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A broad margin of leisure is as beautiful in a man's life as in a book. Haste makes waste, no less in life than in housekeeping. Keep the time, observe the hours of the universe, not of the cars.
Henry David Thoreau
There is one kind of robber whom the law does not strike at, and who steals what is most precious to men: time.
Napoleon Bonaparte
Short as life is, we make it still shorter by the careless waste of time.
Victor Hugo
I am confident that nobody... will accuse me of selfishness if I ask to spend time, while I am still in good health, with my family, my friends and also with myself.
Nelson Mandela
Devote each day to the object then in time and every evening will find something done.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Viewed freely, the English language is the accretion and growth of every dialect, race, and range of time, and is both the free and compacted composition of all.
Walt Whitman
When I am abroad, I always make it a rule never to criticize or attack the government of my own country. I make up for lost time when I come home.
Winston Churchill
The person who grieves suffers his passion to grow upon him he indulges it, he loves it but this never happens in the case of actual pain, which no man ever willingly endured for any considerable time.
Edmund Burke
Time is the coin of your life. It is the only coin you have, and only you can determine how it will be spent. Be careful lest you let other people spend it for you.
Carl Sandburg
When you encounter difficulties and contradictions, do not try to break them, but bend them with gentleness and time.
Saint Francis de Sales
Success does not consist in never making mistakes but in never making the same one a second time.
George Bernard Shaw
Time is but the stream I go a-fishing in.
There comes a time when the mind takes a higher plane of knowledge but can never prove how it got there.
Albert Einstein
The greatest glory in living lies not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
We must use time wisely and forever realize that the time is always ripe to do right.
The time to take counsel of your fears is before you make an important battle decision. That's the time to listen to every fear you can imagine! When you have collected all the facts and fears and made your decision, turn off all your fears and go ahead!
George S. Patton
Take time for all things: great haste makes great waste.
Benjamin Franklin
Sometimes your friends are your lovers, or have been at one time.
Axl Rose
Don't limit a child to your own learning, for he was born in another time.
Rabindranath Tagore
The time to repair the roof is when the sun is shining.
John F. Kennedy