Elbert Hubbard Quotes

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

I think our culture encourages all of us to always put our best foot forward. I think it's a good thing. I think it's nice to rise to the occasion, to be kind and considerate, and have self control.

As long as I am still interested and curious, I enjoy getting up in the morning, but I can't say I have a happy smile on my face 24/7.

When morning comes, you would better find yourself saying: 'I have so many choices of what to do or what to leave - every morning, every day. I better judge for myself, and - go ahead and do it.'

A positive attitude is not going to save you. What it's going to do is, everyday, between now and the day you die, whether that's a short time from now or a long time from now, that every day, you're going to actually live.

Every morning, my dad would have me looking in the mirror and repeat, 'Today is going to be a great day; I can, and I will.'

There's no point waking up in the morning feeling sorry for yourself.

To simply wake up every morning a better person than when I went to bed.

Whether it's eight o'clock in the morning or eight o'clock at night, I always try to greet others before they have a chance to speak to me.

Smile in the mirror. Do that every morning and you'll start to see a big difference in your life.

Your body knows how old you are, but if you keep on and you take care of yourself - you know, I go to kickboxing class every morning at 5 A.M. You know, try to do all the things to take care of the outside of your body, but you also should do - and have to do things that take care of the inside of your body.

My mother was a very positive thinker; she was always active, always doing something good.

I try to stay positive and be very, very active.

I strive to be positive. I begin every day asking myself what I can do to make this a positive day.

All I can control is myself and just keep having a positive attitude.

When you put your feet on the floor every morning, Hell should shake!

When you find an unwillingness to rise early in the morning, make this short speech to yourself: I am getting up now to do the business of a man; and am I out of humour for going about that I was made for, and for the sake of which I was sent into the world? Was I then designed for nothing but to doze and keep warm beneath the counterpane? Well! but this is a comfortable way of living.

When push-off comes to shove-off, a man must have a reason to get out of bed in the mornings, something more than the threat of bedsores, at any rate.

People don’t realize, he said, how important it is to wake up every morning with a song in your heart.” J. Krishnamurti. “The song stands for a sense of joy in existence, a joy that is free of any good or bad choices.

Invest the first hour of the day, the 'Golden Hour,' in yourself.

Even people who counted their blessings never counted them in the morning. For one thing, there wasn't time.

My future starts when I wake up every morning.

Every morning I wake up with a purpose and a smirk