Time Quotes - Page 2

• The strongest of all warriors are these two — Time and Patience.

  Leo Tolstoy

  Patience, Warrior, Two

  Leo Tolstoy (2012). “War and Peace”, p.851, Modern Library

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• Pleasure and action make the hours seem short.

  William Shakespeare

  Action, Hours, Pleasure

  William Shakespeare (1803). “The Plays of William Shakespeare ...: With the Corrections and Illustrations of Various Commentators”, p.355

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• No matter how long it's been, no matter how impossible it looks, if you'll stay in faith, your time is coming.

  Joel Osteen

  Faith, Christian Inspirational, Long

  Joel Osteen (2012). “It's Your Time and Become a Better You Boxed Set”, p.361, Simon and Schuster

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• If time be of all things the most precious, wasting time must be the greatest prodigality.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Poor Richard, Ifs, All Things

  Benjamin Franklin, William-Temple Franklin (1818). “Memoirs of the Life and Writings of (the Same), Continued to the Time of His Death by William Temple Franklin. - London, H. Colburn 1818”, p.249

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• It is not enough to be busy. So are the ants. The question is: What are we busy about?

  Henry David Thoreau

  Inspiring, Fog, Focus

  Henry David Thoreau (2015). “Thoreau on Nature: Sage Words on Finding Harmony with the Natural World”, p.14, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

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• We must use time wisely and forever realize that the time is always ripe to do right.

  Nelson Mandela

  Inspiring, Graduation, Hope

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

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• The more we read God’s truths and let truth fill our minds, the less time we’ll spend contemplating untruths.

  Lysa TerKeurst

  God, Religious, Truth

  Twitter post from Feb 19, 2016

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• The only reason for time is so that everything doesn't happen at once.

  Albert Einstein

  Inspirational, White Collar, Reason

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• Mindfulness gives you time. Time gives you choices. Choices, skillfully made, lead to freedom. You don't have to be swept away by your feeling. You can respond with wisdom and kindness rather than habit and reactivity.

  Henepola Gunaratana

  Inspirational, Wisdom, Buddhist

  Bhante Henepola Gunaratana (2010). “Beyond Mindfulness in Plain English: An Introductory Guide to Deeper States of Meditation”, p.43, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• Lost time is never found again.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Motivational, Positive, Procrastination

  Benjamin Franklin (1821). “Essays and Letters”, p.80

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

  Carl Sandburg

  Life, Attitude, Positivity

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• You are the average of the five people you spend the most time with.

  Jim Rohn

  Inspirational, Motivational, Success

  FaceBook post by Jim Rohn from Feb 14, 2017

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  Time you enjoy wasting, was not wasted.

  John Lennon

  Love, Inspirational, Life

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

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• Don't waste your time chasing butterflies. Mend your garden, and the butterflies will come.

  Mario Quintana

  Inspirational, Butterfly, Garden

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• It takes a long time to become young.

  Pablo Picasso

  Birthday, Wise, Long

  Jean Louis Ferrier, Pablo Picasso (1996). “Picasso”, Vilo International

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• Time is a sort of river of passing events, and strong is its current; no sooner is a thing brought to sight than it is swept by and another takes its place, and this too will be swept away.

  Marcus Aurelius

  Strong, Passing By, Rivers

  "Meditations" by Marcus Aurelius, Book IV, (43), (c. 161 - 180 AD).

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• The wisest are the most annoyed at the loss of time.

  Dante Alighieri

  Growing Up, Loss, Annoyed

  "Divine Comedy". Poem by Dante Alighieri. Purgatorio, Song III, 78, 1321.

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• Students who acquire large debts putting themselves through school are unlikely to think about changing society. When you trap people in a system of debt, they can't afford the time to think.

  Noam Chomsky

  Change, Education, School

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• Never give up on a dream just because of the time it will take to accomplish it. The time will pass anyway.

  Earl Nightingale

  Inspirational, Motivational, Success

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• Time and tide wait for no man.

  Geoffrey Chaucer

  Inspirational, Birthday, Fate

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• Time is the most valuable thing a man can spend.

  Theophrastus

  Inspirational, Basketball, Motivation

  Theophrastus (1904). “The characters of Theophrastus”

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• Lack of direction, not lack of time, is the problem. We all have twenty-four hour days.

  Zig Ziglar

  Inspirational, Inspiring, Encouragement

  FaceBook post by Zig Ziglar from Nov 05, 2013

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• You may delay, but time will not.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  Benjamin Franklin (1998). “Benjamin Franklin Wit and Wisdom”, p.43, Peter Pauper Press, Inc.

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

  Art Buchwald

  Inspirational, Acceptance, Carpe Diem

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

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• The clock talked loud. I threw it away, it scared me what it talked.

  Tillie Olsen

  Scary, Scared, Clock

  Tillie Olsen (2013). “Tell Me a Riddle, Requa I, and Other Works”, p.8, U of Nebraska Press

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