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Jai Ganesh

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Time Quotes

Time Quotes

1. 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

2. Time changes everything except something within us which is always surprised by change. - Thomas Hardy

3. The time you enjoy wasting is not wasted time. - Bertrand Russell

4. Put two ships in the open sea, without wind or tide, and, at last, they will come together. Throw two planets into space, and they will fall one on the other. Place two enemies in the midst of a crowd, and they will inevitably meet; it is a fatality, a question of time; that is all. - Jules Verne

5. The only reason for time is so that everything doesn't happen at once. - Albert Einstein

6. Time stays long enough for anyone who will use it. - Leonardo da Vinci

7. It is strange that the years teach us patience; that the shorter our time, the greater our capacity for waiting. - Elizabeth Taylor

8. 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

9. At the end of your life, you will never regret not having passed one more test, not winning one more verdict or not closing one more deal. You will regret time not spent with a husband, a friend, a child, or a parent. - Barbara Bush

10. Lost time is never found again. - Benjamin Franklin

11. If you spend too much time thinking about a thing, you'll never get it done. - Bruce Lee

12. Time, whose tooth gnaws away everything else, is powerless against truth. - Thomas Huxley

13. Patience and time do more than strength or passion. - Jean de La Fontaine

14. Time, the devourer of all things. - Ovid

15. Friends are thieves of time. - Francis Bacon

16. Hide nothing, for time, which sees all and hears all, exposes all. - Sophocles

17. Everything happens to everybody sooner or later if there is time enough. - George Bernard Shaw

18. Time abides long enough for those who make use of it. - Leonardo da Vinci

19. Most people spend more time and energy going around problems than in trying to solve them. - Henry Ford

20. My favorite things in life don't cost any money. It's really clear that the most precious resource we all have is time. - Steve Jobs

21. We must use time as a tool, not as a couch. - John F. Kennedy

22. Our greatest weakness lies in giving up. The most certain way to succeed is always to try just one more time. - Thomas A. Edison

23. 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

24. Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect. - Mark Twain

25. Change will not come if we wait for some other person or some other time. We are the ones we've been waiting for. We are the change that we seek. - Barack Obama

26. The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants. - Thomas Jefferson

27. Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall. - Confucius

28. I prefer peace. But if trouble must come, let it come in my time, so that my children can live in peace. - Thomas Paine

29. We shall not cease from exploration, and the end of all our exploring will be to arrive where we started and know the place for the first time. - T. S. Eliot

30. Someone is sitting in the shade today because someone planted a tree a long time ago. - Warren Buffett

31. Your time is limited, so don't waste it living someone else's life. Don't be trapped by dogma - which is living with the results of other people's thinking. Don't let the noise of others' opinions drown out your own inner voice. And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. - Steve Jobs

32. Failure is simply the opportunity to begin again, this time more intelligently. - Henry Ford

33. Anybody can become angry - that is easy, but to be angry with the right person and to the right degree and at the right time and for the right purpose, and in the right way - that is not within everybody's power and is not easy. - Aristotle

34. The two most powerful warriors are patience and time. - Leo Tolstoy

35. Peace is a journey of a thousand miles and it must be taken one step at a time. - Lyndon B. Johnson

36. A man who dares to waste one hour of time has not discovered the value of life. Charles Darwin.

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