Quotes by American Authors - Page 89

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
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
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
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
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