Quotes about Time

To be feared is to fear: no one has been able to strike terror into others and at the same time enjoy peace of mind.

Seneca

How is education supposed to make me feel smarter? Besides, every time I learn something new, it pushes some old stuff out of my brain. Remember when I took that home winemaking course, and I forgot how to drive?

Matt Groening

I am persuaded that every time a man smiles - but much more so when he laughs - it adds something to this fragment of life.

Laurence Sterne

There are plenty of teams in every sport that have great players andnever win titles. Most of the time, those players aren't willing tosacrifice for the greater good of the team. The funny thing is, inthe end, their unwillingness to sacrifice only makes individualgoals more difficult to achieve. One thing I believe to the fullestis that if you think and achieve as a team, .

Michael Jordan

If there is not the war, you don't get the great general; if there is not a great occasion, you don't get a great statesman; if Lincoln had lived in a time of peace, no one would have known his name.

Theodore Roosevelt

No mortal man has ever served at the same time his passions and his best interests.

Sallust

Those who have long enjoyed such privleges as we enjoy forget in time that men have died to win them.

Franklin D. Roosevelt

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.

Michel de Montaigne

Employ thy time well, if thou meanest to get leisure.

Benjamin Franklin

You may delay, but time will not.

Benjamin Franklin

Men have no right to put the well-being of the present generation wholly out of the question. Perhaps the only moral trust with any certainty in our hands is the care of our own time.

Edmund Burke

Speak out in acts; the time for words has passed, and only deeds will suffice.

Alfred North Whitehead

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 tend to take care of themselves.

Dale Carnegie

Life is like an ice-cream cone, you have to lick it one day at a time.

Charles M. Schulz

Celebrity was a long time in coming; it will go away. Everything goes away.

Carol Burnett

It may be true that you can't fool all the people all the time, but you can fool enough of them to rule a large country.

Will Durant

Most people get interested in stocks when everyone else is. The time to get interested is when no one else is. You can't buy what is popular and do well.

Warren Buffett

I have found it advisable not to give too much heed to what people say when I am trying to accomplish something of consequence. Invariably they proclaim it can't be done. I deem that the very best time to make the effort.

Calvin Coolidge

Christmas is not a time nor a season, but a state of mind. To cherish peace and goodwill, to be plenteous in mercy, is to have the real spirit of Christmas.

Calvin Coolidge

Curiosity in children, is but an appetite for knowledge. One great reason why children abandon themselves wholly to silly pursuits and trifle away their time insipidly is, because they find their curiosity balked, and their inquiries neglected.

John Locke

We have not seen great things done in our time except by those who have been considered mean; the rest have failed.

Niccolo Machiavelli

The strongest of all warriors are these two -- Time and Patience.

Leo Tolstoy

By and large, mothers and housewives are the only workers who do not have regular time off. They are the great vacationless class.

Anne Morrow Lindbergh

I do not know if you remember the tale of the girl who saves the ship under mutiny by sitting on the powder barrel with her lighted torch and all the time knowing that it is empty? This has seemed to me a charming image of the women of my time. There they were, keeping the world in order by sitting on the mystery of life, and knowing themselves that there was no mystery.

Isak Dinesen

Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.

Confucius

If you're holding out for universal popularity, I'm afraid you will be in this cabin for a very long time.

J. K. Rowling

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.

Steve Jobs

Time is on the side of the oppressed today, it's against the oppressor. Truth is on the side of the oppressed today, it's against the oppressor. You don't need anything else.

Malcolm X

The only time some fellows are ever seen with their wives is after they've been indicted.

Kin Hubbard

Do not think of your faults, still less of others' faults; look for what is good and strong, and try to imitate it. Your faults will drop off, like dead leaves, when their time comes.

John Ruskin

When I was in England I experimented with marijuana a time or two, I didn't like it, I didn't inhale it, and never tried it again.

Bill Clinton

Be you in what line of life you may, it will be amongst your misfortunes if you have not time properly to attend to pecuniary [monetary] matters. Want of attention to these matters has impeded the progress of science and of genius itself.

William Cobbett

We don't have the time to have a 30- or 35-man camp here because of exhibition games. We want to start building a team here, and to do that you have to have the players that will be a part of it around. We're going to let it play out up in Dallas.

Doug Armstrong

Sometimes when people are under stress, they hate to think, and it's the time when they most need to think.

Bill Clinton

An inch of time cannot be bought with an inch of gold.

Chinese Proverb

Slow and steady wins the race, then wastes no time grinding salt-caked glass in your open wounds.

Randy K. Milholland

Time is not measured by the passing of years but by what one does, what one feels, and what one achieves.

Jawaharlal Nehru

If you get up one more time than you fall you will make it through.

Chinese Proverb

With time and patience the mulberry leaf becomes a silk gown.

Chinese Proverb

Know the true value of time; snatch, seize, and enjoy every moment of it. No idleness; no laziness; no procrastination; never put off till tomorrow what you can do today.

Lord Chesterfield

Never seem more learned than the people you are with. Wear your learning like a pocket watch and keep it hidden. Do not pull it out to count the hours, but give the time when you are asked.

Lord Chesterfield

Not only am I going to Daytona to test to get ready, for me I am going to get acclimated with a new crew chief. This will be our first time to work together. Been to the shop, but it will be the first at the racetrack.

David Starr Jordan

The artist doesn't have time to listen to the critics. The ones who want to be writers read the reviews, the ones who want to write don't have the time to read reviews.

William Faulkner

When was the last time you spent a quiet moment just doing nothing - just sitting and looking at the sea, or watching the wind blowing the tree limbs, or waves rippling on a pond, a flickering candle or children playing in the park?

Ralph Marston

Every time a friend succeeds, I die a little.

Gore Vidal

For many, negative thinking is a habit, which over time, becomes an addiction... A lot of people suffer from this disease because negative thinking is addictive to each of the Big Three -- the mind, the body, and the emotions. If one doesn't get you, the others are waiting in the wings.

Peter McWilliams

Half the time men think they are talking business, they are wasting time.

Edgar Watson Howe

I love drugs, but I hate hangovers, and the hatred of the hangover wins by a landslide every time.

Margaret Cho

Nixon is a shifty-eyed goddamn liar....He's one of the few in the history of this country to run for high office talking out of both sides of his mouth at the same time and lying out of both sides.

Harry S Truman

To live for a time close to great minds is the best kind of education.

John Buchan

We have some problems, ... We have some new kids playing some different positions. It'll take some time. We think these problems are correctable.

Robert Browning

Most of the time I don't have much fun. The rest of the time I don't have any fun at all.

Woody Allen

When you play it too safe, you're taking the biggest risk of your life. Time is the only wealth we're given.

Barbara Sher

I trust in nature for the stable laws of beauty and utility. Spring shall plant and autumn garner to the end of time.

Robert Browning

We think very little of time present; we anticipate the future, as being too slow, and with a view to hasten it onward, we recall the past to stay it as too swiftly gone. We are so thoughtless, that we thus wander through the hours which are not here, regardless only of the moment that is actually our own.

Blaise Pascal

When I consider the small span of my life absorbed in the eternity of all time, or the small part of space which I can touch or see engulfed by the infinite immensity of spaces that I know not and that know me not, I am frightened and astonished to see myself here instead of there... now instead of then.

Blaise Pascal

Change sneaks up on (some churches) and overtakes them unawares. By the time they recognize what has happened it may be too late to reverse their decline.

Andrew Smith

I've always been in the right place and time. Of course, I steered myself there.

Bob Hope

American foreign policy must be more than the management of crisis. It must have a great and guiding goal: to turn this time of American influence into generations of democratic peace.

George W. Bush

It's a time of sorrow and sadness when we lose a loss of life.

George W. Bush

A timid person is frightened before a danger, a coward during the time, and a courageous person afterward.

Jean Paul Richter

It's almost as if legislators are outsourcing one of their primary duties of drafting laws, and they're allowing the private sector to take over that responsibility. This is a full-time Legislature. You'd think that would be something that, rather than give lobbyists the primary duty to draft legislation, our full-time legislators should be doing.

Jay Heck

A religious man is a person who holds God and man in one thought at one time, at all times, who suffers harm done to others, whose greatest passion is compassion, whose greatest strength is love and defiance of despair.

Abraham J. Heschel

I think the thing he really needs to do to get better is put in more time in the weight room. Last year, we did a little bit of weight work with him. This year, we've tried to do a little more. He needs to get stronger.

Mark Wroblewski

The first one is usually the best pitch, so that's the one I look for and that's the one I go for all the time. I wanted to hit the ball and do something good, start something for the team.

Jackie Frey

We have our database set up to calculate the time a practitioner spends with patients in general. We've recently put in place a note/charting system by which we can calculate time, including the initial evaluation, casting, scanning, alignment, and fitting. We can pull that information in the future and, say, look at the time practitioners are spending on casting, or on evaluation.

Joseph Miller

Perhaps this is something that should have been done long ago, ... It is a time to reflect who he was and the impact he had on the United States and the Constitution.

Alan Gould

Mooney is rebuilding this year. They've handed it to us a pretty good time the last couple years. They're just young.

Perry Patella

I still enjoy it, it?s still fun, but coaching basketball is a time-consuming job, and right now I need to be home more often.

Kyle Walker

This is one of those deals where everybody can be really proud. In a day and age when it's only about the team using a player for the amount of time they'll think he'll be totally at his best, or a day in age when players want to get paid all they can right now, this was every party understanding the other's needs.

Perry Rogers

Never try to teach a pig to sing; it wastes your time and it annoys the pig.

Robert A. Heinlein

We are opening up an enormous new era in archaeology. Time capsules in the deep oceans.

John Lehman

We just played, in my opinion, horrible that time. Of course, we redeemed ourselves against Marietta the second time. If we play like we've been playing, we should at least be able to play with them.

Robbie Stancil

I saw the hole and it was open, I had to take advantage of it. It was time for us to turn things around, and we took matters into our own hands.

Michael Robertson

You know, we're 12 months later and I'm still ecstatic about what happened last year, ... It's just one of those things, I was at the right place at the right time and happened to hole the shot.

Craig Parry

It matters not how a man dies, but how he lives. The act of dying is not of importance, it lasts so short a time.

Samuel Johnson

In 2000, following Barry's murder, the Pentagon announced it would take concrete steps to curb anti-gay harassment in our military and to hold accountable those who harass and condone harassment. Nearly six years later, Pentagon leaders have failed to keep their promise. The time has come for them to do just that, or for Congress to hold them accountable if they do not.

Patricia Kutteles

No one party can fool all of the people all of the time; that's why we have two parties.

Bob Hope

But we were tired. We have just gone through a stretch of seven games in a 12-day span, so we're ready to take some time off.

Jim Drew

People love scandal. It seems now that's the only time the NHL gains anyone's attention.

Sean O'donnell

The difference between a democracy and a dictatorship is that in a democracy you vote first and take orders later; in a dictatorship you don't have to waste your time voting.

Charles Bukowski

It's taken a long time to get to the actual building. There were a lot of months of frustration and anguish in the middle. I breathe a lot easier now.

Keith Gibson

The video boys are going to be busy for a long time here.

Jim Timon

The low scores reflect how high the intensity was in this game. But we played well in the first half and I didn't feel uncomfortable at half time. I had to go back and do my math again to see if we were really losing.

Jude Temple

Bryan did a nice job for us. The very first pitch in the first, he nailed one. He knocked another one through the middle with the infield drawn in. He walked and scored the other time. That made a big, big difference.

Joe Neff

The Romans would never have found time to conquer the world if they had been obliged first to learn Latin.

Heinrich Heine

This is already the biggest betting Test series ever, with up to a record 50 million pounds riding on the outcome of the five-match series, and with the unprecedented interest in the outcome of the final match we are expecting cricket punters to bet over a million pounds in a single day for the first time as the game gets underway.

Graham Sharpe

It was a big statement, ... That's what we try to do all the time. I was telling some of the guys, 'We are a blue-collar city. We are a blue-collar defense.' We may give up a few plays here and there, but the most important thing is keeping them out of the end zone and we were able to do that today against a great offense, an offense that can beat you in so many ways.

Terrence Holt

There are serious worries consumer sentiment would deteriorate if possible U.S. military action lasts a long time.

Toshihiko Matsuno

It's just a ride and we can change it any time we want. It's only a choice. No effort, no work, no job, no savings and money, a choice, right now, between fear and love. The eyes of fear want you to put bigger locks on your door, buy guns, close yourself off. The eyes of love instead see all of us as one.

Bill Hicks

It's decadent. We don't take enough time to treat ourselves to a place like that.

Velvet Hammerschmidt

That was a bad scene, but Luis is in good spirits now, and it's not easy to be that way when you're in this kind of situation. He's got a lot of therapy to do. We're not even thinking about an estimated riding time right now. We just want to get him back 100%, and if it takes a while, that's OK.

Alex Procel

They know they're the star. They know they want to get in that dress. They become the perfect client for that time.

Jason Stuckey

I will never forget my time at Nebraska. Those were some of the best times of my life.

Steve Manstedt

We work on upper body strength, balance, coordination and following directions, ... These kids are different when you see them on a horse. Children with autism, for example, usually have a hard time listening and go into their own world. But when they get on the horse, they look at you, they respond, they listen to directions.

Kate O'brien

The ideals which have lighted my way, and time after time have given me new courage to face life cheerfully, have been Kindness, Beauty, and Truth. The trite subjects of human efforts, possessions, outward success, luxury have always seemed to me contemptible.

Albert Einstein

Yes, we have to divide up our time like that, between our politics and our equations. But to me our equations are far more important, for politics are only a matter of present concern. A mathematical equation stands forever.

Albert Einstein

It's a great thing for us. The first time we played BYU, the coaches put us through a whole week of preparation.

Curtis Terry

There are two ways of resisting war: the legal way and the revolutionary way. The legal way involves the offer of alternatinve service not as a privilege for a few but as a right for all. The revolutionary view involves an uncompromising resistance, with a view to breaking the power of militarism in time of peace or the resources of the state in time of war.

Albert Einstein

When it comes time to do business there it will be done in the summer. Only a few businesses will be successful in a situation like that, and that's why it's mostly bars up in Charlotte. ... I don't know why we can't accept Charlotte as a summer place. It's a great summer place.

Bob Barbato