Future And Present Quotes

“Laziness acknowledges the relation of the present to the past but ignores its relation to the future; impatience acknowledge its relation to the future but ignores its relation to the past; neither the lazy nor the impatient man, that is, accepts the present instant in its full reality and so cannot love his neighbour completely.”
― W.H. Auden, The Complete Works of W.H. Auden: Prose, Volume III: 1949-1955

“You are people with a present and with a future. Don't muff the ball. Be excellent.”
― Gordon B. Hinckley, Standing for Something: 10 Neglected Virtues That Will Heal Our Hearts and Homes

“If you kill the present relation for the future relationship, the future relationship will be killed by the past relation”
― Sir P.S. Jagadeesh Kumar