Short Time Quotes

• You may delay, but time will not.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  Benjamin Franklin (1998). “Benjamin Franklin Wit and Wisdom”, p.43, Peter Pauper Press, Inc.

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• Remember, today is the tomorrow you worried about yesterday.

  Dale Carnegie

  Funny, Faith, Time

  Dale Carnegie (2010). “How to Stop Worrying and Start Living”, p.372, Simon and Schuster

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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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• You will never 'find' time for anything. If you want time, you must make it.

  Charles Buxton

  Inspirational, Motivational, Change

  Charles Buxton, John Llewelyn Davies (1873). “Notes of Thought”, p.220

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  Action is the foundational key to all success.

  Pablo Picasso

  Inspirational, Positive, Success

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• Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers.

  Alfred Lord Tennyson

  Life, Education, Wise

  'Locksley Hall' (1842) l. 141

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• I've missed more than 9000 shots in my career. I've lost almost 300 games. 26 times, I've been trusted to take the game winning shot and missed. I've failed over and over and over again in my life. And that is why I succeed.

  Michael Jordan

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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• Write it on your heart that every day is the best day in the year.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Inspirational, Life, Positive

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, David Mikics (2012). “The Annotated Emerson”, p.17, Harvard University Press

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• Time is too slow for those who wait, too swift for those who fear, too long for those who grieve, too short for those who rejoice, but for those who love, time is eternity.

  Henry Van Dyke

  Love, Life, Romantic

  Henry Van Dyke, “Time Is”

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• Regret for wasted time is more wasted time

  Mason Cooley

  Time, Regret, Wasted Life

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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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• How did it get so late so soon?

  Dr. Seuss

  Teacher, Time, Night

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• Time is a great teacher, but unfortunately it kills all its pupils.

  Hector Berlioz

  Life, Music, Death

  "About Time: Einstein's Unfinished Revolution". Book by Paul Davies, 1996.

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• No matter where you go, there you are. (Uriel to Harry Dresden)

  Jim Butcher

  Being Yourself, Travel, Clever

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• And remember, no matter where you go, there you are.

  Earl Mac Rauch

  Happiness, Being Yourself, Travel

  Earl Mac Rauch (2001). “The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai”, p.69, Simon and Schuster

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• Men talk of killing time, while time quietly kills them.

  Dion Boucicault

  Life, Inspiring, Death

  'London Assurance' (1841) act 2, sc. 1.

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• Write it on your heart that every day is the best day in the year. No man has learned anything rightly, until he knows that every day is Doomsday.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Time, Art, Inspirational Life

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, Ronald A. Bosco, Joel Myerson (2015). “Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.526, Harvard University Press

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• I shall not waste my days in trying to prolong them.

  Ian Fleming

  Motivational, Witty, Time

  Ian Fleming (2012). “You Only Live Twice: James Bond 007”, p.273, Random House

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• Time goes, you say? Ah, no! alas, time stays, we go.

  Henry Austin Dobson

  Life, Time, Passing By

  Proverbs in Porcelain (1877) "Paradox of Time"

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• Be The Peace You Wish To See In The World!

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Inspirational, Motivational, Change

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• The butterfly counts not months but moments, and has time enough.

  Rabindranath Tagore

  Time, Memories, Butterfly

  Rabindranath Tagore, Mohit Kumar Ray (2007). “Poems”, p.438, Atlantic Publishers & Dist

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• I was a lawyer for 10 years - a short time, but it molded me into who I am. My clients were little people fighting big corporations, so it was a natural thing to not only represent the little guy but also to pull for him - it's the American way.

  John Grisham

  Fighting, Who I Am, Years

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• God hath given to man a short time here upon earth, and yet upon this short time eternity depends.

  Jeremy Taylor

  Life, Time, Men

  Jeremy Taylor, George Rust (1835). “The Whole Works of the Right Rev. Jeremy Taylor ...: With an Essay, Biographical and Critical ...”, p.403

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• I seem to have made my friends proud of me/proud to know me. I also feel I've learned and grown a lot even in this short time, and this event has given me a lot of opportunity to continue doing so. Obviously there were a lot of negative reactions, but they seem to have overall little relevance to my life.

  Marie Calloway

  Opportunity, Events, Negative

  Source: therumpus.net

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• When you explain to people what you're trying to do, as opposed to just making demands or delegating tasks, you can build instant trust, even if it's just for that short time you're on the phone.

  Simon Sinek

  Phones, People, Trying

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