Time Quotes
Greatness is not in were we stand, but in what direction we are moving. We must sail sometimes with the wind, and somtimes agaisnt it - But sail we must. And not drift, nor lie at anchor.Oliver Wendell Holmes
Patience and time do more than strength or passion.Jean de La Fontaine
About the time we think we can make ends meet, somebody moves the ends.Herbert Hoove
When asked what was the proper time for supper If you are a rich man, whenever you please; and if you are a poor man, whenever you can.Diogenes the Cynic, from Diogenes Laertius, Lives of Eminent Philosophers
Remember that time is money.Benjamin Franklin
If I had the time to sit down and write a thank - You note to everyone who sent me a nice, expensive present, what a wonderful world that would be.Jack Handey Deep Thoughts
All the President is, is a glorified public relations man who spends his time flattering, kissing and kicking people to get them to do what they are supposed to do anyway.Harry S Truman, Letter to his sister, Nov. 14, 1947
Away back in that time - In 1492 - There was a man by the name of Columbus came from across the great ocean, and he discovered the country for the white man... What did he find when he first arrived here Did he find a white man standing on the continent then... I stood here first, and Columbus first discovered me.Chitto Harjo
For hatred does not cease by hatred at any time hatred ceases by love - This is an old rule.The Dhammapada
One may walk over the highest mountain one step at a time.John Wanamake
We must adjust to changing times and still hold to unchanging principles.James Earl Jimmy Carter, Jr.
The opportunity for brotherhood presents itself every time you meet a human being.Jane Wyman
Time is what prevents everything from happening at once.John Archibald Wheeler, American J. of Physics, 1978, 46, 323
I am often troubled as I try hard here to create a new sense of common purpose... that sometimes we forget that we are all in this because we are seeking a good that helps all Americans.William Jefferson Clinton
This is, I say, the time for all good men not to go to the aid of their party, but to come to the aid of their country.Eugene McCarthy
Emc Energy equals mass times the square of the speed of light. Original statement If a body gives off the energy L in the form of radiation, its mass diminshes by Lc.Albert Einstein
Sometimes old things need to go away. That way, we have room for the new things that come into our lives.Randy K. Milholland, Something Positive webcomic, 09 - 17 - 05
Most people my age are dead at the present time.Casey Stengel
Life is short. Time is fleeting. Realize the Self. Purity of the heart is the gateway to God. Aspire. Renounce. Meditate. Be good do good. Be kind be compassionate. Inquire, know Thyself.Swami Sivanada
All this will not be finished in the first 100 days. Nor will it be finished in the first 1, 000 days, nor in the life of this administration, nor even perhaps in our lifetime on this planet. But let us begin.John F. Kennedy, inaugural address, 1961
Every time you get angry, you poison your own system.Alfred Montapert
The beauty of daylight - Saving time is that it just makes everyone feel sunnier.Edward Markey, quoted in Associated Press, July 22, 2005
But I am sure that I have always thought of Christmas time, when it has come round... as a good time a kind, forgiving, charitable, pleasant time the only time I know of, in the long calendar of the year, when men and women seem by one consent to open their shut - Up hearts freely.Charles Dickens
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
We shall not cease from our exploration And at the end of all our exploring Will be to arrive where we started And know the place for the first time.T. S. Eliot
The guardian angels of life sometimes fly so high as to be beyond our sight, but they are always looking down upon us.Jean Paul Friedrich Richte
History, although sometimes made up of the few acts of the great, is more often shaped by the many acts of the small.Mark Yost
An unhurried sense of time is in itself a form of wealth.Bonnie Friedman, in New York Times
I learned... that inspiration does not come like a bolt, nor is it kinetic, energetic striving, but it comes into us slowly and quietly and all the time, though we must regularly and every day give it a little chance to start flowing, prime it with a little solitude and idleness.Brenda Ueland
As life is action and passion, it is required of a man that he should share the passion and action of his time, at peril of being judged not to have lived.Oliver Wendell Holmes
False enchantment can last a lifetime.W. H. Auden
If I had to select one quality, one personal characteristic that I regard as being most highly correlated with success, whatever the field, I would pick the trait of persistence. Determination. The will to endure to the end, to get knocked down seventy times and get up off the floor saying, Here comes number seventy - One.Richard M. Devos
Your soul is oftentimes a battlefield, upon which your reason and your judgment wage war against passion and your appetite.Kahlil Gibran, The Prophet
Sometimes a noble failure serves the world as faithfully as a distinguished success.Edward Dowden
Sometimes when you look in his eyes you get the feeling that someone else is driving.David Letterman
How frequently the last time comes and we do not know.John Walte
One loses all the time which he might employ to better purpose.Jean - Jacques Rousseau
