Time Quotes

So little time, so little to do.
Oscar Levant
On the whole human beings want to be good, but not too good, and not quite all the time.
George Orwell
No one can deny that much of our modern advertising is essentially dishonest; and it can be maintained that to lie freely and all the time for private profit is not to abuse the right of free speech, whether it is a violation of the law or not. But again the practical question is, how much lying for private profit is to be permitted by law?
Carl L. Becke
Tyron edwards - science has sometimes been said to be opposed to...
Even in literature and art, no man who bothers about originality will ever be original whereas if you simply try to tell the truth without caring twopence how often it has been told before you will, nine times out of ten, become original without ever having noticed it.
Clive Staples Lewis
Sir winston churchill - it is a mistake to try to look too far ahead. the...
Great men of action... never mind on occasion being ridiculous in a sense it is part of their job, and at times they all are. A prophet or an achiever must never mind an occasional absurdity, it is an occupational risk.
Oswald Mosley
Mornings are wonderful! The only drawback is that they come at such an inconvenient time of day!
Glen Cook, Sweet Silver Blues
Often sound advice turns out to be totally wrong. Sometimes things turn out in such a way that only a fool would predict. Which is why fools, too, have their place in analysis and debate.
Unknown
The service you do for others is the rent you pay for the time you spend on earth.
Mohammed Ali
The truth, the hope of any time, must always be sought in minorities.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Men have died from time to time, and worms have eaten them, but not for love.
William Shakespeare
The young always have the same problem - How to rebel and conform at the same time. They have now solved this by defying their parents and copying one another.
George Chapman
In an information world where we all have someday to say it is important to remember that sometimes we need to listen.
Robert Anthony, Great American Poets 2004
A man is wise with the wisdom of his time only, and ignorant with its ignorance. Observe how the greatest minds yield in some degree to the superstitions of their age.
Henry David Thoreau
Happy is he who still loves something he loved in the nursery He has not been broken in two by time he is not two men, but one, and he has saved not only his soul, but his life.
Gilbert Keith Chesterton
Doing a thing well is often a waste of time.
Robert Byrne
Time is the great legalizer, even in the field of morals.
Henry Louis Mencken
Sometimes it is a great joy just to listen to someone we love talking.
Vincent McNa
George william curtis - it is not observed in history that families...
The function of science fiction is not always to predict the future but sometimes to prevent it.
Frank Herbert
Let us make one point, that we meet each other with a smile, when it is difficult to smile. Smile at each other, make time for each other in your family.
Mother Teresa, in her Nobel lecture
A learned man is an idler who kills time with study. Beware of his false knowledge it is more dangerous than ignorance.
George Bernard Shaw
When I am abroad, I always make it a rule never to criticize or attack the government of my own country. I make up for lost time when I come home.
Sir Winston Churchill
Let the refining and improving of your own life keep you so busy that you have little time to criticize others.
H. Jackson Browne
Do the one thing you think you cannot do. Fail at it. Try again. Do better the second time. The only people who never tumble are those who never mount the high wire. This is your moment. Own it.
Oprah Winfrey, O Magazine, September 2003
Courage changes things for the better... With courage you can stay with something long enough to succeed at it, realizing that it usually takes two, three or four times as long to succeed as you thought or hoped.
Earl Nightingale
I thank my God everytime I remember you.
Philippians 13 NIV Bible
You can live a lifetime and, at the end of it, know more about other people than you know about yourself.
Beryl Markham
Be not as one that hath ten thousand years to live death is nigh at hand while thou livest, while thou hast time, be good.
Marcus Aurelius Antoninus
Since you are like no other being ever created since the beginning of time, you are incomparable.
Brenda Ueland
I have no expectation of making a hit every time I come to bat. What I seek is the highest possible batting average.
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
Spring is the time of the year, when it is summer in the sun and winter in the shade.
Charles Dickens, Great expectations
The test of a first - Rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in mind at the same time and still retain the ability to function.
F. Scott Fitzgerald
The failure of the mind in old age is often less the results of natural decay, than of disuse. Ambition has ceased to operate; contentment bring indolence, and indolence decay of mental power, ennui, and sometimes death. Men have been known to die, literally speaking, of disease induced by intellectual vacancy.
Sir B. Brodie
The two most powerful warriors are patience and time.
Leo Tolstoy
The truth, of course, is that a billion falsehoods told a billion times by a billion people are still false.
Travis Walton
He who every morning plans the transaction of the day and follows out that plan, carries a thread that will guide him through the maze of the most busy life. But where no plan is laid, where the disposal of time is surrendered merely to the chance of incidence, chaos will soon reign.
Victor Hugo
The American Constitution is, so far as I can see, the most wonderful work ever struck off at a given time by the brain and purpose of man.
William Gladstone
The greatest glory in living lies not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.
Nelson Mandela