
„I would rather die of passion than of boredom.“
— Emile Zola, book Au Bonheur des Dames
Source: The Ladies' Paradise
A collection of quotes on the topic of good night, good morning, motivational, deep.
„I would rather die of passion than of boredom.“
— Emile Zola, book Au Bonheur des Dames
Source: The Ladies' Paradise
„It is never too late to be what you might have been.“
— George Eliot English novelist, journalist and translator 1819 - 1880
„The secret to getting ahead is getting started.“
— Mark Twain American author and humorist 1835 - 1910
„Keep your face always toward the sunshine – and shadows will fall behind you.“
— Walt Whitman American poet, essayist and journalist 1819 - 1892
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
„To handle yourself, use your head; to handle others, use your heart.“
— Eleanor Roosevelt American politician, diplomat, and activist, and First Lady of the United States 1884 - 1962
„It takes courage to grow up and become who you really are.“
— E.E. Cummings American poet 1894 - 1962
„There is no way to happiness. Happiness is the way.“
— Thich Nhat Hanh Religious leader and peace activist 1926
„Life is what you make it. Always has been, always will be.“
— Eleanor Roosevelt American politician, diplomat, and activist, and First Lady of the United States 1884 - 1962
„It does not matter how slowly you go as long as you do not stop.“
— Confucius Chinese teacher, editor, politician, and philosopher -551 - -479 BC
Total 130 quotes good morning, filter:
„Laugh as much as you breathe and love as long as you live.“
— Johnny Depp American actor, film producer, and musician 1963
„Keep smiling, because life is a beautiful thing and there's so much to smile about.“
— Marilyn Monroe American actress, model, and singer 1926 - 1962
„Whenever you get there, there is no there there.“
— Gertrude Stein American art collector and experimental writer of novels, poetry and plays 1874 - 1946
„Life itself is the most wonderful fairy tale.“
— Hans Christian Andersen Danish author, fairy tale writer, and poet 1805 - 1875
„Success is liking yourself, liking what you do, and liking how you do it.“
— Maya Angelou American author and poet 1928 - 2014
„Every day may not be good…
but there's something good in every day“
— Alice Morse Earle American historian 1851 - 1911
„Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.“
— Winston S. Churchill Prime Minister of the United Kingdom 1874 - 1965
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/
„There are no have-to's, just choices“
— Eleanor Roosevelt American politician, diplomat, and activist, and First Lady of the United States 1884 - 1962
„Being defeated is often a temporary condition. Giving up is what makes it permanent.“
— Marilyn vos Savant US American magazine columnist, author and lecturer 1946
As quoted in Perfectionism : What's Bad About Being Too Good? (1987) by Miriam Adderholdt and Jan Goldberg, p. 85
„The secret of getting ahead is getting started.“
— Agatha Christie English mystery and detective writer 1890 - 1976
„And in the end, it’s not the years in your life that count. It’s the life in your years.“
— Abraham Lincoln 16th President of the United States 1809 - 1865
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.
„You need to be happy to live, I don’t.“
— Keanu Reeves Canadian actor, director, producer and musician 1964
„TODAY IS THE FIRST DAY OF THE REST OF YOUR LIFE“
— Abbie Hoffman American political and social activist 1936 - 1989
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.“
— Marcus Aurelius, book Meditations
Variant: The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts.
Source: Meditations
„No! Try not. Do, or do not. There is no try.“
— George Lucas American film producer 1944
Source: The Star Wars Trilogy
„Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.“
— Ralph Waldo Emerson American philosopher, essayist, and poet 1803 - 1882
„You are what you believe yourself to be.“
— Paulo Coelho, book The Witch of Portobello
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.
— Dale Carnegie American writer and lecturer 1888 - 1955
„There's less in this than meets the eye.“
— Tallulah Bankhead American actress 1902 - 1968
Tallulah: My Autobiography (1952)
— Steve Jobs American entrepreneur and co-founder of Apple Inc. 1955 - 2011
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.
„Think in the morning. Act in the noon. Eat in the evening. Sleep in the night.“
— William Blake, book The Marriage of Heaven and Hell
Source: 1790s, The Marriage of Heaven and Hell (1790–1793), Proverbs of Hell, Line 41
— Cheryl Strayed, book Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail
Source: Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail
„Love is not a because, it's a no matter what.“
— Jodi Picoult, book Second Glance
Source: Second Glance
„If there is a good will, there is great way.“
— William Shakespeare English playwright and poet 1564 - 1616
„Give every day the chance to become the most beautiful day of your life.“
— Mark Twain American author and humorist 1835 - 1910
„Things are not as they seem. They are what they are.“
— Terry Pratchett, book Thief of Time
Source: Thief of Time
„An early morning walk is a blessing for the whole day.“
— Henry David Thoreau 1817-1862 American poet, essayist, naturalist, and abolitionist 1817 - 1862
April 20, 1840
Journals (1838-1859)
Source: https://www.walden.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/02/Chapter4.pdf#page=13
— Marcus Aurelius, book Meditations
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“
— John Lennon English singer and songwriter 1940 - 1980
Source: Beatles Lyrics
„You see persons and things not as they are but as you are.“
— Anthony de Mello Indian writer 1931 - 1987
„Write it on your heart that every day is the best day in the year.“
— Ralph Waldo Emerson American philosopher, essayist, and poet 1803 - 1882
Works and Days
1870s, Society and Solitude (1870)
„You have to believe in it to get it…“
— Nora Roberts American romance writer 1950
Source: Heart of the Sea
„Even if you are on the right track, you’ll get run over if you just sit there.“
— Will Rogers American humorist and entertainer 1879 - 1935
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“
— Carl Sandburg American writer and editor 1878 - 1967
„A year from now you may wish you had started today.“
— Karen Lamb British tennis player 1982
„Laugh as much as you breathe and love as long as you live.“
— Sherrilyn Kenyon Novelist 1965
Source: Born of Shadows
„There is no sunrise so beautiful that it is worth waking me up to see it.“
— Mindy Kaling, book Is Everyone Hanging Out Without Me?
Source: Is Everyone Hanging Out Without Me?
„Go as far as you can see and you will see further.“
— Zig Ziglar American motivational speaker 1926 - 2012
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.
„Laugh as much as you breathe and love as long as you live“
— Andrea Levy, book The Long Song
Source: The Long Song
„I think I wished for you all of my life.“
— Cecelia Ahern, book If You Could See Me Now
Source: If You Could See Me Now
„A day without laughter is a day wasted.“
— Charlie Chaplin British comic actor and filmmaker 1889 - 1977
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.“
— Elbert Hubbard American writer, publisher, artist, and philosopher fue el escritor del jarron azul 1856 - 1915
„Very little is needed to make a happy life.“
— Marcus Aurelius, book Meditations
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.“
— Oliver Goldsmith Irish physician and writer 1728 - 1774
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
— Dr. Seuss American children's writer and illustrator, co-founder of Beginner Books 1904 - 1991
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.“
— Maya Angelou American author and poet 1928 - 2014
„Do the thing and you will have the power.“
— Ralph Waldo Emerson American philosopher, essayist, and poet 1803 - 1882
„With the new day comes new strength and new thoughts.“
— Eleanor Roosevelt American politician, diplomat, and activist, and First Lady of the United States 1884 - 1962
„it is a serious thing // just to be alive / on this fresh morning / in this broken world.“
— Mary Oliver American writer 1935 - 2019
Source: Red Bird
„They can because they think they can.“
— Virginia Woolf English writer 1882 - 1941
Aeneid (29–19 BC), Book V
„Be the one to stand out in the crowd.“
— Joel Osteen American televangelist and author 1963
Source: Your Best Life Now: 7 Steps to Living at Your Full Potential
„no expectations, no disappointments!“
— Eric Jerome Dickey American author 1961
Sleeping with Strangers
— Albert Schweitzer French-German physician, theologian, musician and philosopher 1875 - 1965
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.
„Worry never robs tomorrow of its sorrow, it only saps today of its joy.“
— Leo Buscaglia Motivational speaker, writer 1924 - 1998
„There is no right life in the wrong one.“
— Theodor W. Adorno German sociologist, philosopher and musicologist known for his critical theory of society 1903 - 1969
Source: Minima Moralia: Reflections from a Damaged Life
„Today you are You, that is truer than true. There is no one alive who is Youer than You.“
— Dr. Seuss, book Happy Birthday to You!
Variant: There is no one alive who
is Youer than You!
Source: Happy Birthday to You!
„Life is a memory, and then it is nothing.“
— Cormac McCarthy, book The Crossing
Source: The Crossing
„The more I want to get something done, the less I call it work.“
— Richard Bach American spiritual writer 1936
Illusions : The Adventures of a Reluctant Messiah (1977)
„you will always love, and you will always be loved“
— Oscar Wilde, book The Picture of Dorian Gray
Source: The Picture of Dorian Gray
„In the morning it was morning and I was still alive.“
— Charles Bukowski, book Post Office
Source: Post Office
„They can because they think they can.“
— John Conington British classical scholar 1825 - 1869
Source: Translations, The Aeneid of Virgil (1866), Book V, p. 153
„That's not my love; that's just your life.“
— Fernando Pessoa, book The Book of Disquiet
Ibid.
The Book of Disquiet
Original: Isso não é o meu amor; é apenas a sua vida.
„Happiness and Beauty are by-products.“
— George Bernard Shaw Irish playwright 1856 - 1950
#102
1900s, Maxims for Revolutionists (1903)
„Understand me who can, for I understand myself.“
— Francesco Petrarca, Il Canzoniere
Canzone 105, st. 2
Il Canzoniere (c. 1351–1353), To Laura in Life
„Friends are the family you can pick.“
— Red Symons Australian broadcaster and musician 1949
Attributed quotes
„To love is to will the good of the other.“
— Thomas Aquinas, Summa Theologica
II-II, q. 26, art. 6
Summa Theologica (1265–1274)
„The birthday of my life
Is come, my love is come to me.“
— Christina Rossetti English poet 1830 - 1894
A Birthday, st. 2.
„The greatest glory in living lies not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.“
— Nelson Mandela President of South Africa, anti-apartheid activist 1918 - 2013
1990s, Long Walk to Freedom (1995)
„Goods which are not shared are not goods.“
— Fernando de Rojas, La Celestina
Act I.
La Celestina (1499)