One Hour Quotes

• One hour of love has a whole life in it.

  Honore de Balzac

  Hours, Whole Life, Whole

  Honore de Balzac (2011). “The Magic Skin: Or The Wild Ass's Skin”, p.217, The Floating Press

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  A man who dares to waste one hour of time has not discovered the value of life.

  Charles Darwin

  Inspirational, Life, Encouraging

  Charles Darwin, Francis Darwin (1958). “Autobiography and Selected Letters”, p.145, Courier Corporation

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• Everything, in the end, comes down to timing. One second, one minute, one hour could make all the difference.

  Sarah Dessen

  Differences, Timing, Hours

  Sarah Dessen (2004). “This Lullaby”, p.221, Penguin

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• If a person will spend one hour a day on the same subject for five years, that person will be an expert on that subject.

  Earl Nightingale

  Years, Growth, Experts

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• ...It's just one hour. Just one little hour. What could happen in one hour?

  Jim Butcher

  Littles, Hours, Just One

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• When you are courting a nice girl an hour seems like a second. When you sit on a red-hot cinder a second seems like an hour. That's relativity.

  Albert Einstein

  Funny, Girl, Witty

  "News Chronicle" (March 14, 1949), as cited by "The Columbia World of Quotations", 1996.

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• Better three hours too soon, than one hour to late.

  William Shakespeare

  Three, Hours, Late

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• There is no pill, no drug, that can do for you what one hour of exercise can.

  Greg LeMond

  Exercise, Drug, Pills

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• When you are courting a nice girl an hour seems like a second.

  Albert Einstein

  Love, Girl, Funny Inspirational

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• We obtain better knowledge of a person during one hour's play and games than by conversing with him for a whole year

  Plato

  Years, Games, Play

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• Give yourself the gift of uninterrupted time. It can be the first hour of your day. Or the last hour. A lunch hour. You want time free from phone calls, visitors, mail, things to read. Unplug the phone if you have to. Lock your door. Put a sign on it that warns people of the consequences of entering. Do what you have to and watch the results. One hour of uninterrupted time can double a person's productivity for the day.

  Geri Larkin

  Phones, Doors, Lunch

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• One hour of right-down love is worth an age of dully living on.

  Aphra Behn

  Love, Age, Hours

  "The Rover". Play by Aphra Behn, Part II, Act V, 1677.

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• One hour spent in spinning should be an hour of self-development for the spinner.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Self, Development, Spinning

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• One hour of compassionate deep listening can bring about transformation and healing.

  Nhat Hanh

  Healing, Coaching, Listening

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• How much to learn if we could spend one hour, spend twenty minutes, with the us we will become! How much could we say to the us we were.

  Richard Bach

  Twenties, Hours, Minutes

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• I never had one hour's happiness in her society, and yet my mind all round the four-and-twenty hours was harping on the happiness of having her with me unto death.

  Charles Dickens

  Love, Expectations, Mind

  Charles Dickens (2012). “Great Expectations Thrift Study Edition”, p.236, Courier Corporation

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• One hour with a child is like a ten-mile run.

  Joan Benoit

  Running, Children, Hours

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• Next time someone tells you 'never,' remember that means 'not for at least one hour.'

  Jeffrey Gitomer

  Mean, Next, Remember

  Jeffrey Gitomer (2014). “The Sales Bible, New Edition: The Ultimate Sales Resource”, p.37, John Wiley & Sons

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• One hour's sleep before midnight is worth three after.

  George Herbert

  Sleep, Midnight, Three

  George Herbert, Christopher Harvey, George Gilfillan (1857). “The poetical works of George Herbert”, p.318

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• Grief makes one hour ten.

  William Shakespeare

  Grief, Losing A Loved One, Grieving

  William Shakespeare, George Somers Bellamy (1875). “The New Shaksperian Dictionary of Quotations: (With Marginal Classification and Reference.)”, p.77

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• One hour of contemplation surpasses sixty years of worship.

  Elijah Muhammad

  Inspiration, Meditation Practice, Years

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• Within one hour of touching the brush to canvas for the first time, my students have a total, complete painting.

  Bob Ross

  Touching, Firsts, Students

  "Television: Bob Ross, the Frugal Gourmet of Painting" by Alessandra Stanley, The New York Times, Section 2; Page 33; Column 1, December 22, 1991.

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• After an earthquake in Los Angeles - The earth in LA moved more in one hour than Benoit Benjamin did all last season with the Clippers.

  Peter Vecsey

  Basketball, Earthquakes, Lasts

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• Seek to be made holier every day; pray, strive, wrestle for the spirit, to make you like God. Be as much you can with God. I declare to you that I had rather be one hour with God than a thousand with the sweetest society on earth or in Heaven. All other joys are but streams; God is the fountain.

  Robert Murray M'Cheyne

  Inspirational, Joy, Heaven

  Robert Murray M'Cheyne (1856). “The Life and Remains, Letters, Lectures, and Poems of the Rev. Robert Murray McCheyne”, p.179

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• The natural term of an apple-pie is but twelve hours. It reaches its highest state about one hour after it comes from the oven, and just before its natural heat has quite departed. But every hour afterward is a declension. And after it is one day old, it is thence-forward but the ghastly corpse of apple-pie.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Food, Apples, Pie

  Henry Ward Beecher (1862). “Eyes and ears”, p.238

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