Day One Quotes
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.
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.
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.
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.
It isn't hard to be good from time to time in sports. What's tough is being good every day.
When action grows unprofitable gather information when information grows unprofitable sleep.
A man may fulfill the object of his existence by asking a question he cannot answer and attempting a task he cannot achieve.
And each man stands with his face in the light of his own drawn sword. Ready to do what a hero can.
To look up and not down To look forward and not back To look out and not in and To lend a hand.
I like the man who faces what he must With steps triumphant and a heart of cheer Who fights the daily battle without fear.
To accomplish our destiny ... we must cover before nightfall the distance assigned to each of us.
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.
To live each day as though one's last never flustered never apathetic never attitudinizing-here is perfection of character.
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.
Study as if you were going to live forever live as if you were going to die tomorrow.
Every day is a little life ... live every day as if it would be the last. Those that dare lose a day are dangerously prodigal those that dare misspend it are desperate.
You have to count on living every single day in a way you believe will make you feel good about your life- so that if it were over tomorrow you'd be content with yourself.
Happy the man and happy he alone He who can call today his own He who secure within can say "Tomorrow do thy worst For I have lived today."
There are only three colors ten digits and seven notes it's what we do with them that's important.
Do each daily task the best we can act as though the eye of opportunity were always upon us.
He who allows his day to pass by without practicing generosity and enjoying life's pleasures is like a blacksmith's bellows he breathes but does not live.
You have not lived a perfect day even though you have earned your money unless you have done something for someone who will never be able to repay you.
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.
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.
If someone said "Write a sentence about your life " I'd write "I want to go outside and play."
He who does not get fun and enjoyment out of every day ... needs to reorganize his life.
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.
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.
