Time Quotes

Live one day at a time emphasizing ethics rather than rules.

You know, my dad served in the President's Cabinet after his time as a governor. He told me he enjoyed being governor a lot more. Now, I understand why. If I do my job well, I can make a difference in people's lives and I can help our children realize their dreams.

At the end of your life, you will never regret not having passed one more test, not winning one more verdict or not closing one more deal. You will regret time not spent with a husband, a friend, a child, or a parent.

The loss of a friend is like that of a limb; time may heal the anguish of the wound, but the loss cannot be repaired.

All of the great leaders have had one characteristic in common: it was the willingness to confront unequivocally the major anxiety of their people in their time. This, and not much else, is the essence of leadership.

I've learned from experience that if you work harder at it, and apply more energy and time to it, and more consistency, you get a better result. It comes from the work.

The difference between a democracy and a dictatorship is that in a democracy you vote first and take orders later; in a dictatorship you don't have to waste your time voting.

Because we have so much eye candy and mind candy, spending so much time trying to pay the rent, all of this conspires to keep us from thinking too hard or taking action from that. Our time is stolen. So much of our daily life is stolen.

Nobody sees a flower really; it is so small. We haven't time, and to see takes time - like to have a friend takes time.

You can't live your life blaming your failures on your parents and what they did or didn't do for you. You're dealt the cards that you're dealt. I realised it was a waste of time to be angry at my parents and feel sorry for myself.

In a time of universal deceit - telling the truth is a revolutionary act.

Prejudice is a great time saver. You can form opinions without having to get the facts.

Not managing your time and making excuses are two bad habits. Don't put them both together by claiming you "don't have the time".

I'm the last person to ask 'what do you remember' from a particular time period... I like to learn from the past... not 'live' in it.

No man goes before his time - unless the boss leaves early.

People who have time on their hands will inevitably waste the time of people who have work to do.

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

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

This is a fantastic time to be entering the business world, because business is going to change more in the next 10 years than it has in the last 50.

That Seaman is a handsome young man but he spends too much time looking in his mirror rather than at the ball. You can't keep goal with hair like that.

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.

What's that line from TS Eliot? To arrive at the place where you started, but to know it for the first time. I'm able to write about a breakup from a different place. Same brokenness. Same rock-bottom. But a little more informed, now I'm older. Thank God for growing up.

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.

A man may speak very well in the House of Commons, and fail very completely in the House of Lords. There are two distinct styles requisite: I intend, in the course of my career, if I have time, to give a specimen of both.

Employ your time in improving yourself by other men's writings, so that you shall gain easily what others have labored hard for.

What is down will go up. At the same time, you have to be prepared for what is up to go down.

It is paradoxical that many educators and parents still differentiate between a time for learning and a time for play without seeing the vital connection between them.

Well, I'm not sure, but of one thing I am certain: History judges one differently than contemporary observers, and so I think that as time passes, I hope that not me personally so much, but our administration will be seen for some of the things that we accomplished.

Time is the substance from which I am made. Time is a river which carries me along, but I am the river; it is a tiger that devours me, but I am the tiger; it is a fire that consumes me, but I am the fire.

Waste your money and you're only out of money, but waste your time and you've lost a part of your life.