Only Time Quotes

• Whether it's the best of times or the worst of times, it's the only time we've got.

  Art Buchwald

  Inspirational, Time, Acceptance

  CNN Newsroom With Kyra Phillips and Don Lemon, transcripts.cnn.com. November 02, 2006.

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• If the only time you think of me as a scientist is during Black History Month, then I must not be doing my job as a scientist.

  Neil deGrasse Tyson

  Jobs, Thinking, Black History

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• Time is the coin of life. Only you can determine how it will be spent.

  Carl Sandburg

  Life, Time, Attitude

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• Don't be fooled by the calendar. There are only as many days in the year as you make use of. One man gets only a week's value out of a year while another man gets a full year's value out of a week.

  Anthony Charles Richards

  Time, Motivation, Men

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• A wise person does at once, what a fool does at last. Both do the same thing; only at different times.

  Lord Acton

  Success, Wise, Time

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  Time is the coin of your life. It is the only coin you have, and only you can determine how it will be spent. Be careful lest you let other people spend it for you.

  Carl Sandburg

  Life, Change, Time

  Teacher, Volume 43, 1971.

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  Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.

  T. S. Eliot

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  T.S. Eliot (2015). “The Poems of T. S. Eliot Volume I: Collected and Uncollected Poems”, p.1250, Faber & Faber

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• Clocks slay time... time is dead as long as it is being clicked off by little wheels; only when the clock stops does time come to life.

  William Faulkner

  Life, Time, Long

  William Faulkner (2011). “FAULKNER READER”, p.87, Modern Library

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• The only thing that matters is the theater!

  Lily Rabe

  Time, Matter, Management

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• The future is the result of what we do right now.

  Pema Chodron

  Results, Right Now

  "Tea with Pema Chodron in the Mayan Jungle". Interview with Karl Saliter, www.elephantjournal.com. May 11, 2012.

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• Only when the clock stops does time come to life

  William Faulkner

  Time, Doe, Clock

  William Faulkner (2011). “FAULKNER READER”, p.87, Modern Library

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• You must have been warned against letting the golden hours slip by; but some of them are golden only because we let them slip by.

  James M. Barrie

  Inspirational, Time, Golden

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• Time is really the only capital that any human being has, and the only thing he can't afford to lose.

  Thomas A. Edison

  Time, Humans, Human Beings

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• I don't think of the past. The only thing that matters is the everlasting present.

  W. Somerset Maugham

  Time, Past, Thinking

  W. Somerset Maugham (2012). “The Moon and Sixpence”, p.59, Courier Corporation

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• You cannot teach a man anything, you can only help him find it within himself.

  Dale Carnegie

  Inspirational, Inspiring, Education

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• I get so into playing the bass. The only time I ever feel the same way is when I'm having sex; it's the epitome of unifying with something.

  Melissa Auf der Maur

  Sex, Bass, Way

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• If my life is motivated by my ambition to leave a legacy, what I'll probably leave as a legacy is ambition. But if my life is motivated by the power of the Spirit in me, if I live with the awareness of the indwelling Christ, if I allow His presence to guide my actions, to guide my motives, those sort of things. That's the only time I think we really leave a great legacy.

  Rich Mullins

  Ambition, Thinking, Legacy

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• The only time I ever look good dancing is if I'm next to my dad at a wedding.

  Cat Deeley

  Dad, Dancing, Funny Wedding

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• The only time you have is the where and when of right now. There will always be good times, bad times, hard times, and complete disasters. However, there is no other option but to be where you are, when you are. That is a universal truth for everyone. The important thing is how you respond, what you decide to do, and when you decide to do it.

  Chris Murray

  Hard Times, Important, Good Times

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• The only time a mistake becomes a failure is when we look for someone to blame.

  Bill Crawford

  Mistake, Looks, Blame

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• The perception of the beautiful is gradual, and not a lightning revelation; it requires not only time, but some study.

  Giovanni Ruffini

  Beautiful, Perception, Lightning

  Giovanni Ruffini (1858). “Doctor Antonio. A tale. By the author of Lorenzo Benoni [i.e. Giovanni Domenico Ruffini].”, p.119

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• The only time a man thinks is when he's alone.

  Jose Bergamin

  Men, Thinking

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• Without art we live under the illusion that there is only time, and not eternity.

  Clarissa Pinkola Estes

  Art, Illusion, Eternity

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• The only time I talk to a woman when I'm naked is when she's on top of me or I'm on top of her.

  Jack Morris

  Naked

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• Only time will tell if it was time well-spent

  Jimmy Buffett

  Time Will Tell, Time Well Spent, Wells

  Song: Trip Around The Sun, Album: License to Chill, 2004

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