Time Quotes

You can make those promises with just as much passion the second time around. Such is the regenerative power of the human heart.

Marion Wink, O Magazine, 2003

You can live a lifetime and, at the end of it, know more about other people than you know about yourself.

Beryl Markham

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

Eduaction is an admirable thing, but it is well to remember from time to time that nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.

Oscar Wilde

Television is a medium of entertainment which permits millions of people to listen to the same joke at the same time, and yet remain lonesome.

T. S. Eliot

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 Stephenson

For the first time in the history of our country the majority of our people believe that the next five years will be worse than the past five years.

James Earl Jimmy Carter, Jr.

And while the law of competition may be sometimes hard for the individual, it is best for the race, because it ensures the survival of the fittest in every department.

Andrew Carnegie

I cannot believe in a God who wants to be praised all the time.

Friedrich Nietzsche

A Multitasking Timex Sinclai.

Matt Sorrels in reference to Andrew running X - Windows

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

In Genesis, it says that it is not good for a man to be alone but sometimes it is a great relief.

John Barrymore

It is possible that the scrupulously honest man may not grow rich so fast as the unscrupulous and dishonest one; but success will be of a truer kind, earned without fraud or injustice. And even though a man should for a time be unsuccessful, still he must be honest; better to lose all and save character. For character is itself a fortune.

Samuel Smiles

The gods never let us love and be wise at the same time.

Publilius Syrus

Time the devourer of all things.

Ovid, Metamorphoses

There is nothing more notable in Socrates than that he found time, when he was an old man, to learn music and dancing, and thought it time well spent.

Michel de Montaigne

Sometimes love will pick you up by the short hairs... and jerk the heck out of you.

Denise Dobbs, Northern Exposure, Survival of the Species, 1993

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

The last time anybody made a list of the top hundred character attributes of New Yorkers, common sense snuck in at number 79.....

Douglas Noel Adams

Time is the scarcest resource and unless it is managed nothing else can be managed.

Peter Drucke

I want a busy life, a just mind, and a timely death.

Zora Neale Hurston

After people have repeated a phrase a great number of times, they begin to realize it has meaning and may even be true.

H. G. Wells

Times of general calamity and confusion create great minds. The purest ore is produced from the hottest furnace, and the brightest thunderbolt is elicited from the darkest storms.

Charles Caleb Colton

We generate our own environment. We get exactly what we deserve. How can we resent the life weve created for ourselves? Whos to blame, whos to credit, but us? Who can change it anytime we wish, but us?

Richard Bach, One

Those who have long enjoyed such privleges as we enjoy forget in time that men have died to win them.

Franklin D. Roosevelt

Millions of men have lived to fight, build palaces and boundaries, shape destinies and societies; but the compelling force of all times has been the force of originality and creation profoundly affecting the roots of human spirit.

Ansel Adams

Perfection is a road, not a destination. Every time I live, I get an education.

Burk Hudson

An executive is a person who always decides sometimes he decides correctly, but he always decides.

John H. Patterson

Do the one thing you think you cannot do. Fail at it. Try again. Do better the second time. The only people who never tumble are those who never mount the high wire. This is your moment. Own it.

Oprah Winfrey, O Magazine, September 2003

A lifetime is more than sufficiently long for people to get what there is of it wrong.

Unknown

Faith is, at one and the same time, absolutely necessary and altogether impossible.

Stanislaw Lem

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.

Well - Timed silence hath more eloquence than speech.

Martin Fraquhar Tuppe

When times are good, be happy, but when time are bad consider; God has made the one as well as the other.

Bible, Ecclesaistes 7: 14

Never shall I forget the times I spent with you continue to be my friend, as you will always find me yours.

Ludwig van Beethoven

Time does not always pass at the same speed. We are the ones who determine that speed.

Paulo Coelho, The Pilgrimage

I cannot afford to waste my time making money.

Jean Louis Rodolphe Agassiz