Time Quotes

The tree of Liberty needs to be watered from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.

Thomas Jefferson

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

Napoleon Bonaparte

Billy Sometimes I feel like an idiot. But I am an idiot, so it kinda works out.

Billy Madison

Sometimes you gotta create what you want to be a part of.

Geri Weitzman

Sometimes the road less traveled is less traveled for a reason.

Jerry Seinfeld

You are young, my son, and, as the years go by, time will change and even reverse many of your present opinions. Refrain therefore awhile from setting yourself up as a judge of the highest matters.

Plato, Dialogues, Theatetus

What is this life if, so full of care, We have no time to stand and stare.

W. H. Davies

There are two ways of resisting war: the legal way and the revolutionary way. The legal way involves the offer of alternatinve service not as a privilege for a few but as a right for all. The revolutionary view involves an uncompromising resistance, with a view to breaking the power of militarism in time of peace or the resources of the state in time of war.

Albert Einstein

Time ripens all things. No man is born wise.

Miguel de Cervantes

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

I was always looking outside myself for strength and confidence, but it comes from within. It is there all the time.

Anna Freud

Time is but the stream I go a - Fishing in. I drink at it but as I drink, I see the sandy bottom and detect how shallow it is.

Henry David Thoreau, Walden

The conquest of the earth... is not a pretty thing when you look into it too much. What redeems it is the idea only... not a sentimental pretence but an idea.

Joseph Conrad, Heart of Darkness

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

Marcus Aurelius Antoninus

The honey from the flowers of the senses, Ever present within, ruler of time, Goes beyond fear. For this Self is Supreme.

Maitri Upanishads

The guardian angels of life sometimes fly so high as to be beyond our sight, but they are always looking down upon us.

Jean Paul Friedrich Richte

In all things preserve integrity; and the consciousness of thine own uprightness will alleviate the toil of business, soften the hardness of ill - Success and disappointments, and give thee an humble confidence before God, when the ingratitude of man, or the iniquity of the times may rob thee of other rewards.

Barbara Paley

Man does not live by words alone, despite the fact that he sometimes has to eat them.

Adlai E. Stevenson Jr.

I believe that there never was a creator of a philosophical system who did not confess at the end of his life that he had wasted his time. It must be admitted that the inventors of the mechanical arts have been much more useful to men that the inventors of syllogisms. He who imagined a ship towers considerably above him who imagined innate ideas.

Voltaire

To hate and to fear is to be psychologically ill... it is, in fact, the consuming illness of our time.

H. A. Overstreet

Everywhere is nowhere. When a person spends all his time in foreign travel, he ends by having many acquaintances, but no friends.

Lucius Annaeus Seneca

We were all born with wings. In times of doubt spread them.

Unknown

Nothing is a waste of time if you use the experience wisely.

Rodin

In a free society no one can win all the time. No one can have his way all the time and no one is right all the time.

Richard M. Nixon

The experience of democracy is like the experience of life itself - Always changing, infinite in its variety, sometimes turbulent and all the more valuable for having been tested by adversity.

James Earl Jimmy Carter, Jr.

His mother called such people ignorant and superstitious, but his father only shook his head slowly and puffed his pipe and said that sometimes old stories had a grain or two of truth in them and it was best not to take chances. It was why, he said, he crossed himself whenever a black cat crossed his path.

Stephen King

You can overcome any obstacles by asking the right questions of the right people at the right time, then act on that advice with passion.

Dan Surface, The One Business Book You Absolutely Must Own!

A great artist is always before his time or behind it.

George Moore

Healing is a matter of time, but it is sometimes also a matter of opportunity.

Hippocrates, Precepts

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

The subtlety of nature is greater many times over than the subtlety of the senses and understanding.

Sir Francis Bacon

The greatest lesson in life is to know that even fools are right sometimes.

Winston Churchill

An executive is a person who always decides sometimes he decides correctly, but he always decides.

John H. Patterson

Sometimes... when you stand face to face with someone, you cannot see his face. Following summit meeting with Ronald Reagan.

Mikhail Sergeyevich Gorbachev

There is one thing stronger than all the armies of the world, and that is an idea whose time has come.

Victor Hugo

Cowards die many times before their deaths; The valiant never taste of death but once. Of all the wonders that I yet have heard, It seems to me most strange that men should fear; Seeing that death, a necessary end, Will come when it will come.

William Shakespeare, "Julius Caesar", Act 2 scene 2

Children begin by loving their parents as they grow older they judge them sometimes they forgive them.

Oscar Wilde