Time Quotes

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

Adlai E. Stevenson Jr.

The effects of kindness are not always seen immediately, Sometimes it takes years until your kindness will pay off, And is returned to you. And sometimes you never see the fruits of your labors, But they are there, Deep inside of the soul of the one you touched.

Dan Kelly

Gossip is sometimes referred to as halitosis of the mind.

Author Unknown

Time the devourer of all things.

Ovid, Metamorphoses

However gradual the course of history, there must always be the day, even an hour and minute, when some significant action is performed for the first or last time.

Peter Quennell

Very few of the great leaders ever get through their careers without failing, sometimes dramatically.

Philip Crosby, Reflections on Quality

The opportunity for brotherhood presents itself every time you meet a human being.

Jane Wyman

Time invested in improving ourselves cuts down on time wasted in disapproving of others.

Author Unknown

A well cultivated mind is made up of all the minds of preceding ages; it is only the one single mind educated by all previous time.

Fontenelle

All that really belongs to us is time even he who has nothing else has that.

Baltasar Gracian

It takes less time to do things right than to explain why you did it wrong.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

You are amazing. You are a shooting star. I will follow you forever no distance is too far. Never take for granted your abilty to fly. At times stop and rest, but quickly get back up before your dreams pass you by.

Eric Pio

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

Martin Luther King Jr., Strength to Love, 1963

Indeed, what is there that does not appear marvelous when it comes to our knowledge for the first time? How many things, too, are looked upon as quite impossible until they have been actually effected?

Pliny the Elder, Natural History

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

Sarah Ban Breathnach

Never say never, for if you live long enough, chances are you will not be able to abide by its restrictions. Never is a long, undependable time, and life is too full of rich possibilities to have restrictions placed upon it.

Gloria Swanson

The 6s, of course, was the worst time in the world to try to bring up a child. They were exposed to all these crazy things going on.

Nancy Davis Reagan

Proverbs are in the world of thought what gold coin is in the world of business - Great value in small compass, and equally current among all people. Sometimes the proverb may be false, the coin counterfeit, but in both cases the false proves the value of the true.

D. March

For all their strength, men were sometimes like little children.

Lawana Blackwell, The Dowry of Miss Lydia Clark, 1999

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

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

English Prove

What is life It is the flash of a firefly in the night. It is the breath of a buffalo in the winter time.

Crowfoot

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

A conservative is a man who believes that nothing should be done for the first time.

Alfred E. Wiggam

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

Unknown

I went to a restaurant that serves breakfast at any time. So I ordered French Toast during the Renaissance.

Steven Wright, Standup Comedy Routine

The continued propinquity of another human being cramps the style after a time unless that person is somebody you think you love. Then the burden becomes intolerable at once.

Quentin Crisp

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

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

Our greatest glory consists not in never failing, but in rising every time we fall.

Vincent Van Gogh

Art enables us to find ourselves and lose ourselves at the same time.

Thomas Merton

Courage is sometimes frail as hope is frail a fragile shoot between two stones that grows brave toward the sun though warmth and brightness fail, striving and faith the only strength it knows.

Frances Rodman

I am just going outside and may be some time.

Captain Lawrence Oates, last words

There was never anything by the wit of man so well devised, or so sure established, which in continuance of time hath not been corrupted.

Book of Common Praye

It takes a lot of time to be a genius, you have to sit around so much doing nothing, really doing nothing.

Gertrude Stein

In time we hate that which we often fear.

William Shakespeare

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

Old School