968 private quotes tagged time

“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 others' opinions drown out your own inner voice. And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition.” — Steve Jobs

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

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“Try not to have a good time... this is supposed to be educational.” — Charles M. Schulz

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“Time stays long enough for anyone who will use it.” — Leonardo da Vinci

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“Death is caused by swallowing small amounts of saliva over a long period of time.” — George Carlin

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

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“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

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“There's as much crookedness as you want to find. There was something Abraham Lincoln said - he'd rather trust and be disappointed than distrust and be miserable all the time. Maybe I trusted too much.” — John Wooden

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“We must use time wisely and forever realize that the time is always ripe to do right.” — Nelson Mandela

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“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.” — Charles Bukowski

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“As things are, and as fundamentally they must always be, poetry is not a career, but a mug's game. No honest poet can ever feel quite sure of the permanent value of what he has written: He may have wasted his time and messed up his life for nothing.” — T. S. Eliot

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“Time is nature's way of keeping everything from happening at once.” — Woody Allen

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“All my life I've looked at words as though I were seeing them for the first time.” — Ernest Hemingway

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“I've made an odd discovery. Every time I talk to a savant I feel quite sure that happiness is no longer a possibility. Yet when I talk with my gardener, I'm convinced of the opposite.” — Bertrand Russell

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“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

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“You know, people talk about this being an uncertain time. You know, all time is uncertain. I mean, it was uncertain back in - in 2007, we just didn't know it was uncertain. It was - uncertain on September 10th, 2001. It was uncertain on October 18th, 1987, you just didn't know it.” — Warren Buffett

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“Time is but the stream I go a-fishing in.” — Henry David Thoreau

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“The days are long, but the years are short.” — Gretchen Rubin

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“Success is simple. Do what's right, the right way, at the right time.” — Arnold H. Glasow

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“We should not say that one man's hour is worth another man's hour, but rather that one man during an hour is worth just as much as another man during an hour. Time is everything, man is nothing: he is at the most time's carcass.” — Karl Marx

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“Never permit a dichotomy to rule your life, a dichotomy in which you hate what you do so you can have pleasure in your spare time. Look for a situation in which your work will give you as much happiness as your spare time.” — Pablo Picasso

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“Ego is a social fiction for which one person at a time gets all the blame.” — Robert Anton Wilson

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

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

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“If there is not the war, you don't get the great general if there is not a great occasion, you don't get a great statesman if Lincoln had lived in a time of peace, no one would have known his name.” — Theodore Roosevelt

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