itself. Yet, people live as if the opposite were true and treat the present moment as a stepping stone to the next moment - a means to an end.

I do not believe in living in either the future or the past.

I live in the present and do not look that far ahead.

The future is not so interesting for me because the future doesn't exist. I am really focused on the contemporary.

I like to live in the present.

I don't like to look into the future. I just want to stay in the present moment.

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

Everyone rushes his life on, and suffers from a yearning for the future and a boredom with the present. But that man who devotes every hour to his own needs, who plans every day as if it were his last, neither longs for nor fears tomorrow.

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

Work accomplished means little. It is in the past. What we all want is the glorious and living present.

It is difficult to live in the present, ridiculous to live in the future and impossible to live in the past. Nothing is as far away as one minute ago.