Time Quotes

We need quiet time to examine our lives openly and honestly... spending quiet time alone gives your mind an opportunity to renew itself and create order.

Susan Taylo

Cowardice asks the question - Is it safe? Expediency asks the question - Is it politic? Vanity asks the question - Is it popular? But conscience asks the question - Is it right? And there comes a time when one must take a position that is neither safe, nor politic, nor popular; but one must take it because it is right.

Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.

How to gain, how to keep, how to recover happiness is in fact for most men at all times the secret motive of all they do, and of all they are willing to endure.

William James

It ever has been since time began, And ever will be, till time lose breath, That love is a mood - No more - To a man, And love to a woman is life or death.

Ella Wheeler Wilcox

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)

We must use time as a tool, not as a couch.

John Fitzgerald Kennedy

Punctuality is the thief of time.

Oscar Wilde

The failure of the mind in old age is often less the results of natural decay, than of disuse. Ambition has ceased to operate; contentment bring indolence, and indolence decay of mental power, ennui, and sometimes death. Men have been known to die, literally speaking, of disease induced by intellectual vacancy.

Sir B. Brodie

What a terrible time this is to be a Christian. The churches have failed and betrayed us, and the ministry preaches hate and murder. If there is a sane and reasoning voice in the Christian church today it is sadly silent.

Francois Arouet

Fear clouds your mind, it distracts your thoughts, to survive in dangerous times you must learn to supress it and think.

Unknown

I think and think for months and years. Ninety - Nine times the conclusion is false. The hundredth time I am right.

Albert Einstein, Sc

Beauty is in the eye of the beholder, and it may be necessary from time to time to give a stupid or misinformed beholder a black eye.

Miss Piggy

Time sneaks up on you like a windshield on a bug.

John Lithgow

A man is what he is, not what men say he is. His character no man can touch. His character is what he is before his God and his Judge; and only he himself can damage that. His reputations what men say he is. That can be damaged; but reputation is for time, character is for eternity.

John Ballantine Gough

Let the word go forth from this time and place, to friend and foe alike, that the torch has been passed to a new generation of Americans born in this century, tempered by war, disciplined by a hard and bitter peace.

John Fitzgerald Kennedy

A well cultivated mind is made up of all the minds of preceding ages; it is only the one single mind educated by all previous time.

Fontenelle

I loathe the expression What makes him tick. It is the American mind, looking for simple and singular solution, that uses the foolish expression. A person not only ticks, he also chimes and strikes the hour, falls and breaks and has to be put together again, and sometimes stops like an electric clock in a thunderstorm.

James Thurbe

This is the miracle that happens every time to those who really love; the more they give, the more they possess.

Rainer Maria Rilke

Sometimes love will pick you up by the short hairs... and jerk the heck out of you.

Denise Dobbs, Northern Exposure, Survival of the Species, 1993

Take time to deliberate but when the time for action arrives, stop thinking and go in.

Andrew Old Hickory Jackson

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

You can do anything that you wanna do. All you gotta do is to put your brain into it. Take your time and educate your mind.

Coolio, The Winne

Wisdom is ofttimes nearer when we stoop Than when we soar.

William Wordsworth

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

Marabel Morgan

Courage is sometimes frail as hope is frail a fragile shoot between two stones that grows brave toward the sun though warmth and brightness fail, striving and faith the only strength it knows.

Frances Rodman

Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.

Confucius

As blushing will sometimes make a whore pass for a virtuous woman, so modesty may make a fool seem a man of sense.

Jonathan Swift

Fall seven times, stand up eight.

Japanese Prove

Mornings are wonderful! The only drawback is that they come at such an inconvenient time of day!

Glen Cook, Sweet Silver Blues

The longer I live the more I see that I am never wrong about anything, and that all the pains I have so humbly taken to verify my notions have only wasted my time.

George Bernard Shaw

Listen within yourself and look into the infinitude of Space and Time. There can be heard the songs of the Constellations, the voices of the Numbers, and the harmonies of the Spheres.

The Divine Pymande

Sometimes when reading Goethe I have a paralyzing suspicion that he is trying to be funny.

Guy Davenport

Distance lasts a day. But reality lasts a lifetime.

Dr. Laura Schlessinger, The Dr. Laura radio show

For a just man falleth seven times, and riseth up again...

Proverbs 2416a Bible

There comes a time in the affairs of man when he must take the bull by the tail and face the situation.

W. C. Fields

Waste no more time arguing what a god man should be. Be one.

Marcus Aurelius, Meditations? Book Ten

Long stormy spring - Time, wet contentious April, winter chilling the lap of very May but at length the season of summer does come.

Thomas Carlyle