Time Quotes

Lost wealth may be replaced by industry, lost knowledge by study, lost health by temperance or medicine, but lost time is gone forever.

Samuel Smiles

There is a vitality, a life force, an energy, a quickening, that is translated through you into action, and because there is only one of you in all time, this expression is unique. And if you block it, it will never exist through any other medium and will be lost.

Martha Graham

If a problem has no solution, it may not be a problem, but a fact - Not to be solved, but to be coped with over time.

Shimon Peres

The first time you do the impossible, it may take a little longer.

Sheila M. Kelly

A simple fact that is hard to learn is that the time to save money is when you have some.

Joe Moore

On the whole human beings want to be good, but not too good, and not quite all the time.

George Orwell

il faut laisser du temps au temps you have to give time time - Approximate translation.

Francois Mitterand

Inside each and every one of us is a person that no one knows. A person, should you take the time to look, is waiting to be discovered, Wanting you to take notice. Take a few minutes every day and sit down to chat to this person. Who knows what you may learn.

Neill MacRae

It takes no more time to see the good side of life than to see the bad.

Jimmy Buffet, Tales Form Margaritaville

You conquer every hardness with your eyes, as you do likewise every light; so if it can happen that one can die of joy, now would be the time.

Michelangelo, Poem Fragment

Indeed, what is there that does not appear marvelous when it comes to our knowledge for the first time? How many things, too, are looked upon as quite impossible until they have been actually effected?

Pliny the Elder, Natural History

Take Nothing but Pictures. Leave nothing but footprints. Kill nothing but time.

Motto of the Baltimore Grotto (caving society)

Sometimes love will pick you up by the short hairs... and jerk the heck out of you.

Denise Dobbs, Northern Exposure, Survival of the Species, 1993

War is the biggest ego trip of all time.

Molly Wiest

Come out of the circle of time And into the circle of love.

Jalal ud - Din Rumi

Creatures whose mainspring is curiosity enjoy the accumulating of facts far more than the pausing at times to reflect on those facts.

Clarence Day

To stop the flow of music would be like the stopping of time itself, incredible and inconceivable.

Aaron Copland

Empires do not suffer emptiness of purpose at the time of their creation. It is when they have become established that aims are lost and replaces by vague ritual.

Frank Herbert, Dune

All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given to us.

J. R. R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring

More than any time in history mankind faces a crossroads. One path leads to despair and utter hopelessness, the other to total extinction. Let us pray that we have the wisdom to choose correctly.

Woody Allen

Never bear more than one trouble at a time. Some people bear three kinds - All they have had, all they have now, and all they expect to have.

Edward Everett Hale

There is a time for departure even when there is no certain place to go.

Tennessee Williams

In Biblical times, a man could have as many wives as he could afford. Just like today.

Abigail Van Buren

We trained hard, but it seemed 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.

From Petronii Arbitri Satyricon AD 66 (Attributed to Gaius Petronus, a Roman General who later committed suicide)

With time and patience the mulberry leaf becomes a silk gown.

Chinese prove

Grief and tragedy and hatred are only for a time. Goodness, remembrance and love have no end.

George W. Bush

Any great work of art revives and readapts time and space, and the measure of its success is the extent to which it makes you an inhabitant of that world - - The extent to which it invites you in and lets you breathe its strange, special air.

Leonard Bernstein

A successful marriage requires falling in love many times, always with the same person.

Mignon McLaughlin

Quarrel not at all. No man resolved to make the most of himself can spare time for personal contention.

Abraham Lincoln, in a letter to J. M. Cutts, October 26, 1863

We shall not cease from our exploration, and at the end of all our exploring, we shall arrive where we started and know the place for the first time.

T. S. Eliott

Life is short and we have never too much time for gladdening the hearts of those who are traveling the dark journey with us. Oh be swift to love, make haste to be kind.

Henri Frdric Amiel

I try to do the right thing at the right time. They may just be little things, but usually they make the difference between winning and losing.

Kareem Abdul - Jaba

My evening visitors, if they cannot see the clock, should find the time in my face.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Imagine if every Thursday your shoes exploded if you tied them the usual way. This happens to us all the time with computers, and nobody thinks of complaining.

Jef Raskin

The character inherent in the American people has done all that has been accomplished; and it would have done somewhat more, if the government had not sometimes got in its way.

Henry David Thoreau

Millions of men have lived to fight, build palaces and boundaries, shape destinies and societies; but the compelling force of all times has been the force of originality and creation profoundly affecting the roots of human spirit.

Ansel Adams

Nothing, of course, begins at the time you think it did.

Lillian Hellman, An Unfinished Woman, 1969