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Reappraise the past  reevaluate where we've been  clarify where we are  and predict or anticipate where we are headed.
— Toni Cade Bambara
We can easily manage if we will only take  each day  the burden appointed to it. But the load will be too heavy for us if we carry yesterday's burden over again today  and then add the burden of the morrow before we are required to bear it.
— John Newton
Take in the ideas of the day  drain off those of yesterday. As to the morrow  time enough to consider it when it becomes today.
— Edward Bulwer-Lytton
Tomorrow I will live  the fool does say  today itself's too late  the wise lived yesterday.
— Martial
The cares of today are seldom those of tomorrow.
— William Cowper
Yesterday is a cancelled check  tomorrow is a promissory note  today is the only cash you have-so spend it wisely.
— Kay Lyons
Everyman's life lies within the present  for the past is spent and done with  and the future is uncertain.
— Marcus Aurelius
The flesh endures the storms of the present alone  the mind those of the past and future as well.
— Epicurus
I try to learn from the past  but I plan for the future by focusing exclusively on the present. That's where the fun is.
— Donald Trump
No mind is much employed upon the present  recollection and anticipation fill up almost all our moments.
— Samuel Johnson
The only living life is in the past and future-the present is an interlude- strange interlude in which we call on past and future to bear witness that we are living.
— Eugene O'Neill
Past  and to come  seems best  things present  worst.
— William Shakespeare
The past cannot be regained  although we can learn from it  the future is not yet ours even though we must plan for it. ... Time is now. We have only today.
— Charles Hummell
Look not mournfully into the past  it comes not back again. Wisely improve the present  it is thine. Go forth to meet the shadowy future without fear and with a manly heart.
— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
No longer forward nor behind I look in hope or fear  but grateful  take the good I find  the best of now and here.
— John Greenleaf Whittier
The present  like a note in music  is nothing but as it appertains to what is past and what is to come.
— Walter Savage Landor
We can see well into the past  we can guess shrewdly in to the future  but that which is rolled up and muffled in impenetrable folds is today.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
The present time is seldom able to fill desire or imagination with immediate enjoyment  and we are forced to supply its deficiencies by recollection or anticipation.
— Samuel Johnson
Be satisfied  and pleased with what thou art  Act cheerfully and well thy allotted part  Enjoy the present hour  be thankful for the past  And neither fear  nor wish  the approaches of the last.
— Martial
It is difficult to live in the present  ridiculous to live in the future and impossible to live in the past.
— Jim Bishop
If you have one eye on yesterday  and one eye on tomorrow  you're going to be cockeyed today.
— Anonymous
Yesterday has gone. Tomorrow may never come. There is only the miracle of this moment. Savor it. It is a gift.
— Anonymous
Don't waste today regretting yesterday instead of making a memory for tomorrow.
— Laura Palmer
Light tomorrow with today.
— Elizabeth Barrett Browning
I just take one day. Yesterday is gone. Tomorrow has not come. We have only today to love Jesus.
— Mother Teresa
Patterns of the past echo in the present and resound through the future.
— Dhyani Ywahoo
Who controls the past controls the future  who controls the present controls the past.
— George Orwell
If we spend our time with regrets over yesterday  and worries over what might happen tomorrow  we have no today in which to live.
— Anonymous
Now is all we have. Everything that has ever happened to you  and anything that is ever going to happen to you  is just a thought.
— Wayne Dyer
The present is the necessary product of all the past  the necessary cause of all the future.
— Robert G. Ingersoll
If we open a quarrel between the past and the present  we shall find we have lost the future.
— Winston Churchill
Few of us ever live in the present  we are forever anticipating what is to come or remembering what has gone.
— Louis L'Amour
The secret of health for both mind and body is not to mourn for the past  not to worry about the future  nor to anticipate troubles  but to live the present moment wisely and earnestly.
— Buddha
When we have a world of only now  with no shadows of yesterdays or clouds of tomorrow  then saying what we can do will work.
— Goldie Ivener
I have realized that the past and the future are real illusions  that they exist only in the present  which is what there is and all that there is.
— Alan Watts
There is no present or future  only the past  happening over and over again  now.
— Eugene O'Neill
Today was once the future from which you expected so much in the past.
— Anonymous
Today is yesterday's pupil.
— Benjamin Franklin
Today is yesterday's effect and tomorrow's cause.
— Phillip Gribble
Through loyalty to the past  our mind refuses to realize that tomorrow's joy is possible only if today's makes way for it  that each wave owes the beauty of its line only to the withdrawal of the preceding one.
— Andre Gide
The present is the now  the here  through which all future plunges to the past.
— James Joyce
I have everything I need to enjoy my here and now-unless I am letting my consciousness be dominated by demands and expectations based on the dead past or the imagined future.
— Ken Keyes
Today is the blocks with which we build.
— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
In order to be utterly happy  the only thing necessary is to refrain from comparing this moment with other moments in the past  which I often did not fully enjoy because I was comparing them with other moments of the future.
— Andre Gide
Seize from every moment its unique novelty  and do not prepare your joys.
— Andre Gide
You don't need endless time and perfect conditions. Do it now. Do it today. Do it for twenty minutes and watch your heart start beating.
— Barbara Sher
Do not manage as if you had ten thousand years before you. Look you  death stands at your elbow  make the most of your minute  and be good for something while it is in your power.
— Charles Palmer
And if not now  when?
— Talmud
As we are always preparing to be happy  it is inevitable that we should never be so.
— Blaise Pascal
Why not seize the pleasure at once? How often is happiness destroyed by preparation  foolish preparation!
— Jane Austen
When shall we live if not now?
— M. F. K. Fisher
We cannot put off living until we are ready. The most salient characteristic of life is its coerciveness: it is always urgent  "here and now " without any possible postponement. Life is fired at us point-blank.
— Jose Ortega y Gasset
Very few men  properly speaking  live at present  but are providing to live another time.
— Jonathan Swift
Real generosity toward the future lies in giving all to the present.
— Albert Camus
Freedom from worries and surcease from strain are illusions that always inhabit the distance.
— Edwin Way Teale
Study as if you were to live forever. Live as if you were to die tomorrow.
— Saint Isidore of Seville
The best preparation for a better life next year is a full  complete  harmonious  joyous life this year.
— Thomas Dreier
If you spend your whole life waiting for the storm  you'll never enjoy the sunshine.
— Morris West
Some people are making such thorough preparation for rainy days that they aren't enjoying today's sunshine.
— William Feather
The greater part of our lives is spent in dreaming over the morrow  and when it comes  it  too  is consumed in the anticipation of a brighter morrow  and so the cheat is prolonged  even to the grave.
— Mark Rutherford
It is cheap generosity which promises the future in compensation for the present.
— J. A. Spender
Who knows if the gods above will add tomorrow's span to this day's sum?
— Horace
Defer not till tomorrow to be wise  tomorrow's sun to thee may never rise.
— William Congreve
My head is buried in the sands of tomorrow  while my tail feathers are singed by the hot sun of today.
— John Barrymore
Today  well lived  will prepare me for both the pleasure and the pain of tomorrow.
— Anonymous
Every moment that I am centered in the future  I suffer a temporary loss of this life.
— Hugh Prather
We know nothing of tomorrow  our business is to be good and happy today.
— Sydney Smith
We are always beginning to live  but are never living.
— Manilius
Live wastes itself while we are preparing to live.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
Men spend their lives in anticipation  in determining to be vastly happy at some period when they have time. But the present time has one advantage over every other-it is our own.... We may lay in a stock of pleasures  as we would lay in a stock of wine  but if we defer the tasting of them too long  we shall find that both are soured by age.
— Charles Caleb Colton
You do well to have visions of a better life than of every day  but it is the life of every day from which the elements of a better life must come.
— Maurice Maeterlinck
The most effective way to ensure the value of the future is to confront the present courageously and constructively.
— Rollo May
The habit of looking into the future and thinking that the whole meaning of the present lies in what it will bring forth is a pernicious one. There can be no value in the whole unless there is value in the parts.
— Bertrand Russell
You don't save a pitcher for tomorrow. Tomorrow it may rain.
— Leo Durocher
Very strange is this quality of our human nature which decrees that unless we feel a future before us we do not live completely in the present.
— Phillips Brooks
Just do your best today and tomorrow will come ... tomorrow's going to be a busy day  a happy day.
— Helen Boehm
Do today's duty  fight today's temptation  do not weaken and distract yourself by looking forward to things you cannot see  and could not understand if you saw them.
— Charles Kingsley
The best preparation for good work tomorrow is to do good work today.
— Elbert Hubbard
Live for today. Multitudes of people have failed to live for today. ... What they have had within their grasp today they have missed entirely  because only the future has intrigued them.
— William Allen White
A preoccupation with the future not only prevents us from seeing the present as it is  but often prompts us to rearrange the past.
— Eric Hoffer
The man least dependent upon the morrow goes to meet the morrow most cheerfully.
— Epicurus
Today's egg is better than tomorrow's hen.
— Turkish proverb
T'were too absurd to slight for the hereafter  the day's delight!
— Robert Browning
The best part of our lives we pass in counting on what is to come.
— William Hazlitt
It seems to be the fate of man to seek all his consolations in futurity.
— Samuel Johnson
The prospect of being pleased tomorrow will never console me for the boredom of today.
— Francois de La Rochefoucauld
We steal if we touch tomorrow. It is God's.
— Henry Ward Beecher
The past and present are only our means  the future is always our end. Thus we never really live  but only hope to live.
— Blaise Pascal
The president is the representative of the whole nation and he's the only lobbyist that all the one hundred and sixty million people in this country have.
— Harry S. Truman
Trying to make the presidency work these days is like trying to sew buttons on a custard pie.
— James David Barber
Th' prisidincy is th' highest office in th' gift iv th people. Th' vice-prisidincy is th' next highest an' the lowest. It isn't a crime exactly. Ye can't be sint to jail f r it  but it's a kind iv a disgrace.
— Finley Peter Dunne
Seriously  I do not think I am fit for the presidency.
— Abraham Lincoln
An eminent American is reported to have said to friends who wished to put him forward  'Gentlemen  let there be no mistake. I should make a good president  but a very bad candidate.'
— James Bryce
Well  I wouldn't say that I was in the 'great' class  but I had a great time while I was trying to be great.
— Harry S. Truman
The presidency does not yield to definition. Like the glory of a morning sunrise  it can be experienced - it can not be told.
— Calvin Coolidge
When the president does it  that means it is not illegal.
— Richard Nixon
A president's hardest task is not to do what's right  but to know what's right.
— Lyndon B. Johnson
Had I been chosen president again  I am certain I could not have lived another year.
— John Adams
The four most miserable years of my life . . .
— John Adams
If you are as happy  my dear sir  on entering this house as I am in leaving it and returning home  you are the happiest man in the country.
— James Buchanan
I feel like the man who was tarred and feathered and ridden out of town on a rail. To the man who asked how he liked it he said: 'If it wasn't for the honour of the thing  I'd rather walk.'
— Abraham Lincoln
The office of president requires the constitution of an athlete  the patience of a mother  the endurance of an early Christian.
— Harold Wilson
Within the first few months I discovered that being a president is like riding a tiger. A man has to keep riding or be swallowed.
— Harry S. Truman
Harricum! Harricum! Give 'em hell  Harricum!
— Harry S. Truman
In America  any boy may become president  and I suppose it's just one of the risks he takes.
— Adlai Stevenson
I have no expectation of making a hit every time I come to bat.
— Franklin D. Roosevelt
I think the American public wants a solemn ass as a president  and I think I'll go along with them.
— Calvin Coolidge
I desire to so conduct the affairs of this administration that if  at the end ... I have lost every friend on earth  I shall have one friend left  and that friend shall be down inside me.
— Abraham Lincoln
The final greatness of the presidency lies in the truth that it is not just an office of incredible power but a breeding ground of indestructible myth.
— Clinton Rossiter
I beg leave to assure the Congress that no pecuniary consideration could have tempted me to accept this arduous employment at the expense of my domestic ease and happiness. I do not wish to make any profit from it.
— George Washington
Nothing in life is so exhilarating as to be shot at without result.
— Ronald Reagan
Don't let it be forgot  That once there was a spot -For one brief shining moment That was known as Camelot.
— John F. Kennedy
The buck stops here.
— Harry S. Truman
The ocean and I have many pebbles To find and wash off and roll into shape.
— William Stafford
The sea possesses a power over one's moods that has the effect of a will. The sea can hypnotize. Nature in general can do so.
— Henrik Ibsen
Roll on  thou deep and dark blue ocean - roll! Ten thousand fleets sweep over thee in vain  Man marks the earth with ruin - his control Stops with the shore.
— Lord Byron
The sea - the truth must be confessed - has no generosity. No display of manly qualities - courage  hardihood  endurance  faithfulness - has ever been known to touch its irresponsible consciousness of power.
— Joseph Conrad
Being in a ship is being in a jail  with the chance of being drowned.
— Samuel Johnson
The sea hath no king but God alone.
— Anonymous
I liked to sail alone. The sea was the same as a girl to me - I did not want anyone else along.
— E. B. White
I do not love the sea. The look of it is disquieting. There is something in the very sound of it that stirs the premonition felt while we listen to noble music  we become inexplicably troubled.
— H. M. Tomlinson
The only cure for seasickness is to sit on the shady side of an old church in the country.
— Anonymous
I have observed  on board a steamer  how men and women easily give way to their instinct for flirtation  because water has the power of washing away our sense of responsibility  and those who on land resemble the oak in their firmness behave like floating seaweed when on the sea.
— Rabindranath Tagore
A poor woman from Manchester  on being taken to the seaside  is said to have expressed her delight on seeing for the first time something of which there was enough for everybody.
— John Lubbock
There's never an end for the sea.
— Samuel Beckett
April is the cruellest month  breeding Lilacs out of the dead land  mixing memory and desire  stirring dull roots with Spring rain.
— T. S. Eliot
Autumn wins you best by this: its mute Appeal to sympathy for its decay.
— Robert Browning
Honest Winter  snow-clad  and with the frosted beard  I can welcome not uncordially  But that long deferment of the calendar's promise  that weeping gloom of March and April  that bitter blast outraging the honour of May how often has it robbed me of heart and hope?
— George Gissing
No one thinks of Winter when the grass is green.
— Rudyard Kipling
No Winter lasts forever  no Spring skips its turn. April is a promise that May is bound to keep  and we know it.
— Hal Borland
Now is the winter of our discontent Made glorious summer by this sun of York.
— William Shakespeare
Every April  God rewrites the Book of Genesis.
— Anonymous
The changing year's progressive plan Proclaims mortality to man.
— Horace
Summer is the mother of the poor.
— Italian proverb
Take a winter as you find him and he turns out to be a thoroughly honest fellow with no nonsense in him: and tolerating none in you  which is a great comfort in the long run.
— James Russell Lowell
Summer ends  and Autumn comes  and he who would have it otherwise would have high tide always and a full moon every night.
— Hal Borland
June's too soon  July's too late - for summer.
— Siberian saying
April  Comes like an idiot  babbling  and strewing flowers.
— Edna St. Vincent Millay
Autumn arrives in the early morning  but spring at the close of a winter's day.
— Elizabeth Bowen
Autumn is the bite of a harvest apple.
— Christina Petrowsky
May is a pious fraud of the almanac A ghastly parody of real Spring Shaped out of snow and breathed with eastern wind.
— James Russell Lowell
The first day of spring was once the time for taking the young virgins into the fields  there in dalliance to set an example in fertility for Nature to follow. Now we just set the clock an hour ahead and change the oil in the crankcase.
— E. B. White
There is honor among thieves.
— English proverb
Set a thief to catch a thief.
— English proverb
A plague upon it when thieves cannot be true one to another!
— William Shakespeare
When thieves fall out  honest men come by their own.
— English proverb
Stolen waters are sweet  and bread eaten in secret is pleasant.
— Proverbs
A library is thought in cold storage.
— Viscount Herbert Samuel
A man is not idle because he is absorbed in thought. There is a visible labour and there is an invisible labour.
— Victor Hugo
An Englishman thinks seated  a Frenchman  standing  an American  pacing  an Irishman  afterward.
— Austin O'Malley
Analogies  it is true  decide nothing  but they can make one feel more at home.
— Sigmund Freud
Data data everywhere but not a thought to think.
— Theodore Roszak
One must live the way one thinks or end up thinking the way one has lived.
— Paul Bourget
One thought fills immensity.
— William Blake
Sometimes people mistake the way I talk for what I am thinking.
— Idi Amin
Thought is the labour of the intellect  reverie is its pleasure.
— Victor Hugo
Three minutes' thought would suffice to find this out  . but thought is irksome and three minutes is a long time.
— A. E. Housman
When thought becomes excessively painful  action is the finest remedy.
— Salman Rushdie
Worrying is the most natural and spontaneous of all human functions. It is time to acknowledge this  perhaps even to learn to do it better.
— Lewis Thomas
All thought is a feat of association  having what's in front of you bring up something in your mind that you almost didn't know you knew.
— Robert Frost
The extra calories needed for one hour of intense mental effort would be completely met by eating one oyster cracker or one half of a salted peanut.
— Francis C. Benedict
Every man who says frankly and fully what he thinks is doing a public service.
— Leslie Stephen
Thought is the strongest thing we have. Work done by true and profound thought - that is a real force.
— Albert Schweitzer
We find it hard to believe that other people's thoughts are as silly as our own  but they probably are.
— James Harvey Robinson
Thinking is like loving and dying - each of us must do it for himself.
— Josiah Royce
A man of action forced into a state of thought is unhappy until he can get out of it.
— John Galsworthy
It is human nature to think wisely and to act in an absurd fashion.
— Anatole France
Men use thought only to justify their wrongdoings  and speech only to conceal their thoughts.
— Voltaire
And which of you with taking thought can add to his stature one cubit?
— Bible
The real offence  as she ultimately perceived  was her having a mind of her own at all. Her mind was to be his - attached to his own like a small garden plot to a deer park.
— Henry James
To be uncertain is to be uncomfortable  but to be certain is to be ridiculous.
— Chinese proverb
The thoughts that come often unsought  and  as it were  drop into the mind  are commonly the most valuable of any we have.
— John Locke
We shall succeed only so far as we continue that most distasteful of all activity  the intolerable labour of thought.
— Learned Hand
Profundity of thought belongs to youth  clarity of thought to old age.
— Friedrich Nietzsche
Every real thought on every real subject knocks the wind out of somebody or other.
— Oliver Wendell Holmes
What was once thought can never be unthought.
— Friedrich Dilrrenmatt
Many a time I have wanted to stop talking and find out what I really believed.
— Walter Lippmann
Man is a slow  sloppy and brilliant thinker  the machine is fast  accurate and stupid.
— William M. Kelly
Folks that blurt out just what they think wouldn't be so bad if they thought.
— Kin Hubbard
Facts in books  statistics in encyclopedias  the ability to use them in men's heads.
— Fogg Brackell
Knowledge is a process of piling up facts  wisdom lies in their simplification.
— Martin H. Fisher
The fundamental fact about the Greek was that he had to use his mind. The ancient priests had said 'Thus far and no farther. We set the limits of thought.' The Greek said  'All things are to be examined and called into question. There are no limits set on thought.'
— Edith Hamilton
Thought is born of failure.
— Lancelot Law Whyte
Speaking without thinking is shooting without taking aim.
— Spanish proverb
What you think is an illusion created by your glands  your emotions and  in the last analysis  by the content of your stomach. That gray matter you're so proud of is like a mirror in an amusement park which transmits to you nothing but distorted signals from reality forever beyond your grasp.
— Ayn Rand
Many highly intelligent people are poor thinkers. Many people of average intelligence are skilled thinkers. The power of a car is separate from the way the car is driven.
— Edward de Bono
Belief is harder to shake than knowledge.
— Adolf Hitler
The bliss e'en of a moment still is bliss.
— Joanna Baillie
Every second is of infinite value.
— Johann von Goethe
There are half hours that dilate to the importance of centuries.
— Mary Catherwood
This-this was what made life: a moment of quiet  the water falling in the fountain  the girl's voice ... a moment of captured beauty. He who is truly wise will never permit such moments to escape.
— Louis L'Amour
We do not remember days  we remember moments.
— Cesare Pavese
The span of life is waning fast  Beware  unthinking youth  beware! Thy soul's eternity depends Upon the record moments bear!
— Eliza Cook
Florence Farr once said to me  "If we could say to ourselves  with sincerity  'this passing moment is as good as any I shall ever know ' we could die upon the instant and be united with God."
— William Butler Yeats
Sometimes I would almost rather have people take away years of my life than take away a moment.
— Pearl Bailey
Life is not lost by dying  life is lost minute by minute  day by day  in all the thousand small  uncaring ways.
— Stephen Vincent Benet
I have the happiness of the passing moment  and what more can mortal ask?
— George R. Gissing
The sole life which a man can lose is that which he is living at the moment.
— Marcus Aurelius
I always say to myself  what is the most important thing we can think about at this extraordinary moment.
— Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Fill the unforgiving minute with sixty seconds worth of distance run.
— Rudyard Kipling
The present moment is creative  creating with an unheard-of intensity.
— Le Corbusier
The only way to live is to accept each minute as an unrepeatable miracle  which is exactly what it is: a miracle and unrepeatable.
— Storm Jameson
Who makes quick use of the moment is a genius of prudence.
— Johann Kaspar Lavater
I live now and only now  and I will do what I want to do this moment and not what I decided was best for me yesterday.
— Hugh Prather
But what minutes! Count them by sensation  and not by calendars  and each moment is a day.
— Benjamin Disraeli
It may be life is only worthwhile at moments. Perhaps that is all we ought to expect.
— Sherwood Anderson
To finish the moment  to find the journey's end in every step of the road  to live the greatest number of good hours  is wisdom.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
Our latest moment is always our supreme moment. Five minutes delay in dinner now is more important than a great sorrow ten years gone.
— Samuel Butler
Be always resolute with the present hour. Every moment is of infinite value.
— Johann von Goethe
A player's effectiveness is directly related to his ability to be right there  doing that thing  in the moment. ... He can't be worrying about the past or the future or the crowd or some other extraneous event. He must be able to respond in the here and now.
— John Brodie
We inhabit ourselves without valuing ourselves  unable to see that here  now  this very moment is sacred  but once it's gone-its value is incontestable.
— Joyce Carol Oates
Life is all memory except for the one present moment that goes by so quick you can hardly catch it going.
— Tennessee Williams
The trouble is not that we are never happy-it is that happiness is so episodical.
— Ruth Benedict
Non-cooks think it's silly to invest two hours' work in two minutes' enjoyment  but if cooking is evanescent  so is the ballet.
— Julia Child
We have only this moment  sparkling like a star in our hand ... and melting like a snowflake. Let us use it before it is too late.
— Marie Beynon Ray
It is privilege of living to be ... acutely  agonizingly conscious of the moment that is always present and always passing.
— Marya Mannes
The passing moment is all we can be sure of  it is only common sense to extract its utmost value from it.
— W. Somerset Maugham
He is blessed over all mortals who loses no moment of the passing life.
— Henry David Thoreau
We must not wish anything other than what happens from moment to moment  all the while  however  exercising ourselves in goodness.
— Saint Catherine of Genoa
If it weren't for the last minute  nothing would get done.
— Anonymous
Once to every man and nation comes the moment to decide. ... And the choice goes by forever t'wixt that darkness and that light.
— James Russell Lowell
I have always felt that the moment when first you wake up in the morning is the most wonderful of the twenty-four hours. No matter how weary or dreary you may feel  you possess the certainty that... absolutely anything may happen. And the fact that it practically always doesn't  matters not one jot. The possibility is always there.
— Monica Baldwin
Every age can be enchanting  provided you live within it.
— Brigitte Bardot
To live exhilaratingly in and for the moment is deadly serious work  fun of the most exhausting sort.
— Barbara Grizzuti Harrison
Love the moment and the energy of the moment will spread beyond all boundaries.
— Corita Kent
Life isn't a matter of milestones  but of moments.
— Rose Fitzgerald Kennedy
The power of Thought  - the magic of the Mind!
— Lord Byron
My thoughts ran a wool-gathering.
— Miguel de Cervantes
Any man may make a mistake  none but a fool will stick to it. Second thoughts are best as the proverb says.
— Cicero
Learning without thought is labor lost.
— Confucius
I think  therefore I am.
— Rene Descartes
Great thoughts reduced to practice become great acts.
— William Hazlitt
The mind grows by what it feeds on.
— J. G. Holland
A penny for your thought.
— John Lyly
Which of you by taking thought can add one cubit unto his stature?
— Matthew
As he thinketh in his heart  so is he.
— Proverbs
Yond Cassius has a lean and hungry look  He thinks too much: such men are dangerous.
— William Shakespeare
They are never alone that are accompanied with noble thoughts.
— Sir Philip Sidney
Great thoughts come from the heart.
— Vauvenargues
It's no use filling your pocket with money if you have got a hole in the corner.
— George Eliot
A penny saved is a penny earned.
— English proverb
It is better to have a hen tomorrow than an egg today.
— Thomas Fuller
He that will not stoop for a pin will never be worth a pound.
— English proverb
A man who both spends and saves money is the happiest man  because he has both enjoyments.
— Samuel Johnson
That great artillery of God Almighty.
— William Temple
3 o'clock is always too late or too early for anything you want to do.
— Jean-Paul Sartre
All movements go too far.
— Bertrand Russell
Nothing is improbable until it moves into the past tense.
— George Ade
Nothing really belongs to us but time  which even he has who has nothing else.
— Baltasar Gracian
Respect the past in the full measure of its desserts  but do not make the mistake of confusing it with the present nor seek in it the ideals of the future.
— Josi Incenieros
The butterfly counts not months but moments  And has time enough.
— Rabindranath Tagore
The passing minute is every man's equal possession but what has once gone by is not ours.
— Marcus Aurelius
This only is denied even to God: the power to undo the past.
— Agathon
Time is a Test of Trouble - But not a Remedy - If such it proved  it proves too There was no Melody.
— Emily Dickinson
To excel the past we must not allow ourselves to lose contact with it  on the contrary  we must feel it under our feet because we raised ourselves upon it.
— Josi Ortega y Gasset
Time is a great legalizer  even in the fields of morals.
— H. L. Mencken
Time goes  you say? Ah no! Alas  Time stays  we go.
— Henry Austin Dobson
Let time that makes you homely  make you sage.
— Thomas Parnell
I don't ask for your pity  but just your understanding - no  not even that -no. Just for your recognition of me in you  and the enemy  time  in us all.
— Tennessee Williams
All things flow  nothing abides.
— Heraclitus
When you sit with a nice girl for two hours  you think it's only a minute. But when you sit on a hot stove for a minute  you think it's two hours. That's relativity.
— Albert Einstein
There was a young lady named Bright Who could travel much faster than light She started one day In the relative way And came back on the previous night.
— Anonymous
Longevity conquers scandal every time.
— Shelby Foote
What may be done at any time will be done at no time.
— Scottish proverb
One of these days is none of these days.
— English proverb
Punctuality is the thief of time.
— Oscar Wilde
Enjoy the present hour  Be thankful for the past  And neither fear nor wish Th' approaches of the last.
— Abraham Cowley
Horus non numero nisi serenas (I count only the sunny hours).
— William Hazlitt
The only true time which a man can properly call his own  is that which he has all to himself  the rest  though in some sense he may be said to live it  is other people's time  not his.
— Charles Lamb
I want to go ahead of Father Time with a scythe of my own.
— H. G. Wells
Time is a great teacher  but unfortunately it kills all its pupils.
— Hector Berlioz
One third of the people of the world are asleep at any given moment. The other two thirds are awake and probably stirring up trouble somewhere.
— Dean Rusk
Time and I against any two.
— Baltasar Gracian
Time discovered truth.
— Seneca
Time gives good advice.
— Maltese proverb
What a day may bring  a day may take away.
— Thomas Fuller
Time is a kindly god.
— Sophocles
Every minute starts an hour.
— Paul Gondola
Time wounds all heels.
— Jane Ace
The apparent serenity of the past is an oil spread by time.
— Lloyd Frankenberg
It takes time to save time.
— Joe Taylor
The mind of man works with strangeness upon the body of time. An hour  once it lodges in the queer element of the human spirit  may be stretched to fifty or a hundred times its clock length  on the other hand  an hour may be accurately represented by the timepiece of the mind by one second.
— Virginia Woolf
When you have a great and difficult task  something perhaps almost impossible  if you only work a little at a time  every day a little  suddenly the work will finish itself.
— Isak Dinesen
Champions know there are no shortcuts to the top. They climb the mountain one step at a time. They have no use for helicopters!
— Judi Adler
The world doesn't come to the clever folks  it comes to the stubborn  obstinate  one-idea-at-a-time people.
— Mary Roberts Rinehart
One of the greatest evils of the day among those outside of prison is their sense of futility. Young people say  What is the sense of our small effort? They cannot see that we must lay one brick at a time  take one step at a time  we can be responsible only for the one action of the present moment.
— Dorothy Day
One only gets to the top rung of the ladder by steadily climbing up one at a time  and suddenly all sorts of powers  all sorts of abilities which you thought never belonged to you- suddenly become within your own possibility and you think  "Well  I'll have a go  too."
— Margaret Thatcher
Nothing is particularly hard if you divide it into small jobs.
— Henry Ford
Let no one be deluded that a knowledge of the path can substitute for putting one foot in front of the other.
— Mary Caroline Richards
Look at a stone cutter hammering away at his rock  perhaps a hundred times without as much as a crack showing in it. Yet at the hundred-and-first blow it will split in two  and I know it was not the last blow that did it  but all that had gone before.
— Jacob A. Riis
Home wasn't built in a day.
— Jane Ace
Happiness is a tide: it carries you only a little way at a time  but you have covered a vast space before you know that you are moving at all.
— Mary Adams
Not to go back is somewhat to advance. And men must walk  at least  before they dance.
— Alexander Pope
Great things are not done by impulse  but by a series of small things brought together.
— Vincent van Gogh
Well-being is attained little by little  and is no little thing itself.
— Zeno
Bigness comes from doing many small things well. ... Individually  they are not very dramatic transactions. Together  though  they add up.
— Edward S. Finkelstein
If you only keep adding little by little  it will soon become a big heap.
— Hesiod
All that I have accomplished ... has been by that plodding  patient  persevering process of accretion which builds the ant heap particle by particle  thought by thought  fact by fact.
— Elihu Burritt
If we take care of the moments  the years will take care of themselves.
— Maria Edgeworth
Many things which cannot be overcome when they are together  yield themselves up when taken little by little.
— Plutarch
True worth is doing each day some little good  not dreaming of great things to do by and by.
— Anonymous
Little by little does the trick.
— Aesop
It is by attempting to reach the top at a single leap that so much misery is caused in the world.
— William Cobbett
Many strokes overthrow the tallest oaks.
— John Lyly
Much rain wears the marble.
— William Shakespeare
A successful individual typically sets his next goal somewhat  but not too much  above his last achievement.
— Kurt Lewin
One sits down first  one thinks afterwards.
— Jean Cocteau
We can do no great things-only small things with great love.
— Mother Teresa
Many strokes  though with a little axe  hew down and fell the hardest-timber'd oak.
— William Shakespeare
Progress is the sum of small victories won by individual human beings.
— Bruce Catton
What saves a man is to take a step. Then another step.
— Antoine de Saint-Exupery
A soul occupied with great ideas performs small duties.
— Harriet Martineau
The waters wear the stones.
— Bible
One step and then another  and the longest walk is ended. One stitch and then another  and the longest rent is mended. One brick upon another  and the tallest wall is made. One flake and then another  and the deepest snow is laid.
— Anonymous
You don't just luck into things. ... You build step by step  whether it's friendships or opportunities.
— Barbara Bush
The way a chihuahua goes about eating a dead elephant is to take a bite and be very present with that bite. In spiritual growth  the definitive act is to take one step and let tomorrow's step take care of itself!
— William H. Houff
Victory is won not in miles  but in inches. Win a little now  hold your ground  and later win a little more.
— Louis L'Amour
It is astonishing how short a time it takes for very wonderful things to happen.
— Frances Hodgson Burnett
Inches make a champion.
— Vince Lombardi
Yard by yard  it's very hard. But inch by inch  it's a cinch.
— Anonymous
If we take care of the inches  we will not have to worry about the miles.
— Hartley Coleridge
When Ty Cobb got on first base he had an apparently nervous habit of kicking the bag. ... By kicking the bag hard enough Cobb could move it a full two inches closer to second base. He figured that this improved his chances for a steal  or for reaching second base safely on a hit.
— Norman Vincent Peale
A harbor  even if it is a little harbor  is a good thing.... It takes something from the world  and has something to give in return.
— Sarah Orne Jewett
One can get just as much exultation in losing oneself in a little thing as in a big thing. It is nice to think how one can be recklessly lost in a daisy.
— Anne Morrow Lindbergh
Life is made up of little things. It is very rarely that an occasion is offered for doing a great deal at once. True greatness consists in being great in little things.
— Charles Simmons
Life is a great bundle of little things.
— Oliver Wendell Holmes
Nothing can be done except little by little.
— Charles Baudelaire
Practice yourself in little things  and thence proceed to greater.
— Epictetus
Those people work more wisely who seek to achieve good in their own small corner of the world ... than those who are forever thinking that life is in vain  unless one can ... do big things.
— Herbert Butterfield
You've got to think about "big things" while you're doing small things  so that all the small things go in the right direction.
— Alvin Toffler
Little strokes fell great oaks.
— Benjamin Franklin
Take your needle  my child  and work at your pattern  it will come out a rose by and by. Life is like that  one stitch at a time taken patiently  and the pattern will come out all right  like embroidery.
— Oliver Wendell Holmes
Human felicity is produced not so much by great pieces of good fortune that seldom happen as by little advantages that occur every day.
— Benjamin Franklin
Trifles make up the happiness or the misery of mortal life.
— Alexander Smith
How far that little candle throws his beams! So shines a good deed in a naughty world.
— William Shakespeare
If you don't enjoy getting up and working and finishing your work and sitting down to a meal with family or friends  then the chances are you're not going to be happy. If someone bases his happiness or unhappiness on major events like a great new job  huge amounts of money  a flawlessly happy marriage or a trip to Paris  that person isn't going to be happy much of the time. If  on the other hand  happiness depends on a good breakfast  flowers in the yard  a drink or a nap  then we are more likely to live with quite a bit of happiness.
— Andy Rooney
The big things that come our way are ... the fruit of seeds planted in the daily routine of our work.
— William Feather
It is in trifles  and when he is off his guard  that a man best shows his character.
— Arthur Schopenhauer
Life is denied by lack of attention  whether it be to cleaning windows or trying to write a masterpiece.
— Nadia Boulanger
It was only a sunny smile  But it scattered the night And little it cost in the giving  Like morning light  And made the day worth living.
— Anonymous
Sometimes the littlest things in life are the hardest to take. You can sit on a mountain more comfortably than on a tack.
— Anonymous
Put your heart  mind  intellect  and soul even to your smallest acts. This is the secret of success.
— Swami Sivananda
The smallest effort is not lost  Each wavelet on the ocean tost Aids in the ebb-tide or the flow  Each rain-drop makes some floweret blow  Each struggle lessens human woe.
— Charles Mackay
In life's small things be resolute and great To keep thy muscle trained  Know'st thou when Fate Thy measure takes  or when she'll say to thee  "I find thee worthy  do this deed for me?"
— James Russell Lowell
He that is faithful in that which is least is faithful also in much  and he that is unjust in the least is unjust also in much.
— Bible
I cannot do everything  but still I can do something  and because I cannot do everything  I will not refuse to do something that I can do.
— Edward Everett Hale
I am convinced that there are times in everybody's experience when there is so much to be done  that the only way to do it is to sit down and do nothing.
— Fanny Fern
You have to accept whatever comes and the only important thing is that you meet it with the best you have to give.
— Eleanor Roosevelt
Nobody makes a greater mistake than he who did nothing because he could only do a little.
— Edmund Burke
We must not... ignore the small daily differences we can make which  over time  add up to big differences that we often cannot foresee.
— Marian Wright Edelman
A terrace nine stories high begins with a pile of earth.
— Lao-Tzu
Not all things are blest  but the seeds of all things are blest.
— Muriel Rukeyser
Large streams from little mountains flow  tall oaks from little acorns grow.
— David Everett
Instead of thinking about where you are  think about where you want to be. It takes twenty years of hard work to become an overnight success.
— Diana Rankin
The distance doesn't matter  only the first step is difficult.
— Madame Marquise du Deffand
Cultural transformation announces itself in sputtering fits and starts  sparked here and there by minor incidents  warmed by new ideas that may smolder for decades. In many different places  at different times  the kindling is laid for the real conflagration-the one that will consume the old landmarks and alter the landscape forever.
— Marilyn Ferguson
The greatest masterpieces were once only pigments on a palette.
— Henry S. Haskins
It is not the straining for great things that is most effective  it is the doing the little things  the common duties  a little better and better.
— Elizabeth Stuart Phelps
It's a simple formula: do your best and somebody might like it.
— Dorothy Baker
Though thy beginning was small  yet thy latter end should greatly increase.
— Bible
Almost everything comes from almost nothing.
— Henri Frederic Amiel
From a little spark may burst a mighty flame.
— Dante Alighieri
Start by doing what's necessary  then what's possible  and suddenly you are doing the impossible.
— Saint Francis of Assisi
If you wish to reach the highest  begin at the lowest.
— Publilius Syrus
Great issues develop from small beginnings.
— Norman Vincent Peale
Events of great consequence often spring from trifling circumstances.
— Livy
No matter how big and tough a problem may be  get rid of confusion by taking one little step toward solution. Do something.
— George F. Nordenholt
Most of the critical things in life  which become the starting points of human destiny  are little things.
— R. Smith
Sow an act  reap a habit  sow a habit  reap a character  sow a character  reap a destiny.
— G. D. Boardman
A little neglect may breed great mischief. ... For want of a nail  the shoe was lost  for want of a shoe  the horse was lost  for want of a horse  the battle was lost  for want of the battle  the war was lost.
— Benjamin Franklin
Inspiration does not come like a blot  nor is it kinetic energy striving  but it comes to us slowly and quietly all the time.
— Brenda Euland
There is time enough for everything in the course of the day if you do but one thing once  but there is not time enough in the year if you will do two things at a time.
— Lord Chesterfield
Incident piled on incident no more makes life than brick piled on brick makes a house.
— Edith Ronald Mirrielees
It's a long old road  but I know I'm gonna find the end.
— Bessie Smith
Think not because no man sees  such things will remain unseen.
— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Connections are made slowly  sometimes they grow underground.
— Marge Piercy
I never stop to plan. I take things step-by-step.
— Mary McLeod Bethune
There are very few human beings who receive the truth  complete and staggering  by instant illumination. Most of them acquire it fragment by fragment  on a small scale  by successive developments  cellularly  like a laborious mosaic.
— Anais Nin
Human successes  like human failures  are composed of one action at a time and achieved by one person at a time.
— Patty H. Sampson
The growth of understanding follows an ascending spiral rather than a straight line.
— Joanna Field
I look at victory as milestones on a very long highway.
— Joan Benoit Samuelson
No first step can be really great  it must of necessity possess more of prophecy than of achievement  nevertheless it is by the first step that a man marks the value  not only of his cause  but of himself.
— Katherine Cecil Thurston
Every worthwhile accomplishment  big or little  has its stages of drudgery and triumph  a beginning  a struggle  and a victory.
— Anonymous
The world is moved not only by the mighty shoves of the heroes  but also by the aggregate of the tiny pushes of each honest worker.
— Helen Keller
In great matters men show themselves as they wish to be seen  in small matters  as they are.
— Gamaliel Bradford
Backward  turn backward  O Time in your flight  Make me a child again just for tonight.
— Elizabeth Akers Allen
In time take time while time doth last  for time Is no time when time is past.
— Anonymous
Time is money.
— Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton
Time was made for slaves.
— John B. Buckstone
O temporal O mores! O what times! what morals!
— Cicero
See Time has touched me gently in his race  And left no odious furrows in my face.
— George Grabbe
Time and tide wait for no man.
— English proverb
Do not squander time for that is the stuff life is made of.
— Benjamin Franklin
A stitch in time saves nine.
— English proverb
Gather ye rose-buds while ye may  Old Time is still aflying  And this same flower that smiles today  Tomorrow will be dying.
— Robert Herrick
Enjoy the present day  trusting very little to the morrow.
— Horace
My time has not yet come.
— Bible
Better late than never.
— Livy
The signs of the times.
— Matthew
The bird of time has but a little way To flutter - and the bird is on the wing.
— Omar Khayyam
Time is a great legalizer  even in the field of morals.
— H. L. Mencken
These are the times that try men's souls.
— Thomas Paine
Time is the wisest counselor.
— Pericles
Seize time by the forelock.
— Pittacus of Mitylene
A thousand years in thy sight are but as yesterday when it is past  and as a watch in the night.
— Bible
We spend our years as a tale that is told.
— Bible
An age builds up cities: an hour destroys them.
— Seneca
There's a time for all things.
— William Shakespeare
The time is out of joint.
— William Shakespeare
O  call back yesterday  bid time return.
— William Shakespeare
A wonderful stream is the River Time  As it runs through the realms of Tears  With a faultless rhythm  and a musical rhyme  As it blends with the ocean of Years.
— Benjamin F. Taylor
Once in Persia reigned a king Who upon his signet ring Graved a maxim true and wise  Which if held before the eyes Gave him counsel at a glance Fit for every change and chance. Solemn words  and these are they: "Even this shall pass away."
— Theodore Tilton
Some hae meat  and canna eat  And some wad eat that want it  But we hae meat  and we can eat  And sae the Lord be thankit.
— James Drummond Burns
Here's a sigh to those who love me And a smile to those who hate  And whatever sky's above me  Here's a heart for every fate.
— Lord Byron
A cup to the dead already  -  Hurrah for the next that dies.
— Dowling Bartholomew