Time Quotes

How much time he saves who does not look to see what his neighbor says or does or thinks.

Marcus Aurelius Antoninus

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

When clouds form in the skies we know that rain will follow but we must not wait for it. Nothing will be achieved by attempting to interfere with the future before the time is ripe. Patience is needed.

I Ching

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

Adlai E. Stevenson, J

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

Marcus Aurelius Antoninus

In this country England it is well to kill from time to time an admiral to encourage the others.

Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire

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

Three minutes thought would suffice to find this out but thought is irksome and three minutes is a long time.

A. E. Houseman

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.

Joyce

The board is set, the pieces are moving. We come to it at last... The great battle of our time.

J. R. R. Tolkien, Gandalf, The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King

To be always intending to live a new life, but never find time to set about it - This is as if a man should put off eating and drinking from one day to another till he be starved and destroyed.

Sir Walter Scott

When vultures watching your civilization begin dropping dead, it is time to pause and wonder.

David Browe

This is Chris - In - The - Morning with the weather and time - - 24 hours later than it was yesterday and cold.

Andrew Schneide

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

In a time of drastic change it is the learners who inherit the future. The learned usually find themselves equipped to live in a world that no longer exists.

Eric Hoffe

I have no expectation of making a hit every time I come to bat. What I seek is the highest possible batting average.

Franklin Delano Roosevelt

The only man who behaves sensibly is my tailor he takes my measure anew every time he sees me, whilst all the rest go on with their old measurements, and expect them to fit me.

George Bernard Shaw

I think and think for months and years. Ninety - Nine times, the conclusion is false. The hundredth time I am right.

Albert Einstein

The truth, of course, is that a billion falsehoods told a billion times by a billion people are still false.

Travis Walton

The human race is faced with a cruel choice: work or daytime television.

Unknown

Remember folks. Street lights timed for 35 mph are also timed for 70 mph.

Jim Samuels

There is a remedy for all things but death, which will be sure to lay us out flat some time or other.

Miguel de Cervantes

Of all the communities available to us there is not one I would want to devote myself to, except for the society of the true searchers, which has very few living members at any time.

Albert Einstein

Procrastination is the thief of time.

Edward Young

Sometimes I have a terrible feeling that I am dying not from the virus, but from being untouchable.

Amanda Heggs

I find the great thing in this world is not so much where we stand, as in what direction we are moving - - we must sail sometimes with the wind and sometimes against it - - But we must sail, and not drift, nor lie at anchor.

Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.

Whatever you are from nature, keep to it; never desert your own line of talent. Be what nature intended you for, and you will succeed; be anything else, and you will be ten thousands times worse than nothing.

Sydney Smith

Time gives good advice.

Maltese Prove

Prefer loss to the wealth of dishonest gain; the former vexes you for a time; the latter will bring you lasting remorse.

Chilo

Children are entitled to their otherness, as anyone is and when we reach them, as we sometimes do, it is generally on a point of sheer delight, to us so astonishing, but to them so natural.

Alastair Reid

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

I believe that all government is evil, and that trying to improve it is largely a waste of time.

H. L. Mencken

You can fool too many of the people too much of the time.

James Thurber, New Yorker, Apr. 29, 1939 "The Owl who was God".

Continuous unremitting darkness has been known to send some people into an emotional tailspin, so the management here at KBHR radio suggests locking away the firearms. The desire to stick that 45 between the teeth can get pretty strong at times, so why invite temptation.

Andrew Schneide

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

We barely have time to react in this world, let alone rehearse.

Ani Difranco, Letter to a John

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