Day Quotes

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.

~ Ben Nicholas

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

Without the aid of prejudice and custom I should not be able to find my way across the room.

~ William Hazlitt

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

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

Choose always the way that seems the best however rough it may be custom will soon render it easy and agreeable.

~ Pythagoras

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

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.

~ Tyron Edwards

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

The longest day is soon ended.

~ Pliny

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

~ Chuck Yeager

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.

~ Marcel Proust

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.

~ Henry Van Dyke

The less one has to do the less time one finds to do it in. One yawns one procrastinates one can do it when one will and therefore one seldom does it at all whereas those who have a great deal of business must buckle to it and then they always find time enough to do it.

~ Lord Chesterfield

Time is nothing absolute its duration depends on the rate of thought and feeling.

~ John Draper

Time is a fluid condition which has no existence except in the momentary avatars of individual people.

~ William Faulkner

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.

~ Saint Augustine

Time is the product of changing realities beings existences.

~ Nicholas Berdyaev

Time is the arbitrary division of eternity.

~ Anonymous

Time is a part of eternity and of the same piece with it.

~ Moses Mendelssohn

Each day is a little life every waking and rising a little birth every fresh morning a little youth every going to rest and sleep a little death.

~ Arthur Schopenhauer

Time is eternity begun.

~ James Montgomery

Time is not a line but a series of now-points.

~ Taisen Deshimaru

You can't measure time in days the way you can money in dollars because each day is different.

~ Phillip Hewett

An hour of pain is as long as a day of pleasure.

~ Anonymous

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.

~ Michel De Montaigne

Reality is a staircase going neither up nor down we don't move today is today always is today.

~ Octavio Paz

What runs through a person like water through a sieve.

~ Samuel Butler