Start The Day Quotes

A person can either do something in order to be happy, or... a person can start the day by simply deciding to BE happy and the things that person will do will automatically reflect that.

Do not just seek happiness for yourself. Seek happiness for all. Through kindness. Through mercy.

I hope, or I could not live.

I've always been a night person. There's a sense of virtue attached to getting up in the morning and doing things and starting the day, and I always felt bad for not being that person. But as I've gotten a bit older, now I'm completely okay with it. That's just who I am.

The weak man becomes strong when he has nothing, for then only can he feel the wild, mad thrill of despair.

Start the day with love, spend the day with love, fill the day with love and end the day with love. That is the way to God.

I like to start the day early, it keeps me out of trouble.

I think how you start the day many times determines what kind of day you're going to have.

I call people rich when they're able to meet the requirements of their imagination.

Never let a domestic quarrel ruin a day's writing. If you can't start the day fresh, get rid of your wife.

I read "Remembrance of Things Past" in the original French. I never start the day without reading me some [Marcel] Proust.

A wonderful world would be a place where we can openly, honestly share things and it's done the same way in return. Do you suppose we're going to get that world anytime soon? I don't expect it. So I am practical. I work to have people close to me whom I can openly and honestly share with. And from that base of safety and trust, I can extend my sharing out into the world.

Above all, look for the loving, which is how all of this works. Without love, no matter what else we have, it will not work. And if we have love, no matter what else we do not have, it will work.

If you start the day reading the obituaries, you live your day a little differently.

To start the day without prayer is to suggest the devil is feeble, God is irrelevant, and we can handle things on our own.

I start the day with the intention of doing 4,000 sit-ups but then have to work.

I can't retire from life. I love life too much and I cannot wait to start the day.

And I know I can do this because I went to London on my own, and because I solved the mystery…and I was brave and I wrote a book and that means I can do anything.

Stop worrying about growing old. And think about growing up.

Consider yourself not ready to start the day, ill equipped, unprepared to mix with your fellows, until you have spent at least fifteen minutes in prayer. Count it as much a social necessity as washing.

It's a great way to start the day, hearing you've been nominated for an Emmy. It's just thrilling.

Do not say, 'It is morning,' and dismiss it with a name of yesterday. See it for the first time as a newborn child that has no name.

I'm a very early riser, and I don't like to miss that beautiful early morning light.

Cut your morning devotions into your personal grooming. You would not go out to work with a dirty face. Why start the day with the face of your soul unwashed?

And besides, I like to cry. After I cry hard it's like it's morning again and I'm starting the day over.

They wanted to speak, but could not; tears stood in their eyes. They were both pale and thin; but those sick pale faces were bright with the dawn of a new future, of a full resurrection into a new life. They were renewed by love; the heart of each held infinite sources of life for the heart of the other.

The universe clearly operates for the benefit of humanity. This can be readily seen from the convenient way the sun comes up in the morning, when people are ready to start the day.

The mystery of life isn't a problem to solve, but a reality to experience.

I believe in getting into hot water; it keeps you clean.

My uncle's dying wish - he wanted me on his lap. He was in the electric chair.

While traveling, I love granola bars, trail mix nuts, dry cereal and fruit for on-the-go snacks. I also try and start the day with a high fiber and protein meal, such as whole-grain toast with peanut butter.

And sometimes in life, I imagine, good things do happen. Most of the time, it's the opposite, obviously. But I don't think you should rule out the possibility that just occasionally chance might deal you a good card.

There will be little rubs and disappointments everywhere, and we are all apt to expect too much; but then, if one scheme of happiness fails, human nature turns to another; if the first calculation is wrong, we make a second better: we find comfort somewhere.

He, who every morning plans the transactions of the day, and follows that plan, carries a thread that will guide him through a labyrinth of the most busy life.

If you really know how to live, what better way to start the day than with a smile?

I would love a bowl of Frosties, but I start the day with something healthier like a bowl of yoghurt or berries.

Every morning I jump out of bed and step on a landmine. The landmine is me. After the explosion, I spent the rest of the day putting the pieces together.

I enjoy having breakfast in bed. I like waking up to the smell of bacon, sue me. And since I don't have a butler, I have to do it myself. So, most nights before I go to bed, I will lay six strips of bacon out on my George Foreman grill. Then I go to sleep. When I wake up, I plug in the grill. I go back to sleep again. Then I wake up to the smell of crackling bacon. It is delicious, it's good for me, it's the perfect way to start the day.

I do take time to pray. I also start my day in gratitude, and as my first foot hits the floor in the morning when I climb out of bed, I say "Thank," and as the next foot hits the floor, I say "You," and I say "Thank you" all the way to the bathroom. Starts the day in the right headspace and the right heart space!

I get up every morning and it's going to be a great day. You never know when it's going to be over so I refuse to have a bad day.

The only way to be truly satisfied is to do what you believe is great work

Your work is going to fill a large part of your life, and the only way to be truly satisfied is to do what you believe is great work. And the only way to do great work is to love what you do. If you haven't found it yet, keep looking. Don't settle. As with all matters of the heart, you'll know when you find it.

I'm convinced that about half of what separates successful entrepreneurs from the non-successful ones is pure perseverance.

Start every day off with a smile and get it over with.

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.

I feel sorry for people who don't drink. When they wake up in the morning, that's as good as they're going to feel all day.

I always cringe when people tell me they don't eat breakfast, as though that's a good thing. Eek! You have to start the day off with something in your stomach to get your metabolism active.

If you are not willing to risk the unusual, you will have to settle for the ordinary.

It was Vivaldi's Mandolin Concerto, Francesca Abraham realized as the radio alarm went off. Lively, unrelentingly upbeat, it was the perfect tempo in which to start the day. Covering her head with a pillow, she reached out blindly and urgently, desperate to shut the damn thing off.

We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.