Time Quotes

Now, now my good man, this is no time for making enemies.

Voltaire, on his deathbed in response to a priest asking that he renounce Satan

Cowards die many times before their deaths The valiant never taste of death but once. Of all the wonders that I yet have heard, It seems to me most strange that men should fear Seeing that death, a necessary end, Will come when it will come.

William Shakespeare

The only time you ever run out of chances is when you stop taking them.

Patty Labelle

A Multitasking Timex Sinclai.

Matt Sorrels in reference to Andrew running X - Windows

Much speech is one thing, well - Timed speech is another.

Sophocles

Everywhere is nowhere. When a person spends all his time in foreign travel, he ends by having many acquaintances, but no friends.

Lucius Annaeus Seneca

If you want to succeed in the world you must make your own opportunities as you go on. The man who waits for some seventh wave to toss him on dry land will find that the seventh wave is a long time a - Coming. You can commit no greater folly than to sit by the road side until someone comes along and invites you to ride with him to wealth or influence.

John B. Gough

I sometimes think that God, in creating man, overestimated His ability.

Oscar Wilde

Sometimes I worry about being a success in a mediocre world.

Lily Tomlin

A conservative is a man who does not think that anything should be done for the first time.

Frank Vanderlip

Even the best of friends need time apart.

Mark Heath, Spot the Frog, 09 - 09 - 05

Time is dead as long as it is being clicked off by little wheels; only when the clock stops does time come to life.

William Faulkne

Come what come may, Time and the hour runs through the roughest day.

William Shakespeare, Macbeth, Act 1 Scene 3

I hope that while so many people are out smelling the flowers, someone is taking the time to plant some.

Herbert Rappaport

Art enables us to find ourselves and lose ourselves at the same time.

Thomas Merton

If we had no winter, the spring would not be so pleasant if we did not sometimes taste of adversity, prosperity would not be so welcome.

Anne Bradstreet

All this will not be finished in the first hundred days. Nor will it be finished in the first thousand days, nor in the life of this administration, nor even perhaps in our lifetime on this planet. But let us begin.

John Fitzgerald Kennedy

The secret of life is enjoying the passage of time.

James Taylo

There comes a time when for every addition of knowledge you forget something that you knew before. It is of the highest importance, therefore, not to have useless facts elbowing out the useful ones.

Conan Doyle

Time as he grows old teaches all things.

Aeschylus, Prometheus Bound

Worry a little bit every day and in a lifetime you will lose a couple of years. If something is wrong, fix it if you can. But train yourself not to worry. Worry never fixes anything.

Mary Hemingway

The board is set, the pieces are moving. We come to it at last... The great battle of our time.

J. R. R. Tolkien, Gandalf, The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King

Each time you are honest and conduct yourself with honesty, a success force will drive you toward greater success. Each time you lie, even with a little white lie, there are strong forces pushing you toward failure.

Joseph Sugarman

When one is happy there is no time to be fatigued; being happy engrosses the whole attention.

E. F. Benson

Arithmetic is where the answer is right and everything is nice and you can look out of the window and see the blue sky - - Or the answer is wrong and you have to start over and try again and see how it comes out this time.

Carl Sandburg

If you want to make good use of your time, you? ve got to know what? s most important and then give it all you? ve got.

Lee Iacocca

Time crumbles things everything grows old under the power of Time and is forgotten through the lapse of Time.

Aristotle

What is a seer? A man who with luck tells the truth sometimes, with frequent falsehoods, but when his luck deserts him, collapses then and there.

Achilles, Euripides, Iphigenia in Aulis 955

We think very little of time present; we anticipate the future, as being too slow, and with a view to hasten it onward, we recall the past to stay it as too swiftly gone. We are so thoughtless, that we thus wander through the hours which are not here, regardless only of the moment that is actually our own.

Blaise Pascal

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

I fear not, I see not reason for fear. In the end we will be the victors. For though at times the flame of liberty may cease to shine, the ember will never expire.

Thomas Paine

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

If it is your time, love will track you down like a cruise missile.

Lynda Barry

Each time a person stands up for an ideal, or acts to improve the lot of others, or strikes out against injustice, he sends forth a tiny ripple of hope, and crossing each other from a million different centers of energy and daring, these ripples build a current that can sweep down the mightiest walls of oppression and resistance.

Robert Francis Kennedy

Hardly a competent workman can be found who does not devote a considerably amount of time to studying just how slowly he can work and convince his employer that he is going at a good price.

Frederick Winslow Taylo

If you do a good job for others, you heal yourself at the same time, because a dose of joy is a spiritual cure.

Dietrich Bonhoeffe

There was a definite process by which one made people into friends, and it involved talking to them and listening to them for hours at a time.

Rebecca West