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Give me six hours to chop down a tree and I will spend the first four sharpening the axe. -- Abraham Lincoln
If one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours. -- Henry David Thoreau
Hours are golden links--God's tokens reaching heaven. -- Charles Dickens
Hours of research can cut months of field work. -- E. Lee Spence
No-limit hold'em- Hours of boredom followed by moments of sheer terror. -- Tom McEvoy
Hours fly, Flowers die: New days, New ways: Pass by! Love stays. -- Henry Van Dyke
It takes a moment to love and be loved. Hours spent judging are a waste. -- Parashar Pandya
Better three hours too soon than a minute too late. -- William Shakespeare
Why do they call it rush hour when nothing moves? -- Robin Williams
A committee is a group that keeps minutes and loses hours. -- Milton Berle
Shape your heart to front the hour, but dream not that the hours will last. -- Alfred Lord Tennyson
Don't murmur and rebel in your hour of adversity. Trust in God in every trial. -- T. B. Joshua
Confidence comes from hours and days and weeks and years of constant work and dedication. -- Roger Staubach
Some people you can afford to spend a few minutes with, but not a few hours. -- Jim Rohn
It's not a man's working hours that is important, it is how he spends his leisure time. -- Marilynne Robinson
You don't get paid for the hour. You get paid for the value you bring to the hour. -- Jim Rohn
I'm giving everyone involved 24 hours to make it right or the world will hear how I really feel. -- Kelly Osbourne
By working faithfully eight hours a day you may eventually get to be boss and work twelve hours a day. -- Robert Frost
What do you get when you give a teenager $200 million? A bunch of has-beens calling you a lesbian for two hours... -- Justin Bieber
Thanksgiving dinners take eighteen hours to prepare. They are consumed in twelve minutes. Half-times take twelve minutes. This is not coincidence. -- Erma Bombeck
I like to embrace natural beauty. I try to get at least 8 hours of sleep, drinking a lot of water and exercising. -- Tia Mowry
Lost - yesterday, somewhere between sunrise and sunset, two golden hours, each set with sixty diamond minutes. No reward is offered, for they are gone forever. -- Horace Mann
On a Friday night, I like to go out because my friends, who have been working normal hours, just want to let go after a stressful week at work. -- Douglas Booth
If I was to go to sleep before midnight, I would feel weird about myself, like I wasted a day. My most productive hours are between midnight and five. -- J. Cole
You can not entertain weak, harmful, negative thoughts ten hours a day and expect to bring about beautiful, strong and harmonious conditions by ten minutes of strong, positive, creative thought. -- Charles F. Haanel
Waking up this morning, I smile. Twenty-four brand new hours are before me. I vow to live fully in each moment and to look at all beings with eyes of compassion. -- Nhat Hanh
How come you don't work fourteen hours a day? Your great-great-grandparents did. How come you only work the eight-hour day? Four guys got hanged fighting for the eight-hour day for you. -- Studs Terkel
Let go of your plans. The first hour of your morning belongs to God. Tackle the day's work that he charges you with, and he will give you the power to accomplish it. -- Edith Stein
Books are the perfect entertainment: no commercials, no batteries, hours of enjoyment for each dollar spent. What I wonder is why everybody doesn't carry a book around for those inevitable dead spots in life. -- Stephen King
The friend in my adversity I shall always cherish most. I can better trust those who helped to relieve the gloom of my dark hours than those who are so ready to enjoy with me the sunshine of my prosperity. -- Ulysses S. Grant
I think that's it's really important to have good friends. Nowadays, you can text 24 hours a day and be in constant contact, but every once in a while, it's nice to just get out with your girlfriends and have fun. -- Amanda Schull
I firmly believe that any man's finest hour, the greatest fulfillment of all that he holds dear, is that moment when he has worked his heart out in a good cause and lies exhausted on the field of battle - victorious. -- Vince Lombardi
I write in the mornings, two or three hours every day, and then at least four times a week I play in a duplicate game at a bridge club. I try to go to tournaments three, four, or five times a year. -- Louis Sachar
Our religion is the traditions of our ancestors - the dreams of our old men, given them in solemn hours of the night by the Great Spirit; and the visions of our sachems, and is written in the hearts of our people. -- Chief Seattle
Pure entertainment is not an egotistical lady singing boring songs onstage for two hours and people in tuxes clapping whether they like it or not. It's the real performers on the street who can hold people's attention and keep them from walking away. -- Andy Kaufman
I try to do an hour of cardio on the days that I have off, and then I'll do 30 to 45 minutes on show days. That's the first thing I do when I wake up, I have breakfast and then I'll hit the gym. -- Travis Barker
To pray is to let God into our lives. He knocks and seeks admittance, not only in the solemn hours of secret prayer. He knocks in the midst of your daily work, your daily struggles, your daily grind. That is when you need Him most. -- Ole Hallesby
During my days of deepest grief, in all of my shock, sorrow and struggle, I sat at the feet of God. I literally spent hours each day reading God's word, meditating on scripture and praying. I intentionally spent a significant amount of time being still before God. -- Rick Warren
I would say the most satisfying thing actually is watching my three children each pick up on their own interests and work many more hours per week than most people that have jobs at trying to intelligently give away that money in fields that they particularly care about. -- Warren Buffett
We are raising today's children in sterile, risk-averse and highly structured environments. In so doing, we are failing to cultivate artists, pioneers and entrepreneurs, and instead cultivating a generation of children who can follow the rules in organized sports games, sit for hours in front of screens and mark bubbles on standardized tests. -- Darell Hammond
The reason why many fail in battle is because they wait until the hour of battle. The reason why others succeed is because they have gained their victory on their knees long before the battle came. Anticipate your battles; fight them on your knees before temptation comes, and you will always have victory. -- R. A. Torrey
My store, Wine Library, outsells big national chains. How do you think we do it? It started with hustle. I always say that our success wasn't due to my hundreds of online videos about wine that went viral, but to the hours I spent talking to people online afterward, making connections and building relationships. -- Gary Vaynerchuk
My father worked in the Post Office. A lot of double shifts. All his friends were in the same situation - truck drivers, taxi cab drivers, grocery clerks. Blue collar guys punching the clock and working long, hard hours. The thought that sustained them was the one at the center of the American dream. -- Gary David Goldberg
Dear Leonard. To look life in the face. Always to look life in the face and to know it for what it is. At last to know it. To love it for what it is, and then, to put it away. Leonard. Always the years between us. Always the years. Always the love. Always the hours. -- Michael Cunningham
The deepest change begins with men raising children as much as women do and women being equal actors in the world outside the home. There are many ways of supporting that, from something as simple as paid sick leave and flexible work hours to attributing an economic value to all caregiving and making that amount tax deductible. -- Gloria Steinem
Some kinds of animals burrow in the ground; others do not. Some animals are nocturnal, as the owl and the bat; others use the hours of daylight. There are tame animals and wild animals. Man and the mule are always tame; the leopard and the wolf are invariably wild, and others, as the elephant, are easily tamed. -- Aristotle
I was quiet, a loner. I was one of those children where, if you put me in a room and gave me some crayons and a pencils, you wouldn't hear from me for nine straight hours. And I was always drawing racing cars and rockets and spaceships and planes, things that were very fast that would take me away. -- Gary Oldman
One of the best pieces of advice I ever got was from a horse master. He told me to go slow to go fast. I think that applies to everything in life. We live as though there aren't enough hours in the day but if we do each thing calmly and carefully we will get it done quicker and with much less stress. -- Viggo Mortensen
The coolest thing, and I have it at home, is a huge Hulk Hogan, normal-sized pinball machine. When people come over they play it for hours. When you hit the bumpers and the bells ring it goes, 'Oh yeah!' The whole time you're playing this machine it's yelling and screaming at you, 'What you gonna do, brother?!' I think that's the coolest. -- Hulk Hogan
Most people dream a dream when they are asleep. But to be a writer, you have to dream while you are awake, intentionally. So I get up early in the morning, 4 o'clock, and I sit at my desk and what I do is just dream. After three or four hours, that's enough. In the afternoon, I run. The next day, the dream will continue. -- Haruki Murakami
Tennis can be a very frustrating sport. There is no way around the hard work. Embrace it. You have to put in the hours because there is always something you can improve. [Y]ou have to put in a lot of sacrifice and effort for sometimes little reward but you have to know that, if you put in the right effort, the reward will come. -- Roger Federer
Think 8 hours, work 2 hours. -- Mirko Ilic
My hours are peaceful centuries. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Beautiful hours move so quickly. -- Irene Hunt
What sadness lengthens Romeo's hours? -- William Shakespeare
TV is definitely easier hours. -- Eric Stonestreet
I track some long hours. -- Jim Pattison
I have wasted my hours. -- Leonardo da Vinci
I'm a matter-of-fact, office-hours writer. -- Jim Crace
I've spent hours playing video games. -- Harry Connick, Jr.
Tragedies come in the hungry hours. -- Virginia Woolf
I was aroused for 24 hours straight! -- Courtney Stodden
Ay me! sad hours seem long. -- William Shakespeare
All our sweetest hours fly fastest. -- Virgil
Perfect moments don't turn into half-hours. -- Elizabeth Bibesco
I've played too many tennis hours. -- Lindsay Davenport
Some hours weigh against a whole lifetime. -- Herman Wouk
Shadows fall on even the brightest hours. -- Bryan Procter
Unlike clocks, hours have no reverse motion.. -- Anonymous
There are no working hours for leaders. -- James Gibbons
Normally I sleep for 9, 10 hours a night. -- Andy Murray
There are no office hours for champions. -- Paul Dietzel
There are no office hours for leaders. -- James Gibbons
I stop two hours before a fight -- Hector Camacho
Women add zest to the unlicensed hours. -- Allen Thomas
At night I can write for hours. -- Lauren Conrad
Aviators live by hours, not by days. -- T.H. White
Day is just a collection of hours. -- Serj Tankian
I only count the hours that shine. -- Cassandra Clare
To chase the glowing hours with flying feet. -- Lord Byron
One good analogy is worth three hours discussion. -- Dudley Field Malone
Sometimes, 24 hours can bring a total revolutionary change. -- Aung San Suu Kyi
Pleasure and action make the hours seem short. -- William Shakespeare
I really love learning and working long hours. -- Bae Doona
Keeping ridiculous hours doesn't mean you'll be successful. -- Tony Dungy
Fair thoughts and happy hours attend on you. -- William Shakespeare
I work 338 days a year, 16 hours a day, -- Dave Pelzer
Warren spends 70 hours a week thinking about investing . -- Charlie Munger
Preferred three hours quicker over one moment late. -- William Shakespeare
I work 338 days a year, 16 hours a day. -- Dave Pelzer
I count only the hours that are serene. -- Maurice Maeterlinck
Even the longest hours come to an end. -- Jose Bernardo
You can't be twenty-four hours of just Bush-bashing. -- Stephanie Miller
Larger school library collections and longer hours increase circulation. -- Stephen D. Krashen
Becoming a superstar takes about 10,000 hours of hard work. -- Seth Godin
I've long ago compromised my eight hours a night. -- Tim Robbins
I suffocated for hours, until I turned on...music. -- Lisa M
Amid all your duties, keep some hours to yourself. -- Margaret Fuller
I suffocated for hours, until I turned on...music. -- Lisa M
There's nothing hard about acting except the long hours. -- Fred Thompson
In the darkest hours we must believe in ourselves. -- Terry Goodkind
Our hours in love have wings; in absence, crutches. -- Miguel de Cervantes
Day, n. A period of twenty-four hours, mostly misspent. -- Ambrose Bierce
Moments of beauty sustain us through hours of ugliness. -- Brent Weeks
Concentrating for four hours will wear you out mentally. -- Sergio Garcia
There were two hours that couldn't be accounted for. -- Betty Hill
I can seriously spend five hours making one dinner. -- Jessica Alba
In politics, a lie unanswered becomes truth within 24 hours. -- Willie Brown
All my movies, like Revenge, are under two hours. -- Tony Scott
I study chess eight hours a day, on principle. -- Alexander Alekhine
I would sleep 12 hours a day if I could. -- Ken Baumann
I usually sleep just a few hours a night. -- Jackson Rathbone
I want to be a Texan 24 hours a day. -- James Dean
I would stare at maps of Delaware for hours. -- Ken Jennings
Remember that everyone deserves some fun during working hours. -- Joseph Heller
It took hours to turn the clock back 30 seconds. -- Jonathan Franzen
Devote 100 hours every year towards the cause of cleanliness. -- Narendra Modi
No one can be Gilda twenty-four hours a day. -- Rita Hayworth
Chatting on the phone, can't take back those hours... -- Kate Nash
The hours that ordinary people waste, extraordinary people leverage. -- Robin Sharma

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