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.
~ Anonymous
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
So get a few laughs and do the best you can.
~ Will Rogers
I come to the office each morning and stay for long hours doing what has to be done to the best of my ability. And when you've done the best you can you can't do any better. So when I go to sleep I turn everything over to the Lord and forget it.
~ Harry S. Truman
That man is blest who does his best and leaves the rest.
~ Charles F. Deems
When you rise in the morning form a resolution to make the day a happy one for a fellow creature.
~ Sydney Smith
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.
~ Sanskrit Proverb
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.
~ Ruth Smeltzer
Think that day lost whose descending sun views from thy hand no noble action done.
~ Joseph Joubert
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.
~ William Penn
Be ashamed to die until you have won some victory for humanity.
~ Horace Mann
The most thoroughly wasted of all days is that on which one has not laughed.
~ Nicolas De Chamfort
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.
~ May Sarton
Sweets are good for the nerves.
~ Margarete Bieber
Fat gives things flavor.
~ Julia Child
Friends I beg you do not shirk your daily task of indolence.
~ Don Marquis
If someone said Write a sentence about your life I'd write I want to go outside and play.
~ Jenna Elfman
We should consider every day lost on which we have not danced at least once.
~ Friedrich Nietzsche
