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The time to relax is when you don't have time for it.
- Sydney Harris
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When I hear somebody sigh, "Life is hard,"
I am always tempted to ask, Compared to what?
- Sydney Harris
Regret for the things we did can be tempered by time;
it is regret for the things we did not do that is inconsolable.
- Sydney Harris
Time, like life itself, has no inherent meaning.
We give our own meaning to time as to life.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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Thank you for joining me on this journey we call life,
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
No good comes from hurrying.
- Yiddish Proverb
Nature does not hurry, yet everything is accomplished.
- Lao Tzu
Footprints in the sands of time...
Where have you been?
Where are you going?
Why are you going there?
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Who forces time is pushed back by time;
who yields to time finds time on his side.
- The Talmud
The butterfly counts not months but moments, and has time enough.
- Rabindranath Tagore
A time for work, a time for play -
balance in all things.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The bad news is time flies.
The good news is you're the pilot.
- Michael Althsuler
One does not discover new lands without consenting
to lose sight of the shore for a very long time.
- Andre Gide
You will never find time for anything.
If you want time you must make it.
- Charles Buxton
There is only one time that is important - NOW!
It is the most important time because
it is the only time that we have any power.
- Leo Tolstoy
Do you feel stuck?
Whether in a project, a job, a relationship,
or some other situation,
there is a time for perseverance,
and a time for letting go and moving on.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
To say "too busy" is merely
to say "confused priorities."
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
When you feel the need to hurry,
remember that everything in life is a CHOICE.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Take time to play!
Ask for what you want.
Laugh.
Live loudly.
Be avid.
Learn a new thing.
Be Yourself!
- Mary Anne Radmacher
The way lies in softness and patience,
as the softest water cuts through the hardest rock.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Find a time and place of solitude.
Look into the distance, and into the future.
Visualize the tomorrow you are going to build -
and begin to build that tomorrow, today.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The greatest glory in living lies not in never falling,
but in rising every time we fall.
- Nelson Mandela
Who hears me, who understands me, becomes mine,
a possession for all time.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
There may be times when we are powerless
to prevent injustice, but there must never
be a time when we fail to protest.
- Elie Wiesel
The wise man looks back into the past,
and does not grieve over what is far off,
nor rejoice over what is near;
for he knows that time is without end.
- Lao Tzu
Put some distance between yourself
and whatever is concerning you.
Distance in space or time
always creates a new perspective.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The finest workers in stone are not copper or steel tools,
but the gentle touches of air and water
working at their leisure with a liberal allowance of time.
- Henry David Thoreau
In order to discover new lands,
one must be willing to lose sight
of the shore for a very long time.
- Anonymous
The time is always right to do what is right.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
Little minds have little worries,
big minds have no time for worries.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Time stays long enough for anyone who will use it.
- Leonardo da Vinci
The time to repair the roof is when the sun is shining.
- John F. Kennedy
This is no time for ease and comfort.
It is time to dare and endure.
- Winston Churchill
Once you have mastered time,
you will understand how true it is that
most people overestimate what
they can accomplish in a year -
and underestimate what
they can achieve in a decade!
- Tony Robbins
You can fool all the people some of the time,
and some of the people all the time,
but you cannot fool all the people all the time.
- Abraham Lincoln (sometimes attributed to P. T. Barnum)
Never give up, for that
is just the place and time
that the tide will turn.
- Harriet Beecher Stowe
Habits age men before their time.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority,
it is time to pause and reflect.
- Mark Twain
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.
I suppose leadership at one time meant muscles;
but today it means getting along with people.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
Service is the rent we pay for being.
It is the very purpose of life,
and not something you do in your spare time.
- Marion Wright Edelman
Time flies.
- Anonymous
Know that time, like life itself, has no inherent meaning.
You give your own meaning to time, as to life.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Procrastination is the thief of time.
- Edward Young
We must use time creatively.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
Keep moving. Don't stop. But don't rush.
Don't race around.
Sure and steady gets you there every time.
- Neale Donald Walsch
Let the refining and improving of your own life
keep you so busy that you have little time to criticize others.
- H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
The River of Life can cut through solid rock - in its own time.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The dream you are living is your creation.
It is your perception of reality that you can change at any time.
- don Miguel Ruiz
A wise man will make haste to forgive,
because he knows the true value of time,
and will not suffer it to pass away in unnecessary pain.
- Samuel Johnson
For time and the world do not stand still.
Change is the law of life.
And those who look only to the past or the present
are certain to miss the future.
- John F. Kennedy
Dost thou love life? Then do not squander time,
for that is the stuff that life is made of.
- Benjamin Franklin
It is a waste of time to be angry about my disability.
One has to get on with life and I haven't done badly.
People won't have time for you if you are always angry or complaining.
- Stephen Hawking
The sum of wisdom is that
time is never lost that is devoted to work.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Take time to sharpen the saw.
- Steven Covey
Does thou love life? Then do not squander time;
for that's the stuff life is made of.
- Benjamin Franklin
I must uphold my ideals,
for perhaps the time will come
when I shall be able to carry them out.
- Anne Frank
Nothing in life is to be feared, it is only to be understood.
Now is the time to understand more, so that we may fear less.
- Marie Curie
Our greatest glory is not in never falling,
but in rising every time we fall.
- Confucius
To everything there is a season,
and a time to every purpose under heaven:
A time to be born, and a time to die.
- Ecclesiastes 3:1
Our greatest weakness lies in giving up.
The most certain way to succeed
is always to try just one more time.
- Thomas A. Edison
When you think you're out of time,
smile, and turn back the clock.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Spend some time alone every day.
- Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama
The hardest part is what to leave behind, ... It's time to let go!
- A. A. Milne (Winnie-The-Pooh)
When I am getting ready to reason with a man,
I spend one-third of my time thinking about myself
and what I am going to say
and two-thirds about him and what he is going to say.
- Abraham Lincoln
Urgent? Why?
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Every time you smile at someone,
it is an action of love,
a gift to that person, a beautiful thing.
- Mother Teresa
An invasion of armies can be resisted,
but not an idea whose time has come.
- Victor Hugo
No idea is so outlandish that it should not be considered
with a searching but at the same time a steady eye.
- Winston Churchill
If you judge people, you have no time to love them.
- Mother Teresa
I think we dream so we don't have to be apart for so long.
If we're in each other's dreams, we can be together all the time.
- A. A. Milne (Winnie-The-Pooh)
Instead of worrying about what people say of you,
why not spend time trying to accomplish
something they will admire.
- Dale Carnegie
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- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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