Quotes by Authors - Page 135

In my experience there is only one motivation and that is desire. No reasons or principle contain it or stand against it.
Jane Smiley
All progress is based upon a universal innate desire on the part of every living organism to live beyond its income.
Samuel Butler
Good humor like the jaundice makes every one of its own complexion.
Elizabeth Inchbald
Some people are molded by their admirations others by their hostilities.
Elizabeth Bowen
I tried to treat them like me and some of them weren't.
Bill Russell
Discontent is the first step in progress. No one knows what is in him till he tries and many would never try if they were not forced to.
Basil W. Maturin
If you can learn from hard knocks you can also learn from soft touches.
Carolyn Kenmore
It seems to me we can never give up longing and wishing while we are alive. There are certain things we feel to be beautiful and good and we must hunger for them.
George Eliot
Take away the cause and the effect ceases.
Miguel de Cervantes
They never die who have the future in them.
Meridel Le Sueur
The most remarkable thing about my mother is that for thirty years she served the family nothing but leftovers. The original meal has never been found.
Calvin Trillin
I found out why cats drink out of the toilet. My mother told me it's because it's cold in there. And I'm like: How did my mother know that?
Wendy Liebman
I hope I look as good as my mother does when I reach the age she says she isn't.
Anonymous
MOTHER TO TEENAGER ON SUNDAY MORNING: I believe I heard the clock strike one when you came in last night. teen: Well I know how much you need your sleep so it was going to strike ten but I stopped it at one chime.
Anonymous
Never let go of that fiery sadness called desire.
Patti Smith
What makes life dreary is want of motive.
George Eliot
We can do whatever we wish to do provided our wish is strong enough. ... What do you want most to do? That's what I have to keep asking myself in the face of difficulties.
Katherine Mansfield
Most men are secretly still mad at their mothers for throwing away their comic books. They would be valuable now.
Rita Rudner
My mother phones daily to ask "Did you just try to reach me?" When I reply no she adds "So if you're not too busy call me while I'm still alive " . . . and hangs up.
Erma Bombeck
It is a wise child that knows its own father and an unusual one that unreservedly approves of him.
Mark Twain
Dad named his first ulcer after me.
Anonymous
No matter how old a mother is she still watches her middle-aged children for signs of improvement.
Florida Scott-Maxwell
Every small boy wonders why his father didn't go into the ice cream business.
Anonymous
Father reading report card: One thing in your favor - with these grades you couldn't possibly be cheating.
Jacob Braude
No matter what Dad was always there with solid words of advice . . . "Go ask your mother."
Alan Ray
My folks refused to have more than four children after reading that every fifth child born in the world is Chinese.
Anonymous
Definition of Father's Day: Same as Mother's Day but you don't spend as much.
Anonymous
Who ran to help me when I fell And would some pretty story tell Or kiss the place to make it well? My Mother.
Anne Taylor
When I was a boy of fourteen my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old man around. But when I got to be twenty-one I was astonished at how much he had learned in seven years.
Mark Twain
If I were hanged on the highest hill Mother o' mine O mother o' mine! I know whose love would follow me still Mother o' mine O mother o' mine!
Rudyard Kipling
What is home without a mother?
Alice Hawthorne
She's somebody's mother boys you know For all she's aged and poor and slow.
Mary Dow Brine
Oh why should the spirit of mortal be proud? Like a fast-flitting meteor a fast-flying cloud A flash of the lightning a break of the wave He passes from life to his rest in the grave.
William Knox
Day's sweetest moments are at dawn.
Ella Wheeler Wilcox
Sometimes I have believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast.
Lewis Carroll
Do you know what the greatest test is? Do you still get excited about what you do when you get up in the morning?
David Halberstam
Put yourself in competition with yourself each day. Each morning look back upon your work of yesterday and then try to beat it.
Charles M. Sheldon
Look to the East where up the lucid sky The morning climbs! The day shall yet be fair.
Celia Thaxter
With every rising of the sun think of your life as just begun.
Anonymous
A day dawns quite like other days in it a single hour comes quite like other hours but in that day and in that hour the chance of a lifetime faces us.
Maltbie D. Babcock
The day returns and brings us the petty round of irritating concerns and duties. Help us to play the man help us to perform them with laughter and kind faces let cheerfulness abound with industry. Give us to go blithely on our business all this day bring us to our resting beds weary and content and undishonored and grant us in the end the gift of sleep.
Robert Louis Stevenson
Only that day dawns to which we are awake.
Henry David Thoreau
Only the thinking man lives his life the thoughtless man's life passes him by.
Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach
Never be afraid to sit awhile and think.
Lorraine Hansbury
A man without a plan for the day is lost before he starts.
Lewis K. Bendele
He who every morning plans the transactions of the day and follows that plan carries thread that will guide him through the labyrinth of the most busy life.
Victor Hugo
Get out of bed forcing a smile. You may not smile because you are cheerful but if you will force yourself to smile you'll... be cheerful because you smile. Repeated experiments prove that when man assumes the facial expression of a given mental mood any given mood then that mental mood itself will follow.
Kenneth Goode
Today a thousand doors of enterprise are open to you inviting you to useful work. To live at this time is an inestimable privilege and a sacred obligation devolves upon you to make right use of your opportunities. Today is the day in which to attempt and achieve something worthwhile.
Grenville Kleiser
This is the beginning of a new day. God has given me this day to use as I will. I can waste it or use it for good but what I do today is important because I am exchanging a day of my life for it! When tomorrow comes this day will be gone forever leaving in its place something that I have traded for it. I want it to be gain and not loss good and not evil success and not failure in order that I shall not regret the price I have paid for it.
Anonymous
As soon as you open your eyes in the morning you can square away for a happy and successful day. It's the mood and the purpose at the inception of each day that are the important facts in charting your course for the day. We can always square away for a fresh start no matter what the past has been.
George Matthew Adams
When you rise in the morning form a resolution to make the day a happy one for a fellow creature.
Sydney Smith
To get up each morning with the resolve to be happy ... is to set our own conditions to the events of each day. To do this is to condition circumstances instead of being conditioned by them.
Ralph Waldo Trine
Everyday ask yourself the question "Do I want to experience Peace of Mind or do I want to experience Conflict ?"
Gerald Jampolsky
The first thing each morning and the last thing each night suggest to yourself specific ideas that you wish to embody in your character and personality. Address such suggestions to yourself silently or aloud until they are deeply impressed upon your mind.
Grenville Kleiser
I'm a most lucky and thankful woman. Lucky and thankful for each morning I wake up. For three wonderful daughters and one son. For an understanding and very loving husband with whom I've shared fifty-two blessed years all in good health.
Thelma Elliott
It was only a sunny smile And little it cost in the giving. But like morning light it scattered the night And made the day worth living.
Anonymous
Spill not the morning (the quintessence of the day!) in recreations for sleep is a recreation. Add not therefore sauce to sauce. ... Pastime like wine is poison in the morning. It is then good husbandry to sow the head which hath lain fallow all night with some serious work.
Thomas Fuller
No matter how big or soft or warm your bed is you still have to get out of it.
Grace Slick
Do not say "It is morning " and dismiss it with a name of yesterday. See it for the first time as a newborn child that has no name.
Rabindranath Tagore
Whether one is twenty forty or sixty whether one has succeeded failed or just muddled along whether yesterday was full of sun or storm or one of those dull days with no weather at all life begins each morning! ... Each morning is the open door to a new world-new vistas new aims new tryings.
Leigh Mitchell Hodges