Great Times Quotes

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  Time is what we want most, but what we use worst.

  William Penn

  Time, Top Management, Want

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• Never leave that till tomorrow which you can do today.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Inspirational, Time, Short Life

  Benjamin Franklin (2008). “The Way to Wealth and Poor Richard's Almanac”, p.2, Nayika Publishing

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• Dost thou love life? Then do not squander time, for that is the stuff life is made of.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Love, Inspirational, Life

  Poor Richard's Almanack, June 1746

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• This time, like all times, is a very good one, if we but know what to do with it.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Time, Frustrated, Vision

  1837 'The American Scholar', lecture at Harvard University.

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• The key is in not spending time, but in investing it.

  Stephen Covey

  Time, Keys, Investing

  Stephen R. Covey, A. Roger Merrill, Rebecca R. Merrill (1995). “First Things First”, p.302, Simon and Schuster

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• Make use of time, let not advantage slip.

  William Shakespeare

  Inspirational, Life, Time

  1593 Venus and Adonis, stanza 22, l.129-32.

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• The time for action is now. It's never too late to do something.

  Antoine de Saint-Exupery

  Motivational, 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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• Determine never to be idle. No person will have occasion to complain of the want of time who never loses any. It is wonderful how much may be done if we are always doing.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Inspirational, Time, Patriotic

  Thomas Jefferson, Jerry Holmes (2002). “Thomas Jefferson: A Chronology of His Thoughts”, p.86, Rowman & Littlefield

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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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• 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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• The great times were never as great as they seem in the rearview mirror.

  Pat Benatar

  Mirrors, Rearview Mirror, Seems

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• I had a great time with John Duigan he's pretty amazing.

  Sam Rockwell

  Had A Great Time

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• I was making almost minimum wage on 'The Young and the Restless.' But it was my first job, so I accepted my first quote. I had a great time on it, and it obviously led me to better things.

  Eva Longoria

  Jobs, Bigger And Better Things, Minimum Wage

  Black Star News interview, www.blackstarnews.com. April 19, 2006.

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• I have had a great time as president.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  President, Had A Great Time

  Theodore Roosevelt (1954). “The days of Armageddon, 1900-1914”

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• Forget being the best of anything. That's the fruit of the action, and you do the work -they say- for the doing, not the fruit. You can never really know how it's gonna turn out in the world but you know if you enjoy doing it. And ideas start flowing and you start getting, you know, excited about stuff. Then you're having a great time in the doing and that's what it's all about. If you don't enjoy the doing, then do something else.

  David Lynch

  Creativity, Ideas, World

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• Artistic ambition is important. And it seems it would be a great time to do some theatre, like a new extreme.

  Emile Hirsch

  Ambition, Important, Theatre

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• All the big ideas for getting us onto a lower carbon trajectory involve a lot of people doing a lot of work, and that's been missing from the conversation. This is a great time to go to the next step and ask, well, who's going to do the work? Who's going to invest in the new technologies? What are ways to get communities wealth, improved health, and expanded job opportunities out of this improved transition?

  Van Jones

  Jobs, Work, Technology

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• I've never been this wet in my life, " said Kira. "Even immersed in a bathtub I swear I was dryer than I am now. " "Look on the bright side, " said Marcus. Kira waited. "This is the point at which you would traditionally suggest a bright side. " "I've never been a real traditional guy," said Marcus. "Besides, I'm not saying I know a bright side, I just think this would be a great time to look at one.

  Dan Wells

  Real, Thinking, Guy

  Dan Wells (2014). “Partials series 1-3 (Partials; Fragments; Ruins) (Partials)”, p.38, HarperCollins UK

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• When I was your age, art was a lonely thing: no galleries, no collecting, no critics, no money. We didn't have mentors. We didn't have parents. We were alone. But it was a great time, because we had nothing to lose and a vision to gain.

  John Logan

  Lonely, Art, Parent

  John Logan (2012). “Red”, p.34, Oberon Books

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• The next time you're mad at me, talk to me,' he said. 'Don't shut me out. I don't like playing games. And by the way, I had a great time, too.

  Nicholas Sparks

  Playing Games, Mad, Way

  Nicholas Sparks (2014). “The Last Song: Student edition”, p.222, Hachette UK

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• Margaret had always dreaded lest her courage should fail her in any emergency, and she should be proved to be, what she dreaded lest she was--a coward. But now, in this real great time of reasonable fear and nearness of terror, she forgot herself, and felt only an intense sympathy--intense to painfulness--in the interests of the moment.

  Elizabeth Gaskell

  Real, Coward, Emergencies

  Elizabeth Gaskell (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Elizabeth Gaskell (Illustrated)”, p.1059, Delphi Classics

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• Gays are the best, though - we just did Gay Pride in Long Beach and in Tampa. And they're the best audience. They're so enthusiastic. They come dressed up - it's really fun. They're crazy and I love them. They're sweet as can be. Even my macho husband, he has a great time, too. He's so cool, he doesn't care. He loves them.

  Pat Benatar

  Beach, Sweet, Fun

  Source: www.believermag.com

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• Don’ you worry, Harry. You’ll learn fast enough. Everyone starts at the beginning at Hogwarts, you’ll be just fine. Just be yerself. I know it’s hard. Yeh’ve been singled out, an’ that’s always hard. But yeh’ll have a great time at Hogwarts — I did — still do, ’smatter of fact.

  J. K. Rowling

  Worry, Facts, Hogwarts

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• The moment we live in is a great time to make art. We have different technologies to play with, and we're left with the opportunity to focus on our work.

  Jeff Koons

  Art, Technology, Opportunity

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