Time Quotes

But already it is time to depart, for me to die, for you to go on living; which of us takes the better course, is concealed from anyone except God.

Socrates, Apology, (Plato)

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

Plutarch

All the President is, is a glorified public relations man who spends his time flattering, kissing and kicking people to get them to do what they are supposed to do anyway.

Harry S Truman, Letter to his sister, Nov. 14, 1947

The writer who possesses the creative gift owns something of which he is not always master - Something that at time strangely wills and works for itself.

Charlotte Bronte

Take life one basket at a time.

Jackie Wilson

Doing a thing well is often a waste of time.

Robert Byrne

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

I cannot afford to waste my time making money.

Jean Louis Rodolphe Agassiz

Certain souls seem hard because they are capable of strong feelings, and they sometimes go to rather extreme lengths their apparent unconcern and cruelty are but ways, known only to themselves, of feeling more strongly than others.

Marquis de Sade

A friend loveth at all times, and a brother is born for adversity.

Proverbs 1717 Bible

When I was a child, there were times when we had to entertain ourselves. And usually the best way to do that was to turn on the TV.

Jack Handey Deep Thoughts

The greatest friend of Truth is time, her greatest enemy is Prejudice, and her constant companion Humility.

Charles Caleb Colton

What is a seer? A man who with luck tells the truth sometimes, with frequent falsehoods, but when his luck deserts him, collapses then and there.

Achilles, Euripides, Iphigenia in Aulis 955

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

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

On Thanksgiving Day all over America, families sit down to dinner at the same moment - Halftime.

Unknown

Sentimentality is the emotional promiscuity of those who have no sentiment.

Norman Maile

Your decision to be, have and do something out of ordinary entails facing difficulties that are out of the ordinary as well. Sometimes your greatest asset is simply your ability to stay with it longer than anyone else.

Brian Tracy

Fear clouds your mind, it distracts your thoughts, to survive in dangerous times you must learn to supress it and think.

Unknown

Man is always more than he can know of himself consequently, his accomplishments, time and again, will come as a surprise to him.

Golo Mann

All great achievements require time.

David Joseph Schwartz

Sometimes it is more important to discover what one cannot do, than what one can do.

Lin Yutang

Time is what prevents everything from happening at once.

John Archibald Wheeler, American J. of Physics, 1978, 46, 323

What a terrible time this is to be a Christian. The churches have failed and betrayed us, and the ministry preaches hate and murder. If there is a sane and reasoning voice in the Christian church today it is sadly silent.

Francois Arouet

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

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

To fail is a natural consequence of trying, To succeed takes time and prolonged effort in the face of unfriendly odds. To think it will be any other way, no matter what you do, is to invite yourself to be hurt and to limit your enthusiasm for trying again.

David Viscott

As if you could TELL time without injuring eternity.

Matthew Ryan

Time sneaks up on you like a windshield on a bug.

John Lithgow

Time is the great legalizer, even in the field of morals.

Henry Louis Mencken

For the first time in the history of our country the majority of our people believe that the next five years will be worse than the past five years.

James Earl Jimmy Carter, Jr.

If you get up one time more than you fall, you will make it through.

Author Unknown

No one can possibly know what is about to happen it is happening, each time, for the first time, for the only time.

James Arthur Baldwin

Arithmetic is where the answer is right and everything is nice and you can look out of the window and see the blue sky - - Or the answer is wrong and you have to start over and try again and see how it comes out this time.

Carl Sandburg

Waste no more time arguing what a god man should be. Be one.

Marcus Aurelius, Meditations? Book Ten

Desperation is sometimes as powerful an inspirer as genius.

Benjamin Disraeli

Wait for that wisest of all counselors, Time.

Pericles, from Plutarch, Lives