A really good night quotes collection (Part V)

Part VThis is part five of a really good night quotes collection.
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Part five of a really good night quotes collection

Night quotes 101-125

101

Hope, like the gleaming taper's light, adorns and cheers our way; And still, as darker grows the night, emits a lighter ray.
- Oliver Goldsmith

Have hope. Though clouds environs now, And gladness hides her face in scorn, Put thou the shadow from thy brow - No night but hath its morn.
- J. C. F. von Schiller

102

In the night of death, hope sees a star, and listening love can hear the rustle of a wing.
- Robert G. Ingersoll

103

Instead of thinking about where you are, think about where you want to be. It takes twenty years of hard work to become an overnight success.
- Diana Rankin

104

You can vitally influence your life from within by auto-suggestion. The first thing each morning, and the last thing each night, suggest to yourself specific ideas that you wish to embody in your character and personality. Address such suggestions to yourself, silently or aloud, until they are deeply impressed upon your mind.
- Grenville Kleiser

105

Today changes must come fast; and we must adjust our mental habits, so that we can accept comfortably the idea of stopping one thing and beginning another overnight.... We must assume that there is probably a better way to do almost everything. We must stop assuming that a thing which has never been done before probably cannot be done at all.
- Donald M. Nelson

106

What's a joy to the one is a nightmare to the other.
- Bertolt Brecht

107

To be nobody-but-yourself-in a world which is doing its best, night and day, to make you everybody else-means to fight the hardest battle which any human being can fight; and never stop fighting.
- e. e. cummings

108

A man can do only what he can do. But if he does that each day he can sleep at night and do it again the next day.
- Albert Schweitzer

109

Worries are the most stubborn habits in the world. Even after a poor man has won a huge lottery prize, he will still for months wake up in the night with a start, worrying about food and rent.
- Vicki Baum

110

A man ninety years old was asked to what he attributed his longevity. "I reckon," he said, with a twinkle in his eye, "it's because most nights I went to bed and slept when I should have sat up and worried."
- Dorothea Kent

111

People who are born even-tempered, placid and untroubled-secure from violent passions or temptations to evil-those who have never needed to struggle all night with the angel to emerge lame but victorious at dawn, never become great saints.
- Eva Le Gallienne

112

To always be intending to live a new life, but never to find time to set about it; this is as if a man should put off eating and drinking and sleeping from one day and night to another, till he is starved and destroyed.
- John Tillotson

113

The only thing that happens overnight is recognition. Not talent.
- Carol Haney

114

The heights by great men reached and kept Were not attained by sudden flight, But they, while their companions slept Were toiling upward in the night.
- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

115

Actually, I'm an overnight success. But it took twenty years.
- Monty Hall

116

It takes twenty years to make an overnight success.
- Eddie Cantor

117

A man can do only what he can do. But if he does that each day he can sleep at night and do it again the next day.
- Albert Schweitzer

118

Luck means the hardships and privations which you have not hesitated to endure, the long nights you have devoted to work. Luck means the appointments you have never failed to keep, the trains you have never failed to catch.
- Max O'Relling

119

The lucky fellow is the plucky fellow who has been burning midnight oil and taking defeat after defeat with a smile.
- James B. Hill

120

Opportunity knocks at every man's door once. On some men's door it hammers till it breaks down the door and then it goes in and wakes him up if he's asleep, and ever afterward it works for him as a night watchman.
- Finley Peter Dunne

121

Stay up and really burn the midnight oil. There are no compromises.
- Leontyne Price

122

When a man knows he is to be hanged in a fortnight, it concentrates his mind wonderfully.
- Samuel Johnson

123

For the happiest life, days should be rigorously planned, nights left open to chance.
- Mignon McLaughlin

124

The heights by great men reached and kept Were not attained by sudden flight, But they, while their companions slept, Were toiling upward in the night.
- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

125

My life is ... a mystery which I do not attempt to really understand, as though 1 were led by the hand in a night where I see nothing, but can fully depend on the love and protection of Him who guides me.
- Thomas Merton

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