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Time Quotes

1.
Remember,
today is the tomorrow you worried about yesterday.
Dale Carnegie

Reflect on the fact that yesterday's apprehensions are today's realities.
Authors on Time Quotes: William Shakespeare Ralph Waldo Emerson Henry David Thoreau Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Benjamin Franklin Seneca the Younger Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Mark Twain Thomas Carlyle Oscar Wilde Deepak Chopra Marcus Tullius Cicero T. S. Eliot Ovid John Milton Benjamin Disraeli Ambrose Bierce Charles Caleb Colton Winston Churchill Friedrich Nietzsche Mason Cooley Samuel Johnson Horace George Bernard Shaw Marcus Aurelius Albert Einstein Samuel Beckett William Wordsworth Steven Wright Robert Browning Francis Bacon Alfred Lord Tennyson Leonardo da Vinci
2.
Students who acquire large debts putting themselves through school are unlikely to think about changing society. When you trap people in a system of debt, they can't afford the time to think.
Noam Chomsky

Learners who take on substantial obligations to finance their education are unlikely to consider transforming society. When one binds individuals in a system of indebtedness, they cannot manage the expense of reflection.
3.
The early bird gets the worm, but the second mouse gets the cheese
Steven Wright

'The quick one reaps the benefit, but the second to act takes the prize.'
4.
Ah, sunflower, weary of time, Who countest the steps of the sun, Seeking after that sweet golden clime Where the traveller's journey is done; Where the youth pined away with desire And the pale virgin shrouded in snow Arise from their graves, and aspire Where my sunflower wishes to go.
William Blake

5.
Waste no more time arguing what a good man should be. Be one.
Marcus Aurelius

Cease expending energy discussing the qualities of an ideal individual. Act on them instead.
6.
Time is free, but it's priceless. You can't own it, but you can use it. You can't keep it, but you can spend it. Once you've lost it you can never get it back.
Harvey Mackay

'Time is a gift, but it has no cost. It is not owned, yet can be employed. You cannot retain it, but you can expend it. Once gone, there is no recovery.'
7.
You learn something out of everything, and you come to realize more than ever that we're all here for a certain space of time, and, and then it's going to be over, and you better make this count.
Nancy Reagan

"Realize that life is fleeting and take advantage of every opportunity to make it meaningful."
8.
There is sorrow in finitude. The Self is beyond time, space and objects. It is infinite and hence of the nature of absolute happiness.
Adi Shankara

There is grief in the limitation of existence. The Self transcends time, space and materiality. It is boundless and thus inherently of absolute joy.
9.
A time is coming when men will go mad, and when they see someone who is not mad, they will attack him, saying, "You are mad; you are not like us."
Anthony the Great

A period is approaching when individuals will become crazed, and when they encounter someone who is not demented, they will assail him, declaring, "You are unhinged; you are not one of us."
10.
You cannot hope to build a better world without improving the individuals. To that end each of us must work for our own improvement, and at the same time share a genaral responsibility for all humanity, our particular duty being to aid those to whom we think can be most useful.
Marie Curie

11.
In every battle there comes a time when both sides consider themselves beaten, then he who continues the attack wins.
Ulysses S. Grant

At the brink of defeat, he who persists in the struggle is victorious.
12.
It's the action, not the fruit of the action, that's important. You have to do the right thing. It may not be in your power, may not be in your time, that there'll be any fruit. But that doesn't mean you stop doing the right thing. You may never know what results come from your action. But if you do nothing, there will be no result.
Mahatma Gandhi

13.
And the seasons they go 'round and 'round And the painted ponies go up and down We're captive on the carousel of time We can't return we can only look behind From where we came And go round and round and round In the circle game.
Joni Mitchell

14.
The man hunched over his motorcycle can focus only on the present... he is caught in a fragment of time cut off from both the past and the future... he has no fear, because the source of fear is in the future, and a person freed of the future has nothing to fear.
Milan Kundera

15.
From your past emerges the present, and from the present is born your future.
Muhammad Iqbal

Out of the past comes the present, and from the present emerges your future.
16.
Don't yield to Satan's lie that you don't have time to study the scriptures. Choose to take time to study them. Feasting on the word of God each day is more important than sleep, school, work, television shows, video games, or social media. You may need to reorganize your priorities to provide time for the study of the word of God. If so, do it!
Richard G. Scott

17.
It's a terrible thing, I think, in life to wait until you're ready. I have this feeling now that actually no one is ever ready to do anything. There is almost no such thing as ready. There is only now. And you may as well do it now. Generally speaking, now is as good a time as any.
Hugh Laurie

18.
Those who contemplate the beauty of the earth find reserves of strength that will endure as long as life lasts. There is something infinitely healing in the repeated refrains of nature -- the assurance that dawn comes after night, and spring after winter.
Rachel Carson

19.
Nothing is particularly hard if you divide it into small jobs.
Henry Ford

'No task is insurmountable if broken down into manageable steps.'
20.
The great questions of the day will not be settled by means of speeches and majority decisions but by iron and blood.
Otto von Bismarck

21.
Times are bad.
Children no longer obey their parents,
and everyone is writing a book.
Marcus Tullius Cicero

Circumstances are unfavorable. Kids no longer heed their guardians, and everybody is composing a tome.
22.
I am not afraid of tomorrow, for I have seen yesterday and I love today.
William Allen White

I am not apprehensive of the future, for I have experienced the past and I cherish the present.
23.
We learn from history that we do not learn from history
Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

'The past can only guide us, not dictate our future.'
24.
Time is money, so I went and bought a rolex.
Wiz Khalifa

'I decided to invest in a luxury wristwatch, as time is a precious commodity.'
25.
Within you there is a stillness and sanctuary to which you can retreat at any time and be yourself
Hermann Hesse

Within you lies a tranquil haven that can be accessed anytime to find serenity and solace.
26.
Time spent with cats is never wasted.
Sigmund Freud

The moments shared with felines are always precious.
27.
Time is more valuable than money. You can get more money, but you cannot get more time.
Jim Rohn

Time is more precious than wealth. You can accumulate riches, but you cannot replenish time.
28.
Right now I’m having amnesia and déjà vu at the same time. I think I’ve forgotten this before.
Steven Wright

Currently I'm experiencing a memory loss and a sense of familiarity simultaneously. I believe I have forgotten this already.
29.
The truth is, the Science of Nature has been already too long made only a work of the Brain and the Fancy: It is now high time that it should return to the plainness and soundness of Observations on material and obvious things.
Robert Hooke

30.
When we first met, I didn't want to get involved with anyone. I didn't have the time or energy, and I wasn't sure that I was ready for it. But you were so good to me, and I got swept up in that. And little by little, I found myself falling in love with you.
Nicholas Sparks

31.
It is by attempting to reach the top at a single leap that so much misery is caused in the world.
William Cobbett

It is by striving to achieve the highest level in one bound that so much anguish is brought upon the world.
32.
There comes a time when the world gets quiet and the only thing left is your own heart. So you'd better learn the sound of it. Otherwise you'll never understand what it's saying.
Sarah Dessen

The world falls silent, leaving your heart to be heard. So take the time to listen, for it is there that you will find what you seek.
33.
One cannot legislate the maniacs off the street... these maniacs can only be shut down by an armed citizenry. Indeed bad things can happen in nations where the citizenry is armed, but not as bad as those which seem to be threatening our disarmed citizenry in this country at this time.
Jeff Cooper

34.
Today is life-the only life you are sure of.
Make the most of today.
Get interested in something.
Shake yourself awake.
Develop a hobby.
Let the winds of enthusiasm sweep through you.
Live today with gusto.
Dale Carnegie

35.
It has been said, 'time heals all wounds.' I do not agree. The wounds remain. In time, the mind, protecting its sanity, covers them with scar tissue and the pain lessens. But it is never gone.
Rose Kennedy

It has been contended, 'duration mends all hurts.' I am unconvinced. The injuries remain. Gradually, the brain, safeguarding its composure, veils them with cicatricial tissue and the agony mitigates. But it is never eradicated.
36.
There are years that ask questions and years that answer.
Zora Neale Hurston

'Some years pose queries while others provide resolutions.'
37.
Time flies over us, but leaves its shadow behind.
Nathaniel Hawthorne

Time passes swiftly, yet its remnants linger.
38.
Nobody made a greater mistake than he who did nothing because he could do only a little.
Edmund Burke

No one committed a more grievous blunder than the individual who refrained from action because they could only contribute minimally.
39.
If there must be trouble, let it be in my day, that my child may have peace.
Thomas Paine

Let me bear the brunt of sorrow, so that my offspring may know tranquillity.
40.
To heal will require real effort, and a change of heart, from all of us. To heal means that we will begin to look upon one another with respect and tolerance instead of prejudice, distrust and hatred. We will have to teach our children-as well as ourselves-to love the diversity of humanity....We can do it. Yes, you and I and all of us together. Now is the time. Now is the only possible time. Let the Great Healing begin.
Leonard Peltier

41.
Do not raise your children the way your parents raised you; they were born for a different time.
Ali ibn Abi Talib

Do not replicate the parenting techniques of your parents; this generation needs a new approach.
42.
Lost time is never found again.
Benjamin Franklin

Missed opportunity never returns.
43.
Time is not measured by the passing of years but by what one does, what one feels, and what one achieves.
Jawaharlal Nehru

The passing of life is determined not by the duration of years but by what one accomplishes, experiences, and attains.
44.
I can't go back to yesterday - because I was a different person then.
Lewis Carroll

I cannot regress to the past - for I have evolved since then.
45.
Bad times, hard times, this is what people keep saying; but let us live well, and times shall be good. We are the times: Such as we are, such are the times.
Saint Augustine

'Adversity, difficulty, this is what people keep mentioning; yet let us live uprightly, and our days shall be prosperous. We are the era: As we are, so it is.'
46.
Being with you and not being with you is the only way I have to measure time.
Jorge Luis Borges

'Having you in my life and not having you in my life is the only way I keep track of time.'
47.
Unless we put medical freedom into the Constitution, the time will come when medicine will organize into an undercover dictatorship to restrict the art of healing to one class of Men and deny equal privileges to others; the Constitution of the Republic should make a Special privilege for medical freedoms as well as religious freedom.
Benjamin Rush

48.
If you're doing your best, you won't have any time to worry about failure.
H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

If you give it your all, there will be no room for fretting over missteps.
49.
We are all here for some special reason. Stop being a prisoner of your past. Become the architect of your future.
Robin Sharma

We are all here with a particular purpose. Abandon your past shackles and become the architect of your destiny.
50.
We all have our time machines, don't we. Those that take us back are memories...And those that carry us forward, are dreams.
Jeremy Irons

"We all have our temporal vessels, do we not? Those that transport us to the past are recollections...And those that bring us into the future, are aspirations."