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.
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
The great business of life is to be to do to do without and to depart.
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.
