Time Quotes
If I had permitted my failures, or what seemed to me at the time a lack of success, to discourage me I cannot see any way in which I would ever have made progress.Calvin Coolidge
Our greatest glory consists not in never failing, but in rising every time we fall.Vincent Van Gogh
My object all sublime I shall achieve in time...W. S. Gilbert, The Mikado, 1885
Defining and analyzing humor is a pastime of humorless people.Robert Benchley
Perhaps in time the so - Called Dark Ages will be thought of as including our own.Georg Christoph Lichtenberg
Must be out - Of - Doors enough to get experience of wholesome reality, as a ballast to thought and sentiment. Health requires this relaxation, this aimless life.Henry David Thoreau
The only time anyone has ever gotten into serious trouble was when he decided he could do nothing about something.L. Ron Hubbard, Book: Dianetics 55
Those who say truth is stranger than fiction have wasted their time on poorly written fiction.Mark Twain
If we work upon marble, it will perish if we work upon brass, time will efface it if we rear temples, they will crumble into dust but if we work upon immortal minds and instill into them just principles, we are then engraving that upon tablets which no time will efface, but will brighten and brighten to all eternity.Daniel Webste
Sex: the thing that takes up the least amount of time and causes the most amount of trouble.John Barrymore
To do nothing is sometimes a good remedy.Hippocrates
The wise man thinks about his troubles only when there is some purpose in doing so; at other times he thinks about others things.Bertrand Russell
The only man who behaves sensibly is my tailor he takes my measure anew every time he sees me, whilst all the rest go on with their old measurements, and expect them to fit me.George Bernard Shaw
Sometimes when you look in his eyes you get the feeling that someone else is driving.David Letterman
A simple fact that is hard to learn is that the time to save money is when you have some.Joe Moore
Men have died from time to time, and worms have eaten them, but not for love.William Shakespeare
I think that we have created a new kind of person in a way. We have created a child who will be so exposed to the media that he will be lost to his parents by the time he is 12.David Bowie
No nation ancient or modern ever lost the liberty of freely speaking, writing, or publishing their sentiments, but forthwith lost their liberty in general and became slaves.John Peter Zenge
How much easier it is to be generous than just Men are sometimes bountiful who are not honest.Junius
For the very first time the young are seeing history being made before it is censored by their elders.Margaret Mead
Cowardice asks the question - Is it safe? Vanity asks the question - Is it popular? Expediency asks the question - Is it political? But conscience asks the question - Is it right? There comes a time when one must take a position that is neither safe, popular, or political; but because it is right.Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
If you listened hard enough the first time, you might have heard what I meant to say.Unknown
Millions of men have lived to fight, build palaces and boundaries, shape destinies and societies but the compelling force of all times has been the force of originality and creation profoundly affecting the roots of human spirit.Ansel Adams
Much speech is one thing, well - Timed speech is another.Sophocles
You cannot hope to build a better world without improving the individuals. To that end each of us must work for his own improvement, and at the same time share a general responsibility for all humanity, our particular duty being to aid those to whom we think we can be most useful.Marie Curie
Time discovers truth.Lucius Annaeus Seneca
We trained very hard, but it seemed that every time we were beginning to form into teams we would be reorganised. I was to learn later in life that we tend to meet any new situation by reorganising, and a wonderful method it can be for creating the illusion of progress, while producing confusion, inefficiency and demoralisation.Gaius Petronius
We think sometimes that poverty is only being hungry, naked and homeless. The poverty of being unwanted, unloved and uncared for is the greatest poverty. We must start in our own homes to remedy this kind of poverty.Mother Theresa
I sometimes think that God, in creating man, overestimated His ability.Oscar Wilde
Time is: Too slow for those who wait, too swift for those who fear.Henry van Dyke
Education is an admirable thing, but it is well worth remembering from time to time that nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.Oscar Wilde
In this sad world of ours, sorrow comes to all... Perfect relief is not possible, except with time. You cannot now realize that you will ever feel better... And yet this is a mistake. You are sure to be happy again.Abraham Lincoln
The important thing is to learn a lesson every time you lose.John McEnroe
He who has done his best for his own time has lived for all times.Johann von Schille
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
You begin saving the world by saving one person at a time; all else is grandiose romanticism or politics.Charles Bukowski
Healing is a matter of time, but it is sometimes also a mater of opportunity.Hippocrates
