Time Quotes

There was a time when a fool and his money were soon parted, but now it happens to everybody.

Adlai Ewing Stevenson

Our ignorance of history makes us libel to our own times. People have always been like this.

Gustave Flaubert

History balances the frustration of how far we have to go with the satisfaction of how far we have come. It teaches us tolerance for the human shortcomings and imperfections which are not uniquely of our generation, but of all time.

Lewis F. Powell, Jr.

It is very strange that the years teach us patience - That the shorter our time, the greater our capacity for waiting.

Elizabeth Taylor, "A Wreath of Roses".

I sometimes think of what future historians will say of us. A single sentence will suffice for modern man he fornicated and read the papers.

Albert Camus

If you want to make good use of your time, you? ve got to know what? s most important and then give it all you? ve got.

Lee Iacocca

There is no royal road to anything. One thing at a time, all things in succession. That which grows fast, withers as rapidly. That which grows slowly, endures.

Josiah Gilbert Holland

Millions of men have lived to fight, build palaces and boundaries, shape destinies and societies but the compelling force of all times has been the force of originality and creation profoundly affecting the roots of human spirit.

Ansel Adams

A brave man dies but once, a coward many times.

Native American Prove

I thank my God everytime I remember you.

Philippians 13 NIV Bible

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

Marabel Morgan, The Electric Woman

A Multitasking Timex Sinclai.

Matt Sorrels in reference to Andrew running X - Windows

Each time we re - Read a book we get more out of it because we put more into it a different person is reading it, and therefore it is a different book.

Muriel Clark

The individual has always had to struggle to keep from being overwhelmed by the tribe. If you try it, you will be lonely often, and sometimes frightened. But no price is too high to pay for the privilege of owning yourself.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Well - Timed silence hath more eloquence than speech.

Martin Fraquhar Tuppe

We shall not cease from our exploration, and at the end of all our exploring, we shall arrive where we started and know the place for the first time.

T. S. Eliott

I was always looking outside myself for strength and confidence, but it comes from within. It is there all the time.

Anna Freud

Come what come may, Time and the hour runs through the roughest day.

William Shakespeare, Macbeth, Act 1 Scene 3

Time is the scarcest resource and unless it is managed nothing else can be managed.

Peter Drucke

Everytime you smile at someone, it is an action of love, a gift to that person, a beautiful thing.

Mother Theresa

Time is the least thing we have.

Ernest Hemingway

Never say never Never is a long, undependable time, and life is too full of rich possibilities to have restrictions placed upon it.

Gloria Swanson

Sometimes you have to play for a long time to be able to play like yourself.

Miles Davis

From lightest words sometimes the direst quarrel springs.

Cato the Elde

The strictest law sometimes becomes the severest injustice.

Benjamin Franklin

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

All this will not be finished in the first hundred days. Nor will it be finished in the first thousand days, nor in the life of this administration, nor even perhaps in our lifetime on this planet. But let us begin.

John Fitzgerald Kennedy

It is time I stepped aside for a less experienced and less able man.

Professor Scott Elledge on his retirement from Cornell

Sometimes you cannot believe what you see, you have to believe what you feel. And if you are ever going to have other people trust you, you must feel that you can trust them, too - - Even when you? re in the dark. Even when you? re falling.

Morrie Schwartz, Tuesdays with Morrie by Mitch Albom

You may delay, but time will not.

Benjamin Franklin

To hope means to be ready at every moment for that which is not yet born, and yet not become desperate if there is no birth in our lifetime.

Erich Fromm

In times like these, it helps to recall that there have always been times like these.

Paul Harvey

Well, youth is the period of assumed personalities and disguises. It is the time of the sincerely insincere.

Pablo Picasso

For 10 years of my life, 3 times a day, I thanked the Lord for what I was about to receive and thanked him again for what I had just received, and then we lost touch and I suddenly thought, where is he now

Tom Stoppard

Everybody likes to go their own way - - To choose their own time and manner of devotion.

Jane Austen, Mansfield Park

If you realize too acutely how valuable time it, you are too paralyzed to do anything.

Katharine Butler Hathaway

Preach the gospel at all times - - If necessary, use words.

Saint Francis of Assisi