Time Quotes
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
Half the time men think they are talking business, they are wasting time.Edgar Watson Howe
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
Sometimes I lie awake at night, and I ask, Where have I gone wrong? Then a voice says to me, This is going to take more than one night.Charles M. Schulz, Charlie Brown in "Peanuts".
If I had to select one quality, one personal characteristic that I regard as being most highly correlated with success, whatever the field, I would pick the trait of persistence. Determination. The will to endure to the end, to get knocked down seventy times and get up off the floor saying, Here comes number seventy - One.Richard M. Devos
When the time comes for friends to part, love will be the bride, from heart to heart.Unknown
My mother is such a lousy cook that Thanksgiving at her house is a time of sorrow.Rita Rudne
Sometimes when I look at all my children, I say to myself, Lillian, you should have stayed a virgin.Lillian
Our repeated failure to fully act as we would wish must not discourage us. It is the sincere intention that is the essential thing, and this will in time release us from the bondage of habits which at present seem almost insuperable.Thomas Troward
Nonviolence is the answer to the crucial political and moral questions of our time the need for mankind to overcome oppression and violence without resorting to oppression and violence. Mankind must evolve for all human conflict a method which rejects revenge, aggression, and retaliation. The foundation of such a method is love.Martin Luther King, Jr.
The season of failure is the best time for sowing the seeds of success.Paramahansa Yogananda
Fear clouds your mind, it distracts your thoughts, to survive in dangerous times you must learn to supress it and think.Unknown
Wise and prudent men - - Intelligent conservatives - - Have long known that in a changing world worthy institutions can be conserved only by adjusting them to the changing times.Franklin Delano Roosevelt
Waste no more time arguing what a god man should be. Be one.Marcus Aurelius, Meditations? Book Ten
Life is action and passion therefore, it is required of a man that he should share the passion and action of the time, at peril of being judged not to have lived.Oliver Wendell Holmes
To be feared is to fear: no one has been able to strike terror into others and at the same time enjoy peace of mind.Seneca
If we live good lives, the times are also good. As we are, such are the times.Saint Augustine
Sometimes old things need to go away. That way, we have room for the new things that come into our lives.Randy K. Milholland, Something Positive webcomic, 09 - 17 - 05
The subtlety of nature is greater many times over than the subtlety of the senses and understanding.Sir Francis Bacon
If you listened hard enough the first time, you might have heard what I meant to say.Unknown
I write down everything I want to remember. That way, instead of spending a lot of time trying to remember what it is I wrote down, I spend the time looking for the paper I wrote it down on.Beryl Pfize
Children begin by loving their parents as they grow older they judge them sometimes they forgive them.Oscar Wilde
History is a cyclic poem written by Time upon the memories of man.Percy Bysshe Shelley
This is the miracle that happens every time to those who really love; the more they give, the more they possess.Rainer Maria Rilke
The young always have the same problem - How to rebel and conform at the same time. They have now solved this by defying their parents and copying one another.George Chapman
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
Anyone can become angry. That is easy. But to be angry with the right person, to the right degree, at the right time, for the right purpose and in the right way - That is not easy.Aristotle
I never could have done what I have done without the habits of punctuality, order, and diligence, without the determination to concentrate myself on one subject at a time...Charles Dickens
Our ignorance of history makes us libel our own times. People have always been like this.Gustave Flaubert
Reading is sometimes an ingenious device for avoiding thought.Sir Arthur Helps
I was very strange back then. I could see I had problems. I would sit in a closet a lot of the time and not come out, or I would sit up on top of my desk, or under my desk, or do weird things like get my wisdom teeth out and bleed all over the hallways.Tim Burton, Burton On Burton
Nonviolence is the answer to the crucial political and moral questions of our time; the need for mankind to overcome oppression and violence without resorting to oppression and violence. Mankind must evolve for all human conflict a method which rejects revenge, aggression, and retaliation. The foundation of such a method is love.Martin Luther King Jr., December 11, 1964
I try to do the right thing at the right time. They may just be little things, but usually they make the difference between winning and losing.Kareem Abdul - Jaba
There is no right to strike against the public safety by anybody, anywhere, any time.Calvin Coolidge, in a telegram, 1919
I go into ecstasies every time I see the naked figure of a woman, such as Venus, for example. It strikes me as so wonderful and exquisite that I have difficulty in stopping the tears rolling down my cheeks.Anne Frank, from The Diary of a Young Girl, January 5, 1944
All that really belongs to us is time even he who has nothing else has that.Baltasar Gracian
The young always have the same problem - How to rebel and conform at the same time. They have now solved this by defying their parents and copying one another.Quentin Crisp
