Quotes by American Authors - Page 122

Make it a point to do something every day that you don't want to do. This is the golden rule for acquiring the habit of doing your duty without pain.
Mark Twain
It isn't hard to be good from time to time in sports. What's tough is being good every day.
Willie Mays
If we cannot meet our everyday surroundings with equanimity and pleasure and grow each day in some useful direction then ... life is on the road toward misfortune misery and destruction.
Luther Burbank
My formula for living is quite simple. I get up in the morning and I go to bed at night. In between I occupy myself as best I can.
Cary Grant
Do what you can with what you have where you are.
Theodore Roosevelt
You have to set new goals every day.
Julie Krone
Leisure for reverie gay or somber does much to enrich life.
Miriam Beard
There is no other solution to man's progress but the day's honest work the day's honest decisions the day's generous utterances and the day's good deed.
Clare Boothe Luce
Every day give yourself a good mental shampoo.
Sara Jordon
Learn to drink the cup of life as it comes.
Agnes Turnbull
He's one of those Christmas Eve guys. There are people like that. . . every day in their lives is Christmas Eve.
Joe Garagiola
People who postpone happiness are like children who try chasing rainbows in an effort to find the pot of gold at the rainbow's end. ... Your life will never be fulfilled until you are happy here and now.
Ken Keyes
Live in day-tight compartments.
Dale Carnegie
To fill the hour that is happiness to fill the hour and leave no crevice for a repentance or an approval.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
If you observe a really happy man you will find ... that he is happy in tiie course of living life twenty-four crowded hours each day.
W. Beran Wolfe
And that was victory. The freedom to sprawl loosely upon a city street heat his coffee and eat a can of beans ... with no enemy bullets forcing him to toss the can aside while diving behind another wall for momentary survival.
David Douglas Duncan
My advice to you is not to inquire why or whither but just to enjoy your ice cream while it's on your plate.
Thornton Wilder
Happiness is not a state to arrive at but a manner of traveling.
Margaret Lee Runbeck
Happiness is to be found along the way not at the end of the road for then the journey is over and it is too late. Today this hour this minute is the day the hour the minute for each of us to sense the fact that life is good with all of its trials and troubles and perhaps more interesting because of them.
Robert R. Updegraff
A fool bolts pleasure then complains of indigestion.
Minna Antrim
The best way to secure future happiness is to be as happy as is rightfully possible today.
Charles W. Eliot
All the great blessings of my life are present in my thoughts today.
Phoebe Cary
Happiness is produced not so much by great pieces of good fortune that seldom happen as by little advantages that occur every day.
Benjamin Franklin
It is only possible to live happily-ever-after on a day-to-day basis.
Margaret Bonnano
Guard well your spare moments. They are like uncut diamonds. Discard them and their value will never be known. Improve them and they will become the brightest gems in a useful life.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
An earnest purpose finds time or makes it. It seizes on spare moments and turns fragments to golden account.
William Ellery Channing
Learn to use ten minutes intelligently. It will pay you huge dividends.
William A. Irwin
We all find time to do what we really want to do.
William Feather
It is nonsense to say there is not enough time to be fully informed. ... Time given to thought is the greatest timesaver of all.
Norman Cousins
There is time for everything.
Thomas A. Edison
What we love to do we find time to do.
John Lancaster Spalding
I still find each day too short for all the thoughts I want to think all the walks I want to take all the books I want to read and all the friends I want to see.
John Burroughs
The forty-four-hour week has no charm for me. I'm looking for a forty-hour day.
Nicholas Murray Butler
We have as much time as we need.
Melody Beattie
Don't agonize. Organize.
Florynce Kennedy
If time be of all things most precious wasting time must be the greatest prodigality since lost time is never found again.
Benjamin Franklin
If you want to kill time try working it to death.
Sam Levenson
Modern man thinks he loses something-time-when he does not do things quickly. Yet he does not know what to do with the time he gains- except kill it.
Erich Fromm
No person will have occasion to complain of the want of time who never loses any.
Thomas Jefferson
As if you could kill time without injuring eternity.
Henry David Thoreau
Lost time is like a run in a stocking. It always gets worse.
Anne Morrow Lindbergh
Does't thou love life? Then do not squander time for that is the stuff life is made of.
Benjamin Franklin
Lost yesterday somewhere between sunrise and sunset two golden hours each set with sixty diamond minutes. No reward is offered for they are gone forever.
Horace Mann
Economy is the thief of time.
Ethel Watts Mumford
Regret for time wasted can become a power for good in the time that remains if we will only stop the waste and the idle useless regretting.
Arthur Brisbane
I wish I could stand on a busy corner hat in hand and beg people to throw me all their wasted hours.
Bernard Berenson
A stale mind is the devil's breadbox.
Mary Bly
You may delay but time will not.
Benjamin Franklin
O for an engine to keep back all clocks!
Ben Johnson
We must use time as a tool not as a crutch.
John F Kennedy
Time is an equal opportunity employer. Each human being has exactly the same number of hours and minutes every day. Rich people can't buy more hours. Scientists can't invent new minutes. And you can't save time to spend it on another day. Even so time is amazingly fair and forgiving. No matter how much time you've wasted in the past you still have an entire tomorrow. Success depends upon using it wisely-by planning and setting priorities.
Denis Waitley
The ability to concentrate and to use time well is everything.
Lee Iacocca
It is not how many years we live but rather what we do with them.
Evangeline Cory Booth
Have regular hours for work and play make each day both useful and pleasant and prove that you understand the worth of time by employing it well. Then youth will be delightful old age will bring few regrets and life will become a beautiful success.
Louisa May Alcott
The organized person ... makes the most of his time and goes to his bed for the night perfectly relaxed for rest and renewal.
George Matthew Adams
Millions long for immortality who do not know what to do with themselves on a rainy Sunday afternoon.
Susan Ertz
You are no more exempt from time's inexorable passing than Macbeth. Whether time is your friend or foe depends on how you use it
Patricia Fripp
Love and time-those are the only two things in all the world and all of life that cannot be bought but only spent.
Gary Jennings
Time isn't a commodity something you pass around like cake. Time is the substance of life. When anyone asks you to give your time they're really asking for a chunk of your life.
Antoinette Bosco
If a person gives you his time he can give you no more precious gift.
Frank Tyger