Time Quotes

Set priorities for your goals. A major part of successful living lies in the ability to put first things first. Indeed, the reason most major goals are not achieved is that we spend our time doing second things first.

Robert J. McKain

Lost time is never found again.

Benjamin Franklin

Truth is the daughter of time.

Aulus Gellius

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

Adlai E. Stevenson, J

Spare minutes are the Gold - Dust of time; the portions of life most fruitful in good and evil; the gaps through which temptations enter.

Author Unknown

We live in a time of such rapid change and growth of knowledge that only he who is in a fundamental sense a scholar - That is, a person who continues to learn and inquire - Can hope to keep pace, let alone play the role of guide.

Nathan M. Pusey

Summertime, and the living is easy.

George Gershwin, Porgy and Bess

The honest poor can sometimes forget poverty. The honest rich can never forget it.

G. K. Chesterton

Son, in war times it is not safe to think unless one travels with the mob.

Charles Lindberg Sr. to Charles Lindberg Jr. in 1917

History, although sometimes made up of the few acts of the great, is more often shaped by the many acts of the small.

Mark Yost

Every time I see an adult on a bicycle, I no longer despair for the future of the human race.

H. G. Wells

I feel it is time that I also pay tribute to my four writers, Matthew, Mark, Luke and John.

Fulton John Sheen

He waited for the mask to drop off, but at the same time he did not question her right to wear it.

F. Scott Fitzgerald

I get up every morning determined to both change the world and have one hell of a good time. Sometimes this makes planning my day difficult.

E. B. White

Spring is the time of the year, when it is summer in the sun and winter in the shade.

Charles Dickens, Great expectations

Life is like an ice - Cream cone, you have to lick it one day at a time.

Charles M. Schulz, as "Charlie Brown", Peanuts, cartoon strip

The cynics are right nine times out of ten.

H. L. Mencken

The true traveler is he who goes on foot, and even then, he sits down a lot of the time.

Colette, Paris From My Window, 1944

I honestly believe that in my lifetime we will see a country once again governed by Christians... and Christian values. What Christians have got to do is take back this country, one precinct at a time, one neighborhood at a time, and one state at a time.

Ralph Reed, Executive Director, the Christian Coalition

It is an illusion that youth is happy, an illusion of those who have lost it but the young know they are wretched for they are full of the truthless ideal which have been instilled into them, and each time they come in contact with the real, they are bruised and wounded.

W. Somerset Maugham

When you meet your antagonist, do everything in a mild and agreeable manner. Let your courage be as keen, but at the same time as polished, as your sword.

Richard Brinsley Sheridan

As we look deeply within, we understand our perfect balance. There is no fear of the cycle of birth, life and death. For when you stand in the present moment, you are timeless.

Rodney Yee

Wisdom is ofttimes nearer when we stoop Than when we soar.

William Wordsworth

I give myself, sometimes, admirable advice, but I am incapable of taking it.

Mary Montagu

Vladimir That passed the time. Estragon It would have passed in any case. Vladimir Yes, but not so rapidly.

Samuel Beckett

Bureaucracy defends the status quo long past the time when the quo has lost its status.

Laurence J. Pete

All truly wise thoughts have been thought already thousands of times but to make them truly ours, we must think them over again honestly, till they take root in our personal experience.

Johann von Goethe

You need only claim the event of your life to make yourself yours. When you truly possess all you have been and done, which may take some time, you are fierce with reality.

Florida Scott - Maxwell, Oprah Magazine, May 2004

In an information world where we all have someday to say it is important to remember that sometimes we need to listen.

Robert Anthony, Great American Poets 2004

Take time to deliberate but when the time for action arrives, stop thinking and go in.

Andrew Old Hickory Jackson

Sometimes you cannot believe what you see, you have to believe what you feel. And if you are ever going to have other people trust you, you must feel that you can trust them, too - - Even when you? re in the dark. Even when you? re falling.

Morrie Schwartz, Tuesdays with Morrie by Mitch Albom

Drinking without being thirsty and making love at any time, Madame, are the only things that distinguish us from other animals.

Beaumarchis

I foresee the time when industry shall no longer denude the forests which require generations to mature, nor use up the mines which were ages in the making, but shall draw its materials largely from the annual produce of the fields.

Henry Ford, 1934

The future comes one day at a time.

Dean Gooderham Acheson

Half the world does not know the joys of wearing cotton underwear. promoting US exports, as quoted in Time.

Phil Gramm

For whereas the mind works in possibilities, the intuitions work in actualities, and what you intuitively desire, that is possible to you. Whereas what you mentally or consciously desire is nine times out of ten impossible; hitch your wagon to star, or you will just stay where you are.

D. H. Lawrence

Eternity is a long time, especially towards the end.

Woody Allen