Best Minute Quotes On Success In Life

These minute quotes will inspire you. Minute a period of time equal to sixty seconds or a sixtieth of an hour.

A collection of motivating, happy, and encouraging minute quotes, minute sayings, and minute proverbs.

Famous Minute Quotes

1. “You don’t need endless time and perfect conditions. Do it now. Do it today. Do it for twenty minutes and watch your heart start beating.” ~ Barbara Sher
2. “But what minutes! Count them by sensation, and not by calendars, and each moment is a day.” ~ Benjamin Disraeli
3. “Love is not to be found in someone else, but in ourselves; we simply awaken it. But in order to do that, we need the other person. The universe only makes sense when we have someone to share our feelings with.” ~ Paulo Coelho
4. “The happiness of life is made up of minute fractions – the little, soon forgotten charities of a kiss or a smile, a kind look or heartfelt compliment.” ~ Samuel Taylor Coleridge

5. “Life moves very fast. It rushes us from heaven to hell in a matter of seconds.” ~ Paulo Coelho

6. “Being popular is the most important thing in the world!” ~ Homer
7. “The minute you think you’ve got it made, disaster is just around the corner.” ~ Joe Paterno
8. “The minute you settle for less than you deserve, you get even less than you settled for.” ~ Maureen Dowd
9. “Put your hand on a hot stove for a minute and it seems like an hour. Sit with a pretty girl for an hour, and it seems like a minute.” ~ Albert Einstein

10. “For every minute you remain angry, you give up sixty seconds of peace of mind.” ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

11. “He who asks is a fool for five minutes, but he who does not ask remains a fool forever.” ~ Mark Twain
12. “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
13. “Like as the waves make towards the pebbl’d shore, so do our minutes, hasten to their end.” ~ William Shakespeare
14. “Time needs another minute.” ~ Sly Stone

15. “The minute anyone’s getting anxious I say, You must eat and you must sleep. They’re the two vital elements for a healthy life.” ~ Francesca Annis

16. “Are you in earnest? Seize this very minute! Boldness has genius, power, and magic in it. Only engage, and then the mind grows heated. Begin, and then the work will be completed.” ~ Jean Anouilh
17. “Are you in earnest? Seize this very minute! Boldness has genius, power, and magic in it. Only engage, and then the mind grows heated. Begin, and then the work will be completed.” ~ Jean Anouilh
18. “Thanksgiving dinners take eighteen hours to prepare. They are consumed in twelve minutes. Half-times take twelve minutes. This is not coincidence.” ~ Erma Bombeck
19. “Painting is an infinitely minute part of my personality.” ~ Salvador Dali

20. “I hate last-minute shopping, it’s always unsuccessful.” ~ Cat Deeley

21. “When you are in any contest, you should work as if there were – to the very last minute – a chance to lose it. This is battle, this is politics, this is anything.” ~ Dwight D. Eisenhower
22. “Well, there’s no one at all, they do be saying, but is deserving of some punishment from the very minute of his birth.” ~ Lady Gregory
23. “Fill the unforgiving minute with sixty seconds worth of distance run.” ~ Rudyard Kipling
24. “I think about my work every minute of the day.” ~ Jeff Koons

25. “Better three hours too soon than a minute too late.” ~ William Shakespeare

26. “A few minutes ago every tree was excited, bowing to the roaring storm, waving, swirling, tossing their branches in glorious enthusiasm like worship. But though to the outer ear these trees are now silent, their songs never cease.” ~ John Muir
27. “A minute of perfection was worth the effort. A moment was the most you could ever expect from perfection.” ~ Chuck Palahniuk
28. “Most people give up just when they’re about to achieve success. They quit on the one yard line. They give up at the last minute of the game one foot from a winning touchdown.” ~ Ross Perot
29. “Heroes may not be braver than anyone else. They’re just braver five minutes longer.” ~ Ronald Reagan

30. “Sixty minutes of thinking of any kind is bound to lead to confusion and unhappiness.” ~ James Thurber

31. “I met a lot of hard-boiled eggs in my life, but you – you’re twenty minutes.” ~ Billy Wilder
32. “In the future, everybody will be world famous for fifteen minutes.” ~ Andy Warhol
33. “She stared at Peter, and she realized that in that one moment, when she hadn’t been thinking, she knew exactly what he’d felt as he moved through the school with his backpack and his guns. Every kid in this school played a role: jock, brain, beauty, freak. All Peter had done was what they all secretly dreamed of: be someone, even for just nineteen minutes, who nobody else was allowed to judge.” ~ Jodi Picoult
34. “I would rather have thirty minutes of wonderful, than a lifetime of nothing special.” ~ Robert Harling

35. “Life is not lost by dying! Life is lost, Minute by minute, day by dragging day, In all the thousand, small, uncaring ways…” ~ Stephen Vincent Benet

36. “The amount of sleep required by the average person is five minutes more.” ~ Wilson Mizner
37. “Being someone I’m not for a period of time and loving every minute of being in someone else’s skin.” ~ Jessica Biel
38. “I don’t want to die as long as I can work; the minute I can not, I want to go.” ~ Susan B. Anthony
39. “The way I work, typically, I do everything at the very last minute. Even if I was given two months, I’d do it in the last three days” ~ Ayumi Hamasaki

40. “A mother is neither cocky, nor proud, because she knows the school principal may call at any minute to report that her child had just driven a motorcycle through the gymnasium.” ~ Mary Blakely

41. “We’re still in the first minutes of the first day of the Internet revolution.” ~ Scott D. Cook
42. “Learn to enjoy every minute of your life. Be happy now.” ~ Earl Nightingale
43. “Any movie I’ve ever made, the minute you walk on the set they tell you who’s the person to buy it from.” ~ Teri Garr
44. “I got a phone call saying we are from the News of the World, and we’re exposing you and David Beckham. My heart did not beat for a minute.” ~ Rebecca Loos

45. “Would you rather suffer 90 minutes or 90 years?

    (Regarding a Bikram Yoga session that takes exactly 90 minutes.)” ~ Bikram Choudhury

46. “Would you rather suffer 90 minutes or 90 years?
    (Regarding a Bikram Yoga session that takes exactly 90 minutes.)” ~ Bikram Choudhury
47. “A hero is one who knows how to hang on one minute longer.” ~ Novalis
48. “Courage is fear holding on a minute longer.” ~ George S. Patton
49. “When you get into a tight place, and everything goes against you till it seems as if you could n’t hold on a minute longer, never give up then, for that ‘s just the place and time that the tide’ll turn.” ~ Harriet Beecher Stowe

50. “The strongest love is the love that can demonstrate its fragility.” ~ Paulo Coelho

51. “Everything tells me that I am about to make a wrong decision, but making mistakes is just part of life. What does the world want of me? Does it want me to take no risks, to go back to where I came from because I didn’t have the courage to say “yes” to life?” ~ Paulo Coelho
52. “Every man is a damn fool for at least five minutes every day; wisdom consists in not exceeding the limit.” ~ Elbert Hubbard
53. “The happiness of life is made up of minute fractions.” ~ Samuel Taylor Coleridge
54. “My core belief is that if you’re complaining about something for more than three minutes, two minutes ago you should have done something about it.” ~ Caitlin Moran

55. “Time is everything; five minutes make the difference between victory and defeat.” ~ Horatio Nelson

56. “In nineteen minutes, you can mow the front lawn; color your hair; watch a third of a hockey game. In nineteen minutes, you can bake scones or get a tooth filled by a dentist; you can fold laundry for a family of five. In nineteen minutes, you can stop the world; or you can just jump off it.” ~ Jodi Picoult
57. “Happiness cannot be traveled to, owned, earned, or worn. It is the spiritual experience of living every minute with love, grace & gratitude.” ~ Denis Waitley
58. “How is it they live in such harmony the billions of stars – when most men can barely go a minute without declaring war in their minds about someone they know.” ~ Thomas Aquinas
59. “Designers are very fickle. I never wanted to be a victim of that. You’re in one minute, out the next.” ~ Tyra Banks

60. “I recommend you to take care of the minutes, for the hours will take care of themselves.” ~ Lord Chesterfield

61. “The minute you’re born, you’re getting older.” ~ Doris Roberts
62. “The minute a person whose word means a great deal dares to take the open-hearted and courageous way, many others follow.” ~ Marian Anderson

63. “The only way to live is by accepting each minute as an unrepeatable miracle.” ~ Jack Kornfield

64. “If I get a hard audience they are not going to get away until they laugh. Those seven laughs a minute — Ive got to have them.” ~ Ken Dodd
65. “A good fighter usually knows, to within a very few seconds, when a three-minute round is going to end.” ~ Jack Dempsey

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