Hour Quotes

2918 Hour quotes by 2023 unique authors

God is the hardest taskmaster I have known on this earth, and he tries you through and through. And when you find that your faith… — Mahatma Gandhi
I want a warm and faithful friend, To cheer the adverse hour; Who ne'er to flatter will descend, Nor bend the knee to power,- A… — John Quincy Adams
Good will is a power that can be used every day of the year and every hour of the day. It is instantly available. By… — Wilferd Peterson
On an average day 7 minutes of news happens. Yet there are currently three full-time, 24-hour news networks. — Jon Stewart
The flowers of Spring may wither, the hope of Summer fade, The Autumn droop in Winter, the birds forsake the shade; The winds be lull'd—the… — Reginald Heber
An hour of planning can save you 10 hours of doing. — Dale Carnegie
Rather than waste precious time arguing, I went up and started serving my "sentence" without delay. It was usually about an hour for epigrams; somewhat… — Peter De Vries
Many get the repute of being witty but thereby lose the credit of being sensible. Jest has its little hour, seriousness should have all the… — Baltasar Gracian
I get up at an unholy hour in the morning my work day is completed by the time the sun rises. I have a slightly… — David Eddings
A whole week, a single campaign, a month, a week, even a day was far more than enough to cut a company or platoon to… — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
There is no luck in literary reputation. They who make up the final verdict upon every book are not the partial and noisy readers of… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
There is nothing we value and hunt and cultivate and strive to draw to us, but in some hour we turn and rend it. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Women, as most susceptible, are the best index of the coming hour. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
One of the illusions of life is that the present hour is not the critical decisive hour. Write it on your heart that every day… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
The cure for false theology is motherwit. Forget your books and traditions, and obey your moral perceptions at this hour. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
The time is ripe, and rotten-ripe, for change; Then let it come: I have no dread of what Is called for by the instinct of… — James Russell Lowell
If you only had an hour to sum your whole life up, would you spend that hour saying that an hour ain't enough? — Eyedea
After having struggled madly to solve all problems, after having suffered on the heights of despair, in the supreme hour of revelation, you will find… — Emile M. Cioran
The moon is hidden behind a cloud... On the leaves is a sound of falling rain... No other sounds than these I hear; The hour… — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Ah, how wonderful is the advent of the Spring!—the great annual miracle.... which no force can stay, no violence restrain, like love, that wins its… — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
A nasty day! A nasty day! 'Twas thus I heard a critic say Because the skies were bleak and gray— And yet it somehow seemed… — John Kendrick Bangs
Half an hour's meditation each day is essential, except when you are busy. Then a full hour is needed. — Saint Francis de Sales
To appear at church every Sunday; to look down upon, and let himself be looked at for an hour by the congregation, is the best… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
We every day and every hour say things of another that we might more properly say of ourselves, could we but apply our observations to… — Michel de Montaigne
No man dies before his hour. The time you leave behind was no more yours, than that which was before your birth, and concerneth you… — Michel de Montaigne

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