Present Situation Quotes

• Always remember that your present situation is not your final destination. The best is yet to come.

  Zig Ziglar

  Finals, Best Is Yet To Come, Remember

  FaceBook post by Zig Ziglar from Apr 14, 2014

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• The primary cause of unhappiness is never the situation but your thoughts about it.

  Eckhart Tolle

  Inspirational, Life, Happiness

  Twitter post from Jul 19, 2009

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• Always turn a negative situation into a positive situation.

  Michael Jordan

  Motivational, Positive, Basketball

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• If you concentrate on finding whatever is good in every situation, you will discover that your life will suddenly be filled with gratitude, a feeling that nurtures the soul

  Harold S. Kushner

  Life, Thank You, Thankful

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• There is something far more important than your present situation - your dream and your goal.

  T. B. Joshua

  Dream, Goal, Important

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• I see nothing in the present situation that is either menacing or warrants pessimism... I have every confidence that there will be a revival of activity in the spring, and that during this coming year the country will make steady progress.

  Andrew Mellon

  Depression, Country, Spring

  "How It Was: The Year After the Crash of 1929" by Dan Agin, www.huffingtonpost.com. November 21, 2009.

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• The present situation in physics is as if we know chess, but we don't know one or two rules.

  Richard P. Feynman

  Science, Two, Chess

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• Understanding the times means understanding the course of history and civilization, as well as understanding the present situation. If we understand how God guides the development of human history, we can begin to understand the therapies needed to correct the problems of our times.

  James B. Jordan

  Mean, Civilization, Understanding

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• The improvisational ability to lead adaptively relies on responding to the present situation rather than importing the past into the present and laying it on the current situation like an imperfect template.

  Ronald A. Heifetz

  Past, Imperfect, Currents

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• I must be absolutely clear about this. Britain cannot accept the present situation on the Budget. It is demonstrably unjust. It is politically indefensible: I cannot play Sister Bountiful to the Community while my own electorate are being asked to forego improvements in the fields of health, education, welfare and the rest.

  Margaret Thatcher

  Health Education, Europe, Play

  "Europe - the obligations of liberty". Margaret Thatcher's Winston Churchill Memorial Lecture regarding the UK's contribution to the European Community budget, October 18, 1979.

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• You need only examine your present situation to discover unlimited resources and opportunities.

  Ari Kiev

  Opportunity, Perspective, Needs

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• How do you think the transition from the present situation to community of Property is to be effected? The first, fundamental condition for the introduction of community of property is the political liberation of the proletariat through a democratic constitution.

  Friedrich Engels

  Thinking, Community, Political

  Friedrich Engels, Karl Marx (2004). “The Communist Manifesto”, p.109, Broadview Press

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• I take complete and sole responsibility for my present situation.

  Brad Delp

  Responsibility, Sole, Situation

  "Delp suicide note: 'I am a lonely soul'", www.hollywoodreporter.com. March 17, 2007.

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• God's mercy is boundless, free and, through Jesus Christ our Lord, available to us now in our present situation.

  Aiden Wilson Tozer

  Jesus, Christ, Mercy

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• For a few moments, be aware of your potential for change. Whatever your present situation is, evolution and transformation are always possible. At the least, you can change your way of seeing things and then, gradually, your way of being as well.

  Matthieu Ricard

  Way, Evolution, Transformation

  Matthieu Ricard (2010). “The Art of Meditation”, p.24, Atlantic Books Ltd

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• Happiness comes from accepting the present situation, whether it is something you wish to savor as long as possible or change as quickly as you can.  Neither is possible without acceptance as the starting point, because without acceptance you are living on the periphery of your life.  There at the edges, you can't fully enjoy the good stuff or do anything about the rest.

  Victoria Moran

  Acceptance, Long, Wish

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• ...Zedar was gone...As an owl, though, I was able to drift silently from tree to tree until I caught up with him...He wasn't really hard to follow, since he'd conjured up a dim, greenish light to see by --and to hold off the boogiemen. Did I ever tell you that Zedar's afraid of the dark? That adds another dimension to his present situation, doesn't it? He was bundled to the ears in furs, and he was muttering to himself as he floundered along through the snow. Zedar talks to himself a lot. He always has. ...I drifted to a nearby tree and watched him --owlishly. Sorry. I couldn't resist that.

  David Eddings

  Sorry, Dark, Light

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• There is no longer a way out of our present situation except by forging a road toward our objective, violently and by force, over a sea of blood and under a horizon blazing with fire.

  Gamal Abdel Nasser

  Fire, Blood, Sea

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• We cannot hope, then, in this generation, or for several generations, that the mass of the whites can be brought to assume that close sympathetic and self-sacrificing leadership of the blacks which their present situation so eloquently demands. Such leadership, such social teaching and example, must come from the blacks themselves.

  W. E. B. Du Bois

  Teaching, Sacrifice, Self

  W. E. B. Du Bois (2014). “The Souls of Black Folk: The Oxford W. E. B. Du Bois”, p.111, Oxford University Press

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• To stick to the present situation would be something like a man who was observed in Times Square looking earnestly along the pavement. He was asked what he was looking for. He said "I lost my watch."

  William Vickrey

  Men, Squares, Watches

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• Whatever your present situation, I assure you that you are not your habits. You can replace old patterns of self-defeating behavior with new patterns, new habits of the effectiveness, happiness and trust-based relationships.

  Stephen Covey

  Self, Effectiveness, Patterns

  Stephen R. Covey (2016). “The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People: Powerful Lessons in Personal Change Interactive Edition”, p.74, Mango Media Inc.

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• It is not therefore the business of philosophy, in our present situation in the universe, to attempt to take in at once, in one view, the whole scheme of nature; but to extend, with great care and circumspection, our knowledge, by just steps, from sensible things, as far as our observations or reasonings from them will carry us, in our enquiries concerning either the greater motions and operations of nature, or her more subtile and hidden works. In this way Sir Isaac Newton proceeded in his discoveries.

  Colin Maclaurin

  Philosophy, Knowledge, Science

  Colin Maclaurin (1750). “An Account of Sir Isaac Newton's Philosophical Discoveries. 2. Ed”, p.20

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• We are deceiving ourselves if we believe that a literary work written and published in a country where 70 per cent of the population is illiterate, can change the political and social life of the country..it is up to political organization..and not to romantic literature.. to change the present situation.

  Zakaria Tamer

  Country, Believe, Organization

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• I see nothing in the present situation that is either menacing or warrants pessimism.

  Andrew Mellon

  Depression, Pessimism, Situation

  "How It Was: The Year After the Crash of 1929" by Dan Agin, www.huffingtonpost.com. November 21, 2009.

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• Are we not witnessing a situation where children are conciously rejecting their parents' value despite love and devotion given to them? The present situation has arisen because parents have failed to transmit a sustaining faith to their children. The basic reason for this failure is that the parents themselves lacked faith. Without faith, their love was an image not a reality, a statement of words not an expression of feelings

  Alexander Lowen

  Love, Faith, Children

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