Time Quotes

Nine-tenths of wisdom is being wise in time.

Every time I go and shave, I assume there's someone else on the planet shaving. So I say, 'I'm gonna go shave, too.'

The period of time just before you awaken is the time I have my most creative thoughts and discover the best solutions.

I just aspire to be the best I can be. I want to work hard and set one goal at a time for myself.

Time is the king of all men, he is their parent and their grave, and gives them what he will and not what they crave.

It's when children are 15, 16 or 17 that they decide whether they want to be a doctor, an engineer, a politician or go to the Mars or moon. That is the time they start having a dream, and that's the time you can work on them. You can help them shape their dreams.

I've actually not read any books on time management.

All women have a perception much more developed than men. So all women somehow, being repressed for so many millennia, they ended up by developing this sixth sense and contemplation and love. And this is something that we have a hard time to accept as part of our society.

Immorality: the morality of those who are having a better time.

When the Egyptians were building the pyramids or the Romans were building roads, or you had the westward push with the railroads, I don't think that the guys on the ground were spending a lot of time thinking, 'Hey, hundreds or thousands of years from now they will look back at the brick I have just laid down here and say that I changed the world!'

Every man regards his own life as the New Year's Eve of time.

The butterfly counts not months but moments, and has time enough.

I never smoke to excess - that is, I smoke in moderation, only one cigar at a time.

I've always really just liked football, and I've always devoted a lot of time to it. When I was a kid, my friends would call me to go out with them, but I would stay home because I had practice the next day.

The first thing which I can record concerning myself is, that I was born. These are wonderful words. This life, to which neither time nor eternity can bring diminution - this everlasting living soul, began. My mind loses itself in these depths.

Beauty is the only thing that time cannot harm. Philosophies fall away like sand, creeds follow one another, but what is beautiful is a joy for all seasons, a possession for all eternity.

We need to internalize this idea of excellence. Not many folks spend a lot of time trying to be excellent.

How much time he saves who does not look to see what his neighbor says or does or thinks.

If time be of all things the most precious, wasting time must be the greatest prodigality.

Death is caused by swallowing small amounts of saliva over a long period of time.