time quotes

“Politics is almost as exciting as war, and quite as dangerous. In war you can only be killed once, but in politics many times. ”

“It is of practical value to learn to like yourself. Since you must spend so much time with yourself you might as well get some satisfaction out of the relationship.”

— Norman Vincent Peale

“One does not discover new lands without consenting to lose sight of the shore for a very long time.”

— Andre Gide

“In hell there is no other punishment than to begin over and over again the tasks left unfinished in your lifetime.”

— Andre Gide

“If you treat people right they will treat you right... ninety percent of the time.”

— Franklin Roosevelt

“Love doesn't sit there like a stone, it has to be made, like bread: remade all the time, made new.”

— Og Mandino

“It is those who concentrates on but one thing at a time who advance in this world. The great man or woman is the one who never steps outside his or her specialty or foolishly dissipates his or her individuality.”

— Og Mandino

“To be always intending to make a new and better life but never to find time to set about it is as to put off eating and drinking and sleeping from one day to the next until you're dead.”

— Og Mandino

“A civilization is a heritage of beliefs, customs, and knowledge slowly accumulated in the course of centuries, elements difficult at times to justify by logic, but justifying themselves as paths when they lead somewhere, since they open up for man his inner distance.”

— Antoine de Saint Exupery

“Illusions commend themselves to us because they save us pain and allow us to enjoy pleasure instead. We must therefore accept it without complaint when they sometimes collide with a bit of reality against which they are dashed to pieces.”

— Sigmund Freud

“Man has, as it were, become a kind of prosthetic God. When he puts on all his auxiliary organs, he is truly magnificent; but those organs have not grown on him and they still give him much trouble at times.”

— Sigmund Freud

“Always remember that the future comes one day at a time.”

— Dean Acheson

“Instead of worrying about what people say of you, why not spend time trying to accomplish something they will admire.”

— Dale Carnegie

“Don't be afraid to give your best to what seemingly are small jobs. Every time you conquer one it makes you that much stronger. If you do the little jobs well, the big ones will tend to take care of themselves.”

— Dale Carnegie

“The trouble with life is that there are so many beautiful women and so little time.”

— John Barrymore

“I'm selfish, impatient and a little insecure. I make mistakes, I am out of control and at times hard to handle. But if you can't handle me at my worst, then you sure as hell don't deserve me at my best.”

— Marilyn Monroe

“Looking back, I guess I used to play-act all the time. For one thing, it meant I could live in a more interesting world than the one around me.”

— Marilyn Monroe

“Any time three New Yorkers get into a cab without an argument, a bank has just been robbed. ”

— Phyllis Diller

“My recipe for dealing with anger and frustration: set the kitchen timer for twenty minutes, cry, rant, and rave, and at the sound of the bell, simmer down and go about business as usual. ”

— Phyllis Diller

“Most children threaten at times to run away from home. This is the only thing that keeps some parents going. ”

— Phyllis Diller

“The only time I ever enjoyed ironing was the day I accidentally got gin in the steam iron. ”

— Phyllis Diller

“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

“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

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

— Abraham Lincoln

“With public sentiment, nothing can fail. Without it, nothing can succeed.”

— Abraham Lincoln

“He who molds the public sentiment... makes statutes and decisions possible or impossible to make.”

— 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

“God not only plays dice, He also sometimes throws the dice where they cannot be seen. ”

— Stephen Hawking

“Not only does God play dice, but... he sometimes throws them where they cannot be seen. ”

— Stephen Hawking