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Time is an avid gambler who has no need to cheat to win every time.

Charles Baudelaire

Time is the only critic without ambition.

Have a time and place for everything and do everything in its time and place and you will not only accomplish more but have far more leisure than those who are always hurrying.

The time which we have at our disposal every day is elastic the passions that we feel expand it those that we inspire contract it and habit fills up what remains.

To learn new habits is everything for it is to reach the substance of life. Life is but a tissue of habits.

Henri-Frédéric Amiel

Quality is not an act. It is a habit.

Aristotle

It is not in novelty but in habit that we find the greatest pleasure.

Raymond Radiguet

Habit is stronger than reason.

George Santayana

Character is simply habit long enough continued.

Plutarch

Nothing is more powerful than habit.

Ovid

If you do the same thing every day at the same time for the same length of time you'll save yourself from many a sink. Routine is a condition of survival.

Flannery O'Connor

Anyone can carry his burden however hard until nightfall. Anyone can do his work however hard for one day. Anyone can live sweetly patiently lovingly purely till the sun goes down. And this is all life really means.

Robert Louis Stevenson

Come what may time and the hour runs through the roughest day.

William Shakespeare

At any rate you can bear it for a quarter of an hour!

Theodore Haecker

The longest day is soon ended.

Pliny

The secret of my success is that I always managed to live to fly another day.

A day is a miniature eternity.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

One day with life and heart is more than time enough to find a world.

James Russell Lowell

A day is a span of time no one is wealthy enough to waste.

Anonymous

When a man sits with a pretty girl for an hour it seems like a minute. But let him sit on a hot stove for a minute and it's longer than any hour. That's relativity.

Albert Einstein

Too slow for those who wait Too swift for those who fear Too long for those who grieve Too short for those who rejoice. But for those who love time is not.

A day's work is a day's work neither more nor less and the man who does it needs a day's sustenance a night's repose and due leisure whether he be painter or ploughman.

George Bernard Shaw

If I had my life to live over I would start barefoot earlier in the spring and stay that way later in the fall. I would go to more dances. I would ride more merry-go-rounds. I would pick more daisies.

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

Always do one thing less than you think you can do.

Bernard M. Baruch

Sufficient to each day are the duties to be done and the trials to be endured.

I look back on my life like a good day's work it is done and I am satisfied with it.

The moment we pass out of our habits we lose all sense of permanency and routine.

Manners are a sensitive awareness of the feelings of others. If you have that awareness you have good manners no matter what fork you use.

And hearts have been broken from harsh words spoken That sorrow can ne'er set right.

Margaret Elizabeth Sangster

That which is horrifying to you don't do to anybody else.

Dr. Laura Schlessinger

It is too bad if you have to do everything upon reflection and can't do anything from early habit.

Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

Most of life is routine-dull and grubby but routine is the mountain that keeps a man going. If you wait for inspiration you'll be standing on the corner after the parade is a mile down the street.

Good habits which bring our lower passions and appetites under automatic control leave our natures free to explore the larger experiences of life.

Ralph W Sockman

Motivation is what gets you started. Habit is what keeps you going.

Jim Ryuh

Habits are safer than rules you don't have to watch them. And you don't have to keep them either they keep you.

Dr. Frank Crane

Habit is not mere subjugation it is a tender tie when one remembers habit it seems to have been happiness.

Elizabeth Bowen

Think that day lost whose descending sun views from thy hand no noble action done.

I expect to pass through life but once. If therefore there can be any kindness I can show or any good thing I can do to any fellow human being let me do it now.

Be ashamed to die until you have won some victory for humanity.

The most thoroughly wasted of all days is that on which one has not laughed.

Nicolas de Chamfort

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.

Sweets are good for the nerves.

Margarete Bieber

Fat gives things flavor.

Friends I beg you do not shirk your daily task of indolence.

If someone said "Write a sentence about your life " I'd write "I want to go outside and play."

We should consider every day lost on which we have not danced at least once.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Life is about enjoying yourself and having a good time.

Cher

Put a little fun into your life. Try dancing.

He who does not get fun and enjoyment out of every day ... needs to reorganize his life.

George Matthew Adams

Unless each day can be looked back upon by an individual as one in which he has had some fun some joy some real satisfaction that day is a loss.

Anonymous

Take time every day to do something silly.

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.

Come let us give a little time to folly ... and even in a melancholy day let us find time for an hour of pleasure.

Saint Bonaventura

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

Be Satisfied with a Good Day's Work There are hundreds of tasks we feel we must accomplish in the day but if we do not take them one at a time ... we are bound to break our own physical or mental structure.

No one can confidently say that he will still be living tomorrow.

Euripides

To live each day as though one's last never flustered never apathetic never attitudinizing-here is perfection of character.

Marcus Aurelius

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.

The years seem to rush by now and I think of death as a fast approaching end of a journey-double and treble reason for loving as well as working while it is day.

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