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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• Every man is a damn fool for at least five minutes every day; wisdom consists in not exceeding the limit.

  Elbert Hubbard

  Wisdom, Witty, Clever

  Elbert Hubbard (1911). “A Thousand & One Epigrams: Selected from the Writings of Elbert Hubbard”

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• Everything tells me that I am about to make a wrong decision, but making mistakes is just part of life. What does the world want of me? Does it want me to take no risks, to go back to where I came from because I didn't have the courage to say "yes" to life?

  Paulo Coelho

  Life, Happiness, Mistake

  FaceBook post by Paulo Coelho from May 18, 2016

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• The strongest love is the love that can demonstrate its fragility.

  Paulo Coelho

  Love, Life, Inspiring

  FaceBook post by Paulo Coelho from Apr 16, 2012

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• When you get into a tight place, and everything goes against you till it seems as if you could n't hold on a minute longer, never give up then, for that 's just the place and time that the tide'll turn.

  Harriet Beecher Stowe

  Inspirational, Motivational, Strength

  "Old Town Folks". Book by Harriet Beecher Stowe. Chapter 39, p. 507, 1869.

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• In nineteen minutes, you can mow the front lawn; color your hair; watch a third of a hockey game. In nineteen minutes, you can bake scones or get a tooth filled by a dentist; you can fold laundry for a family of five. In nineteen minutes, you can stop the world; or you can just jump off it.

  Jodi Picoult

  Hockey, Hair, Color

  "Nineteen Minutes". Book by Jodi Picoult, March 6, 2007.

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• Happiness cannot be traveled to, owned, earned, or worn. It is the spiritual experience of living every minute with love, grace & gratitude.

  Denis Waitley

  Love, Inspirational, Life

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• The happiness of life is made up of minute fractions.

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge

  Happiness, Smile, Heartfelt

  The Friend (1828)

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• My core belief is that if you're complaining about something for more than three minutes, two minutes ago you should have done something about it.

  Caitlin Moran

  Should Have, Two, Complaining

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• Time is everything; five minutes make the difference between victory and defeat.

  Horatio Nelson

  Victory And Defeat, Differences, Horatio

  "Jessie Peabody. Sea Fighters from Drake to Farragut". Book by Jessie Peabody Frothingham, 1902.

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• The minute you're born, you're getting older.

  Doris Roberts

  Getting Older, Born, Getting Old

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• At my age, I realize that my most precious possession is time, and I've got too much unfinished work to do to spend even a minute talking about myself.

  Benny Carter

  Unfinished Work, Talking, Age

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• The minute a person whose word means a great deal dares to take the open-hearted and courageous way, many others follow.

  Marian Anderson

  Mean, Way, Courageous

  Marian Anderson (1956). “My Lord, what a Morning: An Autobiography”, p.312, University of Illinois Press

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• I'm terrified about the day that I enter the gates of heaven and God says to me, just a minute.

  Maureen O'Hara

  Heaven, Gates, Terrified

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• Just the minute the FBI begins making recommendations on what should be done with its information, it becomes a Gestapo.

  J. Edgar Hoover

  Done, Information, Gestapo

  Look magazine, June 14, 1956.

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• If you go on stage with the wrong attitude, or something in your performance is off, you can lose an audience in the first minute. That first minute is crucial.

  Allen Carr

  Attitude, Goes On, Firsts

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• The only way to live is by accepting each minute as an unrepeatable miracle.

  Jack Kornfield

  Miracle, Way To Live, Accepting

  Jack Kornfield (2017). “No Time Like the Present: Finding Freedom, Love, and Joy Right Where You Are”, p.56, Simon and Schuster

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• I recommend you to take care of the minutes, for the hours will take care of themselves.

  Lord Chesterfield

  Positive, Time, Care

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• If I get a hard audience they are not going to get away until they laugh. Those seven laughs a minute -- Ive got to have them.

  Ken Dodd

  Funny, Humor, Laughing

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• A good fighter usually knows, to within a very few seconds, when a three-minute round is going to end.

  Jack Dempsey

  Three, Fighter, Ends

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• A slight daily unconscious luxury is hardly ever wanting to the dwellers in civilization; like the gentle air of a genial climate, it is a perpetual minute enjoyment.

  Walter Bagehot

  Air, Civilization, Luxury

  Walter Bagehot, Richard Holt Hutton (1891). “Literary studies ; Religious and metaphysical essays ; Letters on the French coup d'état”

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• How is it they live in such harmony the billions of stars - when most men can barely go a minute without declaring war in their minds about someone they know.

  Thomas Aquinas

  Stars, Powerful, War

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• Designers are very fickle. I never wanted to be a victim of that. You're in one minute, out the next.

  Tyra Banks

  Firefighter, Design, Fickle

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• There were people who went to sleep last night, poor and rich and white and black, but they will never wake again. And those dead folks would give anything at all for just five minutes of this weather or ten minutes of plowing. So you watch yourself about complaining. What you're supposed to do when you don't like a thing is change it. If you can't change it, change the way you think about it.

  Maya Angelou

  Life Lesson, Sleep, Thinking

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  Somebody should tell us, right at the start of our lives, that we are dying. Then we might live life to the limit, every minute of every day. Do it! I say. Whatever you want to do, do it now! There are only so many tomorrows.

  Pope Paul VI

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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