Dale Carnegie Quotes

How often are you worrying about the present moment? The present moment is usually all right. If you're worrying, you're either agonizing over the past which you should have forgotten long ago, or else you're apprehensive over the future which hasn't even come yet. We tend to skip over the present moment which is the only moment God gives any of us to live.

There's no future in spending our present worrying about our past.

We all spend so much time worrying about the future that the present moment slips right out of our hands. And so all we have left is retrospection and anticipation, retrospection and anticipation. In which case what's left to recall but past anticipation? What's left to anticipate but future retrospection?

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.

Forget the past - the future will give you plenty to worry about.

Most people are prisoners, thinking only about the future or living in the past. They are not in the present, and the present is where everything begins.

Anxiety is a really crippling condition, and I suffer with it myself, and I feel for anyone who suffers from it. The way that I deal with it is try as much as possible to stay in the moment to not think about the past and not think about what's coming up in the future: to try and just seize the moment as much as possible.

I don't think about my past or future.

Do not worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will worry about itself.

It isn't the great big pleasures that count the most; it's making a great deal out of the little ones--I've discovered the true secret of happiness, Daddy, and that is to live in the now. Not to be for ever regretting the past, or anticipating the future; but to get the most that you can out of this very instant.

Every man's life lies within the present; for the past is spent and done with, and the future is uncertain.

I neither complain of the past, nor do I fear the future.

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

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

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

Use your imagination only on the future, never on the present or the past.

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.

Only one person in a thousand knows the trick of really living in the present. Most of us spend fifty-nine minutes an hour living in the past, with regret for lost joys or shame for things badly done (both utterly useless and weakening) or in a future which we either long for or dread. . . . There is only one minute in which you are alive, this minute, here and now. The only way to live is by accepting each minute as an unrepeatable miracle. Which is exactly what it is-a miracle and unrepeatable.

I always live in the present. The future I can't know. The past I no longer have.

I'm not sitting somewhere dwelling on the past. I'm not fretting or obsessing about something in the future.

The present only is a man's possession; the past is gone out of his hand wholly, irrevocably. He may suffer from it, learn from it,--in degree, perhaps, expiate it; but to brood over it is utter madness.

I'm trying to be present, not thinking and worrying about the past or the future. That's such a waste of time, you know?

And though some days it is very hard, I try not to live for the future. And I try not to dream of the past.

It is impossible to live in the past, difficult to live in the present and a waste to live in the future.

Live only for today, and you ruin tomorrow.