968 private quotes tagged time

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

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“Time is the longest distance between two places.” — Tennessee Williams

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

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

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“Our greatest glory is not in never failing, but in rising up every time we fail.” — Ralph Waldo Emerson

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“I think people should be allowed to do anything they want. We haven't tried that for a while. Maybe this time it'll work.” — George Carlin

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“I wasted time, and now doth time waste me.” — William Shakespeare

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“Time, which alone makes the reputation of men, ends by making their defects respectable.” — Voltaire

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“The only time you really live fully is from thirty to sixty. The young are slaves to dreams the old servants of regrets. Only the middle-aged have all their five senses in the keeping of their wits.” — Theodore Roosevelt

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“All great achievements require time.” — Maya Angelou

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“If you can look into the seeds of time, and say which grain will grow and which will not, speak then unto me.” — William Shakespeare

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“The time to repair the roof is when the sun is shining.” — John F. Kennedy

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“Everywhere is nowhere. When a person spends all his time in foreign travel, he ends by having many acquaintances, but no friends.” — Lucius Annaeus Seneca

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“In time we hate that which we often fear.” — William Shakespeare

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“I cannot believe in a God who wants to be praised all the time.” — Friedrich Nietzsche

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“It takes a long time to become young.” — Pablo Picasso

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“Character is the result of two things: mental attitude and the way we spend our time.” — Elbert Hubbard

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“Greater than the tread of mighty armies is an idea whose time has come.” — Victor Hugo

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“I cannot be awake, for nothing looks to me as it did before, Or else I am awake, for the first time, and all before has been a mean sleep.” — Walt Whitman

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“Many people take no care of their money till they come nearly to the end of it, and others do just the same with their time.” — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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“You're only as young as the last time you changed your mind.” — Timothy Leary

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“The best thing about the future is that it comes one day at a time.” — Abraham Lincoln

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“How can you think and hit at the same time?” — Yogi Berra

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