Time Quotes

Procrastination is the thief of time.

Edward Young

Friendship based solely upon gratitude is like a photograph with time it fades.

Carmen Sylva

What a time experiences as evil, is usually an untimely echo of what was formerly experienced as good - - The atavism of a more ancient ideal.

Friedrich Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil

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

Marie de Rabutin - Chantal

There isnt much better in this life than finding a way to spend a few hours in conversation with people you respect and love. You have to carve this time out of your life because you arent really living without it.

Real Live Preache

You begin saving the world by saving one person at a time all else is grandiose romanticism or politics.

Charles Bukowski

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.

How can a question be answered that asks a lifetime of questions?

Norman Maclean, A River Runs Through It

The soul is created in a place between Time and Eternity with its highest powers it touches Eternity, with its lower Time.

Johannes Meister Eckhart

I never deny, I never contradict. I sometimes forget.

Benjamin Disraeli

Life is made up of constant calls to action, and we seldom have time for more than hastily contrived answers.

Learned Hand

Just as you began to feel that you could make good use of time, there was no time left to you.

Lisa Althe

If you want creative workers, give them enough time to play.

John Cleese

My object all sublime I shall achieve in time...

W. S. Gilbert, The Mikado, 1885

A thought is often original, though you have uttered it a hundred times.

Oliver Wendell Holmes, The Autocrat of the Breakfast - Table, 1858

The reserve of modern assertions is sometimes pushed to extremes, in which the fear of being contradicted leads the writer to strip himself of almost all sense and meaning.

Sir Winston Churchill

Time flies like an arrow. Fruit flies like a banana.

Lisa Grossman

Truth is the daughter of time.

Aulus Gellius

Since the dawn of time there have been those among us who have been willing to go to extraordinary lengths to gain access to that domain normally reserved for birds, angels, and madmen.

Steven B. Beach, Paraglider magazine, Vol. 1 No. 2

Fall seven times, stand up eight.

Japanese Prove

Everytime you smile at someone, it is an action of love, a gift to that person, a beautiful thing.

Mother Theresa

We may not know the whole story in our lifetime. On assassination of President John F Kennedy.

Earl Warren

One dies only once, and then for such a long time.

Moliere

A stitch in time would have confused Einstein.

Unknown

Determine never to be idle. No person will have occasion to complain of the want of time who never loses any. It is wonderful how much may be done if we are always doing.

Thomas Jefferson

Religions must continue to evolve to keep up with changing times, because only fittest shall survive.

B. J. Gupta

Reading is sometimes an ingenious device for avoiding thought.

Sir Arthur Helps

Though I am not naturally honest, I am so sometimes by chance.

William Shakespeare

Baseball is the only field of endeavor where a man can succeed three times out of ten and be considered a good performer.

Ted Williams

Time is but the stream I go a - Fishing in. I drink at it but as I drink, I see the sandy bottom and detect how shallow it is.

Henry David Thoreau, Walden

Every time we say, Let there be in any form, something happens.

Stella Terrill Mann

Time is precious, but truth is more precious than time.

Benjamin Disraeli

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

Sophocles

The greatest loss of time is delay and expectation. I never yet talked to the man who wanted to save time who could tell me what he was going to do with the time he saved.

Will Rogers

If you lead a country like Britain, a strong country, a country which has taken a lead in world affairs in good times and in bad, a country that is always reliable, then you have to have a touch of iron about you.

Margaret Hilda Thatche

Old age equalizes - we are aware that what is happening to us has happened to untold numbers from the beginning of time. When we are young we act as if we were the first young people in the world.

Jane Harrison

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

Jalal ud - Din Rumi