Great Throughts Treasury

This site is dedicated to the memory of Dr. Alan William Smolowe who gave birth to the creation of this database.

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Howard Cosell, fully Howard William Cosell, born Howard William Cohen

Courage takes many forms. there is physical courage, there is moral courage. Then there is a still higher type of courage - the courage to brave pain, to live with it, to never let others know of it and to still find joy in life; to wake up in the morning with an enthusiasm for the day ahead.

Character | Courage | Day | Enthusiasm | Joy | Life | Life | Pain |

Charles Alexander Eastman, first named Ohiyesa

Each soul must meet the morning sun, the new, sweet earth, and the Great Silence alone!

Character | Earth | Silence | Soul |

John H. Finley

To be seeing the world made new every morning, as if it were the morning of the first day, and then to make the most of it for the individual soul, as if it were the last day - is the daily curriculum of the mind's desire.

Character | Day | Desire | Individual | Mind | Soul | World |

Leigh Mitchell Hodges

Life begins each morning... Each night of life is a wall between to-day and the past. Each morning is the open door to a new world - new vistas, new aims, new tryings.

Aims | Character | Day | Life | Life | Past | World |

Victor Hugo

He who every morning plans the transactions of the day and follows out the plan carries a thread that will guide him through the labyrinth of the most busy life. The orderly arrangement of his time is like a ray of life which darts itself through all his occupations. But where no plan is laid, where the disposal of time is surrendered merely to the chance of incident, chaos will soon reign.

Chance | Character | Day | Life | Life | Plan | Time | Will |

François-René de Chateaubriand, fully François-René, vicomte de Chateaubriand

The morning of life is like the dawn of a day, full of purity, of imagery, and harmony.

Dawn | Day | Harmony | Life | Life | Purity | Wisdom |

Thomas Dekker

To awaken each morning with a smile brightening my face; to greet the day with reverence for the opportunities it contains; to approach my work with a clean mind; to hold ever before me, even in the doing of little things, the Ultimate Purpose toward which I am working; to meet men and women with laughter on my lips and love in my heart; to be gentle, kind and courteous through all the hours; to approach the night with weariness that ever woos sleep and the joy that goes with work well done - this is how I desire to waste wisely my days.

Day | Desire | Heart | Joy | Laughter | Little | Love | Men | Mind | Purpose | Purpose | Reverence | Smile | Waste | Wisdom | Work |

Benjamin Franklin

Early morning hath gold in its mouth.

Gold | Wisdom |

Charles Kingsley

Thank God every morning when you get up that you have something to do which must be done, whether you like it or not. Being forced to work, or forced to do your best, will bred in you temperance, self-control, diligence, strength of will, content, and a hundred other virtues which the idle never know.

Control | Diligence | God | Self | Self-control | Strength | Will | Wisdom | Work | God |

Friedrich Schiller, fully Johann Christoph Friedrich von Schiller

It is only through the morning gate of the beautiful that you can penetrate into the realm of knowledge. That which we feel here as beauty we shall one day know as truth.

Beauty | Day | Knowledge | Truth | Wisdom | Beauty |

Charles Dudley Warner

The boy who expects every morning to open into a new world finds that to-day is like yesterday, but he believes to-morrow will be different.

Day | Will | Wisdom | World |

Isabelle Allende Llona

I finally understand what life is about; it is about losing everything… so every morning we must celebrate what we have.

Life | Life | Understand |

Ma Chih-yüan

A hundred years are no more than the dream of a butterfly. Looking back, how one sighs for the things of the past! Yesterday spring came; this morning the flowers wither. Let us hasten with the forfeit cup before the night is spent and the lamp goes out.

Past |

Hirohito, posthumously called Emperor Shōwa or the Shōwa Emperor NULL

Sublime is the moment when the world is at peace and the limitless deep lies bathed in the morning sun.

Peace | World |

Swedish Proverbs

The afternoon knows what the morning never suspected.

Abba Pimen

A man may seem to be silent, but if his heart is condemning others he is babbling ceaselessly. But there may be another who talks from morning till night and yet he is truly silent.

Heart | Man |

Ethiopian Proverbs

Truth and morning become light with time.

Light | Time | Truth |