Time Quotes

I have no expectation of making a hit every time I come to bat. What I seek is the highest possible batting average.

Franklin Delano Roosevelt

Over in Hollywood they almost made a great picture, but they caught it in time.

Wilson Mizne

The true traveler is he who goes on foot, and even then, he sits down a lot of the time.

Colette, Paris From My Window, 1944

History does not record anywhere at any time a religion that has any rational basis. Religion is a crutch for people not strong enough to stand up to the unknown without help. But, like dandruff, most people do have a religion and spend time and money on it and seem to derive considerable pleasure from fiddling with it.

Robert Heinlein, Time Enough for Love (1972)

For a true writer each book should be a new beginning where he tries again for something that is beyond attainment. He should always try for something that has never been done or that others have tried and failed. Then sometimes, with great luck, he will succeed.

Ernest Hemingway, in his Nobel Prize acceptance speech

In a minute there is time for decision and revisions that a minute will reverse.

T. S. Eliot

The time has come for all good men to rise above principle.

Huey Long

I have lived in this world just long enough to look carefully the second time into things that I am most certain of the first time.

Josh Billings

Old age equalizes - we are aware that what is happening to us has happened to untold numbers from the beginning of time. When we are young we act as if we were the first young people in the world.

Jane Harrison

There comes a time when summer asks what you have been doing all winter.

Unknown

Though I am not naturally honest, I am so sometimes by chance.

William Shakespeare

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

H. Jackson Browne

Cowards die many times before their deaths The valiant never taste of death but once. Of all the wonders that I yet have heard, It seems to me most strange that men should fear Seeing that death, a necessary end, Will come when it will come.

William Shakespeare

Understand clearly that when a great need appears a great use appears also; when there is a small need there is small use; it is obvious, then, that full use is made of all things at all times according to the necessity thereof.

Dogen Zenji

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

Rodin

Sometimes a fool makes a good suggestion.

Nicolas Boileau

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

Marabel Morgan, The Electric Woman

We have not seen great things done in our time except by those who have been considered mean; the rest have failed.

Niccolo Machiavelli, The Prince

I have made this letter longer, because I have not had the time to make it shorter.

Blaise Pascal, "Lettres provinciales", letter 16, 1657

Let not the sands of time get in your lunch.

National Lampoon, "Deteriorata".

Never give up, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn.

Harriet

How could you be a Great Man if history brought you no Great Events, or brought you to them at the wrong time, too young, too old.

Lois McMaster Bujold

I never could have done what I have done without the habits of punctuality, order, and diligence, without the determination to concentrate myself on one subject at a time...

Charles Dickens

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

If a man die, shall he live again All the days of my appointed time will I wait, till my change come.

Job 1414 Bible Hebrew

At the bottom every man knows well enough that he is a unique human being, only once on this earth; and by no extraordinary chance will such a marvelously picturesque piece of diversity in unity as he is, ever be put together a second time.

Friedrich Nietzsche

The need to be right all the time is the biggest bar to new ideas. It is better to have enough ideas for some of them to be wrong than to be always right by having no ideas at all.

Edward De Bono

Time cools, time clarifies; no mood can be maintained quite unaltered through the course of hours.

Mark Twain

A wise man will make haste to forgive, because he knows the full value of time and will not suffer it to pass away in unnecessary pain.

Ramble

Religions must continue to evolve to keep up with changing times, because only fittest shall survive.

B. J. Gupta

If there is any period one would desire to be born in, is it not the age of Revolution when the old and the new stand side by side... when the glories of the old can be compensated by the rich possibilities of the new era This time... is a very good one...

Ralph Waldo Emerson

If a little dreaming is dangerous, the cure for it is not to dream less but to dream more, to dream all the time.

Marcel Proust

All the best stories are but one story in reality - - The story of escape. It is the only thing which interests us all and at all times, how to escape.

A. C. Benson

Sometimes I worry about being a success in a mediocre world.

Lily Tomlin

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 Stephenson

Every normal man must be tempted, at times, to spit on his hands, hoist the black flag, and begin slitting throats.

Henry Louis Mencken

Time ripens all things. No man is born wise.

Miguel de Cervantes