Day Quotes: Inspiring Thoughts for Every Day

"Better one's House be too little one day than too big all the Year after"

"My sorrow, when she's here with me, thinks these dark days of autumn rain are beautiful as days can be; she loves the bare, the withered tree; she walks the sodden pasture lane"

Robert Frost, Poet

"Enjoy the little things, for one day you may look back and realize they were the big things"

Robert Brault, Philosopher

"Rest is not idleness, and to lie sometimes on the grass under trees on a summer's day, listening to the murmur of the water, or watching the clouds float across the sky, is by no means a waste of time"

John Lubbock, Statesman

"I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin, but by the content of their character"

Martin Luther King Jr., Minister

"Guests, like fish, begin to smell after three days"

Benjamin Franklin, Politician

"There is only one day left, always starting over: it is given to us at dawn and taken away from us at dusk"

Jean-Paul Sartre, Philosopher

"Republicans believe every day is the Fourth of July, but the democrats believe every day is April 15"

Ronald Reagan, President

"We do not remember days, we remember moments"

Cesare Pavese, Poet

"The man is happiest who lives from day to day and asks no more, garnering the simple goodness of life"

Euripides, Poet

"I weep for the liberty of my country when I see at this early day of its successful experiment that corruption has been imputed to many members of the House of Representatives, and the rights of the people have been bartered for promises of office"

Andrew Jackson, President

"It isn't hard to be good from time to time in sports. What's tough is being good every day"

Willie Mays, Athlete

"Seek the lofty by reading, hearing and seeing great work at some moment every day"

Thornton Wilder, Writer

"Americans rightly asked, if this is the way our government responds to a natural disaster it knew about days in advance, how would it respond to a surprise terrorist attack? How would it respond to an earthquake?"

Russ Carnahan, Politician

"To thine own self be true, and it must follow, as the night the day, thou canst not then be false to any man"

William Shakespeare, Dramatist

"Every great architect is - necessarily - a great poet. He must be a great original interpreter of his time, his day, his age"

Frank Lloyd Wright, Architect

"He who would learn to fly one day must first learn to stand and walk and run and climb and dance; one cannot fly into flying"

William Edward Hickson, Writer

"Count no day lost in which you waited your turn, took only your share and sought advantage over no one"

Robert Brault, Philosopher

"The House of Lords is like a glass of champagne that has stood for five days"

Clement Attlee, Leader

"Any time you get two people in a room who disagree about anything, the time of day, there is a scene to be written. That's what I look for"

Aaron Sorkin, Producer

"The years teach much which the days never know"

Ralph Waldo Emerson, Philosopher

"Each day is the scholar of yesterday"

Publilius Syrus, Poet

"The true university of these days is a collection of books"

Thomas Carlyle, Writer

"I have always been delighted at the prospect of a new day, a fresh try, one more start, with perhaps a bit of magic waiting somewhere behind the morning"

J.B. Priestley, Writer

"Every dog must have his day"

Jonathan Swift, Writer

"If women ran the world we wouldn't have wars, just intense negotiations every 28 days"

Robin Williams, Comedian

"The first day one is a guest, the second a burden, and the third a pest"

Jean de la Bruyere, Philosopher

"Begin at once to live, and count each separate day as a separate life"

Seneca, Philosopher

"And the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom"

Anais Nin, Author

"Sad will be the day for any man when he becomes contented with the thoughts he is thinking and the deeds he is doing - where there is not forever beating at the doors of his soul some great desire to do something larger; which he knows he was meant and made to do"

Phillips Brooks, Clergyman

"Art is exalted above religion and race. Not a single solitary soul these days believes in the religions of the Assyrians, the Egyptians and the Greeks... Only their art, whenever it was beautiful, stands proud and exalted, rising above all time"

Emil Nolde, Artist