Time Quotes

Time is the best teacher, but unfortunately, it kills all of its students.

Robin Williams

A boy can learn a lot from a dog obedence, loyalty, and the importance of turning around three times before lying down.

Robert Charles Benchley

Life offers two great gifts - - Time, and the ability to choose how we spend it. Planning is a process of choosing among those many options. If we do not choose to plan, then we choose to have others plan for us.

Richard I. Winword

No great thing is created suddenly, any more than a bunch of grapes or a fig. If you tell me that you desire a fig, I answer you that there must be time. Let it first blossom, then bear fruit, then ripen.

Epictetus

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

Baltasar Gracian

Though I am not naturally honest, I am so sometimes by chance.

William Shakespeare

People often say that humans have always eaten animals, as if this is a justification for continuing the practice. According to this logic, we should not try to prevent people from murdering other people, since this has also been done since the earliest of times.

Isaac Bashevis Singe

Life is action and passion therefore, it is required of a man that he should share the passion and action of the time, at peril of being judged not to have lived.

Oliver Wendell Holmes

One may discover a new side to his most intimate friend when for the first time he hears him speak in public. He will be stranger to him as he is more familiar to the audience. The longest intimacy could not foretell how he would behave then.

Henry David Thoreau

Each memorable verse of a true poet has two or three times the written content.

Alfred De Musset

In times of profound change, the learners inherit the earth, while the learned find themselves beautifully equipped to deal with a world that no longer exists.

Al Rogers

There is no royal road to anything. One thing at a time, all things in succession. That which grows fast, withers as rapidly. That which grows slowly, endures.

Josiah Gilbert Holland

Our whole life is an attempt to discover when our spontaneity is whimsical, sentimental irresponsiblity and when it is a valid expression of our deepest desires and values.

Helen Merrell Lynd

Careful with fire is good advice we know. Careful with words is ten times doubly so.

William Carleton

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

Realize that true happiness lies within you. Waste no time and effort searching for peace and contentment and joy in the world outside. Remember that there is no happiness in having or in getting, but only in giving. Reach out. Share. Smile. Hug. Happiness is a perfume you cannot pour on others without getting a few drops on yourself.

Og Mandino

Your only obligation in any lifetime is to be true to yourself.

Richard Bach

Time flies like an arrow. Fruit flies like a banana.

Lisa Grossman

The mind ought sometimes to be diverted that it may return the better to thinking.

Phaedrus

Never try to tell everything you know. It may take too short a time.

Norman Ford

The test of a first - Rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in the mind at the same time, and still retain the ability to function.

F. Scott Fitzgerald

History is a cyclic poem written by Time upon the memories of man.

Percy Bysshe Shelley

At the bottom every man knows well enough that he is a unique human being, only once on this earth; and by no extraordinary chance will such a marvelously picturesque piece of diversity in unity as he is, ever be put together a second time.

Friedrich Nietzsche

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

English Prove

Time spent in the advertising business seems to create a permanent deformity like the Chinese habit of foot - Binding.

Dean Gooderham Acheson

Mighty are the winds of time, which sweep away the despair of a broken heart, which blow back the essence of life, which refresh the soul with yet another sweet countenance.

Dax Ward

The journey is difficult, immerse. We will travel as far as we can, but we cannot in one lifetime see all that we would like to see or to learn all that we hunger to know.

Loren Eiseley

Grow old along with me The best is yet to be, The last of life, for which the first was made Our times are in his hand who saith, A whole I planned, Youth shows but half trust God See all, nor be afraid.

Robert Browning

It is sometimes expedient to forget who we are.

Publilius Syrus (c. 42 BC)

You go to war with the Army you have. They? re not the Army you might want or wish to have at a later time.

Donald Rumsfeld, http: //www. dod. gov/transcripts/2004/tr20041208 - Secdef1761. html

People find life entirely too time - Consuming.

Stanislaw J. Lec, "Unkempt Thoughts".

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

Falsehood is never so successful as when she baits her hook with truth, and no opinions so fatally mislead us, as those that are not wholly wrong; as no watches so effectually deceive the wearer as those that are sometimes right.

C. C. Colton

Desperation is sometimes as powerful an inspirer as genius.

Benjamin Disraeli

The world is divided into two kinds of people, those who spend a great deal of time saving money, and those who spend a great deal of money saving time.

Peter Cochrane, Head of BT Labs UK taling about the internet - November 2000

If one is master of one thing and understands one thing well, one has at the same time, insight into and understanding of many things.

Vincent van Gogh

You cannot truly listen to anyone and do anything else at the same time.

M. Scott Peck