Quotes by American Authors - Page 121

Time ... is the life of the soul.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Time is a sandpile we run our fingers in.
Carl Sandburg
Time is a storm in which we are all lost.
William Carlos Williams
Time is the only critic without ambition.
John Steinbeck
Time is a fluid condition which has no existence except in the momentary avatars of individual people.
William Faulkner
Time is nothing absolute its duration depends on the rate of thought and feeling.
John Draper
Too slow for those who wait Too swift for those who fear Too long for those who grieve Too short for those who rejoice. But for those who love time is not.
Henry Van Dyke
When a man sits with a pretty girl for an hour it seems like a minute. But let him sit on a hot stove for a minute and it's longer than any hour. That's relativity.
Albert Einstein
One day with life and heart is more than time enough to find a world.
James Russell Lowell
A day is a miniature eternity.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
The secret of my success is that I always managed to live to fly another day.
Chuck Yeager
If you do the same thing every day at the same time for the same length of time you'll save yourself from many a sink. Routine is a condition of survival.
Flannery O'Connor
Habit is stronger than reason.
George Santayana
Have a time and place for everything and do everything in its time and place and you will not only accomplish more but have far more leisure than those who are always hurrying.
Tyron Edwards
Habits are safer than rules you don't have to watch them. And you don't have to keep them either they keep you.
Dr. Frank Crane
Good habits which bring our lower passions and appetites under automatic control leave our natures free to explore the larger experiences of life.
Ralph W Sockman
That which is horrifying to you don't do to anybody else.
Dr. Laura Schlessinger
And hearts have been broken from harsh words spoken That sorrow can ne'er set right.
Margaret Elizabeth Sangster
Manners are a sensitive awareness of the feelings of others. If you have that awareness you have good manners no matter what fork you use.
Emily Post
I look back on my life like a good day's work it is done and I am satisfied with it.
Grandma Moses
Sufficient to each day are the duties to be done and the trials to be endured.
T. L. Gayler
Always do one thing less than you think you can do.
Bernard M. Baruch
We cannot do everything at once but we can do something at once.
Calvin Coolidge
I finally figured out the only reason to be alive is to enjoy it.
Rita Mae Brown
I come to the office each morning and stay for long hours doing what has to be done to the best of my ability. And when you've done the best you can you can't do any better. So when I go to sleep I turn everything over to the Lord and forget it.
Harry S. Truman
No matter what looms ahead if you can eat today enjoy the sunlight today mix good cheer with friends today enjoy it and bless God for it.
Henry Ward Beecher
It's fun to get together and have something good to eat at least once a day. That's what human life is all about-enjoying things.
Julia Child
He who does not get fun and enjoyment out of every day ... needs to reorganize his life.
George Matthew Adams
Put a little fun into your life. Try dancing.
Kathryn Murray
Life is about enjoying yourself and having a good time.
Cher
If someone said "Write a sentence about your life " I'd write "I want to go outside and play."
Jenna Elfman
Friends I beg you do not shirk your daily task of indolence.
Don Marquis
Fat gives things flavor.
Julia Child
Sweets are good for the nerves.
Margarete Bieber
Each day and the living of it has to be a conscious creation in which discipline and order are relieved with some play and pure foolishness.
May Sarton
Be ashamed to die until you have won some victory for humanity.
Horace Mann
You have not lived a perfect day even though you have earned your money unless you have done something for someone who will never be able to repay you.
Ruth Smeltzer
That man is blest who does his best and leaves the rest.
Charles F. Deems
So get a few laughs and do the best you can.
Will Rogers
Do each daily task the best we can act as though the eye of opportunity were always upon us.
William Feather
Any man's life will be filled with constant and unexpected encouragement if he makes up his mind to do his level best each day.
Booker T. Washington
There are only three colors ten digits and seven notes it's what we do with them that's important.
Ruth Ross
Do your best every day and your life will gradually expand into satisfying fullness.
Horatio W. Dresser
You have to count on living every single day in a way you believe will make you feel good about your life- so that if it were over tomorrow you'd be content with yourself.
Jane Seymour
Study as if you were going to live forever live as if you were going to die tomorrow.
Maria Mitchell
Look at everything as though you were seeing it for the first time or the last time. Then your time on earth will be filled with glory.
Betty Smith
If every day I dare to remember that I am here on loan that this house this hillside these minutes are all leased to me not given I will never despair.
Erica Jong
I like the man who faces what he must With steps triumphant and a heart of cheer Who fights the daily battle without fear.
Sarah Knowles Bolton
Every day give yourself a good mental shampoo.
Sara Jordan
A man may fulfill the object of his existence by asking a question he cannot answer and attempting a task he cannot achieve.
Oliver Wendell Holmes
Showing up is 80 percent of life.
Woody Allen
To do the useful thing to say the courageous thing to contemplate the beautiful thing: that is enough for one man's life.
T.S Eliot
When action grows unprofitable gather information when information grows unprofitable sleep.
Ursula K. LeGuin
Each day can be one of triumph if you keep up your interests.
George Matthew Adams
Resolve to edge in a little reading every day if it is but a single sentence. If you gain fifteen minutes a day it will make itself felt at the end of the year.
Horace Mann
Follow your bliss. -Joseph Campbell Resolve to perform what you ought. Perform without fail what you resolve.
Benjamin Franklin
Know what you want to do hold the thought firmly and do every day what should be done and every sunset will see you that much nearer the goal.
Elbert Hubbard
A homer a day will boost my pay.
Josh Gibson
He has not learned the first lesson of life who does not every day surmount a fear.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Realize life as an end in itself. Functioning is all there is.
Oliver Wendell Holmes