Time Quotes

Adversity is sometimes hard upon a man but for one man who can stand prosperity, there are a hundred that will stand adversity.

Thomas Carlyle

Realize that true happiness lies within you. Waste no time and effort searching for peace and contentment and joy in the world outside. Remember that there is no happiness in having or in getting, but only in giving. Reach out. Share. Smile. Hug. Happiness is a perfume you cannot pour on others without getting a few drops on yourself.

Og Mandino

I went to a restaurant that serves breakfast at any time. So I ordered French Toast during the Renaissance.

Steven Wright, Standup Comedy Routine

Life offers two great gifts - - Time, and the ability to choose how we spend it. Planning is a process of choosing among those many options. If we do not choose to plan, then we choose to have others plan for us.

Richard I. Winword

I sometimes think that God, in creating man, overestimated His ability.

Oscar Wilde

We are weighed down, every moment, by the conception and the sensation of Time. And there are but two means of escaping and forgetting this nightmare: pleasure and work. Pleasure consumes us. Work strengthens us. Let us choose.

Charles Baudelaire

Sometimes I wonder if we live life by reliving life, rather than by living life.

Michael Landon

Dost thou love life? Then do not squander time, for that is the stuff life is made of.

Benjamin Franklin

We must use time wisely and forever realize that the time is always ripe to do right.

Nelson Mendela

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

A superstition is a premature explanation that overstays its time.

George Iles

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".

Every time we say, Let there be in any form, something happens.

Stella Terrill Mann

I will persist until I succeed. Always will I take another step. If that is of no avail I will take another, and yet another. In truth, one step at a time is not too difficult.... I know that small attempts, repeated, will complete any undertaking.

Og Mandino

I believe that all government is evil, and that trying to improve it is largely a waste of time.

H. L. Mencken

From lightest words sometimes the direst quarrel springs.

Cato the Elde

In this sad world of ours, sorrow comes to all... Perfect relief is not possible, except with time. You cannot now realize that you will ever feel better... And yet this is a mistake. You are sure to be happy again.

Abraham Lincoln

Tomorrow is often the busiest time of the year.

Danish prove

Time is a cruel thief to rob us of our former selves. We lose as much to life as we do to death.

Elizabeth Forsythe Hailey

No sun - No moon! No morn - No noon - No dawn - No dusk - No proper time of day. No warmth, no cheerfulness, no healthful ease, No comfortable feel in any member - No shade, no shine, no butterflies, no bees, No fruits, no flowers, no leaves, no birds, November!

Thomas Hood (1799 - 1845), in the poem called No!

A sweet thing, for whatever time, to revisit in dreams the dear dad we have lost.

Euripides

The longer I live the more I see that I am never wrong about anything, and that all the pains I have so humbly taken to verify my notions have only wasted my time.

George Bernard Shaw

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

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)

Enemies, as well as lovers, come to resemble each other over a period of time.

Sydney Harris

Look at a stone cutter hammering away at his rock, perhaps a hundred times without as much as a crack showing in it. Yet at the hundred - And - First blow it will split in two, and I know it was not the last blow that did it, but all that had gone before.

Jacob A. Riis

Friends LOVE misery, in fact. Sometimes, especially if we are too luck or too successful or too pretty, our misery is the only thing that endears us to our friends.

Erica Jong

Why waste time learning, when ignorance is instantaneous - Calvin.

Bill Watterson

The service you do for others is the rent you pay for the time you spend on earth.

Mohammed Ali

Even the best of friends need time apart.

Mark Heath, Spot the Frog, 09 - 09 - 05

What is life It is the flash of a firefly in the night. It is the breath of a buffalo in the winter time.

Crowfoot

Spring is the time of the year, when it is summer in the sun and winter in the shade.

Charles Dickens, Great expectations

It is an illusion that youth is happy, an illusion of those who have lost it but the young know they are wretched for they are full of the truthless ideal which have been instilled into them, and each time they come in contact with the real, they are bruised and wounded.

W. Somerset Maugham

Look for a long time at what pleases you, and for a longer time at what pains you.

Sidonie Gabrielle Colette

It is a mistake to try to look too far ahead. The chain of destiny can only be grasped one link at a time.

Sir Winston Churchill

The tree of Liberty needs to be watered from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.

Thomas Jefferson

Where reason fails, time oft has worked a cure.

Seneca