Time Quotes - Page 30

• Do not wait; the time will never be 'just right.' Start where you stand, and work with whatever tools you may have at your command, and better tools will be found as you go along.

  George Herbert

  Motivational, Positive, Courage

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• Thus times do shift, each thing his turn does hold; New things succeed, as former things grow old.

  Robert Herrick

  Succeed, Doe, Former

  Robert Herrick (1844). “Hesperides Or Works Both Human and Divine”, p.91

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• If time is not real, then the dividing line between this world and eternity, between suffering and bliss, between good and evil, is also an illusion.

  Hermann Hesse

  Real, Evil, Suffering

  Hermann Hesse (2015). “Siddhartha: An Indian Tale”, p.107, Om Books International

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• I have never been able to grasp the meaning of time. I don't believe it exists. I've felt this again and again, when alone and out in nature. On such occasions, time does not exist. Nor does the future exist.

  Thor Heyerdahl

  Believe, Doe, Able

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• It is the malady of our age that the young are so busy teaching us that they have no time left to learn.

  Eric Hoffer

  Teacher, Children, Teaching

  "Reflections on the Human Condition". Book by Eric Hoffer. Section 33, 1973.

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• Through our great good fortune, in our youth our hearts were touched with fire. It was given to us to learn at the outset that life is a profound and passionate thing.

  Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

  Heart, Fire, Profound

  "In Our Youth Our Hearts Were Touched With Fire". Address delivered for Memorial Day at Keene, New Hampshire, before John Sedgwick Post No. 4, Grand Army of the Republic, people.virginia.edu. May 30, 1884.

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• I'm fascinated by the fact that we can't grasp anything about time.

  Anthony Hopkins

  Facts, Fascinated

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• First rule of Economics 101: our desires are insatiable. Second rule: we can stomach only three Big Macs at a time.

  Douglas Horton

  Desire, Three, Firsts

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• A loafer always has the correct time.

  Kin Hubbard

  Lazy People, Literature, Laziness

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• There is one thing stronger than all the armies in the world, and that is an idea whose time as come.

  Victor Hugo

  Strength, Peace, Army

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• We see past time in a telescope and present time in a microscope. Hence the apparent enormities of the present.

  Victor Hugo

  Science, Past, Telescopes

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• My only fear is that I may live too long. This would be a subject of dread to me.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Fear, Long, Age

  Thomas Jefferson (2010). “The Works of Thomas Jefferson, Vol. IX (in 12 Volumes)”, p.210, Cosimo, Inc.

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• Idleness, like kisses, to be sweet must be stolen.

  Jerome K. Jerome

  Funny, Sweet, Kissing

  Jerome K. Jerome (2016). “The Idle Thoughts of an Idle Fellow”, p.7, Jerome K. Jerome

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• Fortunes made in no time are like shirts made in no time; it's ten to one if they hang long together.

  Douglas William Jerrold

  Educational, Long, Together

  Douglas William Jerrold (1863). “The Works of Douglas Jerrold”

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• Innovation has nothing to do with how many R&D dollars you have. When Apple came up with the Mac, IBM was spending at least 100 times more on R&D. It's not about money. It's about the people you have, how you're led, and how much you get it.

  Steve Jobs

  Inspirational, Money, Best Job

  "Fortune" Magazine, November 9, 1998.

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• It matters not how a man dies, but how he lives. The act of dying is not of importance, it lasts so short a time.

  Samuel Johnson

  Death, Men, Enjoy Life

  Quoted in James Boswell, The Life of Samuel Johnson (1791) (entry for 26 Oct. 1769)

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• At seventy-seven it is time to be in earnest.

  Samuel Johnson

  Birthday, Age, Aging

  'A Journey to the Western Islands of Scotland' (1775) 'Col'

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• The wine of youth does not always clear with advancing years; sometimes it grows turbid.

  Carl Jung

  Wine, Years, Doe

  Carl Gustav Jung (1960). “The structure and dynamics of the psyche”

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• One-fifth of the people are against everything all the time.

  Robert Kennedy

  People, Political, Fifth

  Speech at University of Pennsylvania, 6 May 1964, in Philadelphia Inquirer 7 May 1964

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• Old age realizes the dreams of youth: look at Dean Swift; in his youth he built an asylum for the insane, in his old age he was himself an inmate.

  Soren Kierkegaard

  Birthday, Dream, Insanity

  Soren Kierkegaard (1946). “Either/or”

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• That old law about 'an eye for an eye' leaves everybody blind. The time is always right to do the right thing.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Inspirational, Change, Revenge

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• Fill the unforgiving minute with sixty seconds worth of distance run.

  Rudyard Kipling

  Running, Witty, Work

  "If - " st. 4 (1910)

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• Democracy divides people into workers and loafers. It makes no provision for those who have no time to work.

  Karl Kraus

  People, Democracy, Literature

  Karl Kraus (1976). “Half-truths & one-and-a-half truths: selected aphorisms”

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• There will come a time when you believe everything is finished. That will be the beginning.

  Louis L'Amour

  Inspirational, Change, Believe

  "Lonely on the Mountain".

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• Victory is won not in miles but in inches. Win a little now, hold your ground, and later, win a little more.

  Louis L'Amour

  Inspirational, Winning, Greatest Victory

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