Evening is a time of day that can be both relaxing and inspiring. As the sun sets, it’s a great opportunity to reflect on the day and think about what you want to accomplish tomorrow. Here are some quotes to help motivate you as you finish up your day.

1. I’m glad I had a chance to see great music played up close and live. In a way, that’s what I hope my show does. It’s almost like an acoustic evening with Mick Foley. — Mick Foley
2. And I remember quiet evenings trembling close to you… — Tom Waits
3. Yet this my comfort: when your words are done, My woes end likewise with the evening sun. — William Shakespeare
4. Her shoes were comfortable. They reflected her hope for the evening. — William Peter Blatty, The Exorcist
5. What a nice night for an evening. — Steven Alexander
6. I was a government employee in the morning and a writer in the evening. — Naguib Mahfouz
7. Tea Cake, the son of the Evening Sun, had to die for loving her. — Zora Neale Hurston
8. My dear, I have nothing to say.My heart burns like the evening sky. — Sanober Khan
9. What goes by the name of love is banishment, with now and then a postcard from the homeland, such is my considered opinion, this evening. — Samuel Beckett
10. One by one, the electric lights ringing the lawn were ignited. Each one, as it burst into brilliance, erased a constellation from the evening sky. — Tim Westover, Auraria
11. In the evening I finished reading a book, and because I was feeling so alone, I buried the book on the edge of the forest with a borrowed spade. — Werner Herzog
12. Whoever you are, go out into the evening, leaving your room, of which you know every bit;your house is the last before the infinite, whoever you are. — Rainer Maria Rilke
13. When I retire I’m going to spend my evenings by the fireplace going through those boxes. There are things in there that ought to be burned. — Richard M. Nixon
14. The evening sky was awash with peach, apricot, cream: tender little ice–cream clouds in a wide orange sky. — Philip Pullman, The Golden Compass
15. My day starts at 8 in the morning. I have meetings through the day into the evening and very often dinners and benefits at night. This is nonstop. — Thomas P. Campbell
16. Evening fashions have to be fabulous.Don’t be just better…be the BEST. — Tony Bowls
17. Thou fair–hair’d angel of the evening, Now, whilst the sun rests on the mountains, light Thy bright torch of love; thy radiant crown Put on, and smile upon our evening bed! — William Blake
18. It is a good thing to let prayer be the first business of the morning and the last of the evening. — Martin Luther
19. I’d decided to establish a new rule for myself: read for half an hour an evening, no matter what. — Zadie Smith, Swing Time
20. Don’t you stay at home of evenings? Don’t you love a cushioned seat in a corner, by the fireside, with your slippers on your feet? — Oliver Wendell Holmes
21. He would have lied to himself as facilely as an alcoholic lies to himself to justify the 10 a.m. tumbler of vodka : it may be early here, but in Baghdad it’s almost evening. — Peter Benchley
22. I defy any woman that doesn’t feel more elegant and more groomed and ready for an evening than if you have a blow dry. — Tamsin Egerton
23. What a nice night for an evening. — Steven Alexander
24. Rest but never quit. Even the sun has a sinking spell each evening. But it always rises the next morning. At sunrise, every soul is born again. — Muhammad Ali
25. Long walks on the beach are the supposed holy grail of a romantic evening. The beach becomes a kind of utopia–the place where all our dreams come true. — Roxane Gay
26. Our churches are full of people during work hours, morning, noon, evening, praying instead of being in the factories, libraries, laboratories, facilitating economic growth — Sunday Adelaja
27. Evening you gather backall that dazzling dawn has put asunder:you gather a lamb, gather a kid, gather a child to its mother. — Sappho, If Not, Winter: Fragments of Sappho
28. I am a sleeper. When you wake up at 4:30 in the morning to do a workout, you’re sleepy at 8 in the evening. By 10 o’clock at the latest, I’m in bed. — Michelle Obama
29. She is my morning, she is my evening; we have a love that blooms over and again, more beautifully each time than the last. — Roman Payne, The Wanderess
30. If [God] send me no husband, for the which blessing I am at him upon my knees every morning and evening. — William Shakespeare
31. He would have lied to himself as facilely as an alcoholic lies to himself to justify the 10 a.m. tumbler of vodka : it may be early here, but in Baghdad it’s almost evening. — Peter Benchley
32. The crowds can be very loud, especially when you’re playing in the evening. — Stefan Edberg
33. Do you follow the wrestling? Most people think it’s illegal, but you can watch it there. Ruby and Python are on display this evening. — Samuel R. Delany, Babel–17
34. She’d gotten through the entire evening without killing anyone. Lieutenant Eve Dallas, cop to the bone, figured the restraint showed enormous strength of character. — J.D. Robb
35. Her shoes were comfortable. They reflected her hope for the evening. — William Peter Blatty, The Exorcist
36. Mild arch of promise! on the evening sky Thou shinest fair with many a lovely ray, Each in the other melting. — Robert Southey
37. Good evening, Mr. and Mrs. America from border to border and coast to coast and all the ships at sea. Let’s go to press. — Walter Winchell
38. That eveningWhen I was all aloneIn our bedroomTo give me companyYour voice came along — Samir Satam, Postcards From Memory
39. He would have lied to himself as facilely as an alcoholic lies to himself to justify the 10 a.m. tumbler of vodka : it may be early here, but in Baghdad it’s almost evening. — Peter Benchley
40. I think that I still have it in my heart someday to paint a bookshop with the front yellow and pink in the evening…like a light in the midst of the darkness. — Vincent Van Gogh
41. Without Puccini, there is no opera; without opera, the world is an even drearier place than the evening news would have us think. — William Berger, Puccini Without Excuses
42. What a nice night for an evening. — Steven Alexander
43. This is where the evening splits in half, Henry, love or death. Grab an end, pull hard, and make a wish. — Richard Siken, Crush
44. I think it’d be great if the evening news broadcast, for instance, were unsponsored and unrated. — Walter Cronkite
45. I was dead, then alive. Weeping, then laughing. The power of love came into me, and I became fierce like a lion, then tender like the evening star. — Rumi
46. I just couldn’t stand that goddamned yip yip yip. — William Gay, I Hate To See That Evening Sun Go Down: Collected Stories
47. The morning cup of coffee has an exhilaration about it which the cheering influence of the afternoon or evening cup of tea cannot be expected to reproduce. — Oliver Wendell Holmes
48. The sun had just slipped behind the trees and evening cast its dark, smoky shadow. — Nancy B. Brewer
49. She is my morning, she is my evening; we have a love that blooms over and again, more beautifully each time than the last. — Roman Payne, The Wanderess
50. I’m glad I had a chance to see great music played up close and live. In a way, that’s what I hope my show does. It’s almost like an acoustic evening with Mick Foley. — Mick Foley