1,020 Quotes Regarding Time


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.
George Carlin

Our greatest glory is not in never failing, but in rising up every time we fail.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

It is time for parents to teach young people early on that in diversity there is beauty and there is strength.
Maya Angelou

All things are subject to interpretation whichever interpretation prevails at a given time is a function of power and not truth.
Friedrich Nietzsche

I suppose leadership at one time meant muscles but today it means getting along with people.
Mahatma Gandhi

The only time a woman really succeeds in changing a man is when he is a baby.
Natalie Wood

People spend too much time finding other people to blame, too much energy finding excuses for not being what they are capable of being, and not enough energy putting themselves on the line, growing out of the past, and getting on with their lives.
J. Michael Straczynski

All great achievements require time.
Maya Angelou

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.
Abraham Lincoln

At what point then is the approach of danger to be expected? I answer, if it ever reach us, it must spring up amongst us. It cannot come from abroad. If destruction be our lot, we must ourselves be its author and finisher. As a nation of freemen, we must live through all time, or die by suicide.
Abraham Lincoln

Someone's sitting in the shade today because someone planted a tree a long time ago.
Warren Buffett

There is another old poet whose name I do not now remember who said, 'Truth is the daughter of Time.'
Abraham Lincoln

The time comes upon every public man when it is best for him to keep his lips closed.
Abraham Lincoln

Substitute 'damn' every time you're inclined to write 'very' your editor will delete it and the writing will be just as it should be.
Mark Twain

We can be tired, weary and emotionally distraught, but after spending time alone with God, we find that He injects into our bodies energy, power and strength.
Charles Stanley

A round man cannot be expected to fit in a square hole right away. He must have time to modify his shape.
Mark Twain

I'm the one that has to die when it's time for me to die, so let me live my life, the way I want to.
Jimi Hendrix

I decided, very early on, just to accept life unconditionally I never expected it to do anything special for me, yet I seemed to accomplish far more than I had ever hoped. Most of the time it just happened to me without my ever seeking it.
Audrey Hepburn

The time is near at hand which must determine whether Americans are to be free men or slaves.
George Washington

How did it get so late so soon? Its night before its afternoon. December is here before its June. My goodness how the time has flewn. How did it get so late so soon?
Dr. Seuss