Top 100 Best Present Quotes: Famous Quotes & Sayings About Best Present

#1. Every New Year people get you some presents but your best present you get never changes: Your own existence! It is also your best present to others!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

#2. What's under here?" He toyed with the hem of my shirt.
"You've forgotten already?"
He dragged my T-shirt over my head and tossed it aside. "Oh, breasts. Best present ever. Thanks, pumpkin.

Kylie Scott

#3. You are my best present and ultimate purpose of life.

Debasish Mridha

#4. I'd like to have the chance to decide what my life will be like, I think that's the best present anyone can get. The chance to decide what your life will be like.

Gregoire Delacourt

#5. For the rest, silence or good music, not much food, a lot of solitude, walks on the Heath, the time to think while others ... well, often fall apart. Not so bad, not so bad at all. Being queer and self-sufficient is the best present at this season.

Will Self

#6. A photo frame with many pictures is the best present ever for a long trip. I can almost feel all those moments..

W.

#7. Love was the best present of all...

Julia Quinn

#8. The best present a man can give a woman is his undivided attention.

Usher

#9. Like the marathon, life can sometimes be difficult, challenging and present obstacles, however if you believe in your dreams and never ever give up, things will turn out for the best.

Meb Keflezighi

#10. Everyone has crap in their background, everyone has things they wish they could undo. But most people don't go around doing their best to screw up their present lives because of it.

Nicholas Sparks

#11. The best preparation for the future is the present well seen to, and the last duty done.

George MacDonald

#12. The best adventures in life is in the present. Seize the present and make it great adventure.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#13. The best way to get a sense of what kinds of emergencies might present themselves in your community is by contacting local chapters of the American Red Cross or offices of emergency management in the region or state. Most large cities will have their own offices of emergency management.

Irwin Redlener

#14. If the Best is yet to come, the Present will blend with it Beautifully.

Dorothy West

#15. Of this our true individual life, our present life is a glimpse, a fragment, a hint, and in its best moments a visible beginning.

Josiah Royce

#16. The use of literature is to afford us a platform whence we may command a view of our present life, a purchase by which we may move it ... we see literature best from the midst of wild nature, or from the din of affairs, or from a high religion. The field cannot be well seen from within the field.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#17. To what a degree this loose mode of classing and denominating objects has rendered the vocabulary of mental and moral philosophy unfit for the purposes of accurate thinking, is best known to whoever has most meditated on the present condition of those branches of knowledge.

John Stuart Mill

#18. We allow our daily concerns to turn into worry and therefore sin when our thoughts become focused on changing the future instead of doing our best to handle our present circumstances.

John F. MacArthur Jr.

#19. I have always enjoyed cemeteries. Altars for the living as well as resting places for the dead, they are entryways, I think, to any town or city, the best places to become acquainted with the tastes of the inhabitants, both present and gone.

Edwidge Danticat

#20. Always obey your parents. When they are present. This is the best policy in the long run. Because if you don't, they will make you. Most parents think they know better than you do, and you can generally make more by humoring that superstition than you can by acting on your own better judgment.

Mark Twain

#21. Yesterday is gone, and tomorrow is beyond our reach. The best time to write is now, in the present.

M. Kirin

#22. Stillness is a harder concept for me than ecstasy, but I can imagine it best when I am fully present and paying strict attention to a place I am moving through.

Pam Houston

#23. I'm not going to present myself one way all the time just because it will make me sell best.

Halsey

#24. Things sometimes go our way and sometimes they don't. All we can do is apply ourselves to our profession, giving our very best effort but emotionally letting go of the outcome. Why? Because if we obsess about an outcome, we cannot possibly honour the present moment.

Christopher Dines

#25. With all the imperfections of our present government, it is without comparison the best existing, or that ever did exist.

Thomas Jefferson

#26. A society which believes in a worthwhile future saves in the present so as to invest in the future. Contemporary Western society spends in the present and piles up debts for the future, ravages the environment, and leaves its grandchildren to cope with the results as best they can.

Lesslie Newbigin

#27. I, Alex Cross do solemnly promise-to all those present at this birthday party- to do my best to balance my life at home with my work,life,and not to go over to the dark side ever again.

James Patterson

#28. A moral dilemma can be large or small, important or inconsequential, urgent or secondary. One thing is certain: moral dilemmas are ever present.

Michael J. Marx

#29. The best Christmas present I got from my husband was a week to do whatever I wanted.

Olivia Williams

#30. Our moods change constantly and thus our ideas about the past change with them. As for the future, it remains unwritten. Anything can happen, and often we are wrong. The best we can do with the future is prepare and savor the possibilities of what can be done in the present.

Todd Kashdan

#31. The best birthday present I ever got was born 10 minutes before I was.

Bill Kaulitz

#32. The wonder of a free-market society is that we can all do our best to package our message in an entertaining fashion and present it - and then everybody votes with their footsteps.

Max Lucado

#33. Witness the choices you make in every moment. The best way to prepare for any moment in the future is to be fully conscious in the present.

Deepak Chopra

#34. Animals are the best actors. They never lie, they're always present, and they listen. That's a lot more than a lot of actors can say for themselves.

Graham Phillips

#35. Learning itself is a present, the best one anyone can give or get.

Stephen King

#36. Men live by rules they've made for themselves. And among those rules is one specifying that women are merely commodities for men to possess. A daughter belongs to her father, a wife to her husband. A woman's own desires present obstacles for men and are best ignored.

Natsuo Kirino

#37. I wish the trees would go into leaf that I might find out what they are. In their present undress I cannot recognise them. It's true that I doubt if I should know my best friends
men or women
with their clothes off.

Laura Lafargue

#38. - To some extent. Men want to think the best of women, especially if they're attractive. Isn't there some truth in that? That we attribute moral goodness to attractive people? And to those who present themselves as victims? Natalie

Liz Jensen

#39. If we stand in the openings of the present moment, with all the length and breadth of our faculties unselfishly adjusted to what it reveals, we are in the best condition to receive what God is always ready to communicate.

Thomas Cogswell Upham

#40. People always complain that they can't do this and they can't do that."
"If we look at our lives and concentrate on things that we don't have or wish to have, that doesn't change the circumstances. The truth is that we have to focus on what we have and make the best out of it.

Nick Vujicic

#41. listen. 15Do your best to present yourself to God as one approved, a worker who does not need to be ashamed and who correctly handles the word of truth.

Lysa TerKeurst

#42. I'm over the moon to be involved in the 'Doctor Who' Christmas special. I can't quite believe it as it's a part of the family tradition at the Jenkins household. I heard the news that I got the role on my 30th birthday and it was the best birthday present ever.

Katherine Jenkins

#43. You have got to decide, look, this is who I am; this is my best way to present myself, and I'm going to ride that horse to the finish line. Not everybody will like it, but that's OK.

Phil McGraw

#44. Each of us is the best we can be when we are fully present, focused yet relaxed, curious yet non-judgmental, committed yet flexible.

John Kuypers

#45. Since in Heaven we'll finally experience life at its best, it would be more accurate to call our present existence the beforelife rather than to call what follows the afterlife.

Randy Alcorn

#46. Jovan: "I'll pass any test you present me. I assure you."
Eviona: "I wonder what the best test of pride would be."

Eve S. Nicholson

#47. Since periods of great change, such as the present one, come so rarely in human history, it is up to each of us to make the best use of our time to help create a happier world.

Dalai Lama

#48. I can't really do anything about the past and all I can do is just embrace the future and try to make the most of the present. So I'm really trying to do that and doing my best every day.

Zach Sudfeld

#49. the Spirit is the mind that is always present, bringing the best, most loving, most hopeful thought into the midst of every situation.

Daniel Wolpert

#50. Mr Palliser was one of those politicians in possessing whom England has perhaps more reason to be proud than of any other of her resources, and who, as a body, give to her that exquisite combination of conservatism and progress which is her present strength and best security for the future.

Anthony Trollope

#51. O thoughts of men accursed!
Past and to come seems best; things present, worst.

William Shakespeare

#52. One of the ways that our faith expresses itself is by our ability to be still, to be present, and not to panic or lose perspective. God still does his best work in the most difficult of circumstances.

Tim Hansel

#53. You are an author! You will be a published author. Take pride in that, and present only your best work. Then, continue to improve, so your best gets even better.

Courage Knight

#54. Every writer must reconcile, as best he may, the conflicting claims of consistency and variety, of rigour in detail and elegance in the whole. The present author humbly confesses that, to him, geometry is nothing at all, if not a branch of art.

Julian Coolidge

#55. Best thing that's ever happened to me. I focus so much less on me. It's made me content, it's made me happy. It's like a Christmas present every single day that I get to unwrap. It's hard work.

Molly Sims

#56. The city's the best gallery I could imagine. I would never have to make a book and then present it to a gallery and let them decide if my work was nice enough to show it to people. I would control it directly with the public in the streets.

JR

#57. A man who has no assured and ever present belief in the existence of a personal God or of a future existence with retribution and reward, can have for his rule of life, as far as I can see, only to follow those impulses and instincts which are the strongest or which seem to him the best ones

Charles Darwin

#58. The system is the best that the present views and circumstances of the country will permit.

Alexander Hamilton

#59. The impact of your vision, while quiet and ever present, will be astounding over time as it becomes a reality.

Steve Shallenberger

#60. The best weather prediction for the present moment is to look out of the window!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

#61. I regret everything because it has just finished, and already when I was twelve, I lamented the time that had gone by. Even in the best of spirits, it's always been as though I wrestle with the present in a vain effort to stop its becoming the past.

Andrew Solomon

#62. this is the comfort of friends, that though they may be said to die, yet their friendship and society are, in the best sense, ever present, because immortal

J.K. Rowling

#63. The present moment is the substance with which the future is made. Therefore, the best way to take care of the future is to take care of the present moment. What else can you do?

Thich Nhat Hanh

#64. The best birthday present is an empty box. Smile, it contains all my love for you.

Jarod Kintz

#65. In the present State of America, our welfare and prosperity depend upon the cultivation of our lands and turning the produce of them to the best advantage.

George Washington

#66. The Barks of Trees are best gathered in the Spring, if it be of great Trees, as Oaks or the like, because then they come easiest off, and so you may dry them if you please, but indeed your best way is to gather all Barks only for present use.

Nicholas Culpeper

#67. Your parents are weirdos, in the best possible way. They do not celebrate birthdays; never in your life have you received a present on the tenth of December. Instead, you are given books on the days that their authors were born.

Robin Sloan

#68. Starlight is falling on every square mile of the earth's surface, and the best we can do at present is to gather up and concentrate the rays that strike at area 100 inches in diameter.

George Ellery Hale

#69. The Greeks, those originators of the intellectual life, fixed for us the idea of the poet. He was a divine man; more sacred than the priest, who was at best an intermediary between men and the gods, but in the poet the god was present and spoke.

George Edward Woodberry

#70. I'm a humor writer, so I don't always present myself in the best light.

Jen Lancaster

#71. If we learn the art of yielding what must be yielded to the changing present, we can save the best of the past.

Dean Acheson

#72. Make the best of what you have today.
Today is the day.
The best is here: now, it is always be at the present moment.

Angelica Hopes

#73. For my 20th birthday in March, I'll buy myself a present for doing my best. A one way ticket to Tokyo. All I need is my guitar and a pack of cigarettes.

Ai Yazawa

#74. An ideal society, properly so-called, can be none other than an actual, present, society taken at its truest and best.

Michael Oakeshott

#75. Golden hours of vision come to us in this present life, when we are at our best, and our faculties work together in harmony.

Charles Fletcher Dole

#76. The best investors are visionaries - they look beyond the present.
By the same token, vision remains vision until you focus, do the work, and bring it down to earth where it will do some good.

Ziad K. Abdelnour

#77. I wanted to give men an accessible line of clothing that's comfortable yet stylish and will help them to present the best version of themselves. It's easy - when you look good, you feel good.

Cam Newton

#78. The Romanticists did not present a hero as a statistical average, but as an abstraction of man's best and highest potentiality, applicable to and achievable by all men, in various degrees, according to their individual choices.

Ayn Rand

#79. One of the illusions of life is that the present hour is not the critical, decisive hour. Write it on your hear that every day is the best day of the year.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#80. Existence is.. well.. what does it matter? I exist on the best terms I can. The past is now part of my future. The present is well out of hand.

Ian Curtis

#81. Think about it: No matter who you are, the past plays a large part in your life. I am all about living in the present as best as I can. Try as I might, there is only so much I am able to achieve on this front.

Henry Rollins

#82. The best way-the only way-to be truly healing is to be fully present and to stay out of the way.

Nancy Kyes

#83. What people really should be able to be confident in is that the standards of music- making that classically trained musicians present is elite, it is the best and all of us as artists should be committed to that.

Lesley Garrett

#84. Clearing your head of everything you thought you knew, even your most
cherished ideas, will give you the mental space to be educated by your present experience
the best school
of all. You will develop your own strategic muscles instead of depending on other people's theories and books.

Robert Greene

#85. When it comes down to it, I believe that, having made the decision to bring children into the world, I owe it to them to be as present as I can in their daily lives and to try my best to stay alive until they've made it through to adulthood.

Deborah Copaken Kogan

#86. Best not to mix the past with the present. The present paints the past with gold. The past paints the present with lead.

Henry Rollins

#87. I cannot help but think that great results would have been obtained had my views been thought better of; yet I am much inclined to accept the present condition as for the best.

James Longstreet

#88. The best of life on Earth is a glimpse of Heaven; the worst of life is a glimpse of Hell. For Christians, this present life is the closest they will come to Hell. For unbelievers, it is the closest they will come to Heaven.

Randy Alcorn

#89. We may make our future by the best use of the present. There is no moment like the present.

Maria Edgeworth

#90. Do the best you can ... enjoy the present ... rest satisfied with what you have.

Seneca The Younger

#91. Let the past be what it was, the present what it is, the future the best it can be.

R.J. Ellory

#92. Sometimes the best Christmas present is remembering what you've already got.

Cathy Guisewite

#93. I've often hesitated in beginning a project because I've thought, "It'll never turn out to be even remotely like the good idea I have as I start." I could just "feel" how good it could be. But I decided that, for the present, I would create the best way I know how and accept the ambiguities.

Fred Rogers