Time Quotes

Nothing is a waste of time if you use the experience wisely.

Rodin

All human power is a compound of time and patience.

Honore de Balzac

I think these difficult times have helped me to understand better than before how infinitely rich and beautiful life is in every way and that so many things that one goes around worrying about are of no importance whatsoever.

Isak Dinesen

Time lost is time when we have not lived a full human life, time unenriched by experience, creative endeavor, enjoyment, and suffering.

Dietrich Bonhoeffe

When one is happy there is no time to be fatigued; being happy engrosses the whole attention.

E. F. Benson

When you live in Texas, every single time you see snow it? s magical.

Pamela Ribon, Why Girls Are Weird, 2003

Life offers two great gifts - - Time, and the ability to choose how we spend it. Planning is a process of choosing among those many options. If we do not choose to plan, then we choose to have others plan for us.

Richard I. Winword

There is no right to strike against the public safety by anybody, anywhere, any time.

Calvin Coolidge, in a telegram, 1919

It is possible that the scrupulously honest man may not grow rich so fast as the unscrupulous and dishonest one; but success will be of a truer kind, earned without fraud or injustice. And even though a man should for a time be unsuccessful, still he must be honest; better to lose all and save character. For character is itself a fortune.

Samuel Smiles

Since you are like no other being ever created since the beginning of time, you are incomparable.

Brenda Ueland

Everyone who achieves success in a great venture, solved each problem as they came to it. They helped themselves. And they were helped through powers known and unknown to them at the time they set out on their voyage. They kept going regardless of the obstacles they met.

Clement Stone

You cannot run away from a weakness; you must sometimes fight it out or perish. And if that be so, why not now, and where you stand?

Robert Louis Stevenson

Empires do not suffer emptiness of purpose at the time of their creation. It is when they have become established that aims are lost and replaces by vague ritual.

Frank Herbert, Dune

I thank my God everytime I remember you.

Philippians 13 NIV Bible

Sometimes you gotta create what you want to be a part of.

Geri Weitzman

Accept that all of us can be hurt, that all of us can - - And surely will at times - - Fail. I think we should follow a simple rule if we can take the worst, take the risk.

Joyce

Time has laid its healing hand upon the wound when we can look back at the the pain we once fainted under, and no bitterness or despair arises in our heart.

Jerome K. Jerome, "Idle thought of an Idle Fellow".

The only man who behaves sensibly is my tailor he takes my measure anew every time he sees me, whilst all the rest go on with their old measurements, and expect them to fit me.

George Bernard Shaw

In the absences of a decent time machine, fiction remains the most sturdy vehicle for visiting other eras.

Tom Nolan, in The Wall Street Journal

Our greatest glory consists not in never failing, but in rising every time we fall.

Vincent Van Gogh

Man is always more than he can know of himself consequently, his accomplishments, time and again, will come as a surprise to him.

Golo Mann

Sentimentality is a superstructure covering brutality.

C. J. Jung

For hatred does not cease by hatred at any time hatred ceases by love - This is an old rule.

The Dhammapada

Go, lovely rose! Tell her that wastes her time and me That now she knows, When I resemble her to thee, How sweet and fair she seems to be.

Edmund Waller, Go, Lovely Rose: stanza 1

Though ambition itself be a vice, yet it is often times the cause of virtues.

Quintilian

Sometimes I wonder if men and women really suit each other. Perhaps they should live next door and just visit now and then.

Katharine Hepburn

There are periods in history when change is necessary, and other periods when it is better to keep everything for the time as it is. The art of life is to be in the rhythm of your age.

Oswald Mosley

He that will not apply new remedies must expect new evils for time is the greatest innovator.

Francis Bacon

First there is a time when we believe everything, then for a little while we believe with discrimination, then we believe nothing whatever, and then we believe everything again - And, moreover, give reasons why we believe.

Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

If a writer wrote merely for his time, I would have to break my pen and throw it away.

Victor Hugo

Time does not always pass at the same speed. We are the ones who determine that speed.

Paulo Coelho, The Pilgrimage

For a nation which has an almost evil reputation for bustle, bustle, bustle, and rush, rush, rush, we spend an enormous amount of time standing around in line in front of windows, just waiting.

Robert Benchley

I hope that while so many people are out smelling the flowers, someone is taking the time to plant some.

Herbert Rappaport

All my life, whenever it comes time to make a decision, I make it and forget about it.

Harry S. Truman

The time to pray is not when we are in a tight spot but just as soon as we get out of it.

Josh Billings

Men have a much better time of it than women; for one thing, they marry later; for another thing they die earlier.

H. L. Mencken

Our ignorance of history causes us to slander our own times.

Gustave Flaubert