To simply wake up every morning a better person than when I went to bed.
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To simply wake up every morning a better person than when I went to bed.
Nothing is more beautiful than the loveliness of the woods before sunrise.
Some people go to bed at night thinking, 'That was a good day.' I am one of those who worries and asks, 'How did I screw up today?'
A bad day for the ego is a good day for the soul.
Everyday's a good day when you paint
Thank God every morning when you get up that you have something to do that day, which must be done, whether you like it or not.
Welcome every morning with a smile. Look on the new day as another special gift from your Creator, another golden opportunity to complete what you were unable to finish yesterday. Be a self-starter. Let your first hour set the theme of success and positive action that is certain to echo through your entire day. Today will never happen again. Don't waste it with a false start or no start at all. You were not born to fail.
I never knew a man come to greatness or eminence who lay abed late in the morning.
Every morning was a cheerful invitation to make my life of equal simplicity, and I may say innocence, with Nature herself.
Tomorrow is the first day of the rest of our lives.
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.
A day without laughter is a day wasted.
The vast majority, who believe in astrology and think that the planets have nothing better to do than form a code that will tell them whether tomorrow is a good day to close a business deal or not, become all the more excited and enthusiastic.
Learn to say, “I don’t know the answer.” It could be the beginning of a very good day’s rehearsal.
Opportunities are like sunrises. If you wait too long, you miss them.
The opportunity for doing mischief is found a hundred times a day, and of doing good once in a year.
It is a common experience that a problem difficult at night is resolved in the morning after the committee of sleep has worked on it.
It is a curious fact that in bad days we can very vividly recall the good time that is now no more; but that in good days, we have only a very cold and imperfect memory of the bad.
If you're changing the world, you're working on important things. You're excited to get up in the morning.
The mind of a writer can be a truly terrifying thing. Isolated, neurotic, caffeine-addled, crippled by procrastination, consumed by feelings of panic, self-loathing, and soul-crushing inadequacy. And that’s on a good day.
There's no way of knowing that your last good day is Your Last Good Day. At the time, it is just another good day.
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