Quotes About Time

Remember, the bread you meet each day is still rising. Don't scare the dough.

Will you be satisfied with the fruit of your life's work? Will the efforts you are making now bring you satisfaction when the things of time are receding, and eternity looms ahead?

It takes time to be a success.

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

It takes twenty years to make an overnight success.

If you live long enough, you'll see that every victory turns into a defeat.

"The time has come," the Walrus said, "To talk of many things; Of shoes - and ships - and sealing-wax - Of cabbages - and kings - And why the sea is boiling hot - And whether pigs have wings."

In general those who nothing have to say Contrive to spend the longest time in doing it.

It would be a great advantage to some schoolmasters if they would steal two hours a day from their pupils, and give their own minds the benefit of the robbery.

Temptation rarely comes in working hours. It is in their leisure time that men are made or marred.

One thing I can guarantee you. You may not be a great deal wiser from my talk today, but you will be a great deal older.

I've been here so long . . . when I got here the Dead Sea wasn't even sick yet.

I noticed you weren't checking your watches - you've been shaking them.

Watchman, what of the night?

For what is your life? It is even a vapour, that appeareth for a little time, and then vanisheth away.

The future comes one day at a time.

It is a mistake to look too far ahead. Only one link in the chain of destiny can be handled at a time.

If you are afraid for your future, you don't have a present.

He that fears not the future may enjoy the present.

We grow in time to trust the future for our answers.

See how time makes all grief decay.

The future is the past in preparation.

I have always been driven by some distant music-a battle hymn no doubt-for I have been at war from the beginning. I've never looked back before. I've never had the time and it has always seemed so dangerous.

He who lives in the future lives in a featureless blank; he lives in impersonality; he lives in Nirvana. The past is democratic, because it is a people. The future is despotic, because it is a caprice. Every man is alone in his prediction, just as each man is alone in a dream.