Day Quotes

Those who face that which is actually before them unburdened by the past undistracted by the future these are they who live who make the best use of their lives these are those who have found the secret of contentment.

~ Alban Goodier

And that was victory. The freedom to sprawl loosely upon a city street heat his coffee and eat a can of beans ... with no enemy bullets forcing him to toss the can aside while diving behind another wall for momentary survival.

~ David Douglas Duncan

Taking time to live is taking time to appreciate simple silence as better than any kind of talk or watching a flower or watching a guy wash the windows on a skyscraper and wondering what he is thinking.

~ Gersi Douchan

If you observe a really happy man you will find ... that he is happy in tiie course of living life twenty-four crowded hours each day.

~ W. Beran Wolfe

To fill the hour that is happiness to fill the hour and leave no crevice for a repentance or an approval.

~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

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.

~ John Dryden

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.

~ André Gide

Live in day-tight compartments.

~ Dale Carnegie

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.

~ Joe Garagiola

Learn to drink the cup of life as it comes.

~ Agnes Turnbull

Every day give yourself a good mental shampoo.

~ Sara Jordon

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.

~ Miriam Beard

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.

~ Julie Krone

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.

~ Thomas Carlyle

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.

~ Cary Grant

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

~ Anonymous

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.

~ Luther Burbank

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

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.

~ Willie Mays

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.

~ Mark Twain

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.

~ Josh Gibson

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

~ Johann Kaspar Lavater

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.

~ Nadine Stair

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

~ Sandor Minab

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.

~ Blaise Pascal