Time Quotes - Page 7

• Time is an illusion. Lunchtime doubly so.

  Douglas Adams

  Philosophy, Humorous, Lunch

  Douglas Adams (2017). “The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy Omnibus: A Trilogy in Four Parts”, p.22, Pan Macmillan

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• There's time enough, but none to spare.

  Charles W. Chesnutt

  Time Management, Enough, Spares

  Charles W. Chesnutt (2015). “The Marrow of Tradition”, p.240, Xist Publishing

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• Time is money.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Leadership, Time Is Money

  Benjamin Franklin, William Temple Franklin (1809). “Memoirs of the Life and Writings of Benjamin Franklin ...”, p.244

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• Time always seems long to the child who is waiting - for Christmas, for next summer, for becoming a grownup: long also when he surrenders his whole soul to each moment of a happy day.

  Dag Hammarskjold

  Christmas, Summer, Children

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• My inheritance how lordly wide and fair;
  Time is my fair seed-field, to Time I'm heir.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Inheritance, Heirs, Fields

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• Noiseless falls the foot of time
  That only treads on flowers.

  Herbert Spencer

  Flower, Fall, Feet

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• Life is not just the passing of time. Life is the collection of experiences and their intensity.

  Jim Rohn

  Life, Motivational, Experience

  FaceBook post by Jim Rohn from Apr 19, 2017

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  Never cut a tree down in the wintertime. Never make a negative decision in the low time. Never make your most important decisions when you are in your worst moods. Wait. Be patient. The storm will pass. The spring will come.

  Robert H. Schuller

  Inspirational, Encouraging, Patience

  Robert H. Schuller (1993). “Robert H Schuller: The Inspirational Writings : Tough Times Never Last, But Tough People Do/Tough Minded Faith for Tender Hearted People”, Bbs Publishing Corporation

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• There is never time in the future in which we will work out our salvation. The challenge is in the moment; the time is always now.

  James A. Baldwin

  Future, Blessing, Work Out

  "James Baldwin: 10 insightful quotes on his birthday" by Elizabeth Drake, www.csmonitor.com. August 02, 2012.

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• Painting doesn't freeze time. It circulates and recycles time like a wheel that turns. Those who were first might well be last. Painting is a very slow art. It doesn't travel with the speed of light. That's why dead painters shine so bright.

  Marlene Dumas

  Art, Light, Shining

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• The fleeting hour of life of those who love the hills is quickly spent, but the hills are eternal. Always there will be the lonely ridge, the dancing beck, the silent forest; always there will be the exhilaration of the summits. These are for the seeking, and those who seek and find while there is still time will be blessed both in mind and body.

  Alfred Wainwright

  Inspirational, Life, Beauty

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• For every book you buy, you should buy the time to read it.

  Karl Lagerfeld

  Inspirational, Funny, Humorous

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• If you have done the best you can do and if you have gotten all you could extract from something, you have given all you had to give, then the time has come when you can do no more than say thank you and move on.

  Maya Angelou

  Inspirational, Moving On, Thank You

  FaceBook post by Maya Angelou from Aug 06, 2010

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• It's sobering to contemplate how much time, effort, sacrifice, compromise, and attention we give to acquiring and increasing our supply of something that is totally insignificant in eternity.

  Anne Graham Lotz

  Meaningful, Sacrifice, Giving

  Anne Graham Lotz (2014). “Heaven: My Father's House”, p.71, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• The black holes of nature are the most perfect macroscopic objects there are in the universe: the only elements in their construction are our concepts of space and time.

  Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar

  Nature, Space, Perfect

  Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar (1998). “The Mathematical Theory of Black Holes”, p.1, Oxford University Press

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• This journey then, is nothing more, yet nothing less than a period of acclimating to a new way of seeing, a time of transition and revelation as it gradually comes upon "that" which remains when there is no self. this is not a journey for those who expect love and bliss, rather, it is for the hardy who have been tried by fire and have come to rest in a tough, immovable trust in "that" which lies beyond the known, beyond the self, beyond union and even beyond love and trust itself

  Bernadette Roberts

  Love, Inspirational, Life

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• Day, n. A period of twenty-four hours, mostly misspent.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Twenties, Four, Hours

  Ambrose Bierce (2011). “Ambrose Bierce: The Devil's Dictionary, Tales, and Memoirs: The Devil's Dictionary, Tales, and Memoirs”, p.603, Library of America

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• Truth has no special time of its own. Its hour is now - always.

  Albert Schweitzer

  Truth, Integrity, Live In The Moment

  Zwischen Wasser und Urwald (On the Edge of the Primeval Forest, 1922) ch. 11

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• Only to a magician is the world forever fluid, infinitely mutable and eternally new. Only he knows the secret of change, only he knows truly that all things are crouched in eagerness to become something else, and it is from this universal tension that he draws his power.

  Peter S. Beagle

  Life, Forever, Secret

  Peter S. Beagle (1968). “The Last Unicorn”, Roc

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• We travel, initially, to lose ourselves; and we travel, next to find ourselves. We travel to open our hearts and eyes and learn more about the world than our newspapers will accommodate. We travel to bring what little we can, in our ignorance and knowledge, to those parts of the globe whose riches are differently dispersed. And we travel, in essence, to become young fools again- to slow time down and get taken in, and fall in love once more.

  Pico Iyer

  Falling In Love, Travel, Taken

  FaceBook post by Pico Iyer from Dec 01, 2012

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  Your time is limited, so don't waste it living someone else's life.

  Steve Jobs

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  Commencement Address at Stanford University, delivered 12 June 2005, Palo Alto, CA

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• Time is the scarcest resource.

  Peter Drucker

  Resources

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• May its index point to joy, And moments wing'd with new delights. Sweet may resound each silver bell, And never quick returning chime, Seem in reproving notes to tell, Of hours mispent, and murder'd time.

  Charlotte Turner Smith

  Sweet, Silver Bells, Wings

  Charlotte Turner Smith (2014). “Delphi Complete Poetical Works of Charlotte Smith (Illustrated)”, p.299, Delphi Classics

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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, Golden, Hours

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• The will to work must dominate, for art is long and time is brief.

  Charles Baudelaire

  Art, Work, Long

  Charles Baudelaire (1991). “The Flowers of Evil and Paris Spleen: Poems”, Boa Editions

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