Time Quotes

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

Adlai E. Stevenson, J

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

H. L. Mencken

I will persist until I succeed. Always will I take another step. If that is of no avail I will take another, and yet another. In truth, one step at a time is not too difficult.... I know that small attempts, repeated, will complete any undertaking.

Og Mandino

Friendship based solely upon gratitude is like a photograph with time it fades.

Carmen Sylva

Lost wealth may be replaced by industry, lost knowledge by study, lost health by temperance or medicine, but lost time is gone forever.

Samuel Smiles

Time is like a river. It flows one direction, But with a little force you can go back. But like a river, Everything you do has a ripple.

Kevin R. Hutson

Sentimentality is a superstructure covering brutality.

C. J. Jung

Every time we remember to say thank you, we experience nothing less than heaven on earth.

Sarah Ban Breathnach

Those disputing, contradicting, and confuting people are generally unfortunate in their affairs. They get victory, sometimes, but they never get good will, which would be of more use to them.

Benjamin Franklin

This quote reminds me to enjoy each moment of the summer Steep thyself in a bowl of summertime.

Virgil

Procrastination is the thief of time.

Edward Young

The ideals which have lighted my way, and time after time have given me new courage to face life cheerfully, have been Kindness, Beauty, and Truth. The trite subjects of human efforts, possessions, outward success, luxury have always seemed to me contemptible.

Albert Einstein

It takes less time to do things right than to explain why you did it wrong.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

A man has no more character than he can command in a time of crisis.

Anonymous

Vietnam is a jungle. You had jungle warfare. Kuwait, Iraq, Saudi Arabia, you have sand. There is no need to worry about a protracted war because from a historical basis, Middle East conflicts do not last a long time.

Dan Quayle, 10/2/90 (reported in Esquire, 8/92)

There are truths which are not for all men, nor for all times.

Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire

Let the refining and improving of your own life keep you so busy that you have little time to criticize others.

H. Jackson Browne

Time is the fire in which we burn.

Gene Roddenberry

Times of general calamity and confusion create great minds. The purest ore is produced from the hottest furnace, and the brightest thunderbolt is elicited from the darkest storms.

Charles Caleb Colton

Time - - Our youth - - It never really goes, does it It is all held in our minds.

Helen Hoover Santmye

Nay, tempt me not to love again There was a time when love was sweet Dear Nea had I known thee then, Our souls had not been slow to meet But oh this weary heart hath run So many a time the rounds of pain, Not even for thee, thou lovely one Would I endure such pangs again.

Sir Thomas More

There is a time for departure even when there is no certain place to go.

Tennessee Williams

Indeed, what is there that does not appear marvelous when it comes to our knowledge for the first time How many things, too, are looked upon as quite impossible until they have been actually effected.

Pliny the Elde

The ultimate wisdom which deals with beginnings, remains locked in a seed. There it lies, the simplest fact of the universe and at the same time the one which calls faith rather than reason.

Hal Borland

Sometimes your joy is the source of your smile, but sometimes your smile can be the source of your joy.

Thich Nhat Hanh

Once upon a time there was an old country, wrapped up in habit and caution. ... We have to transform our old France into a new country and marry it to its time.

Charles De Gaulle

The good times of today are the sad thoughts of tomorrow.

Bob Marley

Truth has no special time of its own. Its hour is now - - Always.

Albert Schweitze

There are times when I think that the ideal library is composed solely of reference books. They are like understanding friends - Always ready to meet your mood, always ready to change the subject when you have had enough of this or that.

Donald J. Adams

By the time your life is finished, you will have learned just enough to begin it well.

Eleanor Marx

If you want to succeed in the world you must make your own opportunities as you go on. The man who waits for some seventh wave to toss him on dry land will find that the seventh wave is a long time a - Coming. You can commit no greater folly than to sit by the road side until someone comes along and invites you to ride with him to wealth or influence.

John B. Gough

We think very little of time present; we anticipate the future, as being too slow, and with a view to hasten it onward, we recall the past to stay it as too swiftly gone. We are so thoughtless, that we thus wander through the hours which are not here, regardless only of the moment that is actually our own.

Blaise Pascal

We are told that talent creates its own opportunities. But it sometimes seems that intense desire creates not only its own opportunities, but its own talents.

Eric Hoffe

EVERY path may lead you to God, even the weird ones. Most of us are on a journey. Were looking for something, though were not always sure what that is. The way is foggy much of the time. I suggest you slow down and follow some of the side roads that appear suddenly in the mist.

Real Live Preache

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

Baltasar Gracian

It is sometimes expedient to forget who we are.

Publilius Syrus (c. 42 BC)

Indeed, what is there that does not appear marvelous when it comes to our knowledge for the first time? How many things, too, are looked upon as quite impossible until they have been actually effected?

Pliny the Elder, Natural History