Quotes about Reflection

Do not shorten the morning by getting up late; look upon it as the quintessence of life, and to a certain extent sacred.

This is the beginning of a new day. God has given me this day to use as I will. I can waste it or use it for good, but what I do today is important, because I am exchanging a day of my life for it! When tomorrow comes, this day will be gone forever, leaving in its place something that I have traded for it. I want it to be gain, and not loss; good, and not evil; success, and not failure; in order that I shall not regret the price I have paid for it.

With every rising of the sun, think of your life as just begun.

Music sweeps by me as a messenger carrying a message that is not for me.

Finish each day and be done with it. You have done what you could; some blunders and absurdities have crept in; forget them as soon as you can. Tomorrow is a new day; you shall begin it serenely and with too high a spirit to be encumbered with your old nonsense.

I read my own books sometimes to cheer me when it is hard to write, and then I remember that it was always difficult, and how nearly impossible it was sometimes.

It is no easy thing for a principle to become a man's own unless each day he maintains it and works it out in his life.

Each day should be passed as though it were our last.

To live each day as though one's last, never flustered, never apathetic, never attitudinizing-here is perfection of character.

Time is an eternal guest that banquets on our ideals and bodies.

Time is but the stream I go a-fishing in.

It is rare that the public sentiment decides immorally or unwisely, and the individual who differs from it ought to distrust and examine well his own opinion.