Time Quotes

Half our life is spent trying to find something to do with the time we have rushed through life trying to save.

Will Rogers, New York TImes, Apr. 29, 1930

They were so strong in their beliefs that there came a time when it hardly mattered what exactly those beliefs were; they all fused into a single stubbornness.

Louise Erdrich

If we do not ever take time, how can we ever have time?

Wachowski Brothers, The Matrix Reloaded

The American Constitution is, so far as I can see, the most wonderful work ever struck off at a given time by the brain and purpose of man.

William Gladstone

Sometimes our light goes out but is blown into flame by another human being. Each of us owes deepest thanks to those who have rekindled this light.

Albert Schweitze

Heaven endures and the earth last a long time because they do not live for themselves.

Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching

For whereas the mind works in possibilities, the intuitions work in actualities, and what you intuitively desire, that is possible to you. Whereas what you mentally or consciously desire is nine times out of ten impossible; hitch your wagon to star, or you will just stay where you are.

D. H. Lawrence

How soon hath Time, the subtle thief of youth, Stolen on his wing my three - And - Twentieth yea.

John Milton

It is in men as in soils where sometimes there is a vein of gold which the owner knows not of.

Jonathan Swift

I... have never been able to find out precisely what feminism is. I only know that people call me a feminist when I express sentiments that differentiate me from a doormat, or a prostitute.

Rebecca West

Art produces ugly things which frequently become more beautiful with time. Fashion, on the other hand, produces beautiful things which always become ugly with time.

Jean Cocteau

It takes a lot of time to be a genius, you have to sit around so much doing nothing, really doing nothing.

Gertrude Stein

If you realize too acutely how valuable time it, you are too paralyzed to do anything.

Katharine Butler Hathaway

I am just going outside and may be some time.

Captain Lawrence Oates, last words

Let others praise ancient times; I am glad I was born in these.

Ovid

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

All human power is a compound of time and patience.

Honore de Balzac

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

Remember! Things in life will not always run smoothly. Sometimes we will be rising toward the heights - Then all will seem to reverse itself and start downward. The great fact to remember is that the trend of civilization itself is forever upward, that a line drawn through the middle of the peaks and the valleys of the centuries always has an upward trend.

Endicott Peabody

Sometimes I wonder if men and women really suit each other. Perhaps they should live next door and just visit now and then.

Katharine Hepburn

Have patience awhile; slanders are not long - Lived. Truth is the child of time; erelong she shall appear to vindicate thee.

Immanuel Kant

It is sometimes expedient to forget who we are.

Publilius Syrus (c. 42 BC)

No man resolved to make the most of himself has time to waste on personal contention.

Abraham Lincoln

Sentimentality is the emotional promiscuity of those who have no sentiment.

Norman Maile

Employ thy time well, if thou meanest to get leisure.

Benjamin Franklin

A man who dares to waste one hour of time has not discovered the value of life.

Charles Robert Darwin

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

Sometimes it is a great joy just to listen to someone we love talking.

Vincent McNa

There is no greater sorrow Than to be mindful of the happy time In misery.

Dante Alighieri

I sometimes think that the saving grace of America lies in the fact that the overwhelming majority of Americans are possessed of two great qualities - A sense of humor and a sense of proportion.

Franklin D. Roosevelt

Seeds of faith are always within us; sometimes it takes a crisis to nourish and encourage their growth.

Susan Taylo

Everyone who achieves success in a great venture, solved each problem as they came to it. They helped themselves. And they were helped through powers known and unknown to them at the time they set out on their voyage. They kept going regardless of the obstacles they met.

Clement Stone

This quote reminds me to enjoy each moment of the summer Steep thyself in a bowl of summertime.

Virgil

The Interstate Commerce commission, as its functions have now been limited by the courts is, or can be made, of great use to the railroads. It satisfies the public clamor for a government supervision of railroads, at the same time that that supervision is almost entirely nominal.

Richard Olney, a lawyer for the Boston & Maine and Attorney General under Grover Cleveland, advising a railroad president

At the end of our time on earth, if we have lived fully, we will not be able to say, I was always happy. Hopefully we will be able to say, I have experienced a lifetime of real moments, and many of them were happy moments.

Barbara DeAngelis

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

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.

Joyce