Time Quotes

Vision without action is merely a dream. Action without vision just passes the time. Vision with action can change the world.

Joel Barke

Dost thou love life? Then do not squander time, for that is the stuff life is made of.

Benjamin Franklin

No one can possibly know what is about to happen it is happening, each time, for the first time, for the only time.

James Arthur Baldwin

If there is any period one would desire to be born in, is it not the age of Revolution when the old and the new stand side by side... when the glories of the old can be compensated by the rich possibilities of the new era This time... is a very good one...

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Premenstrual Syndrome: Just before their periods women behave the way men do all the time.

Robert A. Heinlein

I have spent more than half a lifetime trying to express the tragic moment.

Marcel Marceau

So little time, so little to do.

Oscar Levant

It was the best of times, it was the worst of times.

Charles Dickens

When you meet your antagonist, do everything in a mild and agreeable manner. Let your courage be as keen, but at the same time as polished, as your sword.

Richard Brinsley Sheridan

All this will not be finished in the first 100 days. Nor will it be finished in the first 1, 000 days, nor in the life of this administration, nor even perhaps in our lifetime on this planet. But let us begin.

John F. Kennedy, inaugural address, 1961

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

True love never dies for it is lust that fades away. Love bonds for a lifetime but lust just pushes away.

Alicia Barnhart

All that really belongs to us is time even he who has nothing else has that.

Baltasar Gracian

When asked what was the proper time for supper If you are a rich man, whenever you please; and if you are a poor man, whenever you can.

Diogenes the Cynic, from Diogenes Laertius, Lives of Eminent Philosophers

One thing about the school of experience is that it will repeat the lesson if you flunk the first time.

Author Unknown

Pleasure of love lasts but a moment, Pain of love lasts a lifetime.

Bette Davis

If grass can grow through cement, love can find you at every time in your life.

Che

As the light changed from red to green to yellow and back to red again, I sat there thinking about life. Was it nothing more than a bunch of honking and yelling Sometimes it seemed that way.

Jack Handey Deep Thoughts

Real friendship is shown in times of trouble prosperity is full of friends.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Very few of the great leaders ever get through their careers without failing, sometimes dramatically.

Philip Crosby, Reflections on Quality

Education is an admirable thing, but it is well to remember from time to time that nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.

Oscar Wilde

A great artist is always before his time or behind it.

George Moore

Regret for the things we did can be tempered by time it is regret for the things we did not do that is inconsolable.

Sydney Harris

Since I do not foresee that atomic energy is to be a great boon for a long time, I have to say that for the present it is a menace. Perhaps it is well that it should be. It may intimidate the human race into bringing order into its international affairs, which, without the pressure of fear, it would not do.

Albert Einstein

America is a large, friendly dog in a very small room. Every time it wags its tail, it knocks over a chair.

Arnold Toynbee

The path of repentance, though hard at times, lifts one ever upwards and leads to a perfect forgiveness.

Howard W. Hunter, Speech given in October 1994

There comes a time in the affairs of man when he must take the bull by the tail and face the situation.

W. C. Fields

Why should we live with such hurry and waste of life We are determined to be starved before we are hungry. Men say that a stitch in time saves nine, and so they take a thousand stitiches today to save nine tomorrow.

Henry David Thoreau

They always say time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself.

Andy Warhol, The Philosophy of Andy Warhol

Do not confine your children to your own learning, for they were born in another time.

Hebrew Prove

Away back in that time - In 1492 - There was a man by the name of Columbus came from across the great ocean, and he discovered the country for the white man... What did he find when he first arrived here Did he find a white man standing on the continent then... I stood here first, and Columbus first discovered me.

Chitto Harjo

We are told that talent creates its own opportunities. But it sometimes seems that intense desire creates not only its own opportunities, but its own talents.

Eric Hoffe

To read a book for the first time is to make the acquaintance of a new friend; to read it a second time is to meet an old one.

Selwyn Champion

We have achieved the most amazing things, a few million people opening up half a continent. But we have not yet found a Canadian soul except in time of war. On lack of national identity.

Lester Bowles Pearson

I have made this letter longer, because I have not had the time to make it shorter.

Blaise Pascal

Everywhere is walking distance if you have the time.

Steven Wright

Spare minutes are the Gold - Dust of time; the portions of life most fruitful in good and evil; the gaps through which temptations enter.

Author Unknown

There comes a time when the mind takes a higher plane of knowledge but can never prove how it got there.

Albert Einstein