Top 999 Time Quotes & Sayings

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.

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.

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.

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 is a sort of river of passing events, and strong is its current; no sooner is a thing brought to sight than it is swept by and another takes its place, and this too will be swept away.

The more time you spend contemplating what you should have done... you lose valuable time planning what you can and will do.

You can't please everyone. When you're too focused on living up to other people's standards, you aren't spending enough time raising your own. Some people may whisper, complain and judge. But for the most part, it's all in your head. People care less about your actions than you think. Why? They have their own problems!

'The time has come,' the walrus said, 'to talk of many things: of shoes and ships - and sealing wax - of cabbages and kings.'

When the Egyptians were building the pyramids or the Romans were building roads, or you had the westward push with the railroads, I don't think that the guys on the ground were spending a lot of time thinking, 'Hey, hundreds or thousands of years from now they will look back at the brick I have just laid down here and say that I changed the world!'

There is no greater harm than that of time wasted.

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.

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

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

With each new day in Africa, a gazelle wakes up knowing he must outrun the fastest lion or perish. At the same time, a lion stirs and stretches, knowing he must outrun the fastest gazelle or starve. It's no different for the human race. Whether you consider yourself a gazelle or a lion, you have to run faster than others to survive.

There's no time for regrets. You've just got to keep moving forward.

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

Every time I step onto the stage, it's not only proving to the audience that I'm capable but to myself.

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.

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

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

How much time he saves who does not look to see what his neighbor says or does or thinks.

The most thought-provoking thing in our thought-provoking time is that we are still not thinking.

Jerry Ford is so dumb he can't fart and chew gum at the same time.

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

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

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

The time that I have on this earth should just be filled with good times.

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

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

In this hectic life, we have no time to take care of ourselves, hence massage is needed for rejuvenation and stress reduction. A lot of people are looking for quick fixes: like, they are taking medications, and they are doing other things which are not healthy. But massage is very holistic and natural.

I collect memories. I look for opportunities to try new things, go to new places, and meet new people all the time.

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.

Now, you lose something in your life, or you come into a conflict, and there's gonna come a time that you're gonna know: There was a reason for that. And at the end of your life, all the things you thought were periods, they turn out to be commas. There was never a full stop in any of it.

It's depression. You can't put it into words. You get stuck and time passes by. I'm stood there on the edge of a cliff, can't go back and can't go forward. Days go by. I'm still in the same place. Everyone else's life goes on, but you're stuck. You try and try and try and I don't know how, but you came out of it eventually.

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.

Take time to deliberate, but when the time for action has arrived, stop thinking and go in.

Bureaucracy defends the status quo long past the time when the quo has lost its status.

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.

Sometimes you have to play a long time to be able to play like yourself.

Time stays long enough for anyone who will use it.

You never know the plan. You never know what's going to happen. We are not even promised tomorrow. I just try to focus on one day at a time.

Cute is when a person's personality shines through their looks. Like in the way they walk, every time you see them you just want to run up and hug them.

Every time I have a dream, somehow I accomplish it.

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.

When I read things like the foundations of capitalism are shattering, I'm like, maybe we need that. Maybe we need some time where we're walking around with a donkey with pots clanging on the sides.

Every time I appoint someone to a vacant position, I make a hundred unhappy and one ungrateful.

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

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

Every time I dance, I'm trying to prove myself to myself.

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

The time I kill is killing me.

In rivers, the water that you touch is the last of what has passed and the first of that which comes; so with present time.

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.

Children should be able to live a life free from bullying and harassment and it is time that we all took a stand against this.

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

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

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

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.'

Scars are a truly beautiful thing. Yes, they can be a little ugly on the outside, but scars show that you're a survivor, that you made it through something, and not only did you make it through, but now you're stronger and wiser and more educated because of that tough time that you went through.

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