Time Quotes

He felt that his whole life was some kind of dream and he sometimes wondered whose it was and whether they were enjoying it.

Douglas Adams

To fail is a natural consequence of trying, To succeed takes time and prolonged effort in the face of unfriendly odds. To think it will be any other way, no matter what you do, is to invite yourself to be hurt and to limit your enthusiasm for trying again.

David Viscott

The greatest lesson in life is to know that even fools are right sometimes.

Winston Churchill

Surplus wealth is a sacred trust which its possessor is bound to administer in his lifetime for the good of the community.

Andrew Carnegie

Sometimes the appropriate response to reality is to go insane.

Philip K. Dick, Valis

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

The season of failure is the best time for sowing the seeds of success.

Paramahansa Yogananda

If something anticipated arrives too late it finds us numb, wrung out from waiting, and we feel - Nothing at all. The best things arrive on time.

Dorothy Gilman, A New Kind of Country, 1978

America is the country where you buy a lifetime supply of aspirin for one dollar and use it up in two weeks.

John Barrymore

If we had no winter, the spring would not be so pleasant if we did not sometimes taste of adversity, prosperity would not be so welcome.

Anne Bradstreet

It is possible to own too much. A man with one watch knows what time it is a man with two watches is never quite sure.

Lee Segall

When you encounter difficulties and contradictions, do not try to break them, but bend them with gentleness and time.

Saint Francis de Sales

I believe that individuals can make a difference in society. Since periods of change such as the present one come so rarely in human history, it is up to each of us to make the best use of our time to help create a happier world.

The Dalai Lama, 1992 Speech

Do not hover always on the surface of things, nor take up suddenly, with mere appearances; but penetrate into the depth of matters, as far as your time and circumstances allow, especially in those things which relate to your profession.

Isaac Watts

Before you act consider when you have considered, tis fully time to act.

Sallust

With time and patience the mulberry leaf becomes a silk gown.

Chinese prove

There comes a time in the affairs of man when he must take the bull by the tail and face the situation.

W. C. Fields

You can do what you want to do, accomplish what you want to accomplish, attain any reasonable objective you may have in mind - - Not all of a sudden, perhaps not in one swift and sweeping act of achievement - - But you can do it gradually, day by day and play by play, if you want to do it, if you work to do it, over a sufficiently long period of time.

William E. Holle

I wonder if the polite thing to do is always the right thing to do. When I met the family from Japan, they all bowed. I pretended like I was going to bow, but then I just kept going and flipped over on my back. I did this five times. I think they got the point.

Jack Handey Deep Thoughts

Sometimes it falls upon a generation to be great. You can be that great generation.

Nelson Mandela

Doing a thing well is often a waste of time.

Robert Byrne

Sometimes a scream is better than a thesis.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Certain souls seem hard because they are capable of strong feelings, and they sometimes go to rather extreme lengths their apparent unconcern and cruelty are but ways, known only to themselves, of feeling more strongly than others.

Marquis de Sade

When I am abroad, I always make it a rule never to criticize or attack the government of my own country. I make up for lost time when I come home.

Sir Winston Churchill

How can a guy hit and think at the same time.

Lawrence Peter Berra

The training of children is a profession, where we must know how to waste time in order to save it.

Jean - Jacques Rousseau

Every man is as Heaven made him, and sometimes a great deal worse.

Miguel de Cervantes

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

Patriotism is not a short and frenzied outburst of emotion, but the tranquil and steady dedication of a lifetime.

Adlai E. Stevenson, J

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

Friedrich Nietzsche

I find television very educating. Every time somebody turns on the set, I go into the other room and read a book.

Groucho Marx

Time is the coin of your life. It is the only coin you have, and only you can determine how it will be spent. Be careful lest you let other people spend it for you.

Carl Sandburg

Men stumble over the truth from time to time, but most pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing happened.

Sir Winston Churchill

There are two ways of resisting war: the legal way and the revolutionary way. The legal way involves the offer of alternatinve service not as a privilege for a few but as a right for all. The revolutionary view involves an uncompromising resistance, with a view to breaking the power of militarism in time of peace or the resources of the state in time of war.

Albert Einstein

It requires a great deal of boldness and a great deal of caution to make a great fortune and when you have got it, it requires ten times as much wit to keep it.

Mayer Amschal Rothschild

A sudden bold and unexpected question doth many times surprise a man and lay him open.

Sir Francis Bacon

By the time we hit fifty, we have learned our hardest lessons. We have found out that only a few things are really important. We have learned to take life seriously, but never ourselves.

Charles Dickens