Time Quotes

A well cultivated mind is made up of all the minds of preceding ages; it is only the one single mind educated by all previous time.

Fontenelle

You may deceive all the people part of the time, and part of the people all the time, but not all the people all the time.

Abraham Lincoln

There is nothing remarkable about it, all one has to do is hit the right keys at the right time and the instrument plays itself.

J. S. Bach

When I hear music, I fear no danger. I am invulnerable. I see no foe. I am related to the earliest times, and to the latest.

Henry David Thoreau

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

Rodin

People call me feminist whenever I express sentiments that differentiate me from a doormat or a prostitute.

Rebecca West

The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.

Thomas Jefferson

It has been my observation that most people get ahead during the time that others waste.

Henry Ford

One glance at a book and you hear the voice of another person, perhaps someone dead for 1, 000 years. To read is to voyage through time.

Carl Sagan

Being rich is having money being wealthy is having time.

Margaret Bonnano

Time is what prevents everything from happening at once.

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

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

Adlai E. Stevenson Jr.

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

When the leadership is right and the time is right, the people can always be counted upon to follow - - To the end at all costs.

Harold J. Seymou

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

Jerry Seinfeld

Since I do not foresee that atomic energy is to be a great boon for a long time, I have to say that for the present it is a menace. Perhaps it is well that it should be. It may intimidate the human race into bringing order into its international affairs, which, without the pressure of fear, it would not do.

Albert Einstein

Every time you get angry, you poison your own system.

Alfred Montapert

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

Author Unknown

Sometimes when you look in his eyes you get the feeling that someone else is driving.

David Letterman

Times of luxury do not last long, but pass away very quickly nothing in this world can be long enjoyed.

Buddha

Sometimes I worry about being a success in a mediocre world.

Lily Tomlin

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

Each time a person stands up for an ideal, or acts to improve the lot of others, or strikes out against injustice, he sends forth a tiny ripple of hope, and crossing each other from a million different centers of energy and daring, these ripples build a current that can sweep down the mightiest walls of oppression and resistance.

Robert Francis Kennedy

Sometimes I wonder if men and women really suit each other. Perhaps they should live next door and just visit now and then.

Katharine Hepburn

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

John Lithgow

Son, in war times it is not safe to think unless one travels with the mob.

Charles Lindberg Sr. to Charles Lindberg Jr. in 1917

Time does not change us. It just unfolds us.

Max Frisch

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

We must not, in trying to think about how we can make a big difference, ignore the small daily differences we can make which, over time, add up to big differences that we often cannot foresee.

Marian Wright Edelman

So little time, so little to do.

Oscar Levant

Sometimes it is said that man cannot be trusted with the governing of himself. Can he, then, be trusted with the government of others? Or have we found angels in the forms of kings to govern him? Let history answer this question.

Thomas Jefferson, First Inaugural Address

Watch for good times to retreat into yourself. Frequently meditate on how good God is to you.

Thomas a Kempis, quoted in the LDS Church News 8/20/2005

I hope that while so many people are out smelling the flowers, someone is taking the time to plant some.

Herbert Rappaport

Enemies, as well as lovers, come to resemble each other over a period of time.

Sydney Harris

I remember how, in college, I got that part - Time job as a circus clown, and how the children would laugh and laugh at me. I vowed, then and there, that I would get revenge.

Jack Handey Deep Thoughts

We generate our own environment. We get exactly what we deserve. How can we resent the life weve created for ourselves? Whos to blame, whos to credit, but us? Who can change it anytime we wish, but us?

Richard Bach, One

It is odd but agitation or contest of any kind gives a rebound to my spirits and sets me up for a time.

George Gordon Byron