Life Time Quotes

• Once you have mastered time, you will understand how true it is that most people overestimate what they can accomplish in a year - and underestimate what they can achieve in a decade!

  Tony Robbins

  Appreciation, Time, Years

  Tony Robbins (2012). “Awaken The Giant Within”, p.31, Simon and Schuster

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• There is more to life than increasing its speed.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Inspirational, Life, Education

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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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  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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• If you want to make good use of your time, you've got to know what's most important and then give it all you've got.

  Lee Iacocca

  Time, Discipline, Giving

  Lee Iacocca, William Novak (2011). “Iacocca: An Autobiography”, p.21, Bantam

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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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• If you want happiness for a year, inherit a fortune. If you want happiness for a lifetime, help someone else.

  Confucius

  Happiness, Happy, Powerful

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• Sometimes I feel that life is passing me by, not slowly either, but with ropes of steam and spark - spattered wheels and a hoarse roar of power or terror. It's passing, yet I'm the one who's doing all the moving.

  Martin Amis

  Time, Moving, Sparks

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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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• Have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow already know what you truly want to become. Everything else is secondary.

  Steve Jobs

  Inspirational, Motivational, Positive

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

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• Time is the wisest counselor of all.

  Pericles

  Inspirational, Life, Time

  "Until Tomorrow Comes". Book by Orville E. Kelly, 1979.

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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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• 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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• 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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• If you don't know where you're going any road will do

  Lewis Carroll

  Baseball, Travel, Goals Dreams

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• God grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, the courage to change the things I can, and the wisdom to know the difference.

  Reinhold Niebuhr

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  "How Obama's favorite theologian shaped his first year in office" by John Blake, www.cnn.com. February 5, 2010.

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• Until you value yourself, you won't value your time. Until you value your time, you will not do anything with it.

  M. Scott Peck

  Inspirational, Funny, Motivational

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• Have the courage to follow your heart and intuition.

  Steve Jobs

  Graduation, Heart, Stanford University

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

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• Lost time is never found again.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Motivational, Positive, Time

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

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  When one door closes, another opens; but we often look so long and so regretfully upon the closed door that we do not see the one which has opened for us.

  Alexander Graham Bell

  Love, Inspirational, Life

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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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• The great use of life is to spend it for something that will outlast it.

  William James

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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

  Henry David Thoreau

  Inspiring, Time, Fog

  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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