968 private quotes tagged time

“Waste is worse than loss. The time is coming when every person who lays claim to ability will keep the question of waste before him constantly. The scope of thrift is limitless.” — Thomas A. Edison

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“There is one thing stronger than all the armies in the world, and that is an idea whose time as come.” — Victor Hugo

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“Time is precious, but truth is more precious than time.” — Benjamin Disraeli

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“An invasion of armies can be resisted, but not an idea whose time has come.” — Victor Hugo

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“It takes a long time to bring the past up to the present.” — Franklin D. Roosevelt

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“He who is too busy doing good finds no time to be good.” — Rabindranath Tagore

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

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

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“For time is the longest distance between two places.” — Tennessee Williams

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“What with making their way and enjoying what they have won, heroes have no time to think. But the sons of heroes - ah, they have all the necessary leisure.” — Aldous Huxley

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“I spend a lot of time reading.” — Bill Gates

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“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

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

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

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

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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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“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

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“Substitute 'd--n' 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

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“The two most powerful warriors are patience and time.” — Leo Tolstoy

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

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“Have regular hours for work and play make each day both useful and pleasant, and prove that you understand the worth of time by employing it well. Then youth will be delightful, old age will bring few regrets, and life will become a beautiful success.” — Louisa May Alcott

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“The greatest discovery of all time is that a person can change his future by merely changing his attitude.” — Oprah Winfrey

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“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

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“No man goes before his time - unless the boss leaves early.” — Groucho Marx

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