„Just as a well-filled day brings blessed sleep, so a well-employed life brings a blessed death.“
— Leonardo Da Vinci Italian Renaissance polymath 1452 - 1519
„Have regular hours for work and play; make each day both useful and pleasant, and prove that you understand the worth of time by employing it well. Then youth will bring few regrets, and life will become a beautiful success.“
— Louisa May Alcottová, kniha Little Women
Zdroj: Little Women
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„Life is a gift that the humblest may boast of
And one that the humblest may well make the most of.
Get out and live it each hour of the day,
Wear it and use it as much as you may;
Don't keep it in niches and corners and grooves,
You'll find that in service its beauty improves.“
— Edgar Guest American writer 1881 - 1959
Life, stanza 2, p. 64.
A Heap o' Livin' (1916)
„Being successful doesn’t make you manage your time well. Managing your time well makes you successful!“
— Randy Pausch American professor of computer science, human-computer interaction and design 1960 - 2008
Time Management (2007)
„Such squeamish youths as cannot bear to be connected with a little absurdity are not worth a regret.“
— Jane Austen, kniha Pride and Prejudice
Zdroj: Pride and Prejudice
„There is so much uncertainty in cricket. One day you can get a hundred, the next day you can be dismissed for a zero. It makes you become practical about things. Teaches you to accept both success and failure. I think I have learnt a lot about life from cricket.“
— Mahela Jayawardene Former Sri Lankan cricketer 1977
Quoted in S. Dinakar, " I have learnt a lot about life from cricket http://www.hinduonnet.com/tss/tss2438/24380360.htm," Sport Star, vol. 24, no. 38 (2001-09-22).
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„Each moment of the happy lover's hour is worth an age of dull and common life.“
— Aphra Behn British playwright, poet, translator and fiction writer 1640 - 1689
The Younger Brother, Act III, sc. ii (published posthumously 1696).
„Hitherto, the well-to-do have governed this country for their own interest; and I will do them this credit—they have achieved their object. Now I trust the time is approaching for those who work and have not. My aim in life is to make life pleasanter for this great majority; I do not care if it becomes in the process less pleasant for the well-to-do minority. Take America, for instance. Cultured persons complain that the society there is vulgar; less agreeable to the delicate tastes of delicately trained minds. But it is infinitely preferable to the ordinary worker.“
— Joseph Chamberlain British businessman, politician, and statesman 1836 - 1914
Said to Beatrice Webb as recorded in her diary (12 January 1884), quoted in Webb, My Apprenticeship (Penguin, 1971), p. 141.
1880s
„Each of us was in your life for a reason. You may not have known the reason at the time, and that is what heaven is for. For understanding your life on earth.“
— Mitch Albom, kniha The Five People You Meet in Heaven
Zdroj: The Five People You Meet in Heaven
„If the use of leisure time is confined to looking at TV for a few extra hours every day, we will deteriorate as a people.“
— Eleanor Roosevelt, My Day
5 November 1958
My Day (1935–1962)
„Each play worth seeing should be watched a second time on the faces of the audience.“
— Elizabeth Bibesco writer, actress; Romanian princess 1897 - 1945
Haven (1951)
„With the passing of the years, each neighbourhood, each street in a city evokes a memory, a meeting, a regret, a moment of happiness for those who were born there and have lived there. Often the same street is tied up with successive memories, to the extent that the topography of a city becomes your whole life, called to mind in successive layers as if you could decipher the writings superimposed on a palimpsest. And also the lives of the thousands upon thousands of other, unknown, people passing by on the street or in the Métro passageways at rush hour.“
— Patrick Modiano French writer 1945
From Nobel Lecture (2014)
„O time, arrest your flight! and you, propitious hours, arrest your course! Let us savor the fleeting delights of our most beautiful days!“
— Alphonse de Lamartine French writer, poet, and politician 1790 - 1869
The Lake (1820), st. 6
„It was a remarkable time of my life. I don’t think anyone except the few people who have played James Bond can tell you how strange and special it is and how much your life changes. I have no regrets about doing it at all.“
— Timothy Dalton British actor of stage, film and television 1944
On playing Bond. [Timothy Dalton Reflects On 007, 2007-02-19, http://www.mi6.co.uk/sections/articles/dalton_hot_fuzz.php3?t=&s=, MI6 - The Home of James Bond, 2007-02-21]
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„Well, then, since you say there will be another life for me, let us both pray I do not make as colossal a mess of it as I have this one.“
— Cassandra Clare, kniha Clockwork Princess
Zdroj: Clockwork Princess
„It is the useless things that make life worth living and that make life dangerous too: wine, love, art, beauty. Without them life is safe, but not worth bothering with.“
— Stephen Fry, kniha Moab Is My Washpot
Referencing Oscar Wilde from the preface of "The Picture of Dorian Gray"; "All art is quite useless".
1990s, Moab is My Washpot (autobiography, 1997)
Zdroj: Moab Is My Washpot
Kontext: … but love, like all art, as Oscar said, it's quite useless. It is the useless things that make life worth living and that make life dangerous too: wine, love, art, beauty. Without them life is safe but not worth bothering with.
„I don't expect life to make sense," he said after a few moments, "but it could certainly be pleasant if it would stop kicking us in the balls.“
— Scott Lynch, kniha The Republic of Thieves
Zdroj: The Republic of Thieves (2013), Chapter 5 “The Five-Year Game: Starting Position” section 1 (p. 250)
Kontext: Locke put his head in his hands and sighed.
“I don’t expect life to make sense,” he said after a few moments, “but it would certainly be pleasant if it would stop kicking us in the balls.”
„There are many kinds of success in life worth having.“
— Theodore Roosevelt American politician, 26th president of the United States 1858 - 1919
Zdroj: 1910s, Ch. IX : Outdoors and Indoors, p. 336; the final statement "quoted by Squire Bill Widener" as well as variants of it, are often misattributed to Roosevelt himself.
Variant: Do what you can, with what you have, where you are.
Attributed to Roosevelt in Conquering an Enemy Called Average (1996) by John L. Mason, Nugget # 8 : The Only Place to Start is Where You Are. <!-- The Military Quotation Book, Revised and Expanded: More than 1,200 of the Best Quotations About War, Leadership, Courage, Victory, and Defeat (2002) by James Charlton -->
Kontext: There are many kinds of success in life worth having. It is exceedingly interesting and attractive to be a successful business man, or railroad man, or farmer, or a successful lawyer or doctor; or a writer, or a President, or a ranchman, or the colonel of a fighting regiment, or to kill grizzly bears and lions. But for unflagging interest and enjoyment, a household of children, if things go reasonably well, certainly makes all other forms of success and achievement lose their importance by comparison. It may be true that he travels farthest who travels alone; but the goal thus reached is not worth reaching. And as for a life deliberately devoted to pleasure as an end — why, the greatest happiness is the happiness that comes as a by-product of striving to do what must be done, even though sorrow is met in the doing. There is a bit of homely philosophy, quoted by Squire Bill Widener, of Widener's Valley, Virginia, which sums up one's duty in life: "Do what you can, with what you've got, where you are."