Time quotes
A lot of legends, a lot of people, have come before me. But this is my time.
A man who dares to waste one hour of time has not discovered the value of life.
A question that sometimes drives me hazy: Am I, or the others, crazy?
Action not backed by knowledge and knowledge not translatable into action, both can not stand the test of time.
All great achievements require time.
All love shifts and changes. I don't know if you can be wholeheartedly in love all the time.
All the forces in the world are not so powerful as an idea whose time has come.
Americans of our own time - minority and majority Americans alike - need the continued guidance that the Voting Rights Act provides. We have come a long way, but more needs to be done.
Anyone who loves in the expectation of being loved in return is wasting their time.
Art is always and everywhere the secret confession, and at the same time the immortal movement of its time
Change will not come if we wait for some other person, or if we wait for some other time. We are the ones we've been waiting for. We are the change that we seek.
Dark and difficult times lie ahead. Soon we must all face the choice between what is right and what is easy.
Death is caused by swallowing small amounts of saliva over a long period of time.
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.
Do one thing at a time, and while doing it put your whole soul into it to the exclusion of all else.
Don't be afraid to give your best to what seemingly are small jobs. Every time you conquer one it makes you that much stronger. If you do the little jobs well, the big ones will tend to take care of themselves.
Don't spend time beating on a wall, hoping to transform it into a door.
Education is an admirable thing, but it is well to remember from time to time that nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.
Employ your time in improving yourself by other men's writings so that you shall come easily by what others have labored hard for.
Eternity is in love with the productions of time.
Every life has a measure of sorrow, and sometimes this is what awakens us.
Every time I go and shave, I assume there's someone else on the planet shaving. So I say, 'I'm gonna go shave, too.'
Every time I see an adult on a bicycle, I no longer despair for the future of the human race.
Every time you are tempted to react in the same old way, ask if you want to be a prisoner of the past or a pioneer of the future.
Everywhere is walking distance if you have the time.
Failure is simply an opportunity to begin again, this time more intelligently.
God gave men both a penis and a brain, but unfortunately not enough blood supply to run both at the same time.
God is cruel. Sometimes he makes you live.
Great work requires great and persistent effort for a long time. … Character has to be established through a thousand stumbles.
Happiness can be found, even in the darkest of times, if one only remembers to turn on the light.
Happiness for a reason is just another form of misery because the reason can be taken away from us at any time.
He's very clever, but sometimes his brains go to his head.
I am not sure exactly what Heaven will be like. But I do know that when we die and if comes the time for God to judge us, He will not ask, 'How many good things have you done in your life?' Rather He will ask, 'How much love did you put into what you did?'
I am so clever that sometimes I don't understand a single word of what I am saying.
I believe that everything happens for a reason. People change so that you can learn to let go, things go wrong so that you appreciate them when they're right, you believe lies so you eventually learn to trust no one but yourself, and sometimes good things fall apart so better things can fall together.
I cook with wine, sometimes I even add it to the food.
I don't get high, but sometimes I wish I did. That way, when I messed up in life I would have an excuse. But right now there's no rehab for stupidity.
I don't look on poetry as closed works. I feel they're going on all the time in my head and I occasionally snip off a length.
I dream. Sometimes I think that's the only right thing to do.
I fear not the man who has practiced 10,000 kicks once, but I fear the man who had practiced one kick 10,000 times.
I have had good experience and trial of this world...I know what it is to be a subject, what to be a sovereign, what to have good neighbours, and sometimes meet evil willers. I have found treason in trust, seen great benefits little regarded.
I have left orders to be awakened at any time during national emergency, even if I'm in a cabinet meeting.
I must uphold my ideals, for perhaps the time will come when I shall be able to carry them out.
I passionately hate the idea of being with it, I think an artist has always to be out of step with his time.
I put instant coffee in a microwave oven and almost went back in time.
I want to go ahead of Father Time with a scythe of my own.
I went to a restaurant that serves 'breakfast at any time' so I ordered French toast during the Renaissance.
I'll try anything once, twice if I like it, three times to make sure.
I'm selfish, impatient and a little insecure. I make mistakes, I am out of control and at times hard to handle. But if you can't handle me at my worst, then you sure as hell don't deserve me at my best.
I'm sorry I wrote you such a long letter; I didn't have time to write a short one.
I'm sorry this letter is so long, I didn't have time to make it shorter.
I'm the one that has to die when it's time for me to die, so let me live my life, the way I want to.
I've been on a calendar, but never on time.
If you aim at nothing, you will hit it every time.
If you are the master be sometimes blind, if you are the servant be sometimes deaf.
If you don't have time to do it right, when will you have the time to do it over?
If you don't know where you're from, you'll have a hard time saying where you're going.
If you never stop when you wave goodbye you just might find, if you give it time, you will wave hello again...
If you spend too much time thinking about a thing, you'll never get it done.
If you treat people right they will treat you right - ninety percent of the time.
If you want creative workers, give them enough time to play.
If your dog is going to suffer from diarrhea, it will happen between the time the carpet is cleaned for the holidays and the last holiday get-together.
Im the one who's gonna die when its time for me to die...so let me live my life the way I want to...
In a time of deceit telling the truth is a revolutionary act.
In just six weeks from the time the design was started, we had the motor on the block testing its power.
Instead of worrying about what people say of you, why not spend time trying to accomplish something they will admire
It has been my observation that most people get ahead during the time that others waste
It has been said that Democracy is the worst form of government except all those other forms that have been tried from time to time.
It is a mistake to look too far ahead. Only one link in the chain of destiny can be handled at a time.
It is not the strength, but the duration, of great sentiments that makes great men.
It is of practical value to learn to like yourself. Since you must spend so much time with yourself you might as well get some satisfaction out of the relationship.
It is wonderful when you don't have the fear, and a lot of the time I don't ... I focus on what needs to be done instead.
It takes a long time to grow young.
It was the first time I was ever in love, and I learned a lot. Before that I'd never even thought about killing myself.
It would please me best if, at the last, a marble stone shall record that this Queen having lived such and such a time, lived and died a virgin.
Lack of direction, not lack of time, is the problem. We all have twenty-four hour days.
Life is an ongoing process of choosing between safety (out of fear and need for defense) and risk (for the sake of progress and growth). Make the growth choice a dozen times a day.
Live as if you were living a second time, and as though you had acted wrongly the first time.
Love is a fruit in season at all times, and within reach of every hand.
Love is what carries you, for it is always there, even in the dark, or most in the dark, but shining out at times like gold stitches in a piece of embroidery.
Man who stand on hill with mouth open will wait long time for roast duck to drop in.
Most people spend more time and energy going around problems than in trying to solve them.
No man ever achieved worthwhile success who did not, at one time or other, find himself with at least one foot hanging well over the brink of failure.
Nobody has the power to take two steps together; you can take only one step at a time.
Not only does God play dice, but... he sometimes throws them where they cannot be seen.
Nothing in life is to be feared, it is only to be understood. Now is the time to understand more, so that we may fear less.
Only in our dreams are we free. The rest of the time we need wages.
Only married people understand you can be miserable and happy at the same time.
Our greatest glory is not in never failing, but in rising up every time we fail.
Our greatest glory is not in never falling but in rising every time we fall.
People are capable, at any time in their lives, of doing what they dream of.
People won't have time for you if you are always angry or complaining.
Perseverance is failing 19 times and succeeding the 20th.
Players with fight never lose a game, they just run out of time
Preach the Gospel at all times, and when necessary, use words.
Racism is a much more clandestine, much more hidden kind of phenomenon, but at the same time it's perhaps far more terrible than it's ever been.
Real stupidity beats artificial intelligence every time.
Religion is about turning untested belief into unshakable truth through the power of institutions and the passage of time.
Remember that not getting what you want is sometimes a wonderful stroke of luck.
Right now Im having amnesia and dj vu at the same time. I think Ive forgotten this before.
Say what you have to say and the first time you come to a sentence with a grammatical ending - sit down.
Short as life is, we make it still shorter by the careless waste of time.
Singers come and go, but if you're a good actor, you can last a long time
Someone's sitting in the shade today because someone planted a tree a long time ago.
Sometimes - history needs a push.
Sometimes glass glitters more than diamonds because it has more to prove.
Sometimes one creates a dynamic impression by saying something, and sometimes one creates as significant an impression by remaining silent.
Sometimes opportunities float right past your nose. Work hard, apply yourself, and be ready. When an opportunity comes you can grab it.
Sometimes our light goes out, but is blown again into instant flame by an encounter with another human being.
Sometimes the only way the good Lord can get into some hearts is to break them.
Sometimes the truth hurts. And sometimes it feels real good.
Sometimes we owe a friend to the lucky circumstance that we give him no cause for envy.
Sometimes you have to be apart from people you love, but that doesn't make you love them any less. Sometimes you love them more.
Sometimes you have to pick the Gun up to put the Gun down
Sometimes you will never know the value of a moment until it becomes a memory.
Sometimes, only one person is missing, and the whole world seems depopulated.
Substitute 'damn' every time you're inclined to write 'very;' your editor will delete it and the writing will be just as it should be.
Take time to deliberate, but when the time for action comes, stop thinking and go in.
The 'good old times'-all times, when old, are good.
The advantage of a bad memory is that one enjoys several times the same good thing for the first time.
The best thing about the future is that it comes one day at a time.
The difficulty is to try and teach the multitude that something can be true and untrue at the same time.
The fear of death follows from the fear of life. A man who lives fully is prepared to die at any time.
The first time someone shows you who they are, believe them.
The good times of today are the sad thoughts of tomorrow.
The joke of our time is the suicide of intention.
The lifestyle I`ve been living for the last 30 years, I could have been dead a thousand times.
The man who writes about himself and his own time is the only man who writes about all people and all time.
The pleasure of the moment begins to wither almost as soon as it blossoms; our pleasures are soon swallowed up in time's relentless torrent.
The privilege of a lifetime is to become who you truly are.
The secret of life, though, is to fall seven times and to get up eight times.
The time is always right to do the right thing
The time you enjoy wasting is not wasted time.
The U.S. Census Bureau acknowledged this fact when it reported that those with a bachelor's degree earn on average $1 million more over their lifetime than those with only a high school diploma.
The wise man should restrain his senses like the crane and accomplish his purpose with due knowledge of his place, time and ability.
There is always time to add a word, never to withdraw one.
There is nothing more notable in Socrates than that he found time, when he was an old man, to learn music and dancing, and thought it time well spent.
There was a time, when I blamed my companion if his religion did not resemble mine. Now, however, my heart accepts every form....Love alone is my religion.
Think thousands time before taking a decision but - after taking decision never turn back even if you get thousands difficulties.
Though wrong gratifies in the moment, good yields its gifts over a lifetime.
Time flies over us, but leaves its shadow behind.
Time is an illusion. Lunchtime doubly so.
Time is really the only capital that any human being has and the thing that he can least afford to waste or lose
Time is the best killer.
Time means a lot to me because you see I am also a learner and am often lost in the joy of forever developing.
Time ripens all things; no one is born wise.
Time wounds all heels.
Time you enjoy wasting, was not wasted.
To kill an error is as good a service as, and sometimes even better than, the establishing of a new truth or fact
To protect our freedoms, it seems we're going to have to relinquish some of our freedoms for a short period of time.
Truth is like the sun. You can shut it out for a time, but it ain't goin' away.
Until you value yourself, you won't value your time. Until you value your time, you will not do anything with it.
Waste no more time arguing about what a good man should be. Be one.
We are citizens of the world. The tragedy of our times is that we do not know this.
We learn from our gardens to deal with the most urgent question of the time: How much is enough?
We must find time to stop and thank the people who make a difference in our lives
We sometimes congratulate ourselves at the moment of waking from a troubled dream; it may be so the moment after death.
We're lost, but we're making good time
Well, it's 1 a.m. Better go home and spend some quality time with the kids.
When asked, 'How do you write?' I invariably answer, 'one word at a time.'
When I am abroad, I always make it a rule never to criticize or attack the government of my own country. I make up for lost time when I come home.
Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect.
Whosoever desires constant success must change his conduct with the times.
Wise men say nothing in dangerous times.
Yes I am with you always, until the very end of time
You can't just ask customers what they want and then try to give that to them. By the time you get it built, they'll want something new.
You cannot truly listen to anyone and do anything else at the same time.
You could talk about same-sex marriage, but people who have been married (say) 'It's the same sex all the time.
You have to work hard to get to the top of your game. I think every writer has doubts! I still do all the time.