A Day Quotes
If time be of all things most precious wasting time must be the greatest prodigality since lost time is never found again.
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.
Happiness is produced not so much by great pieces of good fortune that seldom happen as by little advantages that occur every day.
To fill the hour that is happiness to fill the hour and leave no crevice for a repentance or an approval.
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.
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.
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.
The power of a man's virtue should not be measured by his special efforts but by his ordinary doing.
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.
Follow your bliss. -Joseph Campbell Resolve to perform what you ought. Perform without fail what you resolve.
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.
I long to accomplish a great and noble task but it is my chief duty to accomplish small tasks as if they were great and noble.
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.
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.
Look at a day when you are supremely satisfied at the end. It's not a day when you lounge around doing nothing it's when you've had everything to do and you've done it.
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.
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.
What then is time? If no one asks me I know what it is. If I wish to explain it to him who asks I do not know.
The value of life lies not in the length of days but in the use we make of them a man may live long yet live very little.
Time is one kind of robber whom the law does not strike at and who steals what is most precious to men.
Time is the greatest and longest-established spinner of all. ... His factory is a secret place his work noiseless and his hands are mutes.
Time is a wealth of change but the clock in its parody makes it mere change and no wealth.
Time is a flowing river. Happy those who allow themselves to be carried unresisting with the current. They float through easy days. They live unquestioning in the moment.
The soldier above all others prays for peace, for it is the soldier who must suffer and bear the deepest wounds and scars of war.
Perhaps one day we will have machines that can cope with approximate task descriptions, but in the meantime, we have to be very prissy about how we tell computers to do things.
I found what I was looking for at Langley. This was what a research mathematician did. I went to work every day for 33 years happy. Never did I get up and say I don't want to go to work.
I won an amateur night, October 8th, 1985. I went to work the next day and quit my job.
If you get up in the morning and think the future is going to be better, it is a bright day. Otherwise, it's not.
Sometimes, getting up in the morning and brushing your teeth is the hardest part of the day - it all just hurts.
I tweet in the morning and the evening. To write 12 hours a day, there is a moment when you're really tired. It's my relaxing time.
He who would learn to fly one day must first learn to stand and walk and run and climb and dance one cannot fly into flying.
At the end of the day, humans are social animals and we are at our best when we get to do things with others who appreciate and enjoy what we enjoy. It's what keeps us human.
You need to think outside the box. You need to think differently if you want to sustain what, for me, is my peak performance: the very best that I can achieve as an athlete every day.
When working, my diet degrades to pizza three times a day, because I don't want to distract myself from anything.
We should consider every day lost on which we have not danced at least once. And we should call every truth false which was not accompanied by at least one laugh.
Who's my hero? That's a great question... Well, I think my dad is my hero, because he's someone I look up to every day.
Like almost everyone who uses e-mail, I receive a ton of spam every day. Much of it offers to help me get out of debt or get rich quick. It would be funny if it weren't so exciting.
Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day teach a man to fish and you feed him for a lifetime.
Every man is a damn fool for at least five minutes every day wisdom consists in not exceeding the limit.
The people of the world genuinely want peace. Some day the leaders of the world are going to have to give in and give it to them.
Success in life is founded upon attention to the small things rather than to the large things to the every day things nearest to us rather than to the things that are remote and uncommon.
