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Time Quotes About Life

Dost thou love life? Then do not squander time, for that is the stuff life is made of.

Benjamin Franklin

Too much free time is certainly a monkey's paw in disguise. Most people can't handle a structureless life.

All my life, whenever it comes time to make a decision, I make it and forget about it.

Harry S. Truman

Only losers make decisions when things are bad. The time to rejig your life is the time when it's seemingly smooth.

Enjoy your time in public service. It may well be one of the most interesting and challenging times of your life.

Donald Rumsfeld

Short as life is, we make it still shorter by the careless waste of time.

If you have not taken the time to define what happiness means to you, what have your spent your whole life pursuing?

Freedom comes only to those who no longer ask of life that it shall yield them any of those personal goods that are subject to the mutations of time.

Bertrand Russell

Short Time Quotes

If we open a quarrel between past and present, we shall find that we have lost the future.

Winston Churchill

All the forces in the world are not so powerful as an idea whose time has come.

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

Abraham Lincoln

When we disclaim praise, it is only showing our desire to be praised a second time.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Time, which alone makes the reputation of men, ends by making their defects respectable.

Then not only an old man, but also a drunkard, becomes a second time a child.

Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past.

There never was a truly great man that was not at the same time truly virtuous.

Benjamin Franklin

Deep Time Quotes

We see past time in a telescope and present time in a microscope. Hence the apparent enormities of the present.

Amazing that the human race has taken enough time out from thinking about food or sex to create the arts and sciences.

The man who writes about himself and his own time is the only man who writes about all people and about all time.

George Bernard Shaw

Do not waste your time on Social Questions. What is the matter with the poor is Poverty; what is the matter with the rich is Uselessness.

George Bernard Shaw

Death is a commingling of eternity with time; in the death of a good man, eternity is seen looking through time.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

A wise man will make haste to forgive, because he knows the true value of time, and will not suffer it to pass away in unnecessary pain.

To insure the adoration of a theorem for any length of time, faith is not enough, a police force is needed as well.

For one swallow does not make a summer, nor does one day; and so too one day, or a short time, does not make a man blessed and happy.

More Time Quotes

The distinction between the past, present and future is only a stubbornly persistent illusion.

Albert Einstein

Nothing else in the world... not all the armies... is so powerful as an idea whose time has come.

In this country it is a good thing to kill an admiral from time to time to encourage the others.

There is one thing stronger than all the armies in the world, and that is an idea whose time as come.

There comes a time when the mind takes a higher plane of knowledge but can never prove how it got there.

Albert Einstein

It also allows you to look as though you're not particularly from the present, future or past, either.

Future. That period of time in which our affairs prosper, our friends are true and our happiness is assured.

Patriotism is supporting your country all the time, and your government when it deserves it.

Glance into the world just as though time were gone: and everything crooked will become straight to you.

Friedrich Nietzsche

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

It is the malady of our age that the young are so busy teaching us that they have no time left to learn.

I'm being treated like a sex object, cried the lady. No matter. I will take care of it, said Time soothingly.

I believe that all government is evil, and that trying to improve it is largely a waste of time.

We can chart our future clearly and wisely only when we know the path which has led to the present.

Adlai E. Stevenson

No idea is so outlandish that it should not be considered with a searching but at the same time a steady eye.

Winston Churchill

We are so used to dissembling with others that in time we come to deceive and dissemble with ourselves.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

At times it is folly to hasten at other times, to delay. The wise do everything in its proper time.

The man of sensibility is too busy talking about his feelings to have time for good deeds.

I never think at all when I write. Nobody can do two things at the same time and do them both well.

Do not dwell in the past, do not dream of the future, concentrate the mind on the present moment.

If time be of all things the most precious, wasting time must be the greatest prodigality.

Benjamin Franklin

Losers live in the past. Winners learn from the past and enjoy working in the present toward the future.

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

George Washington

Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect.

We do not yet possess ourselves, and we know at the same time that we are much more.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

Napoleon Bonaparte

What does the future, that half of time, matter to the man who is infatuated with eternity?

Emile M. Cioran

The future influences the present just as much as the past.

Friedrich Nietzsche

We need to internalize this idea of excellence. Not many folks spend a lot of time trying to be excellent.

How sweet for those faring badly to forget their misfortunes even for a short time.

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

William Shakespeare

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

Time will bring to light whatever is hidden; it will cover up and conceal what is now shining in splendor.

Play more than one game at a time. This is a painless way to learn how to do many things at once.

Marilyn vos Savant

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

Winston Churchill

We always live in an uncertain world. What is certain is that the United States will go forward over time.

Poetry should help, not only to refine the language of the time, but to prevent it from changing too rapidly.

An invasion of armies can be resisted, but not an idea whose time has come.

Devote each day to the object then in time and every evening will find something done.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

This time, like all times, is a very good one, if we but know what to do with it.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

No country can act wisely simultaneously in every part of the globe at every moment of time.

Henry A. Kissinger

Time alone reveals the just man; but you might discern a bad man in a single day.

No man was ever yet a great poet, without being at the same time a profound philosopher.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

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

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

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Leisure is the time for doing something useful. This leisure the diligent person will obtain the lazy one never.

Benjamin Franklin

Have enough sense to know, ahead of time, when your skills will not extend to wallpapering.

Marilyn vos Savant

The long time to come when I shall not exist has more effect on me than this short present time, which nevertheless seems endless.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

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