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Be who you want to be, do what it takes to be that way, and in time, you will have what you want in life.

Darren L. Johnson

Author · American

Civilization began the first time an angry person cast a word instead of a rock.

Sigmund Freud

Psychologist · Austrian · 1856 – 1939

A timid person is frightened before a danger, a coward during the time, and a courageous person afterward.

Jean Paul

Author · German · 1763 – 1825

Not a single time have we gotten a right from Congress or from the President. We get them from God.

Glenn Beck

Journalist · American · b. 1964

I have made it a rule never to smoke more that one cigar at a time.

Mark Twain

Author · American · 1835 – 1910

I want to thank you for taking time out of your day to come and witness my hanging.

George W. Bush

President · American · b. 1946

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

Marcus Aurelius

Soldier · Roman · 121 – 180

If a young person has any idealism at all, it's strongest about the time he finishes college.

Sargent Shriver

Politician · American · b. 1915

Don't waste time trying to break a man's heart; be satisfied if you can just manage to chip it in a brand new place.

Helen Rowland

Writer · American

A man's brain has a more difficult time shifting from thinking to feeling than a women's brain does.

Barbara de Angelis

Writer · American

It is even better to act quickly and err than to hesitate until the time of action is past.

Karl Von Clausewitz

Soldier · 1780 – 1831

When I am right, I get angry. Churchill gets angry when he is wrong. We are angry at each other much of the time.

Charles de Gaulle

Leader · 1890 – 1970

It seems that every time mankind is given a lot of energy, we go out and wreck something with it.

David R. Brower

Environmentalist · American · 1912 – 2000

Long stormy spring-time, wet contentious April, winter chilling the lap of very May; but at length the season of summer does come.

Thomas Carlyle

Philosopher · Scottish · 1795 – 1881

It is time we passed a balanced budget amendment and return this government to limited spending.

Newt Gingrich

Politician · American · b. 1943

Ask others about themselves, at the same time, be on guard not to talk too much about yourself.

Mortimer Adler

Philosopher · American · 1902 – 2001

Our greatest weakness lies in giving up. The most certain way to succeed is always to try just one more time.

Thomas A. Edison

Inventor · American · 1847 – 1931

If the Romans had been obliged to learn Latin, they would never have found time to conquer the world.

Heinrich Heine

Poet · German · 1797 – 1856

Middle age is the time when a man is always thinking that in a week or two he will feel as good as ever.

Don Marquis

Poet · American · 1878 – 1937

Television is a medium of entertainment which permits millions of people to listen to the same joke at the same time, and yet remain lonesome.

T. S. Eliot

Poet · American · 1888 – 1965

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

Andrew Jackson

President · American · 1767 – 1845

You must become an old man in good time if you wish to be an old man long.

Marcus Aurelius

Soldier · Roman · 121 – 180

In all known time there has never been a greater monster or miracle than the human being.

Bryant H. McGill

Poet · American · b. 1969

In books lies the soul of the whole past time.

Thomas Carlyle

Philosopher · Scottish · 1795 – 1881

By the time a man gets to be presidential material, he's been bought ten times over.

Gore Vidal

Novelist · American · b. 1925

Character is the result of two things: mental attitude and the way we spend our time.

Elbert Hubbard

Writer · American · 1859 – 1915

As you lecture, you keep watching the faces, and information keeps coming back to you all the time.

George Wald

Scientist · American · 1906 – 1997

One does not leave a convivial party before closing time.

Winston Churchill

Statesman · English · 1874 – 1965

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

Marcel Proust

Author · French · 1871 – 1922

I'm a preacher's kid, and we were always told, Act right all the time, because someone's always watching.

Gwen Ifill

Journalist · American · b. 1955

I am persuaded that every time a man smiles - but much more so when he laughs - it adds something to this fragment of life.

Laurence Sterne

Novelist · Irish · 1713 – 1768

Lives of great men all remind us, we can make our lives sublime, and, departing, leave behind us, footprints on the sands of time.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Poet · American · 1807 – 1882

Man is always more than he can know of himself; consequently, his accomplishments, time and again, will come as a surprise to him.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Poet · American · 1807 – 1882

Well, we spend an awful lot of our time working and doing experiments. It's very busy up on the shuttle.

Sally Ride

Astronaut · American · b. 1951

No time is better spent than that spent in the service of your fellow man.

Bryant H. McGill

Poet · American · b. 1969

Adversity tests us from time to time and it is inevitable that this testing continues during life.

Walter Annenberg

Businessman · American · 1908 – 2002

The present was an egg laid by the past that had the future inside its shell.

Zora Neale Hurston

Dramatist · American · 1891 – 1960

Manners require time, and nothing is more vulgar than haste.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Poet · American · 1803 – 1882

Supposing everyone lived at one time what would they say. They would observe that stringing string beans is universal.

Gertrude Stein

Author · American · 1874 – 1946

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

Voltaire

Writer · French · 1694 – 1778

I have realized that the past and future are real illusions, that they exist in the present, which is what there is and all there is.

Alan Watts

Philosopher · English · 1915 – 1973

Under all speech that is good for anything there lies a silence that is better, Silence is deep as Eternity; speech is shallow as Time.

Thomas Carlyle

Philosopher · Scottish · 1795 – 1881

Make a habit of canceling every subscription to anything you don't have time to read.

Marilyn vos Savant

Writer · American · b. 1946

When a man is trying to sell you something, don't imagine that he is polite all the time.

Edgar Watson Howe

Editor · American · 1853 – 1937

I think a major element of jetlag is psychological. Nobody ever tells me what time it is at home.

David Attenborough

Journalist · British · b. 1926

Surely a long life must be somewhat tedious, since we are forced to call in so many trifling things to help rid us of our time, which will never return.

Samuel Johnson

Author · English · 1709 – 1784

You never give away your heart; you lend it from time to time. If it were not so, how could we take it back without asking?

Jeanette Winterson

Novelist · British · b. 1959

Service is the rent we pay for being. It is the very purpose of life, and not something you do in your spare time.

Marian Wright Edelman

Activist · American · b. 1939

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