Time Quotes

If you are planning for a year, sow rice if you are planning for a decade, plant trees if you are planning for a lifetime, educate people.

Chinese Prove

Careful with fire is good advice we know. Careful with words is ten times doubly so.

William Carleton

The test of a first - Fate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in mind at the same time and still retain the ability to function. One should, for example, be able to see that things are hopeless and yet be determined to make them otherwise.

F. Scott Fitzgerald

When one is happy there is no time to be fatigued; being happy engrosses the whole attention.

E. F. Benson

To do nothing is sometimes a good remedy.

Hippocrates

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

Marcus Aurelius, Meditations? Book Ten

A word is not a crystal, transparent and unchanging, it is the skin of a living thought and may vary greatly in colour and content according to the circumstances and time in which it is used.

Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.

To love is not a passive thing. To love is active voice. When I love I do something, I function, I give. I do not love in order that I may be loved back again, but for the creative joy of loving. And every time I do so love I am freed, at least a little, by the outgoing of love, from enslavement to that most intolerable of master, myself.

Bernard Iddings Bell

The trouble with our times is that the future is not what it used to be.

Paul Valery

You are young, my son, and, as the years go by, time will change and even reverse many of your present opinions. Refrain therefore awhile from setting yourself up as a judge of the highest matters.

Plato, Dialogues, Theatetus

The gun lobby finds waiting periods inconvenient. You have only to ask my husband how inconvenient he finds his wheelchair from time to time.

Sarah Brady

Real stupidity beats artificial intelligence every time.

Terry Pratchett, Hogfathe

It requires a great deal of boldness and a great deal of caution to make a great fortune and when you have got it, it requires ten times as much wit to keep it.

Mayer Amschal Rothschild

History is the witness that testifies to the passing of time; it illumines reality, vitalizes memory, provides guidance in daily life and brings us tidings of antiquity.

Cicero, Pro Publio Sestio

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

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

You cannot hope to build a better world without improving the individuals. To that end each of us must work for his own improvement, and at the same time share a general responsibility for all humanity, our particular duty being to aid those to whom we think we can be most useful.

Marie Curie

The only time people dislike gossip is when you gossip about them.

Will Rogers

The writer who possesses the creative gift owns something of which he is not always master - Something that at time strangely wills and works for itself.

Charlotte Bronte

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

H. Jackson Browne

Now, now my good man, this is no time for making enemies.

Voltaire, on his deathbed in response to a priest asking that he renounce Satan

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

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.

The ideals which have lighted my way, and time after time have given me new courage to face life cheerfully, have been Kindness, Beauty, and Truth. The trite subjects of human efforts, possessions, outward success, luxury have always seemed to me contemptible.

Albert Einstein

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

The very existence of flamethrowers proves that some time, somewhere, someone said to themselves, You know, I want to set those people over there on fire, but I? m just not close enough to get the job done.

George Carlin

At any given point of time, you are exactly what you wanted to be.

Vinny Nayak

Know the true value of time snatch, seize, and enjoy every moment of it. No idleness no laziness no procrastination never put off till tomorrow what you can do today.

Lord Chesterfield

In all large corporations, there is a pervasive fear that someone, somewhere is having fun with a computer on company time. Networks help alleviate that fear.

John C. Dvorak

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

Hippocrates, Precepts

The greatest loss of time is delay and expectation. I never yet talked to the man who wanted to save time who could tell me what he was going to do with the time he saved.

Will Rogers

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

The finest workers in stone are not copper or steel tools, but the gentle touches of air and water working at their leisure with a liberal allowance of time.

Henry David Thoreau

Grow old along with me The best is yet to be, The last of life, for which the first was made Our times are in his hand who saith, A whole I planned, Youth shows but half trust God See all, nor be afraid.

Robert Browning

The first time Adam had a chance, he laid the blame on woman.

Nancy Asto

Have you ever noticed that there are people who do things which are most indelicate, and yet at the same time - Beautiful?

E. M. Forster, "A Room with a View".

You begin saving the world by saving one person at a time; all else is grandiose romanticism or politics.

Charles Bukowski