Time Quotes

"I have just got a new theory of eternity."

"I think goals should never be easy, they should force you to work, even if they are uncomfortable at the time."

"I wanted to play Dracula because I wanted to say: 'I've crossed oceans of time to find you.' It was worth playing the role just to say that line."

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

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

"That old law about 'an eye for an eye' leaves everybody blind. The time is always right to do the right thing."

"The future rewards those who press on. I don't have time to feel sorry for myself. I don't have time to complain. I'm going to press on."

"There is nothing as sweet as a comeback, when you are down and out, about to lose, and out of time."

"Time flies over us, but leaves its shadow behind."

"Time, whose tooth gnaws away everything else, is powerless against truth."

"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."

"We are time's subjects, and time bids be gone."

"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."

"What then is time? If no one asks me, I know what it is. If I wish to explain it to him who asks, I do not know."

"As you schedule individual tasks, give yourself a cushion. Mark the due date a few days ahead of the actual deadline so you have time to deal with changes or last-minute emergencies."

"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.'"

"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."

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

"Procrastination is the thief of time."

"Rioting is a childish way of trying to be a man, but it takes time to rise out of the hell of hatred and frustration and accept that to be a man you don't have to riot."

"The only reason for time is so that everything doesn't happen at once."

"Truth is like the sun. You can shut it out for a time, but it ain't goin' away."

"At a time like this, scorching irony, not convincing argument, is needed."

"Don't spend time beating on a wall, hoping to transform it into a door."

"For one swallow does not make a summer, nor does one day; and so too one day, or a short time, does not make a man blessed and happy."

"I had a difficult time hearing my own inner voice about what I wanted to be in this life, because there were all these perfect examples of what a man actually does. The notion is that he goes to college, gets married and provides. That's what a man does."

"If you spend enough time with yourself in silence, you'll be surprised what goes through your head."

"In time of difficulties, we must not lose sight of our achievements."

"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."

"That so few now dare to be eccentric, marks the chief danger of the time."

"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."

"Those who make the worst use of their time are the first to complain of its shortness."

"Time is a beautiful thing. It's like when you meet an old lover on the street six years later and they don't look so ugly anymore."

"Time is what we want most, but what we use worst."

"Time makes heroes but dissolves celebrities."

"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."

"You are not a beautiful, unique snowflake... This is your life, and it's ending one minute at a time."

"You can fool all the people some of the time, and some of the people all the time, but you cannot fool all the people all the time."

"A hair-hopper is someone who pretends they're rich, who really wasn't brought up very wealthy but now tries to brag that they're rich, and they spend too much time on their hair."

"A lot of people think international relations is like a game of chess. But it's not a game of chess, where people sit quietly, thinking out their strategy, taking their time between moves. It's more like a game of billiards, with a bunch of balls clustered together."

"Any time you got nothing to do - and lots of time to do it - come on up."

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

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

"I believe race is too heavy a burden to carry into the 21st century. It's time to lay it down. We all came here in different ships, but now we're all in the same boat."

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

"I put instant coffee in a microwave oven and almost went back in time."

"If you are the kind of person who is waiting for the 'right' thing to happen, you might wait for a long time. It's like waiting for all the traffic lights to be green for five miles before starting the trip."