The great business of life is to be to do to do without and to depart.
~ Anonymous
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.
~ Elbert Hubbard
It is no easy thing for a principle to become a man's own unless each day he maintains it and works it out in his life.
~ Epictetus
Follow your bliss. -Joseph Campbell Resolve to perform what you ought. Perform without fail what you resolve.
~ Benjamin Franklin
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.
~ Horace Mann
I work every day-or at least I force myself into my office or room. I may get nothing done but you don't earn bonuses without putting in time. Nothing may come for three months but you don't get the fourth without it.
~ Mordecai Richler
Take short views hope for the best and trust in God.
~ Sydney Smith
Each day can be one of triumph if you keep up your interests.
~ George Matthew Adams
When action grows unprofitable gather information when information grows unprofitable sleep.
~ Ursula K. Leguin
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.
~ Helen Keller
To do the useful thing to say the courageous thing to contemplate the beautiful thing: that is enough for one man's life.
~ T. S. Eliot
Showing up is 80 percent of life.
~ Woody Allen
Do you know that disease and death must needs overtake us no matter what we are doing? ... What do you wish to be doing when it overtakes you? If you have anything better to be doing when you are so overtaken get to work on that.
Have patience with all things but chiefly have patience with yourself. Do not lose courage in considering your own imperfections but instantly set about remedying them-every day begin the task anew.
~ Saint Francis De Sales
Without duty life is soft and boneless.
~ Joseph Joubert
A man may fulfill the object of his existence by asking a question he cannot answer and attempting a task he cannot achieve.
~ Oliver Wendell Holmes
And each man stands with his face in the light of his own drawn sword. Ready to do what a hero can.
~ Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Every day give yourself a good mental shampoo.
~ Sara Jordan
To look up and not down To look forward and not back To look out and not in and To lend a hand.
~ Edward Everett Hale
Do all the good you can By all the means you can In all the ways you can In all the places you can At all the times you can.
I like the man who faces what he must With steps triumphant and a heart of cheer Who fights the daily battle without fear.
~ Sarah Knowles Bolton
To accomplish our destiny ... we must cover before nightfall the distance assigned to each of us.
~ Dr. Alexis Carrel
Each day should be passed as though it were our last.
~ Publilius Syrus
Learn as if you were going to live forever. Live as if you were going to die tomorrow.
One should count each day a separate life.
~ Marcus Annaeus Seneca
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.
~ Erica Jong
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.
~ Betty Smith
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.
~ George Eliot
Study as if you were going to live forever live as if you were going to die tomorrow.
~ Maria Mitchell
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.
~ Joseph Hall
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.
~ Jane Seymour
No one can confidently say that he will still be living tomorrow.
~ Euripides
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.
~ Henry Fielding
Do your best every day and your life will gradually expand into satisfying fullness.
~ Horatio W. Dresser
There are only three colors ten digits and seven notes it's what we do with them that's important.
~ Ruth Ross
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.
~ Booker T. Washington
Do each daily task the best we can act as though the eye of opportunity were always upon us.
~ William Feather
What a man accomplishes in a day depends upon the way in which he approaches his tasks. When we accept tough jobs as a challenge to our ability and wade into them with joy and enthusiasm miracles can happen.
~ Arland Gilbert
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.
~ Margaret Thatcher
