Time Quotes and Sayings
Quotes about Time
Nature does not hurry, yet everything is accomplished.
- Lao Tzu
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Time, like life itself, has no inherent meaning.
We give our own meaning to time as to life.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie 
Footprints in the sands of time...
Where have you been?
Where are you going?
Why are you going there?
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Take time to play!
Ask for what you want.
Laugh.
Live loudly.
Be avid.
Learn a new thing.
Be Yourself!
- Mary Anne Radmacher
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The butterfly counts not months but moments, and has time enough.
- Rabindranath Tagore
Let your life lightly dance on the edges of Time
like dew on the tip of a leaf.
- Rabindranath Tagore
The bad news is time flies.
The good news is you're the pilot.
- Michael Althsuler
You will never find time for anything.
If you want time you must make it.
- Charles Buxton
Our greatest glory is not in never falling,
but in rising every time we fall.
- Confucius
Who forces time is pushed back by time;
who yields to time finds time on his side.
- The Talmud
There is only one time that is important - NOW!
It is the most important time because
it is the only time that we have any power.
- Leo Tolstoy
To say "too busy" is merely
to say "confused priorities."
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Urgent? Why?
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
When you feel the need to hurry,
remember that everything in life is a CHOICE.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The way lies in softness and patience,
as the softest water cuts through the hardest rock.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
No good comes from hurrying.
- Yiddish Proverb
This is no time for ease and comfort.
It is time to dare and endure.
- Winston Churchill
Keep moving. Don't stop. But don't rush.
Don't race around.
Sure and steady gets you there every time.
- Neale Donald Walsch
No idea is so outlandish that it should not be considered
with a searching but at the same time a steady eye.
- Winston Churchill
Our Lord has written the promise of the resurrection,
not in books alone, but in every leaf in spring-time.
- Martin Luther
We must use time wisely and forever realize
that the time is always ripe to do right.
- Nelson Mandela
We are all different - and we are all one.
Take time to understand, and to appreciate.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The finest workers in stone are not copper or steel tools,
but the gentle touches of air and water
working at their leisure with a liberal allowance of time.
- Henry David Thoreau
The dream you are living is your creation.
It is your perception of reality that you can change at any time.
- don Miguel Ruiz
Find a time and place of solitude.
Look into the distance, and into the future.
Visualize the tomorrow you are going to build -
and begin to build that tomorrow, today.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Does thou love life? Then do not squander time;
for that's the stuff life is made of.
- Benjamin Franklin
One does not discover new lands without consenting
to lose sight of the shore for a very long time.
- Andre Gide
Little minds have little worries,
big minds have no time for worries.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
A sloth lives a pretty good life, s-l-o-w-l-y.
Maybe we have something to learn from him.
Some days, being sloth-like may be just what you need
to avoid being consumed by urgency.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Every time you smile at someone,
it is an action of love,
a gift to that person, a beautiful thing.
- Mother Teresa
We shall not cease from exploration
And the end of all of our exploring
Will be to arrive where we started
And know the place for the first time
- T. S. Eliot
Nothing in life is to be feared, it is only to be understood.
Now is the time to understand more, so that we may fear less.
- Marie Curie
Never give up, for that
is just the place and time
that the tide will turn.
- Harriet Beecher Stowe
Habits age men before their time.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
A time for work, a time for play -
balance in all things.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Time stays long enough for anyone who will use it.
- Leonardo da Vinci
Nurturing is not complex.
It's simply being tuned in to the thing or person before you
and offering small gestures toward what it needs at that time.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
Hatred does not cease through hatred at any time.
Hatred ceases through love.
This is an unalterable law.
- The Buddha
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.
- Samuel Johnson
Spend time every day listening to what your muse is trying to tell you.
- Saint Bartholomew
Embrace your uniqueness.
Time is much too short to be
living someone else's life.
- Kobi Yamada
If you judge people, you have no time to love them.
- Mother Teresa
You can fool all the people some of the time,
and some of the people all the time,
but you cannot fool all the people all the time.
- Abraham Lincoln (sometimes attributed to P. T. Barnum)
That old law about "an eye for an eye" leaves everybody blind.
The time is always right to do the right thing.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority,
it is time to pause and reflect.
- Mark Twain
The season of failure is the best time
for sowing the seeds of success.
- Paramahansa Yogananda
Instead of worrying about what people say of you,
why not spend time trying to accomplish
something they will admire.
- Dale Carnegie
Who hears me, who understands me, becomes mine,
a possession for all time.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
There may be times when we are powerless
to prevent injustice, but there must never
be a time when we fail to protest.
- Elie Wiesel
Take time to laugh.
It is the music of the soul.
Take time to think.
It is the source of power.
Take time to play.
It is the source of perpetual youth.
Take time to read.
It is the fountain of wisdom.
Take time to pray.
It is the greatest power on Earth.
Take time to love and be loved.
It is a God-given privilege.
Take time to be friendly.
It is the road to happiness.
Take time to give.
It is too short a day to be selfish.
Take time to work.
It is the price of success.
- Anonymous
Our greatest weakness lies in giving up.
The most certain way to succeed
is always to try just one more time.
- Thomas A. Edison
An invasion of armies can be resisted,
but not an idea whose time has come.
- Victor Hugo
There comes a time when the mind
takes a higher plane of knowledge
but can never prove how it got there.
- Albert Einstein
Dost thou love life? Then do not squander time,
for that is the stuff that life is made of.
- Benjamin Franklin
Once you have mastered time,
you will understand how true it is that
most people overestimate what
they can accomplish in a year -
and underestimate what
they can achieve in a decade!
- Tony Robbins
The time to repair the roof is when the sun is shining.
- John F. Kennedy
The River of Life knows no obstacles.
The River can cut through solid rock - in its own time.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The fear of death follows from the fear of life.
A man who lives fully, is prepared to die at any time.
- Mark Twain
Spend some time alone every day.
- Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama
Put some distance between yourself
and whatever is concerning you.
Distance in space or time
always creates a new perspective.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The time is always right to do what is right.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
I must uphold my ideals,
for perhaps the time will come
when I shall be able to carry them out.
- Anne Frank
Service is the rent we pay for being.
It is the very purpose of life,
and not something you do in your spare time.
- Marion Wright Edelman
This time, like all times, is a very good one,
if we but know what to do with it.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Gardening is all about optimism.
I put a seed in the ground.
I consistently tend it,
confident I will see the results, in time,
of the nurture I have provided.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
The sum of wisdom is that
time is never lost that is devoted to work.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
When you think you're out of time,
smile, and turn back the clock.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Determine never to be idle.
No person will have occasion to complain
of the want of time who never loses any.
It is wonderful how much may be done if we are always doing.
- Thomas Jefferson
For time and the world do not stand still.
Change is the law of life.
And those who look only to the past or the present
are certain to miss the future.
- John F. Kennedy
In order to discover new lands,
one must be willing to lose sight
of the shore for a very long time.
- Anonymous
He who spends time regretting the past,
loses the present and risks the future.
- Quevedo
I suppose leadership at one time meant muscles;
but today it means getting along with people.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
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- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
