Day Quotes - Page 9

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

Showing up is 80 percent of life.

Do you know that disease and death must needs overtake us no matter what we are doing? ... What do you wish to be doing when it overtakes you? If you have anything better to be doing when you are so overtaken get to work on that.

Epictetus

Without duty life is soft and boneless.

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

And each man stands with his face in the light of his own drawn sword. Ready to do what a hero can.

Elizabeth Barrett-Browning

Every day give yourself a good mental shampoo.

Do all the good you can By all the means you can In all the ways you can In all the places you can At all the times you can.

Anonymous

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

To accomplish our destiny ... we must cover before nightfall the distance assigned to each of us.

Dr. Alexis Carrel

Each day should be passed as though it were our last.

Publilius Syrus

Learn as if you were going to live forever. Live as if you were going to die tomorrow.

Anonymous

One should count each day a separate life.

Marcus Annaeus Seneca

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.

I work every day-or at least I force myself into my office or room. I may get nothing done but you don't earn bonuses without putting in time. Nothing may come for three months but you don't get the fourth without it.

Mordecai Richler

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.

Add each day something to fortify you against poverty and death.

Marcus Annaeus Seneca

It isn't hard to be good from time to time in sports. What's tough is being good every day.

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.

Realize life as an end in itself. Functioning is all there is.

Oliver Wendell Holmes

He has not learned the first lesson of life who does not every day surmount a fear.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

A homer a day will boost my pay.

Act well at the moment and you have performed a good action to all eternity.

Johann Kaspar Lavater

Nothing determines who we will become so much as those things we choose to ignore.

Love and do what you like.

Saint Augustine

Take the time to come home to yourself everyday.

Robin Casarjean

The power of a man's virtue should not be measured by his special efforts but by his ordinary doing.

The great business of life is to be to do to do without and to depart.

Anonymous

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.

It is no easy thing for a principle to become a man's own unless each day he maintains it and works it out in his life.

Epictetus

Follow your bliss. -Joseph Campbell Resolve to perform what you ought. Perform without fail what you resolve.

Benjamin Franklin

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.

One day of pleasure is worth two of sorrow.

Anonymous

Present joys are more to flesh and blood Than the dull prospect of a distant good.

In order to be utterly happy the only thing necessary is to refrain from comparing this moment with other moments in the past which I often did not fully enjoy because I was comparing them with other moments of the future.

Live in day-tight compartments.

If you are not happy here and now you never will be.

Taisen Deshimaru

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

He's one of those Christmas Eve guys. There are people like that. . . every day in their lives is Christmas Eve.

Learn to drink the cup of life as it comes.

Every day give yourself a good mental shampoo.

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

Leisure for reverie gay or somber does much to enrich life.

A man should hear a little music read a little poetry and see a fine picture every day of his life in order that worldly cares may not obliterate the sense of the beautiful which God has implanted in the human soul.

Johann von Goethe

You have to set new goals every day.

I have resolved that from this day on I will do all the business I can honestly have all the fun I can reasonably do all the good I can willingly and save my digestion by thinking pleasantly.

Robert Louis Stevenson

Make the most of today. Translate your good intentions into actual deeds.

Grenville Kleiser

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

Do what you can with what you have where you are.

Theodore Roosevelt

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

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.

What you are afraid to do is a clear indicator of the next thing you need to do.

Anonymous

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

The butterfly counts not months but moments and has time enough.

Rabindranath Tagore

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

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