Good Night quotes
A collection of quotes on the topic of good morning, goodbye, good night, love.
Best good night quotes
“The best way to make your dreams come true is to wake up.”
“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.
“You never fail until you stop trying.”
“There is only one good thing in life, and that is love.”
"The Love of Long Ago"
Source: The Complete Short Stories of de Maupassant
Context: There is only one good thing in life, and that is love. And how you misunderstand it! how you spoil it! You treat it as something solemn like a sacrament, or something to be bought, like a dress.
Good Night quotes
“I love you as certain dark things are to be loved,
in secret, between the shadow and the soul.”
Variant: I love you as one loves certain dark things, secretly, between the shadow and the soul.
Source: 100 Love Sonnets
“Things may come to those who wait, but only the things left by those who hustle.”
“Tomorrow belongs to those who can hear it coming”
“There is another world, but it is in this one.”
Il y a assurément un autre monde, mais il est dans celui-ci...
Œuvres complètes, vol. 1, Gallimard, 1968.
“I have promises to keep and miles to go before I sleep.”
"Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening" (1923) http://www.poetryfoundation.org/poem/171621
Variant: And miles to go before I sleep.
Context: The woods are lovely, dark and deep.
But I have promises to keep,
And miles to go before I sleep,
And miles to go before I sleep.
“I love you not only for what you are, but for what I am when I am with you”
“No matter where you go, there you are”
Source: When You Come to a Fork in the Road, Take It!: Inspiration and Wisdom from One of Baseball's Greatest Heroes
“Do not go gentle into that good night.
Rage, rage against the dying of the light.”
Source: In Country Sleep, and Other Poems
“If there is a good will, there is great way.”
Variant: Parting is such sweet sorrow that I shall say goodnight till it be morrow.
Source: Romeo and Juliet
“Man is a genius when he is dreaming.”
Variant: Man is a genius when he is dreaming.
“It is true if you believe it to be true.”
Source: You Can Heal Your Heart: Finding Peace After a Breakup, Divorce, or Death
“The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.”
Often attributed to Eleanor Roosevelt without an original source in her writings, for example in the introduction to It Seems to Me : Selected Letters of Eleanor Roosevelt (2001) by Leonard C. Schlup and Donald W. Whisenhunt, p. 2 http://books.google.com/books?id=UeFWjTMcLZYC&lpg=PP1&pg=PA2#v=onepage&q&f=false. But archivists have not been able to find the quote in any of her writings, see the comment from Ralph Keyes in The Quote Verifier above.
Disputed
As quoted in What Type Am I? : Discover Who You Really Are (1998) by Renee Baron, p. 110
“No! Try not. Do, or do not. There is no try.”
Source: The Star Wars Trilogy
Variant: Then she kissed him. Her kiss was a question he wanted to spend his whole life answering.
Source: The History of Love (2005), P. 11
“You have to believe in it to get it…”
Source: Heart of the Sea
“Do I love you? My God, if your love were a grain of sand, mine would be a universe of beaches.”
Source: The Princess Bride
Source: Message in a Bottle
“It was the possibility of darkness that made the day seem so bright.”
Source: Wolves of the Calla
“The best way to make your dreams come true is to wake up.”
“They who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night.”
" Eleonora http://www.classicreader.com/read.php/sid.6/bookid.9/" (1841).
“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.
“If you find someone you love in your life, then hang on to that love.”
"Princess Diana: 10 most inspiring quotes from the 'people's princess'", Hello Magazine, Daily News (1 July 2015)
“The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams. ”
“Early to bed and early to rise makes a man healthy, wealthy, and wise. ”
“Motivation is what gets you started. Habit is what keeps you going.”
“The difference between ordinary and extraordinary is that little extra.”
“There is a time for many words and there is a time also for sleep.”
XI. 379 (tr. A. T. Murray).
Odyssey (c. 725 BC)
Source: The Odyssey
Source: The Perks of Being a Wallflower
“Some nights are made for torture, or reflection, or the savoring of loneliness.”
Source: Dance Dance Dance
“I am what I am Are you what you are or What?”
“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.
“Yesterday is not ours to recover, but tomorrow is ours to win or lose.”
“The longest way must have its close - the gloomiest night will wear on to a morning.”
Source: Uncle Tom's Cabin (1852), Ch. 40 The Martyr
Context: The longest day must have its close — the gloomiest night will wear on to a morning. An eternal, inexorable lapse of moments is ever hurrying the day of the evil to an eternal night, and the night of the just to an eternal day.
Source: Again the Magic
“It's the possibility of having a dream come true that makes life interesting”
Variant: It's the possibility of having a dream come true that makes life interesting.
Source: The Alchemist
“There will always be a door to the light.”
Source: Kingdom Hearts, Vol. 1
“The woods are lovely, dark and deep.
But I have promises to keep”
General sources
Source: "Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening" (1923) http://www.poetryfoundation.org/poem/171621
Context: The woods are lovely, dark and deep.
But I have promises to keep,
And miles to go before I sleep,
And miles to go before I sleep.
“Opportunity dances with those who are already on the dance floor.”
“You should be kissed and often, by someone who knows how.”
Variant: You should be kissed and by someone who knows how.
Source: Gone with the Wind
“There is no escape if love is not there”
Source: The Witch of Blackbird Pond
“Better to live one year as a tiger, than a hundred as sheep.”
Madonna: 50 Years Of Wit And Wisdom, The Insider http://www.theinsider.com/news/1130430_Madonna_50_Years_Of_Wit_And_Wisdom,
“For small creatures such as we the vastness is bearable only through love.”
Source: Contact (1985), Chapter 24 (p. 430)
“Those who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night.”
“Try to learn something about everything and everything about something.”
A favourite comment, inscribed on his memorial at Ealing, quoted in Nature Vol. XLVI (30 October 1902), p. 658
1890s
“There is always a little more toothpaste in the tube. Think about it.”
I'm a Stranger Here Myself (US), Notes From a Big Country (UK) (1998)
“In dreams and in love there are no impossibilities.”
As quoted in Dictionary of Quotations from Ancient and Modern, English and Foreign Sources (1893) by James Wood, p. 11
“Dream by making and make by dreaming.”
Seagull from Afar http://www.poetrysoup.com/famous/poem/21382/Seagull_from_Afar_
From the poems written in English
“To all, to each, a fair good-night,
And pleasing dreams, and slumbers light!”
L'Envoy.
Marmion (1808)
“What I am is what I am. Are you what you are — or what?”
"What I Am"
Shooting Rubberbands at the Stars (1988)
“That is what I want to be remembered for.”
Yours, Isaac Asimov (20 September 1973) <!-- page 329 -->
General sources
Context: What I will be remembered for are the Foundation Trilogy and the Three Laws of Robotics. What I want to be remembered for is no one book, or no dozen books. Any single thing I have written can be paralleled or even surpassed by something someone else has done. However, my total corpus for quantity, quality and variety can be duplicated by no one else. That is what I want to be remembered for.
“But these are the people who never get it.”
"I want everything" http://home.earthlink.net/~2lulah2/everything.htm in What I Want from Life (1934) edited by Edmund George Cousins, p. 108
Context: I don’t know what I want.
Nobody knows — or if they do, they don’t know for long. I mean, you don’t want the same thing long enough for it to be What You Want From Life in capital letters.
Well, maybe some people do. Maybe there's a few simple folks — or maybe a few million, I don't know — who fix their hearts, and their minds, and their everlasting souls on a thing, and keep on all their lives hoping for it. Living for it. Wanting It From Life.
But these are the people who never get it.
“Tomorrow, is the first blank page of a 365 page book. Write a good one.”