Time Quotes
Winning is great, sure, but if you are really going to do something in life, the secret is learning how to lose. Nobody goes undefeated all the time. If you can pick up after a crushing defeat, and go on to win again, you are going to be a champion someday.Wilma Rudolph, "Wilma: The Story of Wilma Rudolph".
Gratitude is born in hearts that take time to count up past mercies.Charles E. Jefferson
Never say never Never is a long, undependable time, and life is too full of rich possibilities to have restrictions placed upon it.Gloria Swanson
Sometimes your joy is the source of your smile, but sometimes your smile can be the source of your joy.Thich Nhat Hanh
He felt that his whole life was some kind of dream and he sometimes wondered whose it was and whether they were enjoying it.Douglas Adams
Under all speech that is good for anything there lies a silence that is better. Silence is deep as Eternity speech is shallow as Time.Thomas Carlyle
In the absences of a decent time machine, fiction remains the most sturdy vehicle for visiting other eras.Tom Nolan, in The Wall Street Journal
Half the world does not know the joys of wearing cotton underwear. promoting US exports, as quoted in Time.Phil Gramm
The thing to remember is that that the future comes one day at a time.Dean Acheson, Communication Bulletin for Managers & Supervisors, June 2004
In a time of universal deceit - Telling the truth is a revolutionary act.George Orwell
The time is always right to do what is right.Martin Luther King Jr.
It is easy enough to define what the Commonwealth is not. Indeed this is quite a popular pastime.Elizabeth II
The greatest lesson in life is to know that even fools are right sometimes.Winston Churchill
There comes a time when for every addition of knowledge you forget something that you knew before. It is of the highest importance, therefore, not to have useless facts elbowing out the useful ones.Conan Doyle
Heidi Well, do you want me to be honest or do you want me to tell you this is the first time.Old School
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
Humor is, I think, the subtlest and chanciest of literary forms. It is surely not accidental that there are a thousand novelists, essayists, poets or journalists for each humorist. It is a long, long time between James Thurbers.Leo C. Rosten
Sometimes, big trees grow out of acorns. I think I heard that from a squirrel.Jerry Coleman
Spare minutes are the Gold - Dust of time; the portions of life most fruitful in good and evil; the gaps through which temptations enter.Author Unknown
Men have no right to put the well - Being of the present generation wholly out of the question. Perhaps the only moral trust with any certainty in our hands is the care of our own time.Edmund Burke
He who hesitates is sometimes saved.James Thurbe
In this country England it is well to kill from time to time an admiral to encourage the others.Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire
From social intercourse are derived some of the highest enjoyments of life; where there is a free interchange of sentiments the mind acquires new ideas, and by frequent exercise of its powers, the understanding gains fresh vigor.Joseph Addison
A painter told me that nobody could draw a tree without in some sort becoming a tree or draw a child by studying the outlines of its form merely... but by watching for a time his motions and plays, the painter enters into his nature and can then draw him at every attitude...Ralph Waldo Emerson
As if you could TELL time without injuring eternity.Matthew Ryan
Defining and analyzing humor is a pastime of humorless people.Robert Benchley
Waste no more time talking about great souls and how they should be. Become one yourself!Marcus Aurelius Antoninus
Every great improvement has come after repeated failure. Virtually nothing comes out right the first time. Failures, repeated failures, are the posts on the road to achievement.Charles F. Kettering, quoted in Globe and Mail, Toronto, June 18, 2004, page A16, mkesterton@globeandmail. ca
People have a hard time letting go of their suffering. Out of a fear of the unknown, they prefer suffering that is familiar.Thich Nhat Hanh
The experience of democracy is like the experience of life itself - Always changing, infinite in its variety, sometimes turbulent and all the more valuable for having been tested by adversity.James Earl Jimmy Carter, Jr.
A man who dares to waste one hour of time has not discovered the value of life.Charles Robert Darwin
History is a cyclic poem written by Time upon the memories of man.Percy Bysshe Shelley
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 Stevenson
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
No man is allowed to be a judge in his own cause, because his interest would certainly bias his judgment, and, not improbably, corrupt his integrity. With equal, nay with greater reason, a body of men are unfit to be both judges and parties at the same time.James Madison, The Federalist, Paper # 10
There are certain queer times and occasions in this strange mixed affair we call life when a man takes the whole universe for a vast practical joke.Herman Melville
Silence is deep as Eternity speech is shallow as Time.Thomas Carlyle
