Top 999 Time Quotes & Sayings - Page 2

To be a Negro in this country and to be relatively conscious is to be in a rage almost all the time.

Most people spend more time and energy going around problems than in trying to solve them.

We do not say: Being is, time is, but rather: there is Being and there is time.

By taking the time to stop and appreciate who you are and what you've achieved - and perhaps learned through a few mistakes, stumbles and losses - you actually can enhance everything about you. Self-acknowledgment and appreciation are what give you the insights and awareness to move forward toward higher goals and accomplishments.

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

The best way to fill time is to waste it.

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 not a thing, thus nothing which is, and yet it remains constant in its passing away without being something temporal like the beings in time.

I must govern the clock, not be governed by it.

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.

I took some time out for life.

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.

I find television very educating. Every time somebody turns on the set, I go into the other room and read a book.

I want to go ahead of Father Time with a scythe of my own.

Child labor and poverty are inevitably bound together and if you continue to use the labor of children as the treatment for the social disease of poverty, you will have both poverty and child labor to the end of time.

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

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.

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.

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

It's time for political leaders across the ideological spectrum to realize that, while partisanship is understandable, hyper-partisanship is destructive to our country. We need more visionary leaders who will earnestly strive for bipartisanship and finding policy solutions that can move America forward.

The right of every American to first-class citizenship is the most important issue of our time.

Time is the only critic without ambition.

It's almost mind-boggling how time flies.

Finding some quiet time in your life, I think, is hugely important.

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

Looking back, we were the luckiest people in the world. There was no choice but to be pioneers; no time to be beginners.

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.

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.

We must use time creatively.

The difference between the greats and the legends is their ability to focus for longer periods of time.

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.

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

Do your damnedest in an ostentatious manner all the time.

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.

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

O sweet, delusive Noon, Which the morning climbs to find, O moment sped too soon, And morning left behind.

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

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.

I remember the first time I had sex - I kept the receipt.

Eternity: a moment standing still for ever.

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

I believe time wounds all heels.

When Time is spent, Eternity begins.

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.

You lose a lot of time, hating people.

Well-timed silence is the most commanding expression.

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

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

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

Cowardice asks the question, is it safe? Expediency asks the question, is it politic? Vanity asks the question, is it popular? But conscience asks the question, is it right? And there comes a time when one must take a position that is neither safe, nor politic, nor popular, but one must take it because it is right.

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

It's pretty scary to know how quickly time flies.

As if you could kill time without injuring eternity.

Lost - yesterday, somewhere between sunrise and sunset, two golden hours, each set with sixty diamond minutes. No reward is offered, for they are gone forever.

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.

Everybody is responsible for their own actions. It's easy to point the finger at somebody else, but a real man, a real woman, a real person knows when it's time to take the blame and when to take responsibility for their own actions.

True time is four-dimensional.

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.

It has been my observation that most people get ahead during the time that others waste.

The right man, in the right place, at the right time, can steal millions.