Quotes About Time

One faces the future with one's past.

Time has told me less than I need to know.

Deliberation often loses a good chance.

If you think too long, you think wrong.

If you want to understand democracy, spend less time in the library with Plato, and more time in the buses with people.

Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half of the time.

To everything there is a season, A time for every purpose under heaven.... A time to weep, and a time to laugh, A time to mourn, and a time to dance.

This, too, shall pass.

The present will not long endure.

Life comes in clusters, clusters of solitude, then clusters when there is hardly time to breathe.

Time, in the turning-over of days, works change, for better or worse.

Time is like a river of fleeting events, and its current is strong; as soon as something comes into sight, it is swept past us, and something else takes its place, and that too will be swept away.

Come what come may, time and the hour runs through the roughest day.

We undo ourselves by impatience. Misfortunes have their life and their limits, their sickness and their health.

That's the advantage of having lived sixty-five years. You don't feel the need to be impatient any longer.

Who longest waits most surely wins.

I believe the sign of maturity is accepting deferred gratification.

And he shall reign a goodly king And sway his hand o'er every clime With peace writ on his signet ring, Who bides his time.

It takes time to succeed because success is merely the natural reward of taking time to do anything well.

No great thing is created suddenly, any more than a bunch of grapes or a fig. If you tell me that you desire a fig, I answer you that there must be time. Let it first blossom, then bear fruit, then ripen.

Genius is eternal patience.

The secret of patience ... to do something else in the meantime.

Waiting is not mere empty hoping. It has the inner certainty of reaching the goal.

God grant us patience!