Daybreak Quotes

• Unconditional love will have the final word in reality.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Peace, Kings, Truth

  Nobel Prize acceptance speech, Oslo, Norway, 10 Dec. 1964

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• I am the dream and the hope of the slave

  Maya Angelou

  Dream, History, African American

  Maya Angelou (2011). “Phenomenal Woman: Four Poems Celebrating Women”, p.9, Random House

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• It is well to be up before daybreak, for such habits contribute to health, wealth, and wisdom.

  Aristotle

  Motivational, Morning, Health

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• Leaving behind nights of terror and fear, I rise. Into a daybreak that's wondrously clear, I rise.

  Maya Angelou

  Night, Leaving, Terror

  Maya Angelou (2011). “And Still I Rise: A Book of Poems”, p.47, Random House

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• But do not look down on even the most minute of things; for with the coming of daybreak, even the tiniest particles of dust in this world sing and dance in the sunlight.

  Wang Anyi

  Dust, Looks, World

  Wang Anyi (2008). “The Song of Everlasting Sorrow: A Novel of Shanghai”, p.199, Columbia University Press

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• Daybreak is a never-ending glory; getting out of bed is a never ending nuisance.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Bed, Dawn, Nuisance

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• Bringing the gifts that my ancestors gave, I am the dream and the hope of the slave. I rise. I rise. I rise.

  Maya Angelou

  Inspirational, Dream, Hope

  Maya Angelou (2011). “Phenomenal Woman: Four Poems Celebrating Women”, p.9, Random House

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• All my life's a circle; Sunrise and sundown; Moon rolls thru the nighttime; Till the daybreak comes around.

  Harry Chapin

  Moon, Circles, Sunrise

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• Our negative life situations are essential elements for us to fulfill our intended destiny. However, unless we possess the power of endurance to live through the dark of the night, we will not see the glory of daybreak.

  Chin-Ning Chu

  Dark, Night, Destiny

  Chin-Ning Chu (2010). “Thick Face, Black Heart: The Warrior Philosophy for Conquering the Challenges of Business and Life”, p.82, Hachette UK

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• Don't decide yet," Hephaestus advised. "Wait until daybreak. Daybreak is a good time for decisions.

  Rick Riordan

  Decision, Waiting, Good Times

  Rick Riordan (2009). “Percy Jackson and the Battle of the Labyrinth”, p.160, Penguin UK

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• What breaks in daybreak? Is it the night? Is it the sun, cracked in two by the horizon like an egg, spilling out light?

  Margaret Atwood

  Night, Light, Eggs

  Margaret Atwood (2009). “The Year of the Flood”, p.22, Anchor

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• There is a special charm to journeys undertaken before daybreak in hot lands: the air is soft and cool and the coming of dawn reveals a landscape fresh from the night dew.

  Aung San Suu Kyi

  Night, Journey, Air

  Aung San Suu Kyi (1997). “Letters From Burma:”

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• I refuse to accept the view . . . that the bright daybreak of peace and brotherhood can never become a reality.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Peace, Kings, Unconditional Love

  Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. (2013). “The Essential Martin Luther King, Jr.: "I Have a Dream" and Other Great Writings”, p.116, Beacon Press

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• Soon it will be daybreak. Soon the day will break. I can't stop it from breaking in the same way it always does, and then from lying there broken; always the same day, which comes around again like clockwork. It begins with the day before the day before, and then the day before, and then it's the day itself. A Saturday. The breaking day. The day the butcher comes.

  Margaret Atwood

  Lying, Broken, Doe

  Margaret Atwood (2011). “Alias Grace: A Novel”, p.295, Anchor

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• He who is punished is never he who performed the deed. He is always the scapegoat.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Deeds, Scapegoat

  Friedrich Nietzsche, Maudemarie Clark, Brian Leiter (1997). “Nietzsche: Daybreak: Thoughts on the Prejudices of Morality”, p.143, Cambridge University Press

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• It is not enough to prove something, one also has to seduce or elevate people to it. That is why the man of knowledge should learns how to speak his wisdom: and often in such a way that it sounds like folly!

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Wisdom, Men, People

  Friedrich Nietzsche, Maudemarie Clark, Brian Leiter (1997). “Nietzsche: Daybreak: Thoughts on the Prejudices of Morality”, p.162, Cambridge University Press

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• I need not instruct you of my belief: Time gives all and takes all away ; everything changes but nothing perishes ; One only is immutable, eternal and ever endures, one and the same with itself. With this philosophy my spirit grows, my mind expands. Whereof, how r ever obscure the night may be, I await daybreak, and they who dwell in day look for night Rejoice therefore, and keep whole, if you can, and return love for love.

  Giordano Bruno

  Philosophy, Night, Giving

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• At daybreak Morn shall come to meIn raiment of the white winds spun.

  Madison Cawein

  Wind, White, Spun

  Madison Julius Cawein, “Quiet”

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• On the third day the friends of Christ coming at daybreak to the place found the grave empty and the stone rolled away. In varying ways they realized the new wonder; but even they hardly realized that the world had died in the night. What they were looking at was the first day of a new creation, with a new heaven and a new earth; and in a semblance of the gardener God walked again in the garden, in the cool not of the evening but of the dawn.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Night, Garden, Heaven

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• I refuse to accept the idea that man is mere flotsam and jetsam in the river of life, unable to influence the unfolding events which surround him. I refuse to accept the view that mankind is so tragically bound to the starless midnight of racism and war that the bright daybreak of peace and brotherhood can never become a reality.

  Martin Luther

  Change, War, Reality

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• An apparent confusion, if lived with long enough, may become orderly . . . A rare experience of a moment at daybreak, when something in nature seems to reveal all consciousness, cannot be explained at noon. Yet it is part of the day's unity

  Charles Ives

  Long, Confusion, Unity

  Charles Ives, Stephen Drury (2012). “Piano sonata no. 2: "Concord" : with the Essays before a sonata”, p.20, Courier Corporation

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• I don't know who it is who lives or dies, who rests or wakes, but it is your heart that distributes all the graces of the daybreak in my breast.

  Pablo Neruda

  Heart, Grace, Breasts

  Pablo Neruda (1986). “100 Love Sonnets: Cien sonetos de amor”, University of Texas Press

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• We also ascend dazzling and tremendous as the sun,
  We found our own O my soul in the calm and cool of the daybreak.

  Walt Whitman

  Soul, Sun, Calm

  Walt Whitman, Sculley Bradley, Harold W. Blodgett (2008). “Leaves of Grass: A Textual Variorum of the Printed Poems, 1855-1856”, p.35, NYU Press

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• If you kin see de light at daybreak, you don't keer if you die at dusk. It's so many people never seen de light at all.

  Zora Neale Hurston

  Light, People, Dusk

  Zora Neale Hurston (1995). “Zora Neale Hurston: Novels and Stories: Jonah's Gourd Vine / Their Eyes Were Watching God / Moses, Man of the Mountain / Seraph on the Suwanee / Selected Stories”

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• Look at the fate of summer flowers, which blow at daybreak, droop ere even-song.

  William Wordsworth

  Summer, Song, Flower

  William Wordsworth (1994). “The Collected Poems of William Wordsworth”, p.110, Wordsworth Editions

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