Time Quotes

I fear not, I see not reason for fear. In the end we will be the victors. For though at times the flame of liberty may cease to shine, the ember will never expire.

Thomas Paine

When you read history it is quite astonishing to discover that there never was a day when men thought times were really good. Every generation in history has been haunted by the feeling of crisis.

Harold Walke

To us, the moment 8: 17 A. M. means something - Something very important, if it happens to be the starting time of our daily train. To our ancestors, such an odd eccentric instant was without significance - Did not even exist. In inventing the locomotive, Watt and Stevenson were part inventors of time.

Aldous Huxley

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

Baltasar Gracian

What a cunning mixture of sentiment, pity, tenderness, irony surrounds adolescence, what knowing watchfulness Young birds on their first flight are hardly so hovered around.

Georges Bernanos

Mornings are wonderful! The only drawback is that they come at such an inconvenient time of day!

Glen Cook, Sweet Silver Blues

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

Albert Einstein, Sc

That which the dream shows is the shadow of such wisdom as exists in man, even if during his waking state he may know nothing about it... We do not know it because we are fooling away our time with outward and perishing things, and are asleep in regard to that which is real within ourself.

Philipus Aureolus Paracelsus

Men have died from time to time, and worms have eaten them, but not for love.

William Shakespeare

Immorality: the morality of those who are having a better time.

H. L. Mencken

Asking to meet with Italian businessmen instead of government officials. I want to talk to these people because they stay in power and you change all the time.

Nikita Khrushchev

Playing seems to be both disinterested and passionate at the same time disinterested in that it is not for real, and passionate in the absorption it requires.

Oliver Bevan

If there is any period one would desire to be born in, is it not the age of Revolution when the old and the new stand side by side... when the glories of the old can be compensated by the rich possibilities of the new era This time... is a very good one...

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Sometimes, indeed, there is such a discrepancy between the genius and his human qualities that one has to ask oneself whether a little less talent might not have been better.

Carl Jung

Youth is not a time of life, it is a state of mind. You are as old as your doubt, your fear, your despair. The way to keep young is to keep your faith young. Keep your self confidence young. Keep your hope young.

Luella F. Phean

Your joy is your sorrow unmasked. And the self - Same well from which your laughter rises was often - Times filled with your tears.

Rene Descartes

Sometimes I think the surest sign that intelligent life exists elsewhere in the universe is that none of it has tried to contact us.

Bill Watterson, cartoonist

You can convince anyone of anything if you just push it at them 100% of the time. They may not believe it completely, but they will still use it to form opinions, especially if they have nothing else to draw on.

Charles Manson

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

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.

Dr. Joyce Brothers

A week is a long time in politics.

Harold Wilson

Let us make one point, that we meet each other with a smile, when it is difficult to smile. Smile at each other, make time for each other in your family.

Mother Teresa, in her Nobel lecture

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

George Sanders

I feel like a million tonight - - - But one at a time.

Mae West

He who every morning plans the transaction of the day and follows out that plan, carries a thread that will guide him through the maze of the most busy life. But where no plan is laid, where the disposal of time is surrendered merely to the chance of incidence, chaos will soon reign.

Victor Hugo

I passionately hate the idea of being with it, I think an artist has always to be out of step with his time.

Orson Welles

Nine - Tenths of wisdom consists in being wise in time.

Theodore Roosevelt

Your first appearance, he said to me, is the gauge by which you will be measured try to manage that you may go beyond yourself in after times, but beware of ever doing less.

Jean Jacques Rousseau

May every young scientist remember... and not fail to keep his eyes open for the possibility that an irritating failure of his apparatus to give consistent results may once or twice in a lifetime conceal an important discovery.

Baron Patrick Maynard Stuart Blackett

The Green Bay Packers never lost a football game. They just ran out of time.

Vince Lombardi

Courage changes things for the better... With courage you can stay with something long enough to succeed at it, realizing that it usually takes two, three or four times as long to succeed as you thought or hoped.

Earl Nightingale

Under all speech that is good for anything there lies a silence that is better. Silence is deep as Eternity speech is shallow as Time.

Thomas Carlyle

Beware of sentimental alliances where the consciousness of good deeds is the only compensation for noble sacrifices.

Otto von Bismarck, Bismarck and the German Empire by Erich Eyck

Sometimes our light goes out but is blown into flame by another human being. Each of us owes deepest thanks to those who have rekindled this light.

Albert Schweitze

Attacking is the only secret. Dare and the world always yields; or if it beats you sometimes, dare it again and it will succumb.

William Makepeace Thackeray

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

Plutarch

Look at everything as though you were seeing it for the first time or the last time. Then your time on earth will be filled with glory.

Betty Smith