968 private quotes tagged time

“Anybody can become angry - that is easy, but to be angry with the right person and to the right degree and at the right time and for the right purpose, and in the right way - that is not within everybody's power and is not easy.” — Aristotle

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“We must use time as a tool, not as a couch.” — John F. Kennedy

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“I suppose leadership at one time meant muscles but today it means getting along with people.” — Mahatma Gandhi

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“Campaign behavior for wives: Always be on time. Do as little talking as humanly possible. Lean back in the parade car so everybody can see the president.” — Eleanor Roosevelt

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“Nine-tenths of wisdom is being wise in time.” — Theodore Roosevelt

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“Don't limit a child to your own learning, for he was born in another time.” — Rabindranath Tagore

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“In books lies the soul of the whole past time.” — Thomas Carlyle

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“A play should give you something to think about. When I see a play and understand it the first time, then I know it can't be much good.” — T. S. Eliot

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“To have no time for philosophy is to be a true philosopher.” — Blaise Pascal

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“Well-timed silence is the most commanding expression.” — Mark Helprin

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“All the world's a stage, and all the men and women merely players: they have their exits and their entrances and one man in his time plays many parts, his acts being seven ages.” — William Shakespeare

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“Everything happens to everybody sooner or later if there is time enough.” — George Bernard Shaw

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“Children begin by loving their parents; after a time they judge them; rarely, if ever, do they forgive them.” — Oscar Wilde

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“Waste no more time arguing about what a good man should be. Be one.” — Marcus Aurelius

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“If one is master of one thing and understands one thing well, one has at the same time, insight into and understanding of many things.” — Vincent Van Gogh

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“If you love life, don't waste time, for time is what life is made up of.” — Bruce Lee

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“Change will not come if we wait for some other person or some other time. We are the ones we've been waiting for. We are the change that we seek.” — Barack Obama

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“I have long known that it is part of God's plan for me to spend a little time with each of the most stupid people on earth.” — Bill Bryson

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“Learn from the past, set vivid, detailed goals for the future, and live in the only moment of time over which you have any control: now.” — Denis Waitley

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“I've done everything I wanted to do, even if I have had to pay a very high price - which has been the case most of the time.” — Paulo Coelho

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“We must reject the idea that every time a law's broken, society is guilty rather than the lawbreaker. It is time to restore the American precept that each individual is accountable for his actions.” — Ronald Reagan

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“But time growing old teaches all things.” — Aeschylus

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“Complainers change their complaints, but they never reduce the amount of time spent in complaining.” — Mason Cooley

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“If we do discover a complete theory, it should be in time understandable in broad principle by everyone. Then we shall all, philosophers, scientists, and just ordinary people be able to take part in the discussion of why we and the universe exist.” — Stephen Hawking

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“Lost time is never found again.” — Benjamin Franklin

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