Time Quotes
The trouble with doing something right the first time is that nobody appreciates how difficult it was.Walt West
Distance lasts a day. But reality lasts a lifetime.Dr. Laura Schlessinger, The Dr. Laura radio show
Nonviolence is the answer to the crucial political and moral questions of our time; the need for mankind to overcome oppression and violence without resorting to oppression and violence. Mankind must evolve for all human conflict a method which rejects revenge, aggression, and retaliation. The foundation of such a method is love.Martin Luther King Jr., December 11, 1964
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
Tears at times have all the weight of speech.Ovid
There are times when one would like to hang the whole human race and finish the farce.Mark Twain
The Green Bay Packers never lost a football game. They just ran out of time.Vince Lombardi
It takes no more time to see the good side of life than to see the bad.Jimmy Buffet, Tales Form Margaritaville
When nothing seems to help, I go and look at a stonecutter hammering away at his rock perhaps a hundred times without as much as a crack showing in it. Yet at the hundred and first blow it will split in two, and I know it was not that blow that did it, but all that had gone before.Jacob Riis
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
The wise man thinks about his troubles only when there is some purpose in doing so; at other times he thinks about others things.Bertrand Russell
We cannot destroy kindred Our chains stretch a little sometimes, but they never break.Marie de Rabutin - Chantal
Our passions are like convulsion fits, which, though they make us stronger for a time, leave us the weaker ever after.Alexander Pope
Time is a sort of river of passing events, and strong is its current no sooner is a thing brought to sight than it is swept by and another takes its place, and this too will be swept away.Marcus Aurelius Antoninus
Our ignorance of history causes us to slander our own times.Gustave Flaubert
I was always looking outside myself for strength and confidence but it comes from within. It is there all the time.Anna Freud
The test of a first - Rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in the mind at the same time, and still retain the ability to function.F. Scott Fitzgerald
Science has sometimes been said to be opposed to faith, and inconsistent with it. But all science, in fact, rests on a basis of faith, for it assumes the permanence and uniformity of natural laws - A thing which can never be demonstrated.Tyron Edwards
A successful marriage requires falling in love many times, always with the same person.Mignon McLaughlin
Greatness is not in were we stand, but in what direction we are moving. We must sail sometimes with the wind, and somtimes agaisnt it - But sail we must. And not drift, nor lie at anchor.Oliver Wendell Holmes
You want to raise your child in such a way that you don? t have to control him, so that he will be in full possession of himself at all times. Upon that depends his good behavior, his health, his sanity.L. Ron Hubbard, Book: Child Dianetics
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
Millions of men have lived to fight, build palaces and boundaries, shape destinies and societies; but the compelling force of all times has been the force of originality and creation profoundly affecting the roots of human spirit.Ansel Adams
You begin saving the world by saving one person at a time; all else is grandiose romanticism or politics.Charles Bukowski
If you want to make good use of your time, you? ve got to know what? s most important and then give it all you? ve got.Lee Iacocca
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
When my country, into which I had just set my foot, was set on fire about my ears, it was time to stir. It was time for every man to stir.Thomas Paine, Common Sense
It is easy enough to define what the Commonwealth is not. Indeed this is quite a popular pastime.Elizabeth II
