Time Quotes - Page 10

• Those who make the worst use of their time are the first to complain of its shortness.

  Jean de la Bruyere

  Inspirational, Life Is Too Short, Complaining

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• It's being here now that's important. There's no past and there's no future. Time is a very misleading thing. All there is ever, is the now. We can gain experience from the past, but we can't relive it; and we can hope for the future, but we don't know if there is one.

  George Harrison

  Future, Carpe Diem, Past

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• It is looking at things for a long time that ripens you and gives you a deeper meaning.

  Vincent Van Gogh

  Giving, Long, Deeper

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• Time isn’t precious at all, because it is an illusion. What you perceive as precious is not time but the one point that is out of time: the Now. That is precious indeed. The more you are focused on time—past and future—the more you miss the Now, the most precious thing there is.

  Eckhart Tolle

  Past, Missing, Illusion

  Eckhart Tolle (2010). “The Power of Now: A Guide to Spiritual Enlightenment”, p.49, New World Library

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• Let us then be up and doing, With a heart for any fate, Still achieving, still pursuing, Learn to labor and to wait.

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Learning, Heart, Fate

  "A Psalm of Life" st. 9 (1838)

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• The Eternal looked upon me for a moment with His eye of power, and annihilated me in His being, and become manifest to me in His essence. I saw I existed through Him.

  Rumi

  Eye, Essence, Meditation

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• One can only forget about time by making use of it.

  Charles Baudelaire

  Inspirational, Use, Forget

  "Intimate journals: Mon cœur mis à nu". Book by Charles Baudelaire, 1864.

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• It's been a long time since I've been me.

  Fernando Pessoa

  Long, Long Time

  Fernando Pessoa (2009). “The Collected Poems of Álvaro de Campos: 1928-1935”

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• Anger and hatred are the real enemies that we must confront and defeat, not the 'enemies' who appear from time to time in our lives.

  Dalai Lama

  Life, Spiritual, Wisdom

  Dalai Lama, Sofia Stril-Rever (2010). “My Spiritual Journey”, p.28, Harper Collins

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• If you have an important point to make, don't try to be subtle or clever. Use a pile driver. Hit the point once. Then come back and hit it again. Then hit it a third time - a tremendous whack.

  Winston Churchill

  Inspirational, Inspiring, Clever

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• You have to die a few times before you can really live.

  Charles Bukowski

  Inspirational, Life, Death

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• I recommend you to take care of the minutes, for the hours will take care of themselves.

  Lord Chesterfield

  Positive, Care, Hours

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• We must use time creatively.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Music, Use, Jazz

  Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. (2013). “The Essential Martin Luther King, Jr.: "I Have a Dream" and Other Great Writings”, p.96, Beacon Press

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• Time, O my friend, is money! Time wasted can never conduce to money well managed.

  Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

  Wells, My Friends, Wasting 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, Money

  Teacher, Volume 43, 1971.

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• It is my feeling that Time ripens all things; with Time all things are revealed; Time is the father of truth.

  Francois Rabelais

  Father, Feelings, All Things

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• Out, damned spot! out, I say! One: two: why, then 'tis time to do't. Hell is murky!

  William Shakespeare

  Hands, Two, Lady Macbeth

  'Macbeth' (1606) act 5, sc. 1, l. [38]

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• Longevity conquers scandal every time.

  Shelby Foote

  Scandal, Conquer, Longevity

  Shelby Foote (1992). “Jordan County: A Landscape in Narrative”, Vintage

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• Darn the wheel of the world! Why must it continually turn over? Where is the reverse gear?

  Jack London

  Gears, World, Wheels

  Jack London (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Jack London (Illustrated)”, p.8403, Delphi Classics

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• Time is what prevents everything from happening at once.

  John Archibald Wheeler

  Funny, Happenings, One Day At A Time

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• The time is out of joint.

  William Shakespeare

  Joints

  'Hamlet' (1601) act 1, sc. 5, l. 188

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• Time turns the old days to derision, Our loves into corpses or wives.

  Algernon Charles Swinburne

  Wife, Our Love, Turns

  'Dolores' (1866) st. 20

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• Writing is a miracle. You can travel anywhere in the world, to any time and any place — and still be home in time to have dinner.

  Mary Pope Osborne

  Travel, Home, Writing

  Twitter post from Jan 28, 2018

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• It takes a lot of time to be a genius, you have to sit around so much doing nothing, really doing nothing.

  Gertrude Stein

  Women, Philosophical, Doing Nothing

  Everybody's Autobiography (1937) ch. 2

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• We must use time as a tool, not as a couch.

  John F. Kennedy

  Funny, Presidential, Tools

  John F. Kennedy's Address in New York City to the National Association of Manufacturers, www.jfklibrary.org. December 5, 1961.

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