Time Quotes

Time is Too slow for those who wait, Too swift for those who fear, Too long for those who grieve, Too short for those who rejoice, But for those who love Time is not.

Henry Van Dyke

Persistence is the twin sister of excellence. One is a matter of quality the other, a matter of time.

Marabel Morgan

Do not confine your children to your own learning, for they were born in another time.

Hebrew Prove

Time is the least thing we have.

Ernest Hemingway

The real menace in dealing with a five - Year - Old is that in no time at all you begin to sound like a five - Year - Old.

Jean Ke

We never shall have any more time we have, and we have always had, all the time there is.

Dr. Thomas Arnold Bennett

But pain... seems to me an insufficient reason not to embrace life. Being dead is quite painless. Pain, like time, is going to come on regardless. Question is, what glorious moments can you win from life in addition to the pain?

Lois McMaster Bujold, "Barrayar", 1991

Every great improvement has come after repeated failure. Virtually nothing comes out right the first time. Failures, repeated failures, are the posts on the road to achievement.

Charles F. Kettering, quoted in Globe and Mail, Toronto, June 18, 2004, page A16, mkesterton@globeandmail. ca

The function of a briefing paper is to prevent the ambassador from saying something dreadfully indiscreet. I sometimes think its true object is to prevent the ambassador from saying anything at all.

Kingman Brewster, Jr.

A man is what he is, not what men say he is. His character no man can touch. His character is what he is before his God and his Judge; and only he himself can damage that. His reputations what men say he is. That can be damaged; but reputation is for time, character is for eternity.

John Ballantine Gough

Procrastination is the thief of time.

Edward Young

We cannot destroy kindred Our chains stretch a little sometimes, but they never break.

Marie de Rabutin - Chantal

The only obligation which I have a right to assume, is to do at any time what I think right.

Henry David Thoreau, Civil Disobience

Our deeds disguise us. People need endless time to try on their deeds, until each knows the proper deeds for him to do. But every day, every hour, rushes by. There is no time.

Haniel Long

Fish, to taste good, must swim three times in water, in butter, and in wine.

Polish Prove

Never shall I forget the times I spent with you continue to be my friend, as you will always find me yours.

Ludwig van Beethoven

A word out of season may mar a whole lifetime.

Greek Prove

You have to be realistic about terrorism. Certain groups of people, certain groups, Muslim fundamentalists, Christian fundamentalists, Jewish fundamentalists, and just plain guys from Montanta, are going to continue to make life in this country very interesting for a long, long time.

George Carlin, You Are All Diseased

No amount of time can erase the memory of a good cat and no amount of masking tape can ever totally remove his fur from your couch.

Leo Buscaglia

The first time Adam had a chance, he laid the blame on woman.

Nancy Asto

History balances the frustration of how far we have to go with the satisfaction of how far we have come. It teaches us tolerance for the human shortcomings and imperfections which are not uniquely of our generation, but of all time.

Lewis F. Powell, Jr.

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

This is an important announcement. This is flight 121 to Los Angeles. If your travel plans today do not include Los Angeles, now would be a perfect time to disembark.

Douglas Adams, "So Long and Thanks For All The Fish".

Truth or tact You have to choose. Most times they are not compatible.

Eddie Canto

Sometimes the child in one behaves a certain way and the rest of oneself follows behind, slowly shaking its head.

Niels Henrik David Boh

A dying man needs to dye, as a sleepy man needs to sleep, and there comes a time when it is wrong, as well as useless to resist.

Steward Alsop

There comes a time in the affairs of man when he must take the bull by the tail and face the situation.

W. C. Fields

Look at everything as though you were seeing it for the first time or the last time. Then your time on earth will be filled with glory.

Betty Smith

As blushing will sometimes make a whore pass for a virtuous woman, so modesty may make a fool seem a man of sense.

Jonathan Swift

Truth has not special time of its own. Its hour is now - - Always and indeed then most truly when it seems unsuitable to actual circumstances.

Albert Schweitze

We are weighed down, every moment, by the conception and the sensation of Time. And there are but two means of escaping and forgetting this nightmare: pleasure and work. Pleasure consumes us. Work strengthens us. Let us choose.

Charles Baudelaire

Every composer knows the anguish and despair occasioned by forgetting ideas which one had no time to write down.

Hector Berlioz

Attacking is the only secret. Dare and the world always yields or if it beats you sometimes, dare it again and it will succumb.

William Makepeace Thackeray

The great omission in American life is solitude... that zone of time and space, free from the outside pressures, which is the incinerator of the spirit.

Marya Mannes

No matter how long it takes, If you keep moving, One step at a time, You will reach the finish line...

Unknown

We need quiet time to examine our lives openly and honestly... spending quiet time alone gives your mind an opportunity to renew itself and create order.

Susan Taylo

Wait for that wisest of all counselors, Time.

Pericles, from Plutarch, Lives