Short Time Quotes

• 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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• You only live once, for a very short time. So make every second divine.

  Mitch Lucker

  You Only Live Once, Every Second

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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 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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• 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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• Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers.

  Alfred Lord Tennyson

  Life, Education, Wise

  'Locksley Hall' (1842) l. 141

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  Action is the foundational key to all success.

  Pablo Picasso

  Inspirational, Positive, Success

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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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• 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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• 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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• How did it get so late so soon?

  Dr. Seuss

  Teacher, Time, Night

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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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• Regret for wasted time is more wasted time

  Mason Cooley

  Time, Regret, Wasted Life

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

  Jim Butcher

  Being Yourself, Travel, Clever

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• I thought, I'm only going to be on this planet once, and only for a short time. What can I do with my life that will lead to permanent benefits?

  John Templeton

  Life, Optimistic, Benefits

  "The Secret of Shelter Island: Money and What Matters". Book by Alexander Green, 2009.

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• Parting is inevitably painful, even for a short time. It's like an amputation, I feel a limb is being torn off, without which I shall be unable to function. And yet, once it is done... life rushes back into the void, richer, more vivid and fuller than before.

  Anne Morrow Lindbergh

  Death, Grief, Grieving

  Anne Morrow Lindbergh (1975). “GIFT FROM THE SEA”

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• A short time later, when the carpenter was taking measurements for the coffin, through the window they saw a light rain of tiny yellow flowers falling. They fell on the town all through the night in a silent storm, and they covered the roofs and blocked the doors and smothered the animals who slept outdoors. So many flowers fell from the sky that in the morning the streets were carpeted with a compact cushion and they had to clear them away with shovels and rakes so that the funeral procession could pass by.

  Gabriel Garcia Marquez

  Morning, Fall, Rain

  "One Hundred Years of Solitude". Book by Gabriel Garcia Marquez, www.nytimes.com. 1967.

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