Time Quotes

Apparent failure may hold in its rough shell the germs of a success that will blossom in time, and bear fruit throughout eternity.
Frances Watkins Harpe
History, although sometimes made up of the few acts of the great, is more often shaped by the many acts of the small.
Mark Yost
You begin saving the world by saving one person at a time all else is grandiose romanticism or politics.
Charles Bukowski
Euripides - youth is the best time to be rich and the best...
Half the time men think they are talking business, they are wasting time.
Edgar Watson Howe
Roy d. chapin, jr. - be ready when opportunity comes... luck is the...
Violence or the threat of violence must never be permitted to influence the actions or judgments of the university community. Once it does, the community, almost by definition, ceases to be a university. It is for this reason that from time immemorial expulsion has been the primary instrument of university discipline.
Richard Milhous Nixon
A sweet thing, for whatever time, to revisit in dreams the dear dad we have lost.
Euripides
Times of general calamity and confusion create great minds. The purest ore is produced from the hottest furnace, and the brightest thunderbolt is elicited from the darkest storms.
Charles Caleb Colton
Time has no divisions to mark its passage, there is never a thunder - Storm or blare of trumpets to announce the beginning of a new month or year. Even when a new century begins it is only we mortals who ring bells and fire off pistols.
Thomas Mann
Many of us have heard opportunity knocking at our door, but by the time we unhooked the chain, pushed back the bolt, turned two locks, and shuts off the burglar alarm - It was gone.
Author Unknown
Time is an illusion. Lunchtime doubly so.
Douglas Adams
I feel like a million tonight - - - But one at a time.
Mae West
A great artist is always before his time or behind it.
George Moore
People often say that humans have always eaten animals, as if this is a justification for continuing the practice. According to this logic, we should not try to prevent people from murdering other people, since this has also been done since the earliest of times.
Isaac Bashevis Singe
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
All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given to us.
J. R. R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring
Nay, tempt me not to love again There was a time when love was sweet Dear Nea had I known thee then, Our souls had not been slow to meet But oh this weary heart hath run So many a time the rounds of pain, Not even for thee, thou lovely one Would I endure such pangs again.
Sir Thomas More
If we do not ever take time, how can we ever have time?
Wachowski Brothers, The Matrix Reloaded
Jerome k. jerome,
We are at the very beginning of time for the human race. It is not unreasonable that we grapple with problems. But there are tens of thousands of years in the future. Our responsibility is to do what we can, learn what we can, improve the solutions, and pass them on.
Richard Feynman
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
To hate and to fear is to be psychologically ill... it is, in fact, the consuming illness of our time.
H. A. Overstreet
A sweet thing, for whatever time, to revisit in dreams the dear dad we have lost.
Euripides, Alcestis, 438 B. C.
Nobody can be exactly like me. Sometimes even I have trouble doing it.
Tallulah Bankhead
Mornings are wonderful! The only drawback is that they come at such an inconvenient time of day!
Glen Cook, Sweet Silver Blues
Procrastination is the thief of time.
Edward Young
Modern man thinks he loses something time when he does not do things quickly. Yet he does not know what to do with the time he gains except kill it.
Erich Fromm
Your decision to be, have and do something out of ordinary entails facing difficulties that are out of the ordinary as well. Sometimes your greatest asset is simply your ability to stay with it longer than anyone else.
Brian Tracy
The desire for freedom resides in every human heart. And that desire cannot be contained forever by prison walls, or martial laws, or secret police. Over time, and across the Earth, freedom will find a way.
George W. Bush, Speech to UN General Assembly, September 21, 2004
Once upon a time there was an old country, wrapped up in habit and caution. ... We have to transform our old France into a new country and marry it to its time.
Charles De Gaulle
The greatest friend of Truth is time, her greatest enemy is Prejudice, and her constant companion Humility.
Charles Caleb Colton
Never before have we had so little time in which to do so much.
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
The best thing about the future is that it comes one day at a time.
Abraham Lincoln
One day at a time - This is enough. Do not look back and grieve over the past, for it is gone; and do not be troubled about the future, for it has not yet come. Live in the present, and make it so beautiful that it will be worth remembering.
Ida Scott Taylor.
You have played enough you have eaten and drunk enough. Now it is time for you to depart.
Horace
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.
Dr. Joyce Brothers
We understand death for the first time when he puts his hand upon one whom we love.
Baronne Anne Louise Germaine Necker de Stal Stal
Come out of the circle of time And into the circle of love.
Jalal ud - Din Rumi
The whole life of man is but a point of time let us enjoy it.
Plutarch