Top 495 Time Quotes

Here we have the best Time Quotes from famous authors such as Brian Clough, Khalil Gibran, Patrick Lencioni, Roy Bean, Said Nursi. Find the perfect quotation from our collection.

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That Seaman is a handsome young man but he spends too much time looking in his mirror rather than at the ball. You can’t keep goal with hair like that.

Time has been transformed, and we have changed; it has advanced and set us in motion; it has unveiled its face, inspiring us with bewilderment and exhilaration.

If you could get all the people in the organization rowing in the same direction, you could dominate any industry, in any market, against any competition, at any time.

Time will pass and seasons will come and go.

Roy Bean
The magnificent cosmos is a palace that has the sun and the moon as its lamps and the stars as its candles; time is like a rope or ribbon hung within it, on to which the Glorious Creator each year threads a new world.

Even after all this time, the sun never says to the earth, ‘You owe me.’ Look what happens with a love like that. It lights the whole sky.

Hafez
Life is all about having a good time.

In times like these, it helps to recall that there have always been times like these.

Paul Harvey
If someone decides they’re not going to be happy, it’s not your problem. You don’t have to spend your time and energy trying to cheer up someone who has already decided to stay in a bad mood. Believe it or not, you can actually hurt people by playing into their self-pity.

You never know where life is going to take you. So everything I do, I just take it one day at a time, and it always leads you to the right place.

Kyle Massey
Excuses destroy success every time.

Every time I see an adult on a bicycle, I no longer despair for the future of the human race.

Every cliche about kids is true; they grow up so quickly, you blink and they’re gone, and you have to spend the time with them now. But that’s a joy.

Waste your money and you’re only out of money, but waste your time and you’ve lost a part of your life.

Michael LeBoeuf
We look at life from the back side of the tapestry. And most of the time, what we see is loose threads, tangled knots and the like. But occasionally, God‘s light shines through the tapestry, and we get a glimpse of the larger design with God weaving together the darks and lights of existence.

I think anything is possible if you have the mindset and the will and desire to do it and put the time in.

Our birthdays are feathers in the broad wing of time.

You build on failure. You use it as a stepping stone. Close the door on the past. You don’t try to forget the mistakes, but you don’t dwell on it. You don’t let it have any of your energy, or any of your time, or any of your space.

The only time you really live fully is from thirty to sixty. The young are slaves to dreams; the old servants of regrets. Only the middle-aged have all their five senses in the keeping of their wits.

Service is the rent we pay for being. It is the very purpose of life, and not something you do in your spare time.

The trouble with our times is that the future is not what it used to be.

I never smoke to excess – that is, I smoke in moderation, only one cigar at a time.

You spend a good piece of your life gripping a baseball and in the end it turns out that it was the other way around all the time.

Jim Bouton
No one can possibly know what is about to happen: it is happening, each time, for the first time, for the only time.

Live as if you were living a second time, and as though you had acted wrongly the first time.

Leadership is inspiring people. Management is keeping the trains running on time.

A man who dares to waste one hour of time has not discovered the value of life.

There’s a lot of people in this world who spend so much time watching their health that they haven‘t the time to enjoy it.

Last time I was in London, I visited Number 5, Bruton Street, which is the address I gave to Violet Bridgerton, the matriarch of the Bridgerton clan in my novels. It was a bit disconcerting to learn that it’s actually a pub.

Julia Quinn
Time flies really quickly. It feels like only a few months ago that I was traded over here and started my career as a Cub in 2013.

The way to deal with the devil of obesity and diabetes is literally one day at a time.

The best thing about the future is that it comes only one day at a time.

Dean Acheson
Writing is my love. If you love something, you find a lot of time. I write for two hours a day, usually starting at midnight; at times, I start at 11.

Do the one thing you think you cannot do. Fail at it. Try again. Do better the second time. The only people who never tumble are those who never mount the high wire. This is your moment. Own it.

Day, n. A period of twenty-four hours, mostly misspent.

If a little dreaming is dangerous, the cure for it is not to dream less but to dream more, to dream all the time.

Something is better than nothing. Doin’ anything for a man, there’s investments involved, there’s time and production. It’s better to give him ten bucks and get a record out than to never record the cat.

Brownie McGhee
We are time’s subjects, and time bids be gone.

I’ve studied authoritarianism for a very long time – for 40 years – and they’re started by people’s attempts to control the ideological and linguistic territory.

Success is not an accident. When you put yourself in the right place at the right time, then you’re likely to be more successful because of how you prepare yourself on a daily basis.

Andrew Cherng
Time is the scarcest resource and unless it is managed nothing else can be managed.

We must reject the idea that every time a law’s broken, society is guilty rather than the lawbreaker. It is time to restore the American precept that each individual is accountable for his actions.

It doesn’t hurt to feel sad from time to time.

There comes a time in the affairs of man when he must take the bull by the tail and face the situation.

If we are all in agreement on the decision – then I propose we postpone further discussion of this matter until our next meeting to give ourselves time to develop disagreement and perhaps gain some understanding of what the decision is all about.

Alfred P Sloan
Art is always and everywhere the secret confession, and at the same time the immortal movement of its time.

The easiest diet is, you know, eat vegetables, eat fresh food. Just a really sensible healthy diet like you read about all the time.

For the most part, Islam is about peace. It’s dealing with submission to the most high. Mohammed is a prophet, a messenger. But at the same time, we’ll fight in the name of Allah. We’re not going to let you disrespect our prophet.

Someday, after mastering the winds, the waves, the tides and gravity, we shall harness for God the energies of love, and then, for a second time in the history of the world, man will have discovered fire.

In all natural disasters through time, man needs to attach meaning to tragedy, no matter how random and inexplicable the event is.

Time and tide wait for no man.

Geoffrey Chaucer
In every battle there comes a time when both sides consider themselves beaten, then he who continues the attack wins.

Forgiveness is not a feeling – it’s a decision we make because we want to do what’s right before God. It’s a quality decision that won’t be easy and it may take time to get through the process, depending on the severity of the offense.

Time management is an oxymoron. Time is beyond our control, and the clock keeps ticking regardless of how we lead our lives. Priority management is the answer to maximizing the time we have.

I prefer peace. But if trouble must come, let it come in my time, so that my children can live in peace.

Let us never know what old age is. Let us know the happiness time brings, not count the years.

Ausonius
Character is the result of two things: mental attitude and the way we spend our time.

For disappearing acts, it’s hard to beat what happens to the eight hours supposedly left after eight of sleep and eight of work.

We need to internalize this idea of excellence. Not many folks spend a lot of time trying to be excellent.

Love makes the time pass. Time makes love pass.

Time plays a role in almost every decision. And some decisions define your attitude about time.

John Cale
I believe there is a time for everything. Time changes, and you need to accept that. Else, you stagnate.

We all have our time machines. Some take us back, they’re called memories. Some take us forward, they’re called dreams.

The only people for me are the mad ones: the ones who are mad to live, mad to talk, mad to be saved, desirous of everything at the same time, the ones who… burn, burn, burn like fabulous yellow Roman candles.

I believe time wounds all heels.

You can learn new things at any time in your life if you’re willing to be a beginner. If you actually learn to like being a beginner, the whole world opens up to you.

Barbara Sher
You hear about quality time a lot but I really think that quantity time with a person is really what strengthens a relationship. That’s when you really get to know somebody. You get to know their strengths and their weaknesses and that brings you closer. That’s what ‘Time Is Love’ is all about.

Failure happens all the time. It happens every day in practice. What makes you better is how you react to it.

When it’s your time, it is your time.

Great minds are related to the brief span of time during which they live as great buildings are to a little square in which they stand: you cannot see them in all their magnitude because you are standing too close to them.

I think and think for months and years. Ninety-nine times, the conclusion is false. The hundredth time I am right.

Time abides long enough for those who make use of it.

Time is a great teacher, but unfortunately it kills all its pupils.

Hector Berlioz
I’ve learned from experience that if you work harder at it, and apply more energy and time to it, and more consistency, you get a better result. It comes from the work.

I cannot believe in a God who wants to be praised all the time.

Short as life is, we make it still shorter by the careless waste of time.

It has been said that time heals all wounds. I don’t agree. The wounds remain. Time – the mind, protecting its sanitycovers them with some scar tissue and the pain lessens, but it is never gone.

Time makes heroes but dissolves celebrities.

Daniel J Boorstin
You live in the image you have of the world. Every one of us lives in a different world, with different space and different time.

When one makes a Revolution, one cannot mark time; one must always go forward – or go back. He who now talks about the ‘freedom of the pressgoes backward, and halts our headlong course towards Socialism.

Beauty is unbearable, drives us to despair, offering us for a minute the glimpse of an eternity that we should like to stretch out over the whole of time.

If you have a chance to accomplish something that will make things better for people coming behind you, and you don’t do that, you are wasting your time on this earth.

Roberto Clemente
Experience hath shewn, that even under the best forms of government those entrusted with power have, in time, and by slow operations, perverted it into tyranny.

Life is designed to knock you down. It will knock you down time and time again, but it doesn’t matter how many times you fall – it matters how many times you get back up.

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

All the world’s a stage, and all the men and women merely players: they have their exits and their entrances; and one man in his time plays many parts, his acts being seven ages.

It is requisite for the relaxation of the mind that we make use, from time to time, of playful deeds and jokes.

Nothing puzzles me more than the time and space; and yet nothing troubles me less.

For me, every hour is grace. And I feel gratitude in my heart each time I can meet someone and look at his or her smile.

Nobody’s all good or bad, and nobody‘s all light or dark. Every human being has so many different aspects and facets to them. And there can be something noble and something really dark and dangerous going on in a person all at the same time.

Social media is changing the way we communicate and the way we are perceived, both positively and negatively. Every time you post a photo, or update your status, you are contributing to your own digital footprint and personal brand.

The finest workers in stone are not copper or steel tools, but the gentle touches of air and water working at their leisure with a liberal allowance of time.

Personally, I’ve learned about perseverance: when you hear the word ‘No,’ and when you hear rejection, that it’s not always final. And that timing is everything, and you have to stay the course and just keep working hard and know that, when your time comes, that it will be sweet and that it will be the perfect time.

Angela Robinson
If I have made an appointment with you, I owe you punctuality, I have no right to throw away your time, if I do my own.

Richard Cecil
There is one thing stronger than all the armies in the world, and that is an idea whose time as come.

A friend is what the heart needs all the time.

Henry Van Dyke
A great man‘s greatest good luck is to die at the right time.

No trait is more justified than revenge in the right time and place.

If men knew how women pass the time when they are alone, they’d never marry.

O Henry
Myths can’t be translated as they did in their ancient soil. We can only find our own meaning in our own time.

Only the guy who isn’t rowing has time to rock the boat.

I don’t think quantity time is as special as quality time with your family.

I come into the peace of wild things who do not tax their lives with forethought of grief… For a time I rest in the grace of the world, and am free.

Aaah, summer – that long anticipated stretch of lazy, lingering days, free of responsibility and rife with possibility. It’s a time to hunt for insects, master handstands, practice swimming strokes, conquer trees, explore nooks and crannies, and make new friends.

Nothing is easy in cricket. Maybe when you watch it on TV, it looks easy. But it is not. You have to use your brain and time the ball.

We can be tired, weary and emotionally distraught, but after spending time alone with God, we find that He injects into our bodies energy, power and strength.

You will never find time for anything. If you want time you must make it.

Charles Buxton
You can fool some of the people all the time, and those are the ones you want to concentrate on.

Consciously or not, we are all on a quest for answers, trying to learn the lessons of life. We grapple with fear and guilt. We search for meaning, love, and power. We try to understand fear, loss, and time. We seek to discover who we are and how we can become truly happy.

If there are no stupid questions, then what kind of questions do stupid people ask? Do they get smart just in time to ask questions?

Sadness flies away on the wings of time.

Man who waits for roast duck to fly into mouth must wait very, very long time.

Jules Renard
I bought some instant water one time but I didn’t know what to add to it.

Jealousy is just love and hate at the same time.

The jealous are possessed by a mad devil and a dull spirit at the same time.

Humans are amphibians – half spirit and half animal. As spirits they belong to the eternal world, but as animals they inhabit time.

There’s no wrong time to make the right decision.

Dalton McGuinty
A good day is one where I can not just read a book, but write a review of it. Maybe today I’ll be able to do that. I get for some reason somewhat stronger when the sun starts to go down. Dusk is a good time for me. I’m crepuscular.

Every possession and every happiness is but lent by chance for an uncertain time, and may therefore be demanded back the next hour.

Probably the worst time in a person’s life is when they have to kill a family member because they are the devil. But otherwise it’s been a pretty good day.

I drink too much. The last time I gave a urine sample it had an olive in it.

I’m hungry for knowledge. The whole thing is to learn every day, to get brighter and brighter. That’s what this world is about. You look at someone like Gandhi, and he glowed. Martin Luther King glowed. Muhammad Ali glows. I think that’s from being bright all the time, and trying to be brighter.

Old age and the passage of time teach all things.

The evening news is a concept whose time has come and gone.

Bernard Goldberg
I can only note that the past is beautiful because one never realises an emotion at the time. It expands later, and thus we don’t have complete emotions about the present, only about the past.

People won’t have time for you if you are always angry or complaining.

Failure is simply the opportunity to begin again, this time more intelligently.

Spending quality time with my closed ones is always on my wish list.

Tell the truth, work hard, and come to dinner on time.

It was some great times and some great moments… I’m proud to be a WWE alumni. If it wasn’t for my time there, there’s no way I’d be excelling at Fox and acting.

We have not the time to take our time.

Ocean is more ancient than the mountains, and freighted with the memories and the dreams of Time.

You cannot run away from weakness; you must some time fight it out or perish; and if that be so, why not now, and where you stand?

The senses deceive from time to time, and it is prudent never to trust wholly those who have deceived us even once.

Rene Descartes
I thank God for my failures. Maybe not at the time but after some reflection. I never feel like a failure just because something I tried has failed.

I gave up my struggle with perfection a long time ago. That is a concept I don’t find very interesting anymore. Everyone just wants to look good in the photographs. I think that is where some of the pressure comes from. Be happy. Be yourself, the day is about a lot more.

Time sometimes flies like a bird, sometimes crawls like a snail; but a man is happiest when he does not even notice whether it passes swiftly or slowly.

Ivan Turgenev
The season of failure is the best time for sowing the seeds of success.

We should not say that one man’s hour is worth another man‘s hour, but rather that one man during an hour is worth just as much as another man during an hour. Time is everything, man is nothing: he is at the most time’s carcass.

Time is neutral and does not change things. With courage and initiative, leaders change things.

But my passion is racing cars. It’s what I like to do in my off time.

If you spend too much time thinking about a thing, you’ll never get it done.

Bruce Lee
Time and health are two precious assets that we don’t recognize and appreciate until they have been depleted.

All the forces in the world are not so powerful as an idea whose time has come.

People always tell you, ‘Be humble. Be humble.’ When was the last time someone told you to be amazing? Be great! Be great! Be awesome! Be awesome!

There are no secrets that time does not reveal.

Jean Racine
Time makes fools of us all. Our only comfort is that greater shall come after us.

E T Bell
Raise hell – big time. I want y’all to get out there and raise hell about damned near everything. My word, there’s a world out there that needs fixing. Get out there and get after it.

Time = Life, Therefore, waste your time and waste of your life, or master your time and master your life.

Alan Lakein
Imaginary time is a new dimension, at right angles to ordinary, real time.

Perfection is attained by slow degrees; it requires the hand of time.

The one thing I regret is that I will never have time to read all the books I want to read.

Francoise Sagan
There is a vitality, a life force, an energy, a quickening, that is translated through you into action, and because there is only one of you in all time, this expression is unique.

Every time you tear a leaf off a calendar, you present a new place for new ideas and progress.

You’ll have time to rest when you’re dead.

Your greatest asset is your earning ability. Your greatest resource is your time.

Every great architect is – necessarily – a great poet. He must be a great original interpreter of his time, his day, his age.

Time goes, you say? Ah, no! alas, time stays, we go.

Henry Austin Dobson
Closed mouths don’t get fed, and I’m gonna eat every time I get on the court.

Shabazz Muhammad
This is the key to time management – to see the value of every moment.

Menachem Mendel Schneerson
Time is the most valuable thing on earth: time to think, time to act, time to extend our fraternal relations, time to become better men, time to become better women, time to become better and more independent citizens.

Samuel Gompers
It took me quite a long time to develop a voice, and now that I have it, I am not going to be silent.

Everything happens to everybody sooner or later if there is time enough.

I’ve always spent more time with a smile on my face than not, but the thing is, I don’t write about it.

Time does not change us. It just unfolds us.

Max Frisch
All the lessons are in nature. You look at the way rocks are formed – the wind and the water hitting them, shaping them, making them what they are. Things take time, you know?

Happiness is the only good. The time to be happy is now. The place to be happy is here. The way to be happy is to make others so.

Time flies. It’s up to you to be the navigator.

If ants are such busy workers, how come they find time to go to all the picnics?

Marie Dressler
You must have been warned against letting the golden hours slip by; but some of them are golden only because we let them slip by.

Y’know, you can’t please all the people all the time… and last night, all those people were at my show.

We can’t solve modern problems by going back in time. Retreating to the safety of the familiar is an understandable response, but God has called us to a life of faith. And faith requires us to face the unknown while trusting Him completely.

Growing old is no more than a bad habit which a busy person has no time to form.

Time stays long enough for anyone who will use it.

If I have free time, I want to go to the beach, walk around a shopping mall, go grocery shopping. Live a little bit of life.

I don’t feel old. I don’t feel anything till noon. That’s when it’s time for my nap.

Bob Hope
Yet, taught by time, my heart has learned to glow for other’s good, and melt at other’s woe.

Homer
I don’t care how busy I am – I will always make time for what’s most important to me.

There’s time enough, but none to spare.

Charles W Chesnutt
The only thing worse than a coach or CEO who doesn’t care about his people is one who pretends to care. People can spot a phony every time.

People always fear change. People feared electricity when it was invented, didn’t they? People feared coal, they feared gas-powered engines… There will always be ignorance, and ignorance leads to fear. But with time, people will come to accept their silicon masters.

Everything is a learning process: any time you fall over, it’s just teaching you to stand up the next time.

True time is four-dimensional.

If we listened to our intellect, we’d never have a love affair. We’d never have a friendship. We’d never go into business, because we’d be cynical. Well, that’s nonsense. You’ve got to jump off cliffs all the time and build your wings on the way down.

As you navigate through the rest of your life, be open to collaboration. Other people and other people’s ideas are often better than your own. Find a group of people who challenge and inspire you, spend a lot of time with them, and it will change your life.

I have just got a new theory of eternity.

Death is a challenge. It tells us not to waste time… It tells us to tell each other right now that we love each other.

Let your life lightly dance on the edges of Time like dew on the tip of a leaf.

Time travel used to be thought of as just science fiction, but Einstein‘s general theory of relativity allows for the possibility that we could warp space-time so much that you could go off in a rocket and return before you set out.

Time flies when you’re on an emotional roller coaster.

Time is a circus, always packing up and moving away.

An intelligent man is sometimes forced to be drunk to spend time with his fools.

I give all my life to football; I only think about football. This is what is on my mind all the time.

The secret of life is enjoying the passage of time.

Most of us aren’t defeated in one decisive battle. We are defeated one tiny, seemingly insignificant surrender at a time that chips away at who we should really be.

For time and the world do not stand still. Change is the law of life. And those who look only to the past or the present are certain to miss the future.

I visualize a time when we will be to robots what dogs are to humans, and I’m rooting for the machines.

Claude Shannon
My motivation is tomorrow, just one day at a time, right?

If you got the money honey I got the time and when you run out of money honey I run out of time.

Lose not yourself in a far off time, seize the moment that is thine.

Through selfless work, love of God grows in the heart. Then through his grace one realize him in course of time. God can be seen. One can talk to him as I am talking to you.

The only thing wrong with immortality is that it tends to go on forever.

Herb Caen
It’s when children are 15, 16 or 17 that they decide whether they want to be a doctor, an engineer, a politician or go to the Mars or moon. That is the time they start having a dream, and that’s the time you can work on them. You can help them shape their dreams.

Time is nature’s way of keeping everything from happening at once.

John Archibald Wheeler
Gay rights is just a matter of time. Look at the polls. Worrying about gay marriage, let alone gay civil unions or gay employment rights, is a middle-age issue. Young people just can’t see the problem. At worst, gays are going to win this one just by waiting until the opposition dies off.

Attitude and enthusiasm play a big part in my life. I get excited about the things that inspire me. I also believe in laughing and having a good time.

No matter how busy you are, you must take time to make the other person feel important.

Mary Kay Ash
Time you enjoy wasting, was not wasted.

I’ll always love the time I spent making ‘Black and White.’

School was a waste of time for me. I was bored and left at 16. I started taking correspondence courses at college instead. I did incredibly well. I won an award for my grades.

I don’t believe that if you do good, good things will happen. Everything is completely accidental and random. Sometimes bad things happen to very good people and sometimes good things happen to bad people. But at least if you try to do good things, then you’re spending your time doing something worthwhile.

We need time to defuse, to contemplate. Just as in sleep our brains relax and give us dreams, so at some time in the day we need to disconnect, reconnect, and look around us.

Everyone who achieves success in a great venture, solves 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 keep going regardless of the obstacles they met.

Betrayal is one of my biggest fears. Betrayal happens on many different levels all the time, and there is no worse feeling than realizing someone you thought you could trust has gone against you.

Waste is worse than loss. The time is coming when every person who lays claim to ability will keep the question of waste before him constantly. The scope of thrift is limitless.

Perfection is the child of time.

Joseph Hall
Never permit a dichotomy to rule your life, a dichotomy in which you hate what you do so you can have pleasure in your spare time. Look for a situation in which your work will give you as much happiness as your spare time.

I’m a human being. I’ve got opinions, I’m not always right, I’m not always on time, I don’t always say things in the proper way, but my intentions are always extremely pure.

Time, the devourer of all things.

There will come a time when you believe everything is finished. Yet that will be the beginning.

When you get into a tight place and everything goes against you, till it seems as though you could not hang on a minute longer, never give up then, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn.

Harriet Beecher Stowe
Leadership to me means duty, honor, country. It means character, and it means listening from time to time.

When leaders know how to lead great meetings, there’s less time wasted and less frustration. We have more energy to do the work that matters, realize our full potential, and do great things.

There is no such thing as an empty space or an empty time. There is always something to see, something to hear. In fact, try as we may to make a silence, we cannot.

John Cage
Police officers know that each time they put on their uniform, they are taking on risks to protect others.

Both young children and old people have a lot of time on their hands. That’s probably why they get along so well.

I believe in using words, not fists. I believe in my outrage knowing people are living in boxes on the street. I believe in honesty. I believe in a good time. I believe in good food. I believe in sex.

Evening is a time of real experimentation. You never want to look the same way.

Half our life is spent trying to find something to do with the time we have rushed through life trying to save.

In an expanding universe, time is on the side of the outcast. Those who once inhabited the suburbs of human contempt find that without changing their address they eventually live in the metropolis.

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.’

Nobody’s angry all the time, unless you’re a psycho.

If you don’t have time to do it right, when will you have time to do it over?

Let us learn to appreciate there will be times when the trees will be bare, and look forward to the time when we may pick the fruit.

It’s only when we truly know and understand that we have a limited time on earth – and that we have no way of knowing when our time is up, we will then begin to live each day to the fullest, as if it was the only one we had.

There comes a time when the mind takes a higher plane of knowledge but can never prove how it got there.

The most important part are the fans, that people going home are happy. It’s their time off, and you should give them something to enjoy.

Time was God’s first creation.

All my possessions for a moment of time.

My favorite things in life don’t cost any money. It’s really clear that the most precious resource we all have is time.

The relationship with time changes when you’re captive.

We look forward to the time when the Power of Love will replace the Love of Power. Then will our world know the blessings of peace.

William E Gladstone
The time to relax is when you don’t have time for it.

When you invest your time, you make a goal and a decision of something that you want to accomplish. Whether it’s make good grades in school, be a good athlete, be a good person, go down and do some community service and help somebody who’s in need, whatever it is you choose to do, you’re investing your time in that.

Don’t wait. The time will never be just right.

The competitor to be feared is one who never bothers about you at all, but goes on making his own business better all the time.

In seed time learn, in harvest teach, in winter enjoy.

Do not waste time dreaming of great faraway opportunities; do the best you can where you are. Open your petals of power and beauty and fling out the fragrance of your life in the place that has been assigned to you.

Life gives you plenty of time to do whatever you want to do if you stay in the present moment.

Everything changes with time. You can’t predict where you’re gonna be next year; you have no idea, you know what I mean?

If you want to rip the heart out of a democracy, you go after the facts. That’s what modern authoritarians do. You lie. All the time. Then, you say it’s your opponents and the journalists who lie.

Though music transcends language, culture and time, and though notes are the same, Indian music is unique because it is evolved, sophisticated and melodies are defined.

Until you value yourself, you won’t value your time. Until you value your time, you will not do anything with it.

There is no time for cut-and-dried monotony. There is time for work. And time for love. That leaves no other time!

The greatest achievement was at first and for a time a dream. The oak sleeps in the acorn, the bird waits in the egg, and in the highest vision of the soul a waking angel stirs. Dreams are the seedlings of realities.

We must use time as a tool, not as a couch.

I am not a vegetarian. For some time, I tried to be a semi-vegetarian, eating only fish, birds, and no red meat, but… I don’t know if I have an opinion on vegetarianism.

I have made this letter longer than usual, only because I have not had the time to make it shorter.

You can’t jump from little things to big things. It just takes time and patience.

The most tragic paradox of our time is to be found in the failure of nation-states to recognize the imperatives of internationalism.

People who have time on their hands will inevitably waste the time of people who have work to do.

To achieve great things, two things are needed; a plan, and not quite enough time.

Leonard Bernstein
Rest is not idleness, and to lie sometimes on the grass under trees on a summer’s day, listening to the murmur of the water, or watching the clouds float across the sky, is by no means a waste of time.

John Lubbock
Nobody sees a flower really; it is so small. We haven’t time, and to see takes time – like to have a friend takes time.

Everywhere is nowhere. When a person spends all his time in foreign travel, he ends by having many acquaintances, but no friends.

I make sure that I spend quality time with my family.

To achieve great things, two things are needed; a plan, and not quite enough time.

Leonard Bernstein
I’ve been on a calendar, but I’ve never been on time.

I live in a crazy time.

A youth, when at home, should be filial and, abroad, respectful to his elders. He should be earnest and truthful. He should overflow in love to all and cultivate the friendship of the good. When he has time and opportunity, after the performance of these things, he should employ them in polite studies.

Peace is a journey of a thousand miles and it must be taken one step at a time.

A great restaurant is one that just makes you feel like you’re not sure whether you went out or you came home and confuses you. If it can do both of those things at the same time, you’re hooked.

Be not entangled in this world of days and nights; Thou hast another time and space as well.

I suppose leadership at one time meant muscles; but today it means getting along with people.

There’s a time in your life where you’re not quite sure where you are. You think everything’s perfect, but it’s not perfect… Then one day you wake up and you can’t quite picture yourself in the situation you’re in. But the secret is, if you can picture yourself doing anything in life, you can do it.

What people don’t understand is joining a gang ain’t bad, it’s cool, it’s fine. When you in the hood, joining a gang it’s cool because all your friends are in the gang, all your family’s in the gang. We’re not just killing people every night, we’re just hanging out, having a good time.

It takes a long time to become young.

I talk to myself all the time. Just make sure you answer.

The innocent and the beautiful have no enemy but time.

You’re only as young as the last time you changed your mind.

Taking care of children has nothing to do with politics. I think perhaps with time, instead of there being a politicization of humanitarian aid, there will be a humanization of politics.

The truth is of course is that there is no journey. We are arriving and departing all at the same time.

In order to become prosperous, a person must initially work very hard, so he or she has to sacrifice a lot of leisure time.

The world is like a reverse casino. In a casino, if you gamble long enough, you’re certainly going to lose. But in the real world, where the only thing you’re gambling is, say, your time or your embarrassment, then the more stuff you do, the more you give luck a chance to find you.

When you go to war as a boy, you have a great illusion of immortality. Other people get killed, not you… Then, when you are badly wounded the first time, you lose that illusion, and you know it can happen to you.

Love is like a virus. It can happen to anybody at any time.

We are drowning in information, while starving for wisdom. The world henceforth will be run by synthesizers, people able to put together the right information at the right time, think critically about it, and make important choices wisely.

I started out printing silk screen t-shirts. I sold ink pens. I worked construction. I worked at a gas station. I pumped gas. I was a mechanic for a little bit. I went into sewers, down into sewer lines. I had a lot of somewhat unpleasant gigs for a time there.

There are people in every time and every land who want to stop history in its tracks. They fear the future, mistrust the present, and invoke the security of a comfortable past which, in fact, never existed.

One of the funny things about the stock market is that every time one person buys, another sells, and both think they are astute.

I try to keep it real. I don’t have time to worry about what I’m projecting to the world. I’m just busy being myself.

I believe that whatever comes at a particular time is a blessing from God.

The greatest friend of truth is Time, her greatest enemy is Prejudice, and her constant companion is Humility.

The time is near at hand which must determine whether Americans are to be free men or slaves.

Regret for the things we did can be tempered by time; it is regret for the things we did not do that is inconsolable.

Time flies like an arrow – but fruit flies like a banana.

The busy have no time for tears.

Time is but the stream I go a-fishing in.

I think it’s important for us as a society to remember that the youth within juvenile justice systems are, most of the time, youths who simply haven’t had the right mentors and supporters around them – because of circumstances beyond their control.

There never is a good time for tough decisions. There will always be an election or something else. You have to pick courage and do it. Governance is about taking tough, even unpopular, decisions.

Jairam Ramesh
When I am getting ready to reason with a man, I spend one-third of my time thinking about myself and what I am going to say and two-thirds about him and what he is going to say.

If you’re not really having a good time, it’s not worth it.

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.

The important thing is to learn a lesson every time you lose. Life is a learning process and you have to try to learn what’s best for you. Let me tell you, life is not fun when you’re banging your head against a brick wall all the time.

What you feel inside reflects on your face. So be happy and positive all the time.

One of things I like about looking at pictures when you’re young and also meeting back with old friends you haven’t seen in a long time is, for me, it’s a glimpse of who I was.

We must go fast, because the race is against time.

We didn’t lose the game; we just ran out of time.

The future doesn’t just happen. We are building it, and we are building it all the time.

Everything that happens once can never happen again. But everything that happens twice will surely happen a third time.

For me, any time I’m on the football field, that’s my comfort zone.

Learn from the past, set vivid, detailed goals for the future, and live in the only moment of time over which you have any control: now.

Men talk of killing time, while time quietly kills them.

Dion Boucicault
Acting deals with very delicate emotions. It is not putting up a mask. Each time an actor acts he does not hide; he exposes himself.

In all our deeds, the proper value and respect for time determines success or failure.

Malcolm X
You can’t please everybody. You’d be crazy if you’re trying to. So take some time out to do some things for yourself.

What is morality in any given time or place? It is what the majority then and there happen to like and immorality is what they dislike.

The first time you marry for love, the second for money, and the third for companionship.

Truth is the daughter of time, not of authority.

People come in and out of our lives, and the true test of friendship is whether you can pick back up right where you left off the last time you saw each other.

Lisa See
Poetry may make us from time to time a little more aware of the deeper, unnamed feelings which form the substratum of our being, to which we rarely penetrate; for our lives are mostly a constant evasion of ourselves.

Now is the age of anxiety.

Eternity: a moment standing still for ever.

James Montgomery
Beauty, sweet love, is like the morning dew, Whose short refresh upon tender green, Cheers for a time, but till the sun doth show And straight is gone, as it had never been.

Samuel Daniel
Your time is limited, so don’t waste it living someone else’s life. Don’t be trapped by dogma – which is living with the results of other people’s thinking. Don’t let the noise of others’ opinions drown out your own inner voice. And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition.

If you can look into the seeds of time, and say which grain will grow and which will not, speak then unto me.

This is a war universe. War all the time. That is its nature. There may be other universes based on all sorts of other principles, but ours seems to be based on war and games.

Defoe says that there were a hundred thousand country fellows in his time ready to fight to the death against popery, without knowing whether popery was a man or a horse.

All of the great leaders have had one characteristic in common: it was the willingness to confront unequivocally the major anxiety of their people in their time. This, and not much else, is the essence of leadership.

Time, which changes people, does not alter the image we have retained of them.

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.

Life is short, and time just flies by, so I love those moments when we’re all sitting around the table together laughing and joking.

It takes less time to do a thing right, than it does to explain why you did it wrong.

The Joker is my favorite villain of all time: You don’t know his past; you just know what his plans are.

Loyalty to the Nation all the time, loyalty to the Government when it deserves it.

You begin saving the world by saving one man at a time; all else is grandiose romanticism or politics.

Life is short and the older you get, the more you feel it. Indeed, the shorter it is. People lose their capacity to walk, run, travel, think, and experience life. I realise how important it is to use the time I have.

The best time to buy a home is always five years ago.

Ray Brown
Time flies so quick. I remember my second year in business when Bullocks Wilshire did a whole window of my white dresses. I was so excited, I went there at night and took pictures.

Tadashi Shoji
Try and leave this world a little better than you found it, and when your turn comes to die, you can die happy in feeling that at any rate, you have not wasted your time but have done your best.

Enjoy your time in public service. It may well be one of the most interesting and challenging times of your life.

Where I am today… I still have my ups and downs, but I take it one day at a time and I just hope that I can be the best that I can possibly be, not only for myself, but also young people that are out there today that need someone to look up to.

Tea time is a chance to slow down, pull back and appreciate our surroundings.

You may delay, but time will not.

I stopped loving my father a long time ago. What remained was the slavery to a pattern.

In family relationships, ‘love’ is really spelled ‘t-i-m-e,’ time. Taking time for each other is the key for harmony at home.

Our duty is to encourage every one in his struggle to live up to his own highest idea, and strive at the same time to make the ideal as near as possible to the Truth.

Any time you try to create an Internet meme, automatic fail. That’s like the worst thing you can do.

Time is a dressmaker specializing in alterations.

Faith Baldwin
Dost thou love life? Then do not squander time, for that is the stuff life is made of.

It is impossible for you to be angry and laugh at the same time. Anger and laughter are mutually exclusive and you have the power to choose either.

Let no vandalism of avarice or neglect, no ravages of time, testify to the present or to the coming generations, that we have forgotten, as a people, the cost of a free and undivided Republic.

John A Logan
This time, like all times, is a very good one, if we but know what to do with it.

I do not love to be printed on every occasion, much less to be dunned and teased by foreigners about mathematical things or to be thought by our own people to be trifling away my time about them when I should be about the king‘s business.

When it’s time for me to walk away from something, I walk away from it. My mind, my body, my conscience tell me that enough is enough.

When I lose the sense of motivation and the sense to prove something as a basketball player, it’s time for me to move away from the game.

Let the refining and improving of your own life keep you so busy that you have little time to criticize others.

We will be more successful in all our endeavors if we can let go of the habit of running all the time, and take little pauses to relax and re-center ourselves. And we’ll also have a lot more joy in living.

In time of peace prepare for war.

Publius Flavius Vegetius Renatus
Leadership can not be measured in a poll or even in the result of an election. It can only be truly seen with the benefit of time. From the perspective of 20 years, not 20 days.

Never give up, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn.

Harriet Beecher Stowe
Space is to place as eternity is to time.

Substitutedamn‘ every time you’re inclined to write ‘very’; your editor will delete it and the writing will be just as it should be.

Nothing happens in a vacuum in life: every action has a series of consequences, and sometimes it takes a long time to fully understand the consequences of our actions.

Time spent with cats is never wasted.

There is a saying that every nice piece of work needs the right person in the right place at the right time.

From journalism I learned to write under pressure, to work with deadlines, to have limited space and time, to conduct and interview, to find information, to research, and above all, to use language as efficiently as possible and to remember always that there is a reader out there.

No distance of place or lapse of time can lessen the friendship of those who are thoroughly persuaded of each other’s worth.

Robert Southey
The content of most textbooks is perishable, but the tools of self-directedness serve one well over time.

If you treat people right they will treat you right… ninety percent of the time.

When someone shows you who they are, believe them the first time.

When you get a groove going, time flies.

Donald Fagen
Don’t worry about the world coming to an end today. It is already tomorrow in Australia.

Charles M Schulz
Love is a symbol of eternity. It wipes out all sense of time, destroying all memory of a beginning and all fear of an end.

Madame de Stael
Civilization began the first time an angry person cast a word instead of a rock.

No man goes before his time – unless the boss leaves early.

Lost wealth may be replaced by industry, lost knowledge by study, lost health by temperance or medicine, but lost time is gone forever.

The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in mind at the same time and still retain the ability to function.

We must find new lands from which we can easily obtain raw materials and at the same time exploit the cheap slave labor that is available from the natives of the colonies. The colonies would also provide a dumping ground for the surplus goods produced in our factories.

Cecil Rhodes
Patriotism is supporting your country all the time, and your government when it deserves it.

The proper time to influence the character of a child is about a hundred years before he is born.

I don’t care how busy I am – I will always make time for what’s most important to me.

Language is a cracked kettle on which we beat out tunes for bears to dance to, while all the time we long to move the stars to pity.

Time is long but life is short.

The best time to make friends is before you need them.

Ethel Barrymore
Winning is not a sometime thing; it’s an all the time thing. You don’t win once in a while… you don’t do things right once in a while… you do them right all the time. Winning is habit.

I am what time, circumstance, history, have made of me, certainly, but I am also, much more than that. So are we all.

The very existence of flame-throwers proves that some time, somewhere, someone said to themselves, You know, I want to set those people over there on fire, but I’m just not close enough to get the job done.

John Candy knew he was going to die. He told me on his 40th birthday. He said, well, Maureen, I’m on borrowed time.

You don’t do things right once in a while. You do things right all the time.

Your soul is infinitely creative. It is alive and expansive in nature. It is curious and playful, changing with the tides of time.

One does not discover new lands without consenting to lose sight of the shore for a very long time.

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.

There may be times when we are powerless to prevent injustice, but there must never be a time when we fail to protest.

Life is short and we have never too much time for gladdening the hearts of those who are travelling the dark journey with us. Oh be swift to love, make haste to be kind.

I am happy to continue with my journey through time.

Mary Crown Princess of Denmark
When Time is spent, Eternity begins.

Helen Hunt Jackson
All blame is a waste of time. No matter how much fault you find with another, and regardless of how much you blame him, it will not change you. The only thing blame does is to keep the focus off you when you are looking for… reasons to explain your unhappiness or frustration.

What does immortality mean to me? That we all want more time; and we want it to be quality time.

Architecture should speak of its time and place, but yearn for timelessness.

If you don’t like the way the world is, you change it. You have an obligation to change it. You just do it one step at a time.

I learned that we can do anything, but we can’t do everything… at least not at the same time. So think of your priorities not in terms of what activities you do, but when you do them. Timing is everything.

Dan Millman
In order to succeed you must fail, so that you know what not to do the next time.

Every time I plant a seed, He say kill it before it grow, he say kill it before they grow.

Show me a guy who’s afraid to look bad, and I’ll show you a guy you can beat every time.

Lou Brock
Together with a culture of work, there must be a culture of leisure as gratification. To put it another way: people who work must take the time to relax, to be with their families, to enjoy themselves, read, listen to music, play a sport.

We’re all so busy we don’t make time to enjoy our lives, good company and good food.

A round man cannot be expected to fit in a square hole right away. He must have time to modify his shape.

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

The solar system should be viewed as our backyard, not as some sequence of destinations that we do one at a time.

Let the word go forth from this time and place, to friend and foe alike, that the torch has been passed to a new generation of Americans – born in this century, tempered by war, disciplined by a hard and bitter peace.

It’s time to say goodbye, but I think goodbyes are sad and I’d much rather say hello. Hello to a new adventure.

Bitcoin is amazingly transformative because it’s the first time in the entire history of the world in which anybody can now send or receive any amount of money, with anyone else, anywhere on the planet, without having to ask permission from any bank or government.

Forever is composed of nows.

If one is master of one thing and understands one thing well, one has at the same time, insight into and understanding of many things.

We name time when we say: every thing has its time. This means: everything which actually is, every being comes and goes at the right time and remains for a time during the time allotted to it. Every thing has its time.

The past cannot be cured.

For a long time I tried to manage an honesty and openness about my personal life because I’m human and I’m normal – well, semi-normal.

There is a role and function for beauty in our time.

I define my life around happiness, being safe, being able to enjoy life and live this life for a long time.

They always say time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself.

Hide nothing, for time, which sees all and hears all, exposes all.

By the time we’ve made it, we’ve had it.

The butterfly counts not months but moments, and has time enough.

Sometimes I wish that I could go into a time machine right now and just look at my self and say, ‘Calm down. Things are gonna be fine. Things are gonna be all great. Just relax.’

Tristan Wilds
I just aspire to be the best I can be. I want to work hard and set one goal at a time for myself.

It is even better to act quickly and err than to hesitate until the time of action is past.

Carl von Clausewitz
The proper function of man is to live, not to exist. I shall not waste my days in trying to prolong them. I shall use my time.

Time is my greatest enemy.

Evita Peron
Anybody can become angry – that is easy, but to be angry with the right person and to the right degree and at the right time and for the right purpose, and in the right way – that is not within everybody’s power and is not easy.

Sometimes, magic is just someone spending more time on something than anyone else might reasonably expect.

I’m just here for good times, man. I want people to have the best time ever. Especially if they’re around me.

I’ll never, ever be full. I’ll always be hungry. Obviously, I’m not talking about food. Growing up, I had nothing for such a long time. Someone told me a long time ago, and I’ve never forgotten it, ‘Once you’ve ever been hungry, really, really hungry, then you’ll never, ever be full.’

As if you could kill time without injuring eternity.

Procrastination is the thief of time.

I am learning all the time. The tombstone will be my diploma.

Linux is only free if your time has no value.

Jamie Zawinski
I’ve gotten to travel all over the world and meet all kinds of people and do all kinds of great things, so it’s, like, surreal. It just lets you know how time flies, especially when you’re having fun. It seems like time keeps going by faster as I get older.

Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half of the time.

What is a fear of living? It’s being preeminently afraid of dying. It is not doing what you came here to do, out of timidity and spinelessness. The antidote is to take full responsibility for yourself – for the time you take up and the space you occupy. If you don’t know what you’re here to do, then just do some good.

Old age and the passage of time teach all things.

All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us.

Faith is deliberate confidence in the character of God whose ways you may not understand at the time.

Oswald Chambers
When you take a flower in your hand and really look at it, it’s your world for the moment. I want to give that world to someone else. Most people in the city rush around so, they have no time to look at a flower. I want them to see it whether they want to or not.

If I had learned education I would not have had time to learn anything else.

Cornelius Vanderbilt
We lost the American colonies because we lacked the statesmanship to know the right time and the manner of yielding what is impossible to keep.

Trust has to be earned, and should come only after the passage of time.

Arthur Ashe
You can’t be afraid to fail. It’s the only way you succeed – you’re not gonna succeed all the time, and I know that.

Love doesn’t just sit there, like a stone; it has to be made, like bread, remade all the time, made new.

Life is like dancing. If we have a big floor, many people will dance. Some will get angry when the rhythm changes. But life is changing all the time.

Anyone can be heroic from time to time, but a gentleman is something you have to be all the time.

Luigi Pirandello
I have moments where I miss my old self. But I think anyone can get caught up in what we used to have. But at the same time, we can choose to focus on the beauty of now.

Steve Gleason
For myself, personally, I am never really aware of timing or anything because I am passionate about what I do, so I have found that if you really love what you do, then time flies.

Put two ships in the open sea, without wind or tide, and, at last, they will come together. Throw two planets into space, and they will fall one on the other. Place two enemies in the midst of a crowd, and they will inevitably meet; it is a fatality, a question of time; that is all.

Beauty is the only thing that time cannot harm. Philosophies fall away like sand, creeds follow one another, but what is beautiful is a joy for all seasons, a possession for all eternity.

Choose to focus your time, energy and conversation around people who inspire you, support you and help you to grow you into your happiest, strongest, wisest self.

The best way to fill time is to waste it.

Marguerite Duras
A man begins cutting his wisdom teeth the first time he bites off more than he can chew.

Herb Caen
I am a marvelous housekeeper. Every time I leave a man I keep his house.

Friendships that have stood the test of time and change are surely best.

Joseph Parry
I would like to be remembered as a man who had a wonderful time living life, a man who had good friends, fine family – and I don’t think I could ask for anything more than that, actually.

Humans are creatures of habit. If you quit when things get tough, it gets that much easier to quit the next time. On the other hand, if you force yourself to push through it, the grit begins to grow in you.

Golf is deceptively simple and endlessly complicated; it satisfies the soul and frustrates the intellect. It is at the same time rewarding and maddening – and it is without a doubt the greatest game mankind has ever invented.

I think there’s a right time for everything, and I’m a true believer that everything happens for a reason.

We always have time enough, if we will but use it aright.

Some people see things that are and ask, Why? Some people dream of things that never were and ask, Why not? Some people have to go to work and don’t have time for all that.

It would take six months to get to Mars if you go there slowly, with optimal energy cost. Then it would take eighteen months for the planets to realign. Then it would take six months to get back, though I can see getting the travel time down to three months pretty quickly if America has the will.

I decided, very early on, just to accept life unconditionally; I never expected it to do anything special for me, yet I seemed to accomplish far more than I had ever hoped. Most of the time it just happened to me without my ever seeking it.

Genius is never understood in its own time.

The game of basketball has been everything to me. My place of refuge, place I’ve always gone where I needed comfort and peace. It’s been the site of intense pain and the most intense feelings of joy and satisfaction. It’s a relationship that has evolved over time, given me the greatest respect and love for the game.

Time discovers truth.

I saw a bank that said ’24 Hour Banking‘, but I don’t have that much time.

This is no time for ease and comfort. It is time to dare and endure.

There comes a time when people get tired of being pushed out of the glittering sunlight of life’s July and left standing amid the piercing chill of an alpine November.

If you love life, don’t waste time, for time is what life is made up of.

Bruce Lee
The time to be happy is now, and the place to be happy is here.

I am grateful for all the moments that I have, and I’m moving forward one step at a time to the future.

The first time you say something, it’s heard. The second time, it’s recognized, and the third time it’s learned.

Each person is an enigma. You’re a puzzle not only to yourself but also to everyone else, and the great mystery of our time is how we penetrate this puzzle.

Eagles don’t flock, you have to find them one at a time.

Ross Perot
The first thing which I can record concerning myself is, that I was born. These are wonderful words. This life, to which neither time nor eternity can bring diminution – this everlasting living soul, began. My mind loses itself in these depths.

It is only in the world of objects that we have time and space and selves.

Education is an admirable thing, but it is well to remember from time to time that nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.

I don’t want to miss out on the chance of having a good time.

Victor Webster
The only reason for time is so that everything doesn’t happen at once.

I schedule ‘me’ time because, just like everyone else, I need to unwind. I try to remember to take it easy and breathe.

I try to do the right thing at the right time. They may just be little things, but usually they make the difference between winning and losing.

Viewed freely, the English language is the accretion and growth of every dialect, race, and range of time, and is both the free and compacted composition of all.

Transitions are a time for reflection, and a time for looking forward.