Day Well Spent Quotes:

Oh, what a glory doth this world put on, for him who with a fervent heart goes forth under the bright and glorious sky, and looks on duties well performed, and days well spent.

- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

source: Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (Illustrated)”, p.70, Delphi Classics

topic: Heart, Sky, Day Well Spent, Fervent

A good day's writing, when I turn off my computer after I know that I've written okay, or as well as I can write, that's a day well spent.

- James Lipton

source: Interview with Austin Allen, bigthink.com. February 9, 2010.

topic: Writing, Good Day, Day Well Spent

A well-spent day brings happy sleep.

- Leonardo da Vinci

topic: Happy, Peace, Sleep, Live Life To Its Fullest, Meaningful Death

Life does not come with instructions on how to live, but it does come with trees, sunsets, smiles and laughter, so enjoy your day.

- Debbie Shapiro

topic: Laughter, Sunset, Tree, Day Well Spent, Smile And Laugh

The reflections on a day well spent furnish us with joys more pleasing than ten thousand triumphs.

- Thomas a Kempis

topic: Happiness, Time, Reflection, Day Well Spent

Every day is your day if you claim it. If you wait for somebody else to make it for you, you're going to be disappointed.

- Iyanla Vanzant

topic: Waiting, Claims, Disappointed, Day Well Spent, New Thought

Whatever you think matters - doesn't. Follow this rule, and you will add decades to your life. Rodger Rosenblatt As a well spent day brings happy sleep, so life well used brings happy death.

- Leonardo da Vinci

topic: Death, Sleep, Thinking, Live Life To Its Fullest, Live To The Fullest

I, not events, have the power to make me happy or unhappy today. I can choose which it shall be. Yesterday is dead, tomorrow hasn't arrived yet. I have just one day, today, and I'm going to be happy in it.

- Groucho Marx

topic: Inspirational, Happiness, Being Happy, Always Happy, Joy Happiness

No time is so well spent in every day as that which we spend upon our knees.

- J. C. Ryle

topic: Prayer, Knees, Wells, Day Well Spent, Time Well Spent

A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable, but more useful than a life spent doing nothing.

- George Bernard Shaw

source: George Bernard Shaw (2015). “The Collected Works of George Bernard Shaw: Plays, Novels, Articles, Lectures, Letters and Essays: Pygmalion, Mrs. Warren’s Profession, Candida, Arms and The Man, Man and Superman, Caesar and Cleopatra, Androcles And The Lion, The New York Times Articles on War, Memories of Oscar Wilde and more”, p.2451, e-artnow

topic: Inspirational, Life, Motivational, Source Of Life, Innovation And Business

I'm still passionately interested in what my fellow humans are up to. For me, a day spent monitoring the passing parade is a day well-spent.

- Garry Trudeau

source: Interview with David Plotz, www.slate.com. October 25, 2010.

topic: Parades, Passing, Monitoring, Day Well Spent

When I was a child, I dreamt of being a big star. I truly believed that I would be world famous someday, but that doesn't seem so important. What's important to me is getting to live my life as an artist, and making my passion my work. I have never wanted to be anything other than an actor and performer, and each day that I get to do that is a day well spent.

- Jinkx Monsoon

source: Source: seattlegayscene.com

topic: Stars, Children, Passion, Day Well Spent, World Famous

If you can sit at set of sun And count the deeds that you have done And counting find oneself-denying act, one word That eased the heart of him that heard. One glance most kind, Which fell like sunshine where he went, Then you may count that day well spent.

- Robert Browning

topic: Relationship, Heart, Sunshine, Day Well Spent