Quotes About Time

Often people enter into things they have not the means to accomplish, with the result that they cheat others to attain their own ends. Then there is in all things the time factor to be taken into consideration; what at one time might be a failure, would perhaps at another time be a very great success. The

The success sometimes may come immediately, but we must be ready to wait patiently even for what may look like an infinite length of time. The student who sets out with such a spirit of perseverance will surely find success and realisation at last.

Therefore we see at once that there cannot be any such thing as free-will; the very words are a contradiction, because will is what we know, and everything that we know is within our universe, and everything within our universe is moulded by conditions of time, space and causality. ... To acquire freedom we have to get beyond the limitations of this universe; it cannot be found here.

In one span of life they lived the whole life of humanity

B ooks are infinite in number and time is short The secret of knowledge is to take what is essential Take that and try to live up to it

What breaks in a moment may take years to mend.

Our relationship was forged slowly over time, and strengthened by the combination of the intense fire of his high expectations and my determination to learn. It matured when it became a "learning relationship" and my respect for him caught up with his respect for me.

If you squander your time on the tricks of the trade, On discovering just how a shortcut is made, You've neglected the work and your skills are but frail. If you fail to prepare, you're preparing to fail.

Priority Practice planning was a sacred time. It was always at the same time of day, in the morning, and was never interrupted except for emergencies.

I often wish I could go back in time and tell my young, anxious self that my dreams weren't in vain and my sorrows weren't permanent. I can't do that, but I can do something better. I can tell you that teachers are all around to help you; with four legs or two or eight or even none; some with internal skeletons, some without. All you have to do is recognize them as teachers and be ready to hear their truths.

if you believe, instead, that the passing years are a celebration of life, who knows what they'll bring?

Regret for things we have done can be tempered by time, it is regret for things we have not done that is inconsolable.

Nothing is as easy to make as a promise this winter to do something next summer; this is how commencement speakers are caught.

The beauty of "spacing" children many years apart lies in the fact that parents have time to learn the mistakes that were made with the older ones — which permits them to make exactly the opposite mistakes with the younger ones.

Regret for the things we did can be tempered by time; it is regret for the things we did not do that is inconsolable.

The time to relax is when you don't have time for it.

But in terms of "psychological" time, most of us are still living in centuries past, stirred by ancient grudges, controlled by obsolete prejudices, driven by buried fears.

We must also learn that time itself is indivisible, that every act is a blending of past experience, present situation and future expectancy.

We think the future lies ahead, but its seed is contained in the present. There is no sharp break between the two: the lie we tell today can send us sprawling a year from now; the way we treat our infant determines the way he treats us when he reaches adolescence.

The beauty of "spacing" children many years apart lies in the fact that parents have time to learn the mistakes that were made with the older ones — which permits them to make exactly the opposite mistakes with the younger ones.

He has spent all his life in letting down empty buckets into empty wells; and he is frittering away his age in trying to draw them up again.

In the country I always fear that creation will expire before tea-time.

The main question to a novel is -- did it amuse? were you surprised at dinner coming so soon? did you mistake eleven for ten? were you too late to dress? and did you sit up beyond the usual hour? If a novel produces these effects, it is good; if it does not -- story, language, love, scandal itself cannot save it. It is only meant to please; and it must do that or it does nothing.

I always fear that creation will expire before teatime.