time quotes

“A healthy male adult bore consumes each year one and a half times his own weight in other people's patience.”

— John Updike

“Nothing is a waste of time if you use the experience wisely.”

— Rodin

“Though ambition itself be a vice, yet it is often times the cause of virtues.”

— Quintilian

“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

“I've seen too much hate to want to hate, myself, and every time I see it, I say to myself, hate is too great a burden to bear. Somehow we must be able to stand up against our most bitter opponents and say: We shall match your capacity to inflict suffering by our capacity to endure suffering. We will meet your physical force with soul force. Do to us what you will and we will still love you.... But be assured that we'll wear you down by our capacity to suffer, and one day we will win our freedom. We will not only win freedom for ourselves; we will appeal to your heart and conscience that we will win you in the process, and our victory will be a double victory.”

— Martin Luther King

“Nonviolence is the answer to the crucial political and moral questions of our time; the need for mankind to overcome oppression and violence without resorting to oppression and violence. Mankind must evolve for all human conflict a method which rejects revenge, aggression, and retaliation. The foundation of such a method is love.”

— Martin Luther King

“Wisdom born of experience should tell us that war is obsolete. There may have been a time when war served as a negative good by preventing the spread and growth of an evil force... If we assume that life is worth living, if we assume that mankind has the right to survive, then we must find an alternative to war.”

— Martin Luther King

“Your time is limited, so don't waste it living someone else's life. Don't be trapped by dogma - which is living with the results of other people's thinking. Don't let the noise of other's opinions drown out your own inner voice. And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow already know what you truly want to become. Everything else is secondary.”

— Steve Jobs

“I'm sure a lot of you had this experience when your changing. Your growing as a person and people tend to treat you like you were 18 months ago, and it's really frustrating sometimes when you're growing up and you're more capable. It's the same thing with a company and the press. The press is going to have a lag time. The best thing we can do about the press is embrace them and do the best thing we can to educate them about our strategy. But to keep our eye on the prize, that is turning out some great products. the press and the stock prize will take care of themselves.”

— Steve Jobs

“Innovation has nothing to do with how many R&D dollars you have. When Apple came up with the Mac, IBM was spending at least 100 times more on R&D. It's not about money. It's about the people you have, how you're led, and how much you get it.”

— Steve Jobs

“Your time is limited, so don't waste it living someone else's life. Don't be trapped by dogma, which is living with the results of other people's thinking. Don't let the noise of other's opinions drown out your inner voice. And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow already know what you truly want to become. Everything else is secondary.”

— Steve Jobs

“The chain of wedlock is so heavy that it takes two to carry it - and sometimes three.”

— Heraclitus

“I had no idea of the character. But the moment I was dressed, the clothes and the make-up made me feel the person he was. I began to know him, and by the time I walked onto the stage he was fully born.”

— Charlie Chaplin

“To help a friend in need is easy, but to give him your time is not always opportune.”

— Charlie Chaplin

“Most of the time I don't have much fun. The rest of the time I don't have any fun at all.”

— Woody Allen

“More than any other time in history, mankind faces a crossroads. One path leads to despair and utter hopelessness. The other, to total extinction. Let us pray we have the wisdom to choose correctly.”

— Woody Allen

“But if nothing but soul, or in soul mind, is qualified to count, it is impossible for there to be time unless there is soul, but only that of which time is an attribute, i.e. if change can exist without soul. ”

— Aristotle

“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.”

— Aristotle

“We praise a man who feels angry on the right grounds and against the right persons and also in the right manner at the right moment and for the right length of time.”

— Aristotle

“It is not once nor twice but times without number that the same ideas make their appearance in the world. ”

— Aristotle

“Whether if soul did not exist time would exist or not, is a question that may fairly be asked; for if there cannot be someone to count there cannot be anything that can be counted, so that evidently there cannot be number; for number is either what has been, or what can be, counted. ”

— Aristotle

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

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

— Mark Twain

“I have been complimented many times and they always embarrass me. I always feel that they have not said enough.”

— Mark Twain

Time quotes - Sometimes too much to drink is barely enough.

“Sometimes too much to drink is barely enough.”

— Mark Twain

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Substitute "damn" every time you're inclined to write "very", and your editor will delete it and the writing will be just as it should be.

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— Mark Twain

Time quotes - There are times when one would like to hang the whole human race, and finish the farce.

“There are times when one would like to hang the whole human race, and finish the farce.”

— Mark Twain

“Love is a fruit in season at all times, and within reach of every hand.”

— Mother Teresa

Time quotes - Employ thy time well, if thou meanest to get leisure.

“Employ thy time well, if thou meanest to get leisure.”

— Benjamin Franklin

Time quotes - You may delay, but time will not.

“You may delay, but time will not.”

— Benjamin Franklin

“The most important things are the hardest things to say. They are the things you get ashamed of because words diminish your feelings - words shrink things that seem timeless when they are in your head to no more than living size when they are brought out.”

— Stephen King