Minutes Quotes

• You don't need endless time and perfect conditions. Do it now. Do it today. Do it for twenty minutes and watch your heart start beating.

  Barbara Sher

  Heart, New Beginnings, Endless Time

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• But what minutes! Count them by sensation, and not by calendars, and each moment is a day.

  Benjamin Disraeli

  Life, Time, Two Nations

  Benjamin Disraeli (1845). “Sybil, Or, The Two Nations”, p.9

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• Love is not to be found in someone else, but in ourselves; we simply awaken it. But in order to do that, we need the other person. The universe only makes sense when we have someone to share our feelings with.

  Paulo Coelho

  Love, Order, Feelings

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• Better three hours too soon than a minute too late.

  William Shakespeare

  Inspirational, Time, Three

  William Shakespeare (1784). “Stockdale's edition of Shakespeare, with explanatory notes”, p.56

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• The happiness of life is made up of minute fractions - the little, soon forgotten charities of a kiss or a smile, a kind look or heartfelt compliment.

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge

  Life, Happiness, Smile

  The Friend (1828)

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• Life moves very fast. It rushes us from heaven to hell in a matter of seconds.

  Paulo Coelho

  Moving, Heaven, Matter

  "Miss Whiplash pulls it off" by John Sutherland, www.theguardian.com. September 19, 2003.

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• Being popular is the most important thing in the world!

  Homer

  Family, Money, World And Love

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• The minute you think you've got it made, disaster is just around the corner.

  Joe Paterno

  Thinking, Challenges, Disaster

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• The minute you settle for less than you deserve, you get even less than you settled for.

  Maureen Dowd

  Funny, Success, Motivational Sports

  "How to Be Happy: Why You Should Never Settle for 'Good Enough' in Your Life" by Kristen Houghton, www.huffingtonpost.com. June 21, 2010.

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• Put your hand on a hot stove for a minute and it seems like an hour. Sit with a pretty girl for an hour, and it seems like a minute.

  Albert Einstein

  Inspirational, Funny, Life

  Albert Einstein (2015). “Bite-Size Einstein: Quotations on Just About Everything from the Greatest Mind of the Twentieth Century”, p.46, St. Martin's Press

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• For every minute you remain angry, you give up sixty seconds of peace of mind.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Inspirational, Success, Forgiveness

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• He who asks is a fool for five minutes, but he who does not ask remains a fool forever.

  Mark Twain

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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• Lost, yesterday, somewhere between sunrise and sunset, two golden hours, each set with sixty diamond minutes. No reward is offered for they are gone forever.

  Horace Mann

  Life, Time, Sunset

  'Lost, Two Golden Hours'

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• Like as the waves make towards the pebbl'd shore, so do our minutes, hasten to their end.

  William Shakespeare

  Wave, Ends, Shore

  Sonnet 60

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• Time needs another minute.

  Sly Stone

  Needs

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• The minute anyone's getting anxious I say, You must eat and you must sleep. They're the two vital elements for a healthy life.

  Francesca Annis

  Inspiration, Health, Sleep

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• Are you in earnest? Seize this very minute! Boldness has genius, power, and magic in it. Only engage, and then the mind grows heated. Begin, and then the work will be completed.

  Jean Anouilh

  Magic, Mind, Genius

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• Time is money, as they say, and it was never more apropos than on a television show, where a minute is worth about $200!

  Dirk Benedict

  Television, Time Is Money, Time And Money

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• Thanksgiving dinners take eighteen hours to prepare. They are consumed in twelve minutes. Half-times take twelve minutes. This is not coincidence.

  Erma Bombeck

  Thanksgiving, Sports, Football

  "On Being Blonde: Wit and Wisdom from the World's Most Infamous Blondes". Book by Paula Munier, p. 67, September 1, 2004.

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• Painting is an infinitely minute part of my personality.

  Salvador Dali

  Tattoo, Art, Personality

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• I hate last-minute shopping, it's always unsuccessful.

  Cat Deeley

  Hate, Shopping, Lasts

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• When you are in any contest, you should work as if there were - to the very last minute - a chance to lose it. This is battle, this is politics, this is anything.

  Dwight D. Eisenhower

  War, Childhood, Presidential

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• Well, there's no one at all, they do be saying, but is deserving of some punishment from the very minute of his birth.

  Lady Gregory

  Punishment, Birth, Wells

  Lady Gregory (1970). “The Collected Plays: The wonder and supernatural plays”

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• Fill the unforgiving minute with sixty seconds worth of distance run.

  Rudyard Kipling

  Running, Witty, Time

  "If - " st. 4 (1910)

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• I think about my work every minute of the day.

  Jeff Koons

  Art, Thinking, Architecture

  Interview with Klaus Ottmann, www.jca-online.com. October 1986.

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