Top 999 Time Quotes & Sayings - Page 4

A thing is mighty big when time and distance cannot shrink it.

Time and the hour run through the roughest day.

And when is there time to remember, to sift, to weigh, to estimate, to total?

Time has a way of demonstrating that the most stubborn are the most intelligent.

Better three hours too soon than a minute too late.

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

If you aim at nothing, you'll hit it every time.

The clock talked loud. I threw it away, it scared me what it talked.

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

Humans have a light side and a dark side, and it's up to us to choose which way we're going to live our lives. Even if you start out on the dark side, it doesn't mean you have to continue your journey that way. You always have time to turn it around.

Time passes irrevocably.

The next time some academics tell you how important diversity is, ask how many Republicans there are in their sociology department.

All our sweetest hours fly fastest.

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.

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

In the time of darkest defeat, victory may be nearest.

I'd do anything at the right time, and I would also do things at the wrong time if they felt right.

I confess, I do not believe in time.

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.

Everything that happens is meant to be. It's meant to happen like that. But sometimes you don't know at the time that it's meant to be disaster.

Time can be an ally or an enemy. What it becomes depends entirely upon you, your goals, and your determination to use every available minute.

Time goes on. So whatever you're going to do, do it. Do it now. Don't wait.

Time makes more converts than reason.

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.

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

For time is the longest distance between two places.

Take time to be kind and to say 'thank you.'

I am so thrilled by the privilege of life, and yet at the same time I know that I have to let it go.

Time moves in one direction, memory in another.

The time to hesitate is through.

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

I wasted time, and now doth time waste me.

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.

It is a mistake to look too far ahead. Only one link of the chain of destiny can be handled at a time.

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

Each time dawn appears, the mystery is there in its entirety.

People don't really believe in words. Or rather, people believe in words only for a stretch of time. Then they start to look for action.

Time flies never to be recalled.

Time was God's first creation.

But meanwhile time flies; it flies never to be regained.

When was the last time you spent a quiet moment just doing nothing - just sitting and looking at the sea, or watching the wind blowing the tree limbs, or waves rippling on a pond, a flickering candle or children playing in the park?

In every adversity there lies the seed of an equivalent advantage. In every defeat is a lesson showing you how to win the victory next time.

On your journey, don't forget to smell the flowers. Take time out to notice that you're alive. You can only live in one day.

Time is the most valuable thing a man can spend.

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.

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

One does not leave a convivial party before closing time.

The industrial revolution allowed us, for the first time, to start replacing human labour with machines.

Time is the friend of the wonderful company, the enemy of the mediocre.

Like as the waves make towards the pebbl'd shore, so do our minutes, hasten to their end.

Live one day at a time emphasizing ethics rather than rules.

Time is flying never to return.

I don't know if I believe in love at first sight, but of course I believe in two people having chemistry right away. A girl should be really easy to talk to. When I lose track of time because we've been talking, I think that's really fun.

The innocent and the beautiful have no enemy but time.

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

There is a time for departure even when there's no certain place to go.

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.

Wise are they who have learned these truths: Trouble is temporary. Time is tonic. Tribulation is a test tube.

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

A liberal to me is one who - and it suits some of the dictionary definitions - is unbeholden to any specific belief or party or group or person, but makes up his or her mind on the basis of the facts and the presentation of those facts at the time. That defines what I am.