968 private quotes tagged time

“Wondrous is the strength of cheerfulness, and its power of endurance - the cheerful man will do more in the same time, will do it better, will preserve it longer, than the sad or sullen.” — Thomas Carlyle

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“Employ your time in improving yourself by other men's writings, so that you shall gain easily what others have labored hard for.” — Socrates

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“The sum of wisdom is that time is never lost that is devoted to work.” — Ralph Waldo Emerson

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“The time you enjoy wasting is not wasted time.” — Bertrand Russell

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“All things are subject to interpretation whichever interpretation prevails at a given time is a function of power and not truth.” — Friedrich Nietzsche

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“A veteran journalist has never had time to think twice before he writes.” — George Bernard Shaw

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“It takes time to persuade men to do even what is for their own good.” — Thomas Jefferson

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“Success does not consist in never making mistakes but in never making the same one a second time.” — George Bernard Shaw

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“This time, like all times, is a very good one, if we but know what to do with it.” — Ralph Waldo Emerson

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“Men have a much better time of it than women. For one thing, they marry later for another thing, they die earlier.” — H. L. Mencken

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“The secret of a happy marriage is finding the right person. You know they're right if you love to be with them all the time.” — Julia Child

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“No matter what time it is, wake me, even if it's in the middle of a Cabinet meeting.” — Ronald Reagan

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“When you get into a tight place and everything goes against you, till it seems as though you could not hang on a minute longer, never give up then, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn.” — Harriet Beecher Stowe

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“The only time people dislike gossip is when you gossip about them.” — Will Rogers

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“Time has been transformed, and we have changed it has advanced and set us in motion it has unveiled its face, inspiring us with bewilderment and exhilaration.” — Khalil Gibran

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“The man who writes about himself and his own time is the only man who writes about all people and about all time.” — George Bernard Shaw

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“Immorality: the morality of those who are having a better time.” — H. L. Mencken

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“I want to go ahead of Father Time with a scythe of my own.” — H. G. Wells

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“Whatever the universal nature assigns to any man at any time is for the good of that man at that time.” — Marcus Aurelius

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“We must use time creatively.” — Martin Luther King, Jr.

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“You must become an old man in good time if you wish to be an old man long.” — Marcus Aurelius

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“A bad man is the sort who weeps every time he speaks of a good woman.” — H. L. Mencken

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“The very existence of flame-throwers proves that some time, somewhere, someone said to themselves, You know, I want to set those people over there on fire, but I'm just not close enough to get the job done.” — George Carlin

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“Employ thy time well, if thou meanest to gain leisure.” — Benjamin Franklin

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“If time be of all things the most precious, wasting time must be the greatest prodigality.” — Benjamin Franklin

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