Time Quotes

The human race is faced with a cruel choice work or daytime television.

Unknown

All my possessions for a moment of time.

Elizabeth I

All truly wise thoughts have been thoughts already thousands of times; but to make them truly ours, we must think them over again honestly, till they take root in our personal experience.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

It takes a long time to bring excellence to maturity.

Publilius Syrus

Give a man a fish and he will eat for a day. Teach a man to fish and he will eat for a lifetime. Teach a man to create an artificial shortage of fish and he will eat steak.

Jay Leno

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

Peter Drucke

They always say time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself.

Andy Warhol, The Philosophy of Andy Warhol

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

Rainer Maria Rilke

There are two ways of resisting war: the legal way and the revolutionary way. The legal way involves the offer of alternatinve service not as a privilege for a few but as a right for all. The revolutionary view involves an uncompromising resistance, with a view to breaking the power of militarism in time of peace or the resources of the state in time of war.

Albert Einstein

It is pleasant at times to play the madman.

Seneca

Healing is a matter of time, but it is sometimes also a mater of opportunity.

Hippocrates

Each time you are honest and conduct yourself with honesty, a success force will drive you toward greater success. Each time you lie, even with a little white lie, there are strong forces pushing you toward failure.

Joseph Sugarman

To hate and to fear is to be psychologically ill... it is, in fact, the consuming illness of our time.

H. A. Overstreet

Time crumbles things; everything grows old under the power of Time and is forgotten through the lapse of Time.

Aristotle, Physics

The soul is created in a place between Time and Eternity with its highest powers it touches Eternity, with its lower Time.

Johannes Meister Eckhart

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 it takes courage to give into temptation.

Oscar Wilde

We have achieved the most amazing things, a few million people opening up half a continent. But we have not yet found a Canadian soul except in time of war. On lack of national identity.

Lester Bowles Pearson

Sometimes on the way to our dreams, We get lost and find an even better one.

Unknown

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

Before you act consider when you have considered, tis fully time to act.

Sallust

Few men during their lifetime come anywhere near exhausting the resources dwelling within them. There are deep wells of strength that are never used.

Richard Byrd

The man whose acquisitions stick is the man who is always achieving and advancing whilst his neighbors, spending most of their time in relearning what they once knew but have forgotten, simply hold their own.

William James

The hottest places in hell are reserved for those who in times of great moral crises maintain their neutrality.

Alighieri Dante

Employ thy time well, if thou meanest to get leisure.

Benjamin Franklin

His mother called such people ignorant and superstitious, but his father only shook his head slowly and puffed his pipe and said that sometimes old stories had a grain or two of truth in them and it was best not to take chances. It was why, he said, he crossed himself whenever a black cat crossed his path.

Stephen King

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

Andrew Old Hickory Jackson

A man has no more character than he can command in a time of crisis.

Anonymous

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

Quintilian

Time is money.

Benjamin Franklin

A conservative is a man who does not think that anything should be done for the first time.

Frank Vanderlip

I still believe in liberalism today as much as I ever did, but, oh, there was a happy time when I believed in liberals...

G. K. Chesterton

We think sometimes that poverty is only being hungry, naked and homeless. The poverty of being unwanted, unloved and uncared for is the greatest poverty. We must start in our own homes to remedy this kind of poverty.

Mother Theresa

An executive is a person who always decides sometimes he decides correctly, but he always decides.

John H. Patterson

Time has been transformed, and we have changed it has advanced and set us in motion it has unveiled its face, inspiring us with bewilderment and exhilaration.

Kahlil Gibran

We sometimes laugh from ear to ear, but it would be impossible for a smile to be wider than the distance between our eyes.

Chazal

A man who dares to waste one hour of time has not discovered the value of life.

Charles Robert Darwin