Time Quotes

It is said an Eastern monarch once charged his wise men to invent him a sentence, to be ever in view, and which should be true and appropriate in all times and situations. They presented him the words And this, too, shall pass away.

Abraham Lincoln

Your decision to be, have and do something out of ordinary entails facing difficulties that are out of the ordinary as well. Sometimes your greatest asset is simply your ability to stay with it longer than anyone else.

Brian Tracy

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

Time is like a river. It flows one direction, But with a little force you can go back. But like a river, Everything you do has a ripple.

Kevin R. Hutson

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

Accept that all of us can be hurt, that all of us can - - And surely will at times - - Fail. I think we should follow a simple rule: if we can take the worst, take the risk.

Dr. Joyce Brothers

The only people for me are the mad ones, the ones who are mad to live, mad to talk, mad to be saved, desirous of everything at the same time, the ones who never yawn or say a commonplace thing.

Jack Kerouac, On the Road

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

Grief and tragedy and hatred are only for a time. Goodness, remembrance and love have no end.

George W. Bush

Remember that lost time does not return.

Thomas a Kempis

You often get a better hold upon a problem by going away from it for a time and dismissing it from your mind altogether.

Frank H. Crane

The path of repentance, though hard at times, lifts one ever upwards and leads to a perfect forgiveness.

Howard W. Hunter, Speech given in October 1994

I smoke in moderation, only one cigar at a time.

Mark Twain

It sometimes seems that we have only to solve a thing greatly to get it.

Robert Collie

What may be done at any time will be done at no time.

Scottish Prove

The body is shaped, disciplined, honored, and in time, trusted.

Martha Graham

I wasted time, now time doth waste me.

William Shakespeare, Richard II

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

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

Hippocrates, Precepts

Every time we remember to say thank you, we experience nothing less than heaven on earth.

Sarah Ban Breathnach

A poor surgeon hurts 1 person at a time. A poor teacher hurts 130.

Ernest Leroy Boye

Love is space and time measured by the heart.

Marcel Proust

A learned man is an idler who kills time with study. Beware of his false knowledge: it is more dangerous than ignorance.

George Bernard Shaw, Man and Superman, 1903

Know thyself, said the old philosopher, improve thyself, saith the new. Our great object in time is not to waste our passions and gifts on the things external that we must leave behind, but that we cultivate within us all that we can carry into the eternal progress beyond.

Edward Bulwer - Lytton

If you treat people right they will treat you right - Ninety percent of the time.

Franklin D. Roosevelt

I believe love is primarily a choice and only sometimes a feeling. If you want to feel love, choose to love and be patient.

Real Live Preacher, RealLivePreacher. com Weblog, December 16, 2002

Look at everything as though you were seeing it for the first time or the last time. Then your time on earth will be filled with glory.

Betty Smith

During these times, when crazy people are running the government, all you can do is laugh.

Bill McKenney, Speech to the Harvard Antimony Society, August 15, 2005

There is a vitality, a life force, an energy, a quickening, that is translated through you into action, and because there id only one of you in all time, this expression is unique. And if you block it, it will never exist through any other medium and will be lost.

Martha Graham

A society of sheep must in time beget a government of wolves.

Bertrand de Jouvenal

Time engraves our faces with all the tears we have not shed.

Natalie Clifford Barney

Time is: Too slow for those who wait, too swift for those who fear.

Henry van Dyke

We are not put on earth for ourselves, but are placed here for each other. If you are there always for others, then in time of need, someone will be there for you.

Jeff Warne

An intelligent man is sometimes forced to be drunk to spend time with his fools.

Ernest Hemingway

We are at the very beginning of time for the human race. It is not unreasonable that we grapple with problems. But there are tens of thousands of years in the future. Our responsibility is to do what we can, learn what we can, improve the solutions, and pass them on.

Richard Feynman

Humanity faces a quantum leap forward. It faces the deepest social upheaval and creative restructuring of all time. Without clearly recognizing it, we are engaged in building a remarkable new civilization from the ground up. This is the meaning of the Third Wave.

Alvin Toffle

The good times of today are the sad thoughts of tomorrow.

Bob Marley