Time Quotes

It is common error to infer that things which are consecutive in order of time have necessarily the relation of cause and effect.

Jacob Bigelow

Attacking is the only secret. Dare and the world always yields or if it beats you sometimes, dare it again and it will succumb.

William Makepeace Thackeray

A religious man is a person who holds God and man in one thought at one time, at all times, who suffers harm done to others, whose greatest passion is compassion, whose greatest strength is love and defiance of despair.

Abraham Joshua Heschel

Happiness is a choice that requires effort at times.

Anon.

Baseball is the only field of endeavor where a man can succeed three times out of ten and be considered a good performer.

Ted Williams

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

The only obligation which I have a right to assume, is to do at any time what I think right.

Henry David Thoreau, Civil Disobience

He who every morning plans the transaction of the day and follows out that plan, carries a thread that will guide him through the maze of the most busy life. But where no plan is laid, where the disposal of time is surrendered merely to the chance of incidence, chaos will soon reign.

Victor Hugo

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

Euripides

Perhaps a modern society can remain stable only by eliminating adolescence, by giving its young, from the age of ten, the skills, responsibilities, and rewards of grownups, and opportunites for action in all spheres of life. Adolescence should be a time of useful action, while book learning and scholarship should be a preoccupation of adults.

Eric Hoffe

There is a time for departure even when there is no certain place to go.

Tennessee Williams

Few people think more than two or three times a year. I have made an international reputation for myself by thinking once or twice a week.

George Bernard Shaw

There are times when one would like to end the whole human race, and finish the farce.

Mark Twain

So divinely is the world organized that every one of us, in our place and time, is in balance with everything else.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, O Magazine, April 2003

American foreign policy must be more than the management of crisis. It must have a great and guiding goal: to turn this time of American influence into generations of democratic peace.

George W. Bush, speech, November 19, 1999

Your only obligation in any lifetime is to be true to yourself. Being true to anyone else or anything else is not only impossible, but that mark of a fake messiah.

Richard Bach

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

Sarah Ban Breathnach

I honestly believe that in my lifetime we will see a country once again governed by Christians... and Christian values. What Christians have got to do is take back this country, one precinct at a time, one neighborhood at a time, and one state at a time.

Ralph Reed, Executive Director, the Christian Coalition

The best time to do a thing is when it can be done.

William Pickens

Wait for that wisest of all counselors, Time.

Pericles, from Plutarch, Lives

For a just man falleth seven times, and riseth up again...

Proverbs 2416a Bible

Spare minutes are the Gold - Dust of time; the portions of life most fruitful in good and evil; the gaps through which temptations enter.

Author Unknown

The cynics are right nine times out of ten.

H. L. Mencken

Heidi Well, do you want me to be honest or do you want me to tell you this is the first time.

Old School

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

John H. Patterson

A conservative is a man who does not think that anything should be done for the first time.

Frank Vanderlip

Like the wind crying endlessly through the universe, Time carries away the names and the deeds of conquerors and commoners alike. And all that we are, all that remains, is in the memories of those who cared we came this way for a brief moment.

Harlan Ellison, "Paladin of the Lost Hour".

Time has a wonderful way of weeding out the trivial.

Howard Aiken

Inside each and every one of us is a person that no one knows. A person, should you take the time to look, is waiting to be discovered, Wanting you to take notice. Take a few minutes every day and sit down to chat to this person. Who knows what you may learn.

Neill MacRae

Man has always assumed that he was more intelligent than dolphins because he had achieved so much - The wheel, New York, wars and so on - while all the dolphins had ever done was muck about in the water having a good time. But conversely, the dolphins had always believed that they were far more intelligent than man - For precisely the same reason.

Douglas Noel Adams

It is nothing new or original to say that golf is played one stroke at a time. But it took me many years to realize it.

Bobby Jones

Life is like an onion. You peel off one layer at a time and sometimes you weep.

Unknown

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

Alain

Sometimes people carry to such perfection the mask they have assumed that in due course they actually become the person they seem.

W. Somerset Maugham, The Moon and Sixpence

In times like these, it helps to recall that there have always been times like these.

Paul Harvey

Sometimes, when one person is absent, the whole world seems depopulated.

Allphonse de Lamartine

I like this place, and willingly would waste my time in it.

William Shakespeare, As You Like It