Time Quotes

Waste no more time talking about great souls and how they should be. Become one yourself!

Marcus Aurelius Antoninus

There comes a time in each life like a point of fulcrum. At that time you must accept yourself. It is not any more what you will become. It is what you are and always will be.

John Dean

In times of prosperity friends will be plenty, in times of adversity not one in twenty.

English Prove

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.

Eternity is not something that begins after you are dead. It is going on all the time. We are in it now.

Charlotte P Gilman

What do you do with a lifetime of work? Face it in the morning.

Iggy Pop

Middle age is the time of life that a man first notices in his wife.

Richard Willard Armou

Turn your midlife crisis to your own advantage by making it a time for renewal of your body and mind, rather than stand by helplessly and watch them decline.

Jane E. Brody

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

Truth has not special time of its own. Its hour is now - - Always and indeed then most truly when it seems unsuitable to actual circumstances.

Albert Schweitze

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

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

Benjamin Franklin

The test of a first - Rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in the mind at the same time, and still retain the ability to function.

F. Scott Fitzgerald

The trouble with our times is that the future is not what it used to be.

Paul Valery

I have spent more than half a lifetime trying to express the tragic moment.

Marcel Marceau

Well, youth is the period of assumed personalities and disguises. It is the time of the sincerely insincere.

Pablo Picasso

Remember Things in life will not always run smoothly. Sometimes we will be rising toward the heights - Then all will seem to reverse itself and start downward. The great fact to remember is that the trend of civilization itself is forever upward, that a line drawn through the middle of the peaks and the valleys of the centuries always has an upward trend.

Endicott Peabody

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

If we do not ever take time, how can we ever have time?

Wachowski Brothers, The Matrix Reloaded

You cannot truly listen to anyone and do anything else at the same time.

M. Scott Peck

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

Douglas Adams, "Mostly Harmless".

The ideals which have lighted my way, and time after time have given me new courage to face life cheerfully, have been Kindness, Beauty, and Truth. The trite subjects of human efforts, possessions, outward success, luxury have always seemed to me contemptible.

Albert Einstein

The character inherent in the American people has done all that has been accomplished and it would have done somewhat more, if the government had not sometimes got in its way.

Henry David Thoreau

Gratitude is our most direct line to God and the angels. If we take the time, no matter how crazy and troubled we feel, we can find something to be thankful for.

Terry Lynn Taylo

I feel like a million tonight - - - But one at a time.

Mae West

If every age has its own characteristic doctrine, there are a thousand signs which point to Fascism as the characteristic doctrine of our time.

Benito Mussolini, The Political and Social Doctrine of Fascism, 1935

All my possessions for a moment of time.

Elizabeth I

What is a thousand years Time is short for one who thinks, endless for one who yearns.

Alain

Watch for good times to retreat into yourself. Frequently meditate on how good God is to you.

Thomas a Kempis, quoted in the LDS Church News 8/20/2005

Well - Timed silence hath more eloquence than speech.

Martin Fraquhar Tuppe

Time gives good advice.

Maltese Prove

Often sound advice turns out to be totally wrong. Sometimes things turn out in such a way that only a fool would predict. Which is why fools, too, have their place in analysis and debate.

Unknown

Every time you are not practicing someone else is.

Boris Becke

There is one thing stronger than all the armies of the world, and that is an idea whose time has come.

Victor Hugo

I still believe in liberalism today as much as I ever did, but, oh, there was a happy time when I believed in liberals...

G. K. Chesterton

As life is action and passion, it is required of a man that he should share the passion and action of his time, at the peril of being not to have lived.

Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.

The right word may be effective, but no word was ever as effective as a rightly timed pause.

Mark Twain