Time Left Quotes

Lost time is never found again.

Benjamin Franklin

Motivational, Positive, Time

Benjamin Franklin (1821). “Essays and Letters”, p.80

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People say that time slips through our fingers like sand. What they don't acknowledge is that some of the sand sticks to the skin. These are memories that will remain, memories of the time when there was still time left.

David Levithan

Life, Memories, People

Andrea Cremer, David Levithan (2013). “Invisibility”, p.170, Penguin

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Just as you began to feel that you could make good use of time, there was no time left to you.

Lisa Alther

Inspirational, Time, Use

Lisa Alther (2010). “Kinflicks”, p.304, Open Road Media

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Knowing you don't have much time left changes things. You get kind of philosophical. And you figure things out-more like, they figure themselves out-and everything gets real clear.

Kami Garcia

Real, Philosophical, Knowing

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Wake up! If you knew for certain you had a terminal illness--if you had little time left to live--you would waste precious little of it! Well, I'm telling you...you do have a terminal illness: It's called birth. You don't have more than a few years left. No one does! So be happy now, without reason--or you will never be at all.

Dan Millman

Inspirational, Happy, Time

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Never leave that till tomorrow which you can do today.

Benjamin Franklin

Inspirational, Time, Short Life

Benjamin Franklin (2008). “The Way to Wealth and Poor Richard's Almanac”, p.2, Nayika Publishing

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The time you enjoy wasting is not wasted time.

Bertrand Russell

Inspirational, Life, Happiness

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For disappearing acts, it's hard to beat what happens to the eight hours supposedly left after eight of sleep and eight of work.

Doug Larson

Time, Sleep, Eight

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To live is so startling it leaves little time for anything else.

Emily Dickinson

Life, Time, Memories

Emily Dickinson, Frances Schoonmaker Bolin (1994). “Emily Dickinson”, p.7, Sterling Publishing Company, Inc.

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Time lost is time not filled, time left empty.

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

Empty, Lost, Filled

LIFE magazine, April 22, 1957.

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While there's time left, I want to do different kinds of things.

Robert Urich

Different, Want, Kind

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As you get older, don't slow down. Speed up. There's less time left!

Malcolm Forbes

Speed, Slow Down, Left

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Today we live in a world that judges its achievements by speed and busyness. We are so busy making things happen that we have little time left to think about the value of what is happening. We urgently need people who concentrate on the meaning of life rather than simply the speed.

Joan D. Chittister

Thinking, People, Judging

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Our judgements about things vary according to the time left us to live -that we think is left us to live.

Andre Gide

Maturity, Thinking, Judgement

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I love Virginians because Virginians are all snobs and I like snobs. A snob has to spend so much time being a snob that he has little time left to meddle with you.

William Faulkner

Littles, Snob, Virginians

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It will be my birthday on Tuesday. Last year, I reached the painful conclusion that there wasn't enough time left to read every book ever written. This year, my gloomy realisation is even more painful - I will not be able to correct everyone's mistakes before I depart.

Daniel Finkelstein

Mistake, Book, Years

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As you get older, all those dumb clichés, they're all true. You only have a certain amount of time left, and you should only spend it doing the things that you want to do. It's all true.

Rob Reiner

Dumb, Want, True You

Source: www.avclub.com

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If a man sets out to study all the laws, he will have no time left to transgress them.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Men, Law, Study

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (2015). “Maxims and Reflections”, p.86, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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I was running from one problem or place to another, with no time left to study, or sleep, or just breathe. I felt pulled in all directions, fighting to keep all these obligations circling in the air above me. It was only a matter of time before something fell.

Sarah Dessen

Running, Sleep, Fighting

Sarah Dessen (2004). “Dreamland”, p.129, Penguin

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The gross profits in many workouts appear quite small. It's a little like looking for parking meters with some time left on them. However, the predictability coupled with a short holding period produces quite decent average annual rates of return after allowance for the occasional substantial loss.

Warren Buffett

Workout, Loss, Parking Meters

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Live your life as if you are ready to say goodbye to it at any moment, as if the time left for you were some pleasant surprise.

Marcus Aurelius

Goodbye, Live Your Life, Pleasant Surprises

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By the time I get done with my fans and my music and my kids and my family and my fiance and my horses, well, they suffer too, but, I don't really have much time left to do anything else.

Tanya Tucker

Horse, Kids, Suffering

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The French team has given me so much and I want to help it. I told myself I did not have much time left in soccer, and I want to profit from it to the maximum.

Zinedine Zidane

Soccer, Team, Want

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I couldn't run a tight schedule, and if you're any good at teaching, you get sucked dry because you like your students and you're trying to help them, but you don't have any time left to write yourself.

Jim Harrison

Running, Teaching, Writing

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We are silent, considering shortfalls. There's not much time left, for us to become what we once intended. Jon had potential, but it's not a word that can be used comfortably any more. Potential has a shelf-life.

Margaret Atwood

Silent, Used, Shelves

Margaret Atwood (1989). “Cat's Eye”, Bantam

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