Time Quotes

To cement a new friendship, especially between foreigners or persons of a different social world, a spark with which both were secretly charged must fly from person to person, and cut across the accidents of place and time.

Nigerian Prove

Time is the least thing we have.

Ernest Hemingway

Come what come may, Time and the hour runs through the roughest day.

William Shakespeare, Macbeth, Act 1 Scene 3

The service you do for others is the rent you pay for the time you spend on earth.

Mohammed Ali

The greatest glory in living lies not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.

Nelson Mandela

Time is the fire in which we burn.

Gene Roddenberry

Truth has no special time of its own. Its hour is now - - Always.

Albert Schweitze

The experience of democracy is like the experience of life itself - Always changing, infinite in its variety, sometimes turbulent and all the more valuable for having been tested by adversity.

James Earl Jimmy Carter, Jr.

You go to war with the Army you have. They? re not the Army you might want or wish to have at a later time.

Donald Rumsfeld, http: //www. dod. gov/transcripts/2004/tr20041208 - Secdef1761. html

You can do only one thing at a time. I simply tackle one problem and concentrate all efforts on what I am doing at the moment.

Dr. Maxwell Maltz

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

Hippocrates

Perfection is a road, not a destination. Every time I live, I get an education.

Burk Hudson

Every man is as Heaven made him, and sometimes a great deal worse.

Miguel de Cervantes

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

Philip Crosby, Reflections on Quality

I am long on ideas, but short on time. I only expect to live only about a hundred years.

Thomas Alva Edison

Each time we re - Read a book we get more out of it because we put more into it a different person is reading it, and therefore it is a different book.

Muriel Clark

Nine out of ten people who change their minds are wrong the second time too.

Author Unknown

Our ignorance of history makes us libel to our own times. People have always been like this.

Gustave Flaubert

Men have a much better time of it than women; for one thing, they marry later; for another thing they die earlier.

H. L. Mencken

The young always have the same problem - How to rebel and conform at the same time. They have now solved this by defying their parents and copying one another.

George Chapman

The time for thinkers has come.

Mary Baker Eddy, Science and Health

How can a question be answered that asks a lifetime of questions?

Norman Maclean, A River Runs Through It

Prefer loss to the wealth of dishonest gain the former vexes you for a time the latter will bring you lasting remorse.

Chilo

And while the law of competition may be sometimes hard for the individual, it is best for the race, because it ensures the survival of the fittest in every department.

Andrew Carnegie

Time is but the stream I go a - Fishing in. I drink at it but as I drink, I see the sandy bottom and detect how shallow it is.

Henry David Thoreau, Walden

Next time I will... From now on I will... What makes me think I am wiser today than I will be tomorrow

Hugh Prathe

Everybody has difficult years, but a lot of times the difficult years end up being the greatest years of your whole entire life, if you survive them.

Brittany Murphy, Seventeen Magazine, September 2003

Listen within yourself and look into the infinitude of Space and Time. There can be heard the songs of the Constellations, the voices of the Numbers, and the harmonies of the Spheres.

The Divine Pymande

I have made this letter long because i have not the time to make it shorter.

Blaise Pascal, Lettres Proviciales (1657)

False enchantment can last a lifetime.

W. H. Auden

You can live a lifetime and, at the end of it, know more about other people than you know about yourself.

Beryl Markham

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

Virgil

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 Elde

The real menace in dealing with a five - Year - Old is that in no time at all you begin to sound like a five - Year - Old.

Jean Ke

I believe that all government is evil, and that trying to improve it is largely a waste of time.

H. L. Mencken

We spend most of our time and energy in a kind of horizontal thinking. We move along the surface of thingsbut there are times when we stop. We sit sill. We lose ourselves in a pile of leaves or its memory. We listen and breezes from a whole other world begin to whisper.

James Carroll

Canadians are cold so much of the time that many of them leave instructions to be cremated.

Cynthia Nelms