A collection of quotes on the topic of good night, good morning, motivational, inspirational.
“It is never too late to be what you might have been.”
“The secret of getting ahead is getting started.”
“There is no way to happiness. Happiness is the way.”
“You are what you believe yourself to be.”
Source: The Witch of Portobello (2007), p. 152.
Context: You are what you believe yourself to be.
Don't be like those people who believe in "positive thinking" and tell themselves that they're loved and strong and capable. You don't need to do that because you know it already. And when you doubt it — which happens, I think, quite often at this stage of evolution — do as I suggested. Instead of trying to prove that you're better than you think, just laugh. Laugh at your worries and insecurities. View your anxieties with humor. It will be difficult at first, but you'll gradually get used to it. Now go back and meet all those people who think you know everything. Convince yourself that they're right, because we all know everything, it's merely a question of believing.
Believe.
“Life is what you make it. Always has been, always will be.”
“Laugh as much as you breathe and love as long as you live.”
“The secret to getting ahead is getting started.”
“Keep smiling, because life is a beautiful thing and there's so much to smile about.”
“Whenever you get there, there is no there there.”
“To handle yourself, use your head; to handle others, use your heart.”
“Success is liking yourself, liking what you do, and liking how you do it.”
“Life itself is the most wonderful fairy tale.”
“Every day may not be good…
but there's something good in every day”
“It does not matter how slowly you go as long as you do not stop.”
“And in the end, it’s not the years in your life that count. It’s the life in your years.”
This quote is often misattributed to Lincoln. The earliest instance that Quote Investigator could locate was "in an advertisement in 1947 for a book about aging by Edward J. Stieglitz, M.D". The advertisement for “The Second Forty Years” which ran in the Chicago Tribune newspaper read like this: The important thing to you is not how many years in your life, but how much life in your years! (Compare 1947 March 16, Chicago Tribune, “How Long Do You Plan to Live?”, [Advertisement for the book "The Second Forty Years" by Edward J. Stieglitz, M.D.], p. C7, Chicago, Illinois. (ProQuest)). Source of misattribution: It’s Not the Years in Your Life That Count. It’s the Life in Your Years - Abraham Lincoln? Adlai Stevenson? Edward J. Stieglitz? Anonymous? by Quote Investigator on July 14, 2012 http://quoteinvestigator.com/2012/07/14/life-years-count/
To my way of thinking it is not the years in your life but the life in your years that count in the long run.
Adlai Stevenson II, Address at Princeton University, "The Educated Citizen" (22 March 1954) http://infoshare1.princeton.edu/libraries/firestone/rbsc/mudd/online_ex/stevenson/adlai1954.html. This has also been paraphrased "What matters most is not the years in your life, but the life in your years" and misattributed to Abraham Lincoln and Mae West.
Adlai Stevenson II, "If I Were Twenty-One" in Coronet (December 1955).
Misattributed
Variant: It is not the years in your life but the life in your years that counts.
“Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.”
Attributed to Winston Churchill in The Prodigal Project : Book I : Genesis (2003) by Ken Abraham and Daniel Hart, p. 224 and other places, though no source attribution is given. It actually derives from an advertising campaign for Budweiser beer in the late 1930s.
Misattributed
Variant: Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.
Source: http://quoteinvestigator.com/2013/09/03/success-final/
“Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.”
“There are no have-to's, just choices”
“Keep your face always toward the sunshine – and shadows will fall behind you.”
This has become attributed to both Walt Whitman and Helen Keller, but has not been found in either of their published works, and variations of the quote are listed as a proverb commonly used in both the US and Canada in A Dictionary of American Proverbs (1992), edited by Wolfgang Mieder, Kelsie B. Harder and Stewart A. Kingsbury.
Misattributed
“It is us today. It will be you tomorrow.”
Statement after his speech before the League of Nations (30 June 1936), as quoted in " "The Lion is Freed" in TIME magazine (8 September 1975) http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,917777,00.html?iid=chix-sphere
“You need to be happy to live, I don’t.”
“If there is a good will, there is great way.”
“It takes courage to grow up and become who you really are.”
“TODAY IS THE FIRST DAY OF THE REST OF YOUR LIFE”
Source: Revolution for the Hell of It (1968), p. 184.
“The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts; therefore guard accordingly.”
Variant: The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts.
Source: Meditations
“Being defeated is often a temporary condition. Giving up is what makes it permanent.”
As quoted in Perfectionism : What's Bad About Being Too Good? (1987) by Miriam Adderholdt and Jan Goldberg, p. 85
“There is no right life in the wrong one.”
Source: Minima Moralia: Reflections from a Damaged Life
“Nobody can go back and start a new beginning, but anyone can start today and make a new ending. ”
“I would rather die of passion than of boredom”
Not by van Gogh, but from Emile Zola's novel The Ladies' Paradise (1883)
Misattributed
“Give every day the chance to become the most beautiful day of your life.”
Variant: When you arise in the morning, think of what a precious privilege it is to be alive-to breathe, to think, to enjoy, to love.
Source: Meditations
“The sun is up, the sky is blue
It's beautiful, and so are you”
Source: Beatles Lyrics
“You see persons and things not as they are but as you are.”
“No! Try not. Do, or do not. There is no try.”
Source: The Star Wars Trilogy
“You have to believe in it to get it…”
Source: Heart of the Sea
“Go as far as you can see and you will see further.”
Variant: Go so far as you can see and when you get there you will always be able to see farther.
Source: See You at the Top (2000), p. 164; Variant: When obstacles arise, you change your direction to reach your goal; you do not change your decision to get there.
Context: Go so far as you can see and when you get there you will always be able to see farther. … as you head toward your goals, be prepared to make some slight adjustments to your course. You don't change your decision to go — you do change your direction to get there.
“With the new day comes new strength and new thoughts.”
“They can because they think they can.”
Aeneid (29–19 BC), Book V
“no expectations, no disappointments!”
Sleeping with Strangers
Variant: Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success. If you love what you are doing, you will be successful.
“That's not my love; that's just your life.”
Ibid.
The Book of Disquiet
Original: Isso não é o meu amor; é apenas a sua vida.
“There's less in this than meets the eye.”
Tallulah: My Autobiography (1952)
“One word
Frees us of all the weight and pain of life:
That word is love.”
Source: Oedipus at Colonus, Line 1616–18
2005-09, Address at Stanford University (2005)
Context: When I was 17, I read a quote that went something like: "If you live each day as if it was your last, someday you'll most certainly be right." It made an impression on me, and since then, for the past 33 years, I have looked in the mirror every morning and asked myself: "If today were the last day of my life, would I want to do what I am about to do today?" And whenever the answer has been "No" for too many days in a row, I know I need to change something.
“I like the saying "The world is as you are."”
The Circle, p. 21
Catching the Big Fish (2006)
Context: I like the saying "The world is as you are." And I think films are as you are. That's why, although the frames of a film are always the same — the same number, in the same sequence, with the same sounds — every screening is different. The difference is sometimes subtle but it's there. It depends on the audience. There is a circle that goes from the audience to the film and back. Each person is looking and thinking and feeling and coming up with his or her own sense of things. And it's probably different from what I fell in love with.
So you don’t know how it's going to hit people. But if you thought about how it's going to hit people, or if it's going to hurt someone, or if it's going to do this or do that, then you would have to stop making films. You just do these things that you fall in love with, and you never know what's going to happen.
“Every day may not be good… but there's something good in every day.”
Source: yt
“I am not, I will not be.
I have not, I will not have.”
That frightens all the childish
And extinguishes fear in the wise.
§ 26
Major attributed works, Ratnāvalī (Precious Garland)
“The opportunity of your life, it's you.”
Original: (it) L'occasione della tua vita, sei tu.
Source: prevale.net
“Think in the morning. Act in the noon. Eat in the evening. Sleep in the night.”
Source: 1790s, The Marriage of Heaven and Hell (1790–1793), Proverbs of Hell, Line 41
Source: Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail
“An early morning walk is a blessing for the whole day.”
April 20, 1840
Journals (1838-1859)
Source: https://www.walden.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/02/Chapter4.pdf#page=13
“Write it on your heart that every day is the best day in the year.”
Works and Days
1870s, Society and Solitude (1870)
“Even if you are on the right track, you’ll get run over if you just sit there.”
Variant: Even if you are on the right track, you will get run over if you just sit there.
“In these times you have to be an optimist to open your eyes when you awake in the morning”
“A year from now you may wish you had started today.”
“Laugh as much as you breathe and love as long as you live.”
Source: Born of Shadows
“There is no sunrise so beautiful that it is worth waking me up to see it.”
Source: Is Everyone Hanging Out Without Me?
“Laugh as much as you breathe and love as long as you live”
Source: The Long Song
“A day without laughter is a day wasted.”
Widely attributed to Chaplin and a few others, research done for "A Day Without Laughter is a Day Wasted" at Quote Investigator http://quoteinvestigator.com/2011/07/16/laughter-day/ indicate that such expressions date back to that of Nicolas Chamfort, published in "Historique, Politique et Litteraire, Maximes détachées extraites des manuscrits de Champfort" Mercure Français (18 July 1795), p. 351 http://books.google.com/books?id=N3tBAAAAcAAJ&q=%22pas+ri%22#v=snippet&q=%22pas%20ri%22&f=false: La plus perdue de toutes les journées est celle où l’on n’a pas ri. Translations of this into English have been found as early as one in "Laughing" in Flowers of Literature (1803) by F. Prevost and F. Blagdon :
: I admire the man who exclaimed, “I have lost a day!” because he had neglected to do any good in the course of it; but another has observed that “the most lost of all days, is that in which we have not laughed;” and, I must confess, that I feel myself greatly of his opinion.
Misattributed
“The line between failure and success is so fine… that we are often on the line and do not know it.”
“Very little is needed to make a happy life.”
ἐν ὀλιγίστοις κεῖται τὸ εὐδαιμόνως βιῶσαι
VII, 67
Source: Meditations (c. 121–180 AD), Book VII
“Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.”
Variant: Our greatest glory consists not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.
Source: The Citizen of the World, Or, Letters from a Chinese Philosopher, Residing in London, to His Friends in the Country, by Dr. Goldsmith
Source: Walden (1854), p.375
Oh, the Places You'll Go! (1990)
Source: Oh, The Places You'll Go!
“If you only have one smile in you, give it to the people you love.”
“Do the thing and you will have the power.”
“it is a serious thing // just to be alive / on this fresh morning / in this broken world.”
Source: Red Bird
“Be the one to stand out in the crowd.”
Source: Your Best Life Now: 7 Steps to Living at Your Full Potential
“Worry never robs tomorrow of its sorrow, it only saps today of its joy.”
“Today you are You, that is truer than true. There is no one alive who is Youer than You.”
Variant: There is no one alive who
is Youer than You!
Source: Happy Birthday to You!
“The more I want to get something done, the less I call it work.”
Illusions : The Adventures of a Reluctant Messiah (1977)
