Time Quotes

If you want to succeed in the world you must make your own opportunities as you go on. The man who waits for some seventh wave to toss him on dry land will find that the seventh wave is a long time a - Coming. You can commit no greater folly than to sit by the road side until someone comes along and invites you to ride with him to wealth or influence.

John B. Gough

In a time of universal deceit - Telling the truth is a revolutionary act.

George Orwell

Happy is said to be the family which can eat onions together. They are, for the time being, separate, from the world, and have a harmony of aspiration.

Charles Dudley Warne

Half our life is spent trying to find something to do with the time we have rushed through life trying to save.

Will Rogers, New York TImes, Apr. 29, 1930

Sometimes I wonder if we live life by reliving life, rather than by living life.

Michael Landon

We are at the very beginning of time for the human race. It is not unreasonable that we grapple with problems. But there are tens of thousands of years in the future. Our responsibility is to do what we can, learn what we can, improve the solutions, and pass them on.

Richard Feynman

All the taxes paid over a lifetime by the average American are spent by the government in less than a second.

Jim Fiebig

It was the best of times, it was the worst of times.

Charles Dickens

Tomorrow night I appear for the first time before a Boston audience of 4000 critics.

Mark Twain

Christmas is a time when kids tell Santa what they want and adults pay for it. Deficits are when adults tell the government what they want - And their kids pay for it.

Richard Lamm

I? ll fight when needed, revel when there? s an occasion, mourn when there is grief, and die if my time comes? but I won? t let anyone use me against my will.

Christopher Paolini, Author of Eragon and Eldest. Quotes came from Eragon.

Punctuality is the thief of time.

Oscar Wilde

All that really belongs to us is time even he who has nothing else has that.

Baltasar Gracian

People who want to understand democracy should spend less time in the library with Aristotle and more time on the buses and in the subway.

Simeon Strunsky, No Mean City (1944)

Never bear more than one trouble at a time. Some people bear three kinds - All they have had, all they have now, and all they expect to have.

Edward Everett Hale

Persistence is the twin sister of excellence. One is a matter of quality the other, a matter of time.

Marabel Morgan

It was mentioned on CNN that the new prime number discovered recently is four times bigger then the previous record.

John Blasik

Sometimes it falls upon a generation to be great. You can be that great generation.

Nelson Mandela

Dolendi modus, timendi non item. To suffering there is a limit; to fearing, none.

Sir Francis Bacon, Of Seditions and Troubles

The loss of a friend is like that of a limb time may heal the anguish of the wound, but the loss cannot be repaired.

Robert Southey

It is better to be happy for a moment and be burned up with beauty than to live a long time and be bored all the while.

Hellen Kelle

When asked what was the proper time for supper If you are a rich man, whenever you please and if you are a poor man, whenever you can.

Diogenes the Cynic

Sometimes a scream is better than a thesis.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

In the South where slavery still exists, the Negroes are less carefully kept apart they sometimes share the labors and the recreations of the whites the whites consent to intermix with them to a certain extent, and although legislation treats them more harshly, the habits of the people are more tolerant and compassionate.

Alexis Charles Henri Clrel de Tocqueville

Let the refining and improving of your own life keep you so busy that you have little time to criticize others.

H. Jackson Browne

When the time comes for friends to part, love will be the bride, from heart to heart.

Unknown

Youth is the best time to be rich and the best time to be poor.

Euripides

As with most fine things, chocolate has its season. There is a simple memory aid that you can use to determine whether it is the correct time to order chocolate dishes any month whose name contains the letter A, E, or U is the proper time for chocolate.

Sandra

We trained hard, but it seemed every time we were beginning to form up into teams, we would be reorganised. I was to learn later in life that we tend to meet any new situation by reorganising, and a wonderful method it can be for creating the illusion of progress while producing confusion, inefficiency and demoralisation.

From Petronii Arbitri Satyricon AD 66 (Attributed to Gaius Petronus, a Roman General who later committed suicide)

One may walk over the highest mountain one step at a time.

John Wanamake

I prefer the wicked rather than the foolish. The wicked sometimes rest.

Alexandre Dumas

I have been driven many times to my knees by the overwhelming conviction that I had nowhere else to go. My own wisdom, and that of all about me seemed insufficient for the day.

Abraham Lincoln

Two people do not have to agree on what is right to be together. They just have to want to be together. If this sounds simple, try it sometime.

Paul Williams, Das Energi

Whenever you find that you are on the side of the majority, it is time to reform.

Mark Twain

Time invested in improving ourselves cuts down on time wasted in disapproving of others.

Author Unknown

The only time anyone has ever gotten into serious trouble was when he decided he could do nothing about something.

L. Ron Hubbard, Book: Dianetics 55

Watch for good times to retreat into yourself. Frequently meditate on how good God is to you.

Thomas a Kempis, quoted in the LDS Church News 8/20/2005

I value the friend who for me finds time on his calendar, but I cherish the friend who for me does not consult the calendar.

Robert Brault