Time Quotes

Life is like music, it must be composed by ear, feeling and instinct, not by rule. Nevertheless one had better know the rules, for they sometimes guide in doubtful cases, though not often.

Samuel Butle

We must use time as a tool, not as a crutch.

John F. Kennedy

Success is not a harbor but a voyage with its own perils to the spirit The lesson that most of us on this voyage never learn, but can never quite forget, is that to win is sometimes to lose.

Richard Milhous Nixon

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

We must use time as a tool, not as a couch.

John Fitzgerald Kennedy

In this sad world of ours, sorrow comes to all... Perfect relief is not possible, except with time. You cannot now realize that you will ever feel better... And yet this is a mistake. You are sure to be happy again.

Abraham Lincoln

There is so much time and so little to do; strike that, reverse it.

Willy Wonka, Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory

Man is sometimes extraordinarily, passionately, in love with suffering.

Feodor Mikhailovich Dostoyevsky

The God who gave us life, gave us liberty at the same time.

Thomas Jefferson

I prefer the wicked rather than the foolish. The wicked sometimes rest.

Alexandre Dumas

Time cools, time clarifies; no mood can be maintained quite unaltered through the course of hours.

Mark Twain

This is no time to act like a gentleman. I am a cad and shall react like one.

George Sanders

The whole life of man is but a point of time let us enjoy it.

Plutarch

I think these difficult times have helped me to understand better than before how infinitely rich and beautiful life is in every way and that so many things that one goes around worrying about are of no importance whatsoever.

Isak Dinesen

How could you be a Great Man if history brought you no Great Events, or brought you to them at the wrong time, too young, too old.

Lois McMaster Bujold

What is a seer? A man who with luck tells the truth sometimes, with frequent falsehoods, but when his luck deserts him, collapses then and there.

Achilles, Euripides, Iphigenia in Aulis 955

It is just when opinions universally prevail and we have added lip service to their authority that we become sometimes most keenly conscious that we do not believe a word that we are saying.

Virginia

The greatest loss of time is delay and expectation. I never yet talked to the man who wanted to save time who could tell me what he was going to do with the time he saved.

Will Rogers

We trained hard, but it seemed that every time we were beginning to form up into teams we would be reorganised.? I was to learn later in life that we tend to meet any new situation by reorganising: and a wonderful method it can be for creating the illusion of progress, while producing confusion, inefficiency and demoralisation.

Caius Petronius, Roman Consul, 66 A. D.

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, but burn, burn, burn like fabulous yellow roman candles exploding like spiders across the stars.

Jack Kerouac

It takes far less courage to kill yourself than it takes to make yourself wake up one more time. It is harder to stay where you are than to get out.

Judith Rossne

Time is the image of eternity.

Laertius Diogenes

The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy.

Martin Luther King Jr.

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

Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.

Confucius

Sometimes the biggest risk you can take is not taking a risk.

Unknown

The parent who gets down on the floor to play with a child on Christmas Day is usually doing a most remarkable thing - - Something seldom repeated during the rest of the year. These are, after all, busy parents committed to their work or their success in the larger society, and they do not have much left - Over time in which to play with their children.

Brian Sutton - Smith

The thing that hath been, it is that which shall be... and there is no new thing under the sun. Is there any thing whereof it may be said, SEE, this is new It hath been already of old time, which was before us. There is no remembrance of former things.

Ecclesiates 1922 Bible

The only time anyone has ever gotten into serious trouble was when he decided he could do nothing about something.

L. Ron Hubbard, Book: Dianetics 55

From social intercourse are derived some of the highest enjoyments of life; where there is a free interchange of sentiments the mind acquires new ideas, and by frequent exercise of its powers, the understanding gains fresh vigor.

Joseph Addison

He who hesitates is sometimes saved.

James Thurbe

It is probably safe to say that over a long period of time, political morality has been as high as business morality.

Henry Steele Commage

When someone is giving you their theology, their God words, you should listen hard and be very gentle. The time to deliver your God words is when you are asked.

Real Live Preacher, Real Live Preacher weblog, 03 - 25 - 05

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

The Interstate Commerce commission, as its functions have now been limited by the courts is, or can be made, of great use to the railroads. It satisfies the public clamor for a government supervision of railroads, at the same time that that supervision is almost entirely nominal.

Richard Olney, a lawyer for the Boston & Maine and Attorney General under Grover Cleveland, advising a railroad president

Remember It is 10 times harder to command the ear than to catch the eye.

Duncan Maxwell Anderson

Even in literature and art, no man who bothers about originality will ever be original whereas if you simply try to tell the truth without caring twopence how often it has been told before you will, nine times out of ten, become original without ever having noticed it.

Clive Staples Lewis