Time Quotes

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

Marabel Morgan, The Electric Woman

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

It usually takes a long time to find a shorter way.

Anonymous

All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given to us.

J. R. R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring

The continued propinquity of another human being cramps the style after a time unless that person is somebody you think you love. Then the burden becomes intolerable at once.

Quentin Crisp

I existed from all eternity and, behold, I am here and I shall exist till the end of time, for my being has no end.

Kahlil Gibran

Time flies like an arrow. Fruit flies like a banana.

Lisa Grossman

More than any time in history mankind faces a crossroads. One path leads to utter hopelessness and despair, the other to total extinction. Let us hope we have the wisdom to choose correctly.

Woody Allen

If it is your time, love will track you down like a cruise missile.

Lynda Barry

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

It is a very lonely life that a man leads, who becomes aware of truths before their times.

Thomas Brackett Reed

In a free society no one can win all the time. No one can have his way all the time and no one is right all the time.

Richard M. Nixon

To read a book for the first time is to make the acquaintance of a new friend; to read it a second time is to meet an old one.

Selwyn Champion

You do not need to be loved, not at the cost of yourself. The single relationship that is truly central and crucial in a life is the relationship to the self. Of all the people you will know in a lifetime, you are the only one you will never lose.

Jo Coudert, "Advice From A Failure".

There are victories of the soul and spirit. Sometimes, even if you lose, you win.

Elie Wiesel

Waste no more time talking about great souls and how they should be. Become one yourself.

Marcus Aurelius Antoninus

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

H. A. Overstreet

Time ripens all things; no man is born wise.

Miguel De Cervantes

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

Once upon a time - - Of all the good days in the year, on Christmas Eve - - Old Scrooge sat busy in his counting - House.

Charles Dickens

The Romans would never have found time to conquer the world if they had been obliged first to learn Latin.

Heinrich Heine

Never say never, for if you live long enough, chances are you will not be able to abide by its restrictions. Never is a long, undependable time, and life is too full of rich possibilities to have restrictions placed upon it.

Gloria Swanson

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

Blaise Pascal

No amount of time can erase the memory of a good cat and no amount of masking tape can ever totally remove his fur from your couch.

Leo Buscaglia

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

Harriet

Time is what prevents everything from happening at once.

John Archibald Wheeler, American J. of Physics, 1978, 46, 323

A word out of season may mar a whole lifetime.

Greek Prove

I drink when I have occasion, and sometimes when I have no occasion.

Miguel de Cervantes

One may discover a new side to his most intimate friend when for the first time he hears him speak in public. He will be stranger to him as he is more familiar to the audience. The longest intimacy could not foretell how he would behave then.

Henry David Thoreau

A religious man is a person who holds God and man in one thought at one time, at all times, who suffers harm done to others, whose greatest passion is compassion, whose greatest strength is love and defiance of despair.

Abraham Joshua Heschel

There are times when you have to choose between being a human and having good taste.

Bertolt Brecht

Vladimir: That passed the time. Estragon: It would have passed in any case. Vladimir: Yes, but not so rapidly.

Samuel Beckett, Waiting for Godot (1955)

Life is like music, it must be composed by ear, feeling and instinct, not by rule. Nevertheless one had better know the rules, for they sometimes guide in doubtful cases, though not often.

Samuel Butle

What is ten thousand years? Time is short for one who thinks, endless for one who yearns.

Alain

Surplus wealth is a sacred trust which its possessor is bound to administer in his lifetime for the good of the community.

Andrew Carnegie

When you read history it is quite astonishing to discover that there never was a day when men thought times were really good. Every generation in history has been haunted by the feeling of crisis.

Harold Walke

Those who enjoy such freedoms as we enjoy, forget in time that men died to earn them.

Franklin Roosevelt