Time Quotes

A man who dares to waste one hour of time has not discovered the value of life.

Charles Robert Darwin

The time is always right to do what is right.

Martin Luther King Jr.

I must have a prodigious quantity of mind it takes me as much as a week, sometimes, to make it up.

Mark Twain

Do not hover always on the surface of things, nor take up suddenly, with mere appearances; but penetrate into the depth of matters, as far as your time and circumstances allow, especially in those things which relate to your profession.

Isaac Watts

What is life It is the flash of a firefly in the night. It is the breath of a buffalo in the winter time.

Crowfoot

This is no time to act like a gentleman. I am a cad and shall react like one.

George Sanders

There comes a time when summer asks what you have been doing all winter.

Unknown

Your joy is your sorrow unmasked. And the self - Same well from which your laughter rises was often - Times filled with your tears.

Rene Descartes

It sometimes seems that we have only to solve a thing greatly to get it.

Robert Collie

Ask others about themselves, at the same time, be on guard not to talk too much about yourself.

Mortimer Adle

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

Sometimes the heart sees what is invisible to the eye.

Unknown

Each time we re - Read a book we get more out of it because we put more into it a different person is reading it, and therefore it is a different book.

Muriel Clark

Life is a corrupting process from the time a child learns to play his mother off against his father in the politics of when to go to bed he who fears corruption fears life.

Saul David Alinsky

Take life one basket at a time.

Jackie Wilson

Yes, we have to divide up our time like that, between our politics and our equations. But to me our equations are far more important, for politics are only a matter of present concern. A mathematical equation stands forever.

Albert Einstein

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

There is a time for some things, and a time for all things a time for great things, and a time for small things.

Miguel de Cervantes

The greatest loss of time is delay and expectation. I never yet talked to the man who wanted to save time who could tell me what he was going to do with the time he saved.

Will Rogers

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

H. L. Mencken

A boy can learn a lot from a dog: obedience, loyalty, and the importance of turning around three times before lying down.

Robert Benchley

We must use time as a tool, not as a crutch.

John F. Kennedy

The Unexpected always comes at the most awkward times.

Larry Niven

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 still believe in liberalism today as much as I ever did, but, oh, there was a happy time when I believed in liberals...

G. K. Chesterton

Wisdom born of experience should tell us that war is obsolete. There may have been a time when war served as a negative good by preventing the spread and growth of an evil force... If we assume that life is worth living, if we assume that mankind has the right to survive, then we must find an alternative to war.

Martin Luther King Jr., The Christmas Sermon On Peace in on Dec 24, 1967

A society of sheep must in time beget a government of wolves.

Bertrand de Jouvenal

There is no greater sorrow Than to be mindful of the happy time In misery.

Dante Alighieri

Nothing in life is to be feared, it is only to be understood. Now is the time to understand more, so that we may fear less.

Marie Curie

Your first appearance, he said to me, is the gauge by which you will be measured; try to manage that you may go beyond yourself in after times, but beware of ever doing less.

Jean Jacques Rousseau

The future comes one day at a time.

Dean Gooderham Acheson

The trouble with being poor is that it takes up all your time.

Willem de Kooning

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

Plutarch

Any great work of art... revives and readapts time and space, and the measure of its success is the extent to which it makes you an inhabitant of that world - - The extent to which it invites you in and lets you breathe its strange, special air.

Leonard Bernstein

The man whose acquisitions stick is the man who is always achieving and advancing whilst his neighbors, spending most of their time in relearning what they once knew but have forgotten, simply hold their own.

William James

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

Norman Maile

I have been driven many times to my knees by the overwhelming conviction that I had nowhere else to go. My own wisdom, and that of all about me seemed insufficient for the day.

Abraham Lincoln