Day Quotes - Page 4

Today is the day in which to express your noblest qualities of mind and heart to do at least one worthy thing which you have long postponed.

Grenville Kleiser

Our grand business undoubtedly is not to see what lies dimly at a distance but to do what lies clearly at hand.

Live your life each day as you would climb a mountain. An occasional glance toward the summit keeps the goal in mind but many beautiful scenes are to be observed from each new vantage point. Climb slowly steadily enjoying each passing moment and the view from the summit will serve as a fitting climax for the journey.

Harold B. Melchart

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

That man is happiest who lives from day to day and asks no more garnering the simple goodness of life.

Euripides

It is only possible to live happily-ever-after on a day-to-day basis.

Margaret Bonnano

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

All the great blessings of my life are present in my thoughts today.

The best way to secure future happiness is to be as happy as is rightfully possible today.

Charles W. Eliot

A fool bolts pleasure then complains of indigestion.

Each day provides its own gifts.

Martial

Let us savour the swift delights of the most beautiful of our days!

Alphonse de Lamartine

Death accompanies us at every step and enables us to use those moments when life smiles at us to feel more deeply the sweetness of life. The more certain the end the more tempting the minute.

Theodore Fontane

Happiness is not a state to arrive at but a manner of traveling.

Margaret Lee Runbeck

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

Those who face that which is actually before them unburdened by the past undistracted by the future these are they who live who make the best use of their lives these are those who have found the secret of contentment.

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

Taking time to live is taking time to appreciate simple silence as better than any kind of talk or watching a flower or watching a guy wash the windows on a skyscraper and wondering what he is thinking.

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.

To fill the hour that is happiness to fill the hour and leave no crevice for a repentance or an approval.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

We have as much time as we need.

Ah! the clock is always slow it is later than you think.

Robert W. Service

The forty-four-hour week has no charm for me. I'm looking for a forty-hour day.

Nicholas Murray Butler

Those who make the worst use of their time most complain of its brevity.

Jean de La Bruyère

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.

What we love to do we find time to do.

John Lancaster Spalding

Time stays long enough for anyone who will use it.

Anonymous

There is time for everything.

Thomas A. Edison

It is nonsense to say there is not enough time to be fully informed. ... Time given to thought is the greatest timesaver of all.

We all find time to do what we really want to do.

William Feather

Time is a fixed income and as with any income the real problem facing most of us is how to live successfully within our daily allotment.

Margaret B. Johnstone

We shall never have more time. We have and have always had all the time there is. No object is served in waiting until next week or even until to-morrow. Keep going. ... Concentrate on something useful.

There is time enough for everything in the course of the day if you do but one thing at once but there is not time enough in the year if you will do two things at a time.

Lord Chesterfield

Much may be done in those little shreds and patches of time which every day produces and which most men throw away.

Charles Caleb Colton

Learn to use ten minutes intelligently. It will pay you huge dividends.

William A. Irwin

It is better to do the most trifling thing in the world than to regard half an hour as trifle.

Johann von Goethe

The real secret of how to use time is to pack it as you would a portmanteau filling up the small spaces with small things.

Sir Henry Haddow

One must learn a different... sense of time one that depends more on small amounts than big ones.

Sister Mary Paul

An earnest purpose finds time or makes it. It seizes on spare moments and turns fragments to golden account.

William Ellery Channing

Still on it creeps Each little moment at another's heels Till hours days years and ages are made up Of such small parts as these and men look back Worn and bewilder'd wondering how it is.

Does't thou love life? Then do not squander time for that is the stuff life is made of.

Benjamin Franklin

Time wasted is a theft from God.

Henri-Frédéric Amiel

Lost time is like a run in a stocking. It always gets worse.

Anne Morrow Lindbergh

As if you could kill time without injuring eternity.

Henry David Thoreau

Killing time is the chief end of our society.

Ugo Betti

You can kill time or kill yourself it comes to the same thing in the end.

No person will have occasion to complain of the want of time who never loses any.

Thomas Jefferson

Time is that which man is always trying to kill but which ends in killing him.

Herbert Spencer

Do not wait for leaders do it alone person to person.

Men talk of killing time while time quietly kills them.

Dion Boucicault

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.

If you want to kill time try working it to death.

A man who dares to waste one hour of life has not discovered the value of life.

If time be of all things most precious wasting time must be the greatest prodigality since lost time is never found again.

Benjamin Franklin

Don't agonize. Organize.

Florynce Kennedy

Curse ruthless time! Curse our mortality. How cruelly short is the allotted span for all we must cram into it!

Winston Churchill

You will never "find" time for anything. If you want time you must make it.

Timely service like timely gifts is doubled in value.

George MacDonald

Time is the one thing that can never be retrieved.

We must use time as a tool not as a crutch.

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