Present Challenges Quotes

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

It is useful to remember that history is to the nation as memory is to the individual. As a person deprived of memory becomes disorientated and lost, not knowing where they have been or where they are going , so a nation denied a conception of the past will be disabled in dealing with its present and its future.

The dogmas of the quiet past are inadequate to the stormy present. The occasion is piled high with difficulty, and we must rise to the occasion. We cannot escape history. We will be remembered in spite of ourselves. The fiery trial through which we pass will light us down in honour or dishonour, to the last generation. We shall nobly save, or meanly lose, our last best hope of Earth.

Retrospective analysis is not a useful guide to current problems.

The most effective way to ensure the value of the future is to confront the present courageously and constructively.

Yesterday's home runs don't win today's games.

Presumably man's spirit should be elevated if he can better review his shady past and analyze more completely and objectively his present problems.

It is of little use for us to pay lip-loyalty to the mighty men of the past unless we sincerely endeavor to apply to the problems of the present precisely the qualities which in other crises enabled the men of that day to meet those crises.

Do battle with the challenges of your present, and you will unlock the prizes of your future.

We are a people trying not only to solve the problems of the present: unemployment, inflation... but we are attempting on a larger scale to fulfill the promise of America.

My head is buried in the sands of tomorrow, while my tail feathers are singed by the hot sun of today.

I believe that nothing is more important to our ability to effectively address our present than understanding the lessons learned from those who have come before us.

The situation is not about Hosni Mubarak, but the reality is now about Egypt, its present, the future of its sons, all Egyptians are in the same trench, therefore, we should continue our national dialogue That have already started in the spirit of groups but not enemies.

To glorify the past and paint the future is easy, to survey the present and emerge with some light and understanding is difficult.

The problem is that even as you reveal the mysteries in your past, you are accumulating them in the present; complete honesty is the stuff of post-mortem, not autobiography.

It's not easy to find a topic. Talking of home is painful. Talking of the present unbearable.

I do find myself drawn more to pieces that I feel are wrestling with the way that we're living now, what we're all going through.

At the end of the day, you want to do what's best for your organization, present and future.