Time Quotes

William shakespeare, macbeth, act 1 scene 3 - come what come may, time and the hour runs...
We can lick gravity, but sometimes the paperwork is overwhelming.
Wernher von Braun
We have talked long enough in this country about equal rights. ... It is time now to write the next chapter - And to write it in the books of law.
Lyndon B. Johnson
We trained hard, but it seemed that every time we were beginning to form up into teams we would be reorganised.? I was to learn later in life that we tend to meet any new situation by reorganising: and a wonderful method it can be for creating the illusion of progress, while producing confusion, inefficiency and demoralisation.
Caius Petronius, Roman Consul, 66 A. D.
He who seldom speaks, and with one calm well - Timed word can strike dumb the loquacious, is a genius or a hero.
Johann Kaspar Lavate
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
Time is the scarcest resource and unless it is managed nothing else can be managed.
Peter Drucke
Buddha - times of luxury do not last long, but pass away...
Let the refining and improving of your own life keep you so busy that you have little time to criticize others.
H. Jackson Browne
When clouds form in the skies we know that rain will follow but we must not wait for it. Nothing will be achieved by attempting to interfere with the future before the time is ripe. Patience is needed.
I Ching
There are times of pure joy when you wish all human life well.
Francis Bacon
Buying books would be a good thing if one could also buy the time to read them in but as a rule the purchase of books is mistaken for the appropriation of their contents.
Arthur Schopenhaue
To us, the moment 8: 17 A. M. means something - Something very important, if it happens to be the starting time of our daily train. To our ancestors, such an odd eccentric instant was without significance - Did not even exist. In inventing the locomotive, Watt and Stevenson were part inventors of time.
Aldous Huxley
Know thyself, said the old philosopher, improve thyself, saith the new. Our great object in time is not to waste our passions and gifts on the things external that we must leave behind, but that we cultivate within us all that we can carry into the eternal progress beyond.
Edward Bulwer - Lytton
The future comes one day at a time.
Dean Gooderham Acheson
LOVE: A word properly applied to our delight in particular kinds of food; sometimes metaphorically spoken of the favorite objects of all our appetites.
Henry Fielding
You can do only one thing at a time. I simply tackle one problem and concentrate all efforts on what I am doing at the moment.
Dr. Maxwell Maltz
I see music as the augmentation of a split second of time.
Erin Cleary
The illusion that times that were are better than those that are, has probably pervaded all ages.
Horace Greeley
It requires a great deal of boldness and a great deal of caution to make a great fortune and when you have got it, it requires ten times as much wit to keep it.
Mayer Amschal Rothschild
All the beautiful sentiments in the world weigh less than a single lovely action.
James Russell Lowell
It was an interesting experience being metropolitan editor of the Times, in precisely the same way as being simmered in a saucepan for a few years is terribly interesting.
A. M. Rosenthal
Beauty is a form of genius - - Is higher, indeed, than genius, as it needs no explanation. It is of the great facts in the world like sunlight, or springtime, or the reflection in dark water of that silver shell we call the moon.
Oscar Wilde
The two most powerful warriors are patience and time.
Leo Tolstoy
Temptation rarely comes in working hours. It is in their leisure time that men are made or marred.
W. N. Taylo
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
I have sometimes been wildly, despairingly, acutely miserable... but through it all I still know quite certainly that just to be alive is a grand thing.
Agatha Christie
On the whole human beings want to be good, but not too good, and not quite all the time.
George Orwell
A thought is often original, though you have uttered it a hundred times.
Oliver Wendell Holmes, The Autocrat of the Breakfast - Table, 1858
Nothing is more powerful than an idea whose time has come.
Victor Hugo
Punctuality is the thief of time.
Oscar Wilde
Seeds of faith are always within us; sometimes it takes a crisis to nourish and encourage their growth.
Susan Taylo
No man is truly great, who is great only in his life - Time. The test of greatness is the page of history.
William Hazlitt, on the Pleasure of Hating
Revolution is not a onetime event.
Audre Lorde
One loses all the time which he might employ to better purpose.
Jean - Jacques Rousseau
By the time a man notices that he is no longer young, his youth has long since left him.
W. Somerset Maugham
Accept that all of us can be hurt, that all of us can - - And surely will at times - - Fail. I think we should follow a simple rule: if we can take the worst, take the risk.
Dr. Joyce Brothers
Man is sometimes extraordinarily, passionately, in love with suffering.
Feodor Mikhailovich Dostoyevsky
You want to raise your child in such a way that you don? t have to control him, so that he will be in full possession of himself at all times. Upon that depends his good behavior, his health, his sanity.
L. Ron Hubbard, Book: Child Dianetics
Every time I see an adult on a bicycle, I no longer despair for the future of the human race.
H. G. Wells