Time Quotes

Sometimes the biggest risk you can take is not taking a risk.

Unknown

Do all the good you can, By all the means you can, In all the ways you can, In all the places you can, At all the times you can, To all the people you can, As long as ever you can.

John Wesley

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

I will persist until I succeed. Always will I take another step. If that is of no avail I will take another, and yet another. In truth, one step at a time is not too difficult.... I know that small attempts, repeated, will complete any undertaking.

Og Mandino

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

We are not put on earth for ourselves, but are placed here for each other. If you are there always for others, then in time of need, someone will be there for you.

Jeff Warne

Never give up, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn.

Harriet

I must have a prodigious quantity of mind it takes me as much as a week, sometimes, to make it up.

Mark Twain

Tomorrow night I appear for the first time before a Boston audience of 4000 critics.

Mark Twain

The universe seems wondrous to me, with or without God. It has powerful lines and uncompromising ways. Patience and time sit like sages on the planets, strong and impersonal. There is a stark beauty to all of this.

Real Live Preacher, reallivepreacher. com weblog, September 4, 2003

It is a mistake to try to look too far ahead. The chain of destiny can only be grasped one link at a time.

Sir Winston Churchill

Each memorable verse of a true poet has two or three times the written content.

Alfred De Musset

Winning is great, sure, but if you are really going to do something in life, the secret is learning how to lose. Nobody goes undefeated all the time. If you can pick up after a crushing defeat, and go on to win again, you are going to be a champion someday.

Wilma Rudolph, "Wilma: The Story of Wilma Rudolph".

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

Lynda Barry

Vladimir That passed the time. Estragon It would have passed in any case. Vladimir Yes, but not so rapidly.

Samuel Beckett

Time is a great teacher, but unfortunately it kills all its pupils.

Louis - Hector Berlioz

Healing is a matter of time, but it is sometimes also a matter of opportunity.

Hippocrates, Precepts

The body is shaped, disciplined, honored, and in time, trusted.

Martha Graham

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

I see her not dispirited, not weak, but well, remembering that she has seen dark times before, indeed with a kind of instinct that she sees a little better in a cloudy day.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

Time eases all things.

Sophocles, Oedipus Rex

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

In times of tumult and discord bad men have the most power mental and moral excellence require peace and quiteness.

Publius Cornelius Tacitus

I find television very educating. Every time somebody turns on the set, I go into the other room and read a book.

Groucho Marx

Fall down seven times, get up eight.

Japanese Prove

My mother is such a lousy cook that Thanksgiving at her house is a time of sorrow.

Rita Rudne

How to gain, how to keep, how to recover happiness is in fact for most men at all times the secret motive of all they do, and of all they are willing to endure.

William James

It was a love of the air and sky and flying, the lure of adventure, the appreciation of beauty. It lay beyond the descriptive words of men - where immortality is touched through danger, where life meets death on equal plane where man is more than man, and existence both supreme and valueless at the same time.

Charles Augustus Lindbergh, Jr.

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

Beauty is in the eye of the beholder, and it may be necessary from time to time to give a stupid or misinformed beholder a black eye.

Miss Piggy

Civilization is a stream with banks. The stream is sometimes filled with blood from people killing, stealing, shouting and doing the things historians usually record, while on the banks, unnoticed, people build homes, make love, raise children, sing song.

Will Durant

Children begin by loving their parents; as they grow older they judge them; sometimes they forgive them.

Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray, 1891

Gratitude is born in hearts that take time to count up past mercies.

Charles E. Jefferson

It is not observed in history that families improve with time.

George William Curtis

We barely have time to react in this world, let alone rehearse.

Ani Difranco, Letter to a John

A superstition is a premature explanation that overstays its time.

George Iles