Max Lucado Quotes

There's only one day at a time here, then it's tonight and then tomorrow will be today again.

Worrying about tomorrow is the best way to screw up today.

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

If we spend our time with regrets over yesterday, and worries over what might happen tomorrow, we have no today in which to live.

Balance lives in the present. The surest way to lose your footing is to focus on what dreadful things might happen.

Do not so contemplate eternity that you waste today.

If you do the best and the most you can today, don't worry about tomorrow.

Don't worry about the past and don't try to solve the future.

You need to focus so much on what's in front of you rather than thinking about what might happen in the future.

A man's wits are better employed in bearing up under the misfortunes that lie upon him at present than in foreseeing those that may come upon him hereafter.

If I fret over tomorrow, I'll have little joy today.

Ask yourself what problem you have right now. Not next year, tomorrow or five minutes from now. You can always cope with the now, but you can never cope with the future. Nor do you have to. The answer, the strength and the right action will be there when you need it. Not before or after.

You realize that we over-exaggerate yesterday, we over-estimate tomorrow and we underestimate today. We think, "Well, I'm going to kill time," "I'll get back to this tomorrow."

. . . Action always happens in the present, because it is an expression of the body, which can only exist in the here and now. But the mind is like a phantom that lives only in the past or future. It's only power over you is to draw your attention our of the present.

I've stopped thinking all the time of what happened yesterday. And stopped asking what's going to happen tomorrow. What's happening today, this minute, is what I care about.

The only adequate preparation for tomorrow is the right use of today.

Just handle what is in front of you now and the future will take care of itself. Otherwise, you'll spend most of your life wondering which foot you'll use to step off the curb when you're still only halfway to the corner.

Stop longing.You poison today’s ease, reaching always for tomorrow.

Narrow your life down to this moment. Your life situation may be full of problems - most life situations are - but find out if you have a problem at this moment. Do you have a problem now?

Realize deeply that the present moment is all you ever have. Make the Now the primary focus of your life.

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

I just deal with what's at hand.

Everyone wants to look to the future and into the past. I stay focused on now.

But man postpones or remembers; he does not live in the present, but with reverted eye laments the past, or, heedless of the riches that surround him, stands on tiptoe to foresee the future. He cannot be happy and strong until he too lives with nature in the present, above time.