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“Time present and time past are both perhaps present in time future and time future contained in time past”
— T.S. Eliot
“Time and tide wait for no man, but time always comes back with the tide.”
— Thiruvalluvar
“One must learn to be patient and find that things will come to one in their own good time.”
— Rainer Maria Rilke
“We delight in the beauty of the butterfly but rarely admit the changes it has gone through.”
— Maya Angelou
“Nothing is ours except time.”
— Seneca
“Guard well your spare moments. They are like uncut diamonds.”
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
“The only way of discovering the limits of the possible is to venture a little way past them into the impossible and let time prove you right”
— Arthur C. Clarke
“It is not that we have a short time to live but that we waste a good deal of it.”
“The wise do at once what the fool does at last.”
— Baltasar Gracian
“We do not know what we want and yet we are responsible for what we are and what we become through time”
— Jean-Paul Sartre
“It always seems impossible until it is done.”
— Nelson Mandela
“Awareness of death is the ultimate catalyst for personal change and time is deaths companion”
— Irvin Yalom
“The web does not just connect machines it connects people across time”
— Tim Berners-Lee
“The two most powerful warriors are patience and time”
— Leo Tolstoy
“Well begun is half done.”
— Aristotle
“In the depth of winter I finally learned that within me there lay an invincible summer waiting through all of time”
— Albert Camus
“Time is really the only capital that any human being has and the only thing he cant afford to lose.”
— Thomas Edison
“The two most powerful warriors are patience and time.”
“Seize the day put very little trust in tomorrow”
— Horace
“Time is an illusion lunchtime doubly so”
— Douglas Adams
“Realize deeply that the present moment is all you ever have.”
— Eckhart Tolle
“Time is what we want most but what we use worst.”
— William Penn
“Time is the greatest innovator”
— Francis Bacon
“Better three hours too soon than a minute too late”
— William Shakespeare
“A man who dares to waste one hour of time has not discovered the value of life.”
— Charles Darwin
“There are only two days in the year that nothing can be done. One is called yesterday and the other is called tomorrow.”
— Dalai Lama
“Never put off till tomorrow what you can do today”
— Thomas Jefferson
“Time is relative its only worth depends upon what we do as it is passing”
— Albert Einstein
“Time is the ultimate test of fragility what is fragile will eventually break”
— Nassim Taleb
“The innocent and the beautiful have no enemy but time.”
— William Butler Yeats
“All our sweetest hours fly fastest.”
— Virgil
“Time the devourer of all things.”
— Ovid
“We say we waste time but that is impossible. We waste ourselves.”
— Alice Bloch
“The best preparation for tomorrow is doing your best today.”
— Jackson Brown Jr.
“The secret of my influence has always been that it remained secret and time keeps all secrets”
— Salvador Dali
“Go for it now. The future is promised to no one.”
— Wayne Dyer
“Lost time is never found again”
— Benjamin Franklin
“The time you enjoy wasting is not wasted time.”
— Bertrand Russell
“Time flies over us but leaves its shadow behind.”
“You may delay, but time will not.”
“There is nothing which we receive with so much reluctance as advice, and nothing which we stand in so much need of as time.”
— Joseph Addison
“There is nothing so useless as doing efficiently that which should not be done at all.”
— Unknown
“Never trust a computer you cannot throw out a window because time will make it obsolete anyway”
— Steve Wozniak
“I am still learning and time is my greatest teacher”
— Michelangelo
“Time is a drug too much of it kills you”
— Terry Pratchett
“Those who make the worst use of their time are the first to complain of its shortness.”
— Jean de La Bruyere
“Time moves slowly but passes quickly when you are doing what you love”
— Alice Walker
“Free time should be the thing you are trying to maximize because time is the ultimate luxury”
— Naval Ravikant
“The Present is the living sum-total of the whole Past.”
— Thomas Carlyle
“The future depends on what you do today.”
— Mahatma Gandhi
“Time is a created thing to say I do not have time is like saying I do not want to”
— Lao Tzu
“I will live this day as if it is my last.”
— Og Mandino
“Time, which changes people, does not alter the image we have retained of them.”
— Marcel Proust
“Time flies never to be recalled”
“Lost time is never found again.”
“To be ignorant of what occurred before you were born is to remain always a child for what is the worth of human life unless it is woven into the life of our ancestors by the records of history”
— Cicero
“Never esteem anything as of advantage to you that will make you break your word or lose your self-respect no matter how much time it saves”
— Marcus Aurelius
“Life can only be understood backwards but it must be lived forwards.”
— Soren Kierkegaard
“How soon not now becomes never.”
— Publilius Syrus
“Deep work is the ability to focus without distraction on a cognitively demanding task and time is its essential ingredient”
— Cal Newport
“No man ever steps in the same river twice for it is not the same river and he is not the same man.”
— Heraclitus
“The present alone is man's possession; the past is gone, the future yet to come.”
— Sadi Shirazi
“The only reason for time is so that everything does not happen at once”
“To see a world in a grain of sand and a heaven in a wild flower hold infinity in the palm of your hand and eternity in an hour”
— William Blake
“To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist that is all.”
— Oscar Wilde
“Do not spoil what you have by desiring what you have not remember that what you now have was once among the things you only hoped for”
— Epicurus
“Time expands then contracts and all in tune with the stirrings of the heart”
— Haruki Murakami
“To live is the rarest thing in the world most people exist that is all”
“Lost wealth may be replaced by industry, lost knowledge by study, lost health by temperance, but lost time is gone forever.”
— Samuel Smiles
“I exist as I am that is enough and time will reveal the rest”
— Walt Whitman
“Nothing beside remains round the decay of that colossal wreck boundless and bare the lone and level sands stretch far away through time”
— Percy Bysshe Shelley
“Time magnifies the margin between success and failure it will multiply whatever you feed it”
— James Clear
“As if you could kill time without injuring eternity.”
— Henry David Thoreau
“Think of the life you have lived until now as over and as a dead man see what is left as a bonus and live it properly.”
“I used to think I was the strangest person in the world but then I thought there are so many people and time connects us all”
— Frida Kahlo
“Make the best use of what is in your power and take the rest as it happens in time”
— Epictetus
“Time is a created thing. To say I dont have time is like saying I dont want to.”
“Make use of time, let not advantage slip.”
“In an age of acceleration nothing can be more exhilarating than going slowly and savoring time”
— Pico Iyer
“Tell me what is it you plan to do with your one wild and precious life.”
— Mary Oliver
“When one door of happiness closes another opens but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one which has been opened for us.”
— Helen Keller
“How we spend our days is of course how we spend our lives.”
— Annie Dillard
“In three words I can sum up everything I have learned about life it goes on through time”
— Robert Frost
“Time is the most valuable thing a man can spend.”
— Theophrastus
“A man who dares to waste one hour of time has not discovered the value of life”
“Time is more valuable than money you can get more money but you cannot get more time”
— Jim Rohn
“It is good to have an end to journey toward but it is the journey that matters in the end and the time spent traveling”
— Ursula K. Le Guin
“Know the true value of time; snatch, seize, and enjoy every moment of it. No idleness, no laziness, no procrastination: never put off till tomorrow what you can do today.”
— Lord Chesterfield
“Time is like a river that carries us forward into encounters with reality that require us to make decisions”
— Ray Dalio
“Nothing is worth more than this day. You cannot relive yesterday. Tomorrow is still beyond your reach.”
— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
“The future is something which everyone reaches at the rate of sixty minutes an hour.”
— C.S. Lewis
“Dont let the fear of the time it will take to accomplish something stand in the way of your doing it.”
— Earl Nightingale
“Your time is limited so dont waste it living someone elses life.”
— Steve Jobs
“The trouble is you think you have time”
— Buddha
“I ran out the door with time on my heels and never looked back.”
— Roman Payne
“Stillness is the key and time is the door through which we enter it”
— Ryan Holiday
“One word frees us of all the weight and pain of life. That word is love.”
— Sophocles
“To every man there comes in his lifetime a special moment when he is figuratively tapped on the shoulder”
— Winston Churchill
“It is not death that a man should fear but he should fear never beginning to live.”
“Ordinary people think merely of spending time, great people think of using it.”
— Arthur Schopenhauer
“It is not that we have a short time to live but that we waste a great deal of it”
“An inch of time is an inch of gold, but an inch of gold cannot buy an inch of time.”
“The best thing about the future is that it comes one day at a time.”
— Abraham Lincoln
“All the flowers of all the tomorrows are in the seeds of today.”
“The years teach much which the days never know.”
“And when you want something all the universe conspires in helping you achieve it in the fullness of time”
— Paulo Coelho
“Smile breathe and go slowly.”
— Thich Nhat Hanh
“The first principle is that you must not fool yourself and you are the easiest person to fool especially about time”
— Richard Feynman
“The greatest use of a life is to spend it on something that will outlast it.”
— William James
“There are two ways of spreading light to be the candle or the mirror that reflects it.”
— Edith Wharton
“This time like all times is a very good one if we but know what to do with it”
“Instead of working for four years on something that does not work spend time on what matters”
— Peter Thiel
“Time is the wisest counsellor of all.”
— Pericles
“Time, as it grows old, teaches all things.”
— Aeschylus
“Time stays long enough for anyone who will use it”
— Leonardo da Vinci
“Dont say you dont have enough time. You have exactly the same number of hours per day that were given to Helen Keller and Michelangelo.”
— H. Jackson Brown Jr.
“Seize the day and put the least possible trust in tomorrow.”
“Time is the moving image of eternity”
— Plato
“Sometimes it is the people no one imagines anything of who do the things that no one can imagine and time proves them right”
— Alan Turing
“Only put off until tomorrow what you are willing to die having left undone”
— Pablo Picasso
“The two most important days in your life are the day you are born and the day you find out why”
— Mark Twain
“There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you as time passes”
“Freeing yourself was one thing claiming ownership of that freed self was another and time is the bridge”
— Toni Morrison
“To strive to seek to find and not to yield as time marches on”
— Alfred Lord Tennyson
“Time crumbles things everything grows old under the power of time and is forgotten through the lapse of time”
“Either you run the day or the day runs you.”
“A thing of beauty is a joy for ever its loveliness increases it will never pass into nothingness despite time”
— John Keats
“The day is of infinite length for him who knows how to appreciate and use it.”
“The clock is running. Make the most of today. Time waits for no man. Yesterday is history. Tomorrow is a mystery. Today is a gift. That's why it is called the present.”
“Grit is about working on something you care about so much that you are willing to stay loyal to it over time”
— Angela Duckworth
“The average human lifespan is absurdly insultingly brief assuming you live to be eighty you have just over four thousand weeks of time”
— Oliver Burkeman
“Time, which alone makes the reputation of men, ends by making their defects respectable.”
— Voltaire
“How much time he gains who does not look to see what his neighbor says or does or thinks but only at what he himself does”
— Franz Kafka
“There is a pleasure in the pathless woods there is a rapture on the lonely shore there is society where none intrudes by the deep sea and music in its roar I love not man the less but nature more through time”
— Lord Byron
“This is the real secret of life to be completely engaged with what you are doing in the here and now”
— Alan Watts
“The secret of success is constancy to purpose.”
— Benjamin Disraeli
“Only put off until tomorrow what you are willing to die having left undone.”
“We are what we pretend to be so we must be careful about what we pretend to be as time judges all pretense”
— Kurt Vonnegut
“Time is but the stream I go a-fishing in”
“Time flows away like the water in the river”
— Confucius
“Time ripens all things; no man is born wise.”
— Miguel de Cervantes
“An inch of time is an inch of gold, but you can't buy that inch of time with an inch of gold.”
“The key is in not spending time but in investing it”
— Stephen Covey
“Time is a sort of river of passing events and strong is its current no sooner is a thing brought to sight than it is swept by”
“If I have seen further it is by standing on the shoulders of giants who came before me in time”
— Isaac Newton
“We delight in the beauty of the butterfly but rarely admit the changes it has gone through to achieve that beauty”
“Yesterday I was clever so I wanted to change the world today I am wise so I am changing myself”
— Rumi
“The present moment is the only moment available to us and it is the door to all moments”
“Great things are not done by impulse but by a series of small things brought together over time”
— Vincent van Gogh
“For the first time in my life I understood that time was the most precious thing there is”
— Hermann Hesse
“And what is time but a thought between two dreams”
— Kahlil Gibran
“There are only two days in the year that nothing can be done one is called yesterday and the other is called tomorrow”
“What is necessary to change a person is to change his awareness of himself and time is the catalyst”
— Abraham Maslow
“It is in your moments of decision that your destiny is shaped”
— Tony Robbins
“It does not matter how slowly you go as long as you do not stop.”
“Realize deeply that the present moment is all you ever have make the now the primary focus of your life”
“The most dangerous phrase in the language is we have always done it this way but time demands change”
— Grace Hopper
“The wisest are the most annoyed at the loss of time.”
— Dante Alighieri
“The present time has one advantage over every other — it is our own.”
— Charles Caleb Colton
“Time is the image of eternity.”
“We must use time as a tool not as a crutch”
— John F. Kennedy
“I was taught that the way of progress is neither swift nor easy but time always rewards persistence”
— Marie Curie
“The time is always right to do what is right”
— Martin Luther King Jr
“Life can only be understood backwards but it must be lived forwards through time”
“Know the true value of time; snatch, seize, and enjoy every moment of it.”
“The only journey is the one within and it takes all of time to complete”
“In any moment of decision the best thing you can do is the right thing the worst thing you can do is nothing”
— Theodore Roosevelt
“No man ever steps in the same river twice for it is not the same river and he is not the same man”
“Your time is limited so do not waste it living someone elses life”
“The right time to dine is: for the rich man, when he is hungry; and for the poor man, when he has something to eat.”
“To everything there is a season, and a time to every purpose under the heaven.”
— Ecclesiastes 3:1
“Stuff your eyes with wonder live as if you would drop dead in ten seconds see the world through time”
— Ray Bradbury
“Do not wait; the time will never be 'just right.' Start where you stand.”
— Napoleon Hill
“We must use time as a tool, not as a couch.”
“Tell me what is it you plan to do with your one wild and precious life”
“The best thing about the future is that it comes only one day at a time”
“To exist is to change to change is to mature to mature is to go on creating oneself endlessly through time”
— Henri Bergson
“Men talk of killing time, while time quietly kills them.”
— Dion Boucicault
“Time and space are finite in extent but they do not have any boundary or edge”
— Stephen Hawking
“Prediction is very difficult especially about the future but time always tells the truth”
— Niels Bohr
“They always say time changes things but you actually have to change them yourself”
— Andy Warhol
“Do not live the same year 75 times and call it a life”
— Robin Sharma
“There is geometry in the humming of the strings there is music in the spacing of the spheres and time is the rhythm”
— Pythagoras
“Time is the friend of the wonderful company and the enemy of the mediocre”
— Warren Buffett
“You get what anybody gets you get a lifetime and time is its measure”
— Neil Gaiman
“To create ones own world takes courage and time is the canvas”
— Georgia O Keeffe
“What matters in life is not what happens to you but what you remember and how you remember it over time”
— Gabriel Garcia Marquez
“Forever is composed of nows”
— Emily Dickinson
“Not everything that is faced can be changed but nothing can be changed until it is faced and time is the mirror”
— James Baldwin
“You cannot find peace by avoiding life and you cannot find time by avoiding the present”
— Virginia Woolf
“We are not thinking machines that feel we are feeling machines that think and time shapes both processes”
— Daniel Kahneman
“The present is theirs the future for which I really worked is mine”
— Nikola Tesla
“The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes but in having new eyes”
“There is a time for many words, and there is also a time for sleep.”
— Homer
“The biggest adventure you can take is to live the life of your dreams and the time to start is now”
— Oprah Winfrey
“Half our life is spent trying to find something to do with the time we have rushed through life trying to save.”
— Will Rogers
“The longest day has its end.”
— Jean de La Fontaine
“I very frequently get the question what is going to change in the next ten years but the question should be what is not going to change and how does time shape that”
— Jeff Bezos
“Time flies over us, but leaves its shadow behind.”
— Nathaniel Hawthorne
“The butterfly counts not months but moments and has time enough”
— Rabindranath Tagore
“The butterfly counts not months but moments, and has time enough.”
“The soul is healed by being with children who remind us of times innocence”
— Fyodor Dostoevsky
“All my possessions for a moment of time.”
— Elizabeth I
“Talk to yourself like you would to someone you love and give yourself time”
— Brene Brown
“There is no decision that we can make that does not come with some sort of balance or sacrifice and time reveals the wisdom of our choices”
— Simon Sinek
“It always seems impossible until it is done”
“Time the devourer of all things”
“The future depends on what you do today”
“Procrastination gives you time to consider divergent ideas to think in nonlinear ways and to make unexpected leaps”
— Adam Grant
“What we observe is not nature itself but nature exposed to our method of questioning through time”
— Werner Heisenberg
“Presence is far more intricate and rewarding an art than productivity and time is its medium”
— Maria Popova
“Compare yourself to who you were yesterday not to who someone else is today and let time measure your growth”
— Jordan Peterson
“We are all here on earth to help others what on earth the others are here for I do not know but time will tell”
— W.H. Auden
“For small creatures such as we the vastness is bearable only through love and the grace of time”
— Carl Sagan
“One must learn to husband time carefully in order to enjoy it.”
— Michel de Montaigne
“Short as life is we make it still shorter by the careless waste of time”
— Victor Hugo
“Time brings all things to pass.”
“Time is a sort of river of passing events, and strong is its current; no sooner is a thing brought to sight than it is swept by and another takes its place, and this too will be swept away.”
“Begin at once to live and count each separate day as a separate life for time waits for no one”
“One is not born but rather becomes a woman through the passage of time”
— Simone de Beauvoir
“Time is a sort of river of passing events, and strong is its current; no sooner is a thing brought to sight than it is swept by and another takes its place.”
“Anxiety is the dizziness of freedom and time is the ground beneath our feet”
— Alain de Botton
“It was the best of times it was the worst of times”
— Charles Dickens
“Time is the substance from which I am made time is a river which carries me along but I am the river”
— Jorge Luis Borges
“Time has never had patience for fiction reality always catches up”
— Yuval Noah Harari
“The first rule of compounding is to never interrupt it unnecessarily and time is the engine”
— Charlie Munger
“Until we can manage time we can manage nothing else”
— Peter Drucker
“One day you will wake up and there will not be any more time to do the things you have always wanted do it now”
“No great thing is created suddenly any more than a bunch of grapes or a fig if you tell me that you desire a fig I answer you that there must be time”
“The saddest aspect of life right now is that science gathers knowledge faster than society gathers wisdom but time teaches both”
— Isaac Asimov
“How we spend our days is of course how we spend our lives”
“The rich invest in time the poor invest in money”
“Yesterday is but today's memory, and tomorrow is today's dream.”
“Hold fast to dreams for if dreams die life is a broken-winged bird that cannot fly through the span of time”
— Langston Hughes
“And those who were seen dancing were thought to be insane by those who could not hear the music of time”
— Friedrich Nietzsche
“Determine never to be idle. No person will have occasion to complain of the want of time who never loses any.”
“Time and effort transform ability into accomplishment”
— Carol Dweck
“Yesterday is but todays memory and tomorrow is todays dream”
— Khalil Gibran
“The best moments in our lives are not the passive receptive relaxing times but when time seems to stop in flow”
— Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
“The good life is a process not a state of being it is a direction not a destination and time is the road”
— Carl Rogers
“Yesterday is history tomorrow is a mystery today is a gift that is why we call it the present”
— Eleanor Roosevelt
“Time is the coin of your life it is the only coin you have and only you can determine how it will be spent”
— Carl Sandburg
“Between stimulus and response there is a space in that space is our power to choose our response and time lives in that space”
— Viktor Frankl
“The life span of man running toward death would inevitably carry everything to ruin and destruction if it were not for the faculty of interrupting it and beginning something new through time”
— Hannah Arendt
“Time is not a thing it is the horizon within which all things appear and disappear”
— Martin Heidegger
“Time is a great teacher, but unfortunately it kills all its pupils.”
— Hector Berlioz
“The more I study the more insatiable do I feel my genius for it to be and time is the fuel for that fire”
— Ada Lovelace
“Time deals gently only with those who take it gently.”
— Anatole France
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