One Hour Quotes

One hour of love has a whole life in it.

Honore de Balzac

Hours, Whole Life, Whole

Honore de Balzac (2011). “The Magic Skin: Or The Wild Ass's Skin”, p.217, The Floating Press

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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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Everything, in the end, comes down to timing. One second, one minute, one hour could make all the difference.

Sarah Dessen

Differences, Timing, Hours

Sarah Dessen (2004). “This Lullaby”, p.221, Penguin

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If a person will spend one hour a day on the same subject for five years, that person will be an expert on that subject.

Earl Nightingale

Years, Growth, Experts

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...It's just one hour. Just one little hour. What could happen in one hour?

Jim Butcher

Littles, Hours, Just One

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When you are courting a nice girl an hour seems like a second. When you sit on a red-hot cinder a second seems like an hour. That's relativity.

Albert Einstein

Funny, Girl, Witty

"News Chronicle" (March 14, 1949), as cited by "The Columbia World of Quotations", 1996.

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Better three hours too soon, than one hour to late.

William Shakespeare

Three, Hours, Late

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There is no pill, no drug, that can do for you what one hour of exercise can.

Greg LeMond

Exercise, Drug, Pills

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When you are courting a nice girl an hour seems like a second.

Albert Einstein

Love, Girl, Funny Inspirational

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We obtain better knowledge of a person during one hour's play and games than by conversing with him for a whole year

Plato

Years, Games, Play

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Give yourself the gift of uninterrupted time. It can be the first hour of your day. Or the last hour. A lunch hour. You want time free from phone calls, visitors, mail, things to read. Unplug the phone if you have to. Lock your door. Put a sign on it that warns people of the consequences of entering. Do what you have to and watch the results. One hour of uninterrupted time can double a person's productivity for the day.

Geri Larkin

Phones, Doors, Lunch

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One hour of right-down love is worth an age of dully living on.

Aphra Behn

Love, Age, Hours

"The Rover". Play by Aphra Behn, Part II, Act V, 1677.

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One hour of compassionate deep listening can bring about transformation and healing.

Nhat Hanh

Healing, Coaching, Listening

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One hour spent in spinning should be an hour of self-development for the spinner.

Mahatma Gandhi

Self, Development, Spinning

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How much to learn if we could spend one hour, spend twenty minutes, with the us we will become! How much could we say to the us we were.

Richard Bach

Twenties, Hours, Minutes

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I never had one hour's happiness in her society, and yet my mind all round the four-and-twenty hours was harping on the happiness of having her with me unto death.

Charles Dickens

Love, Expectations, Mind

Charles Dickens (2012). “Great Expectations Thrift Study Edition”, p.236, Courier Corporation

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One hour with a child is like a ten-mile run.

Joan Benoit

Running, Children, Hours

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Next time someone tells you 'never,' remember that means 'not for at least one hour.'

Jeffrey Gitomer

Mean, Next, Remember

Jeffrey Gitomer (2014). “The Sales Bible, New Edition: The Ultimate Sales Resource”, p.37, John Wiley & Sons

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One hour's sleep before midnight is worth three after.

George Herbert

Sleep, Midnight, Three

George Herbert, Christopher Harvey, George Gilfillan (1857). “The poetical works of George Herbert”, p.318

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One hour of contemplation surpasses sixty years of worship.

Elijah Muhammad

Inspiration, Meditation Practice, Years

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Grief makes one hour ten.

William Shakespeare

Grief, Losing A Loved One, Grieving

William Shakespeare, George Somers Bellamy (1875). “The New Shaksperian Dictionary of Quotations: (With Marginal Classification and Reference.)”, p.77

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I got problems. I freak out, go to a shrink, go through all kinds of therapy and stuff, but I'm learning how to deal with it. That's why I've chosen one hour a night to get all of my aggressions out. to really tell the world the way I feel.

Jonathan Davis

Night, World, Stuff

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One minute can decide the outcome of the battle, one hour - the outcome of the campaign, and one day - the fate of the country.

Alexander Suvorov

Country, Military, War

"Encyclopedia of Russian History" by James R. Millar, Soviet Union, (p. 1504), 2004.

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Now I'm starting, relatively, to think straight again. I live one day at a time, one hour at a time. What makes it all worthwhile is my children.

Paula Yates

Time, Children, Thinking

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It is only by risking our persons from one hour to another that we live at all. And often enough our faith beforehand in an uncertified result is the only thing that makes the result come true.

William James

Life, Faith, Optimism

William James (1956). “The Will to Believe: And Other Essays in Popular Philosophy, and Human Immortality”, p.59, Courier Corporation

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