Quotes on Time

The only reason for time is so that everything doesn't happen at once.
Albert Einstein

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

I think and think for months and years. Ninety-nine times, the conclusion is false. The hundredth time I am right.
Albert Einstein

Time is what prevents everything from happening at once.
Albert Einstein

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

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

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

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

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

The fear of death follows from the fear of life. A man who lives fully is prepared to die at any time.
Mark Twain

I've been on a calendar, but I've never been on time.
Marilyn Monroe

If you have an important point to make, don't try to be subtle or clever. Use a pile driver. Hit the point once. Then come back and hit it again. Then hit it a third time - a tremendous whack.
Winston Churchill

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

When I am abroad, I always make it a rule never to criticize or attack the government of my own country. I make up for lost time when I come home.
Winston Churchill

Man will occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of the time he will pick himself up and continue on.
Winston Churchill

This is no time for ease and comfort. It is time to dare and endure.
Winston Churchill

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

One does not leave a convivial party before closing time.
Winston Churchill

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

The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.
Thomas Jefferson

The best thing about the future is that it comes one day at a time.
Abraham Lincoln

My dream is of a place and a time where America will once again be seen as the last best hope of earth.
Abraham Lincoln

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

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

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

If patience is worth anything, it must endure to the end of time. And a living faith will last in the midst of the blackest storm.
Mohandas Gandhi

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

All the world's a stage, and all the men and women merely players: they have their exits and their entrances; and one man in his time plays many parts, his acts being seven ages.
William Shakespeare

I wasted time, and now doth time waste me.
William Shakespeare

Experience hath shewn, that even under the best forms of government those entrusted with power have, in time, and by slow operations, perverted it into tyranny.
Thomas Jefferson

Love is like a virus. It can happen to anybody at any time.
Maya Angelou

The God who gave us life, gave us liberty at the same time.
Thomas Jefferson

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

It takes time to persuade men to do even what is for their own good.
Thomas Jefferson

In time we hate that which we often fear.
William Shakespeare

Time and the hour run through the roughest day.
William Shakespeare

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

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

Nature hath framed strange fellows in her time.
William Shakespeare

Lost time is never found again.
Benjamin Franklin

The time is always right to do what is right.
Martin Luther King, Jr.

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.

We must use time creatively.
Martin Luther King, Jr.

All great achievements require time.
Maya Angelou

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

When someone shows you who they are, believe them the first time.
Maya Angelou

Time is money.
Benjamin Franklin

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

You may delay, but time will not.
Benjamin Franklin

Take time for all things: great haste makes great waste.
Benjamin Franklin

It is a grand mistake to think of being great without goodness and I pronounce it as certain that there was never a truly great man that was not at the same time truly virtuous.
Benjamin Franklin

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

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

Each year one vicious habit discarded, in time might make the worst of us good.
Benjamin Franklin

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

Employ thy time well, if thou meanest to gain leisure.
Benjamin Franklin

We must reject the idea that every time a law's broken, society is guilty rather than the lawbreaker. It is time to restore the American precept that each individual is accountable for his actions.
Ronald Reagan

Let us be sure that those who come after will say of us in our time, that in our time we did everything that could be done. We finished the race; we kept them free; we kept the faith.
Ronald Reagan

No matter what time it is, wake me, even if it's in the middle of a Cabinet meeting.
Ronald Reagan

Let the word go forth from this time and place, to friend and foe alike, that the torch has been passed to a new generation of Americans - born in this century, tempered by war, disciplined by a hard and bitter peace.
John F. Kennedy

We must use time as a tool, not as a couch.
John F. Kennedy

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

The time to repair the roof is when the sun is shining.
John F. Kennedy

Humans are amphibians - half spirit and half animal. As spirits they belong to the eternal world, but as animals they inhabit time.
C. S. Lewis

Long before history began we men have got together apart from the women and done things. We had time.
C. S. Lewis

Education is an admirable thing, but it is well to remember from time to time that nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.
Oscar Wilde

Children begin by loving their parents; after a time they judge them; rarely, if ever, do they forgive them.
Oscar Wilde

Mickey Mouse popped out of my mind onto a drawing pad 20 years ago on a train ride from Manhattan to Hollywood at a time when business fortunes of my brother Roy and myself were at lowest ebb and disaster seemed right around the corner.
Walt Disney

How can you think and hit at the same time?
Yogi Berra

I cannot believe in a God who wants to be praised all the time.
Friedrich Nietzsche

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

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

Time you enjoy wasting, was not wasted.
John Lennon

You're just left with yourself all the time, whatever you do anyway. You've got to get down to your own God in your own temple. It's all down to you, mate.
John Lennon

Winning is not a sometime thing; it's an all time thing. You don't win once in a while, you don't do things right once in a while, you do them right all the time. Winning is habit. Unfortunately, so is losing.
Vince Lombardi

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

Little minds have little worries, big minds have no time for worries.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

The greatest glory in living lies not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

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

I went to a restaurant that serves "breakfast at any time". So I ordered French Toast during the Renaissance.
Steven Wright

Right now I'm having amnesia and deja vu at the same time.
Steven Wright

I saw a bank that said "24 Hour Banking," but I don't have that much time.
Steven Wright

I bought some instant water one time but I didn't know what to add to it.
Steven Wright

Failure is simply the opportunity to begin again, this time more intelligently.
Henry Ford

The only difference between death and taxes is that death doesn't get worse every time Congress meets.
Will Rogers

The time to save is now. When a dog gets a bone, he doesn't go out and make a down payment on a bigger bone. He buries the one he's got.
Will Rogers

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

The only time people dislike gossip is when you gossip about them.
Will Rogers

In Hollywood you can see things at night that are fast enough to be in the Olympics in the day time.
Will Rogers

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

The competitor to be feared is one who never bothers about you at all, but goes on making his own business better all the time.
Henry Ford

It has been my observation that most people get ahead during the time that others waste.
Henry Ford

Time and money spent in helping men to do more for themselves is far better than mere giving.
Henry Ford

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

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

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

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

The time to hesitate is through.
Jim Morrison

Don't wait. The time will never be just right.
Napoleon Hill