Riches do not exhilarate us so much with their possession
as they torment us with their loss.
- Epicurus
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Nothing in life is so exhilarating as to be shot at without result.
- Winston Churchill
There is nothing more exhilarating than to be shot at without result.
- Winston Churchill
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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- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Time, like life itself, has no inherent meaning.
We give our own meaning to time as to life.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
No good comes from hurrying.
- Yiddish Proverb
Nature does not hurry, yet everything is accomplished.
- Lao Tzu
A time for work, a time for play -
balance in all things.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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
Footprints in the sands of time...
Where have you been?
Where are you going?
Why are you going there?
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The butterfly counts not months but moments, and has time enough.
- Rabindranath Tagore
You will never find time for anything.
If you want time you must make it.
- Charles Buxton
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
Who forces time is pushed back by time;
who yields to time finds time on his side.
- The Talmud
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
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
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
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
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
Take time to sharpen the saw.
- Steven Covey
We must use time wisely and forever realize
that the time is always ripe to do right.
- Nelson Mandela
Keep moving. Don't stop. But don't rush.
Don't race around.
Sure and steady gets you there every time.
- Neale Donald Walsch
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
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.
No idea is so outlandish that it should not be considered
with a searching but at the same time a steady eye.
- Winston Churchill
A big part of letting go is recognizing
when it is time to stay in a situation
and when it is time to move on.
- Darren L. Johnson
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
Who hears me, who understands me, becomes mine,
a possession for all time.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
In order to discover new lands,
one must be willing to lose sight
of the shore for a very long time.
- Anonymous
Your time is limited,
so don't waste it living someone else's life.
- Steve Jobs
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
The time is always right to do what is right.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
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
Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority,
it is time to pause and reflect.
- Mark Twain
He who spends time regretting the past,
loses the present and risks the future.
- Quevedo
Instead of worrying about what people say of you,
why not spend time trying to accomplish
something they will admire.
- Dale Carnegie
This is no time for ease and comfort.
It is time to dare and endure.
- Winston Churchill
Little minds have little worries,
big minds have no time for worries.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
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
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
Time flies.
- Anonymous
We shall not cease from exploration
And the end of all of our exploring
Will be to arrive where we started
And know the place for the first time
- T. S. Eliot
We must use time as a tool, not as a crutch.
- John F. Kennedy
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)
Our Lord has written the promise of the resurrection,
not in books alone, but in every leaf in spring-time.
- Martin Luther
Every time you smile at someone,
it is an action of love,
a gift to that person, a beautiful thing.
- Mother Teresa
The dream you are living is your creation.
It is your perception of reality that you can change at any time.
- don Miguel Ruiz
Hatred does not cease through hatred at any time.
Hatred ceases through love.
This is an unalterable law.
- The Buddha
Look at everything as though you were seeing it
either for the first or last time.
Then your time on earth will be filled with glory.
- Betty Smith
When you think you're out of time,
smile, and turn back the clock.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Determine never to be idle.
No person will have occasion to complain
of the want of time who never loses any.
It is wonderful how much may be done if we are always doing.
- Thomas Jefferson
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
Let your life lightly dance on the edges of Time
like dew on the tip of a leaf.
- Rabindranath Tagore
I suppose leadership at one time meant muscles;
but today it means getting along with people.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
Habits age men before their time.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The sum of wisdom is that
time is never lost that is devoted to work.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Dost thou love life? Then do not squander time,
for that is the stuff that life is made of.
- Benjamin Franklin
An invasion of armies can be resisted,
but not an idea whose time has come.
- Victor Hugo
This is our moment, this is our time.
- Bono
We must use time creatively.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
The River of Life can cut through solid rock - in its own time.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Time stays long enough for anyone who will use it.
- Leonardo da Vinci
Our greatest weakness lies in giving up.
The most certain way to succeed
is always to try just one more time.
- Thomas A. Edison
I must uphold my ideals,
for perhaps the time will come
when I shall be able to carry them out.
- Anne Frank
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
The time to repair the roof is when the sun is shining.
- John F. Kennedy
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
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May the world be kind to you, and may your own thoughts be gentle upon yourself.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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