968 private quotes tagged time

“Anybody can become angry - that is easy, but to be angry with the right person and to the right degree and at the right time and for the right purpose, and in the right way - that is not within everybody's power and is not easy.” — Aristotle

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“We must use time as a tool, not as a couch.” — John F. Kennedy

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“The shock of any trauma, I think changes your life. It's more acute in the beginning and after a little time you settle back to what you were. However it leaves an indelible mark on your psyche.” — Alex Lifeson

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“Children begin by loving their parents; after a time they judge them; rarely, if ever, do they forgive them.” — Oscar Wilde

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“If you love life, don't waste time, for time is what life is made up of.” — Bruce Lee

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“Nine-tenths of wisdom is being wise in time.” — Theodore Roosevelt

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“Everything happens to everybody sooner or later if there is time enough.” — George Bernard Shaw

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“Campaign behavior for wives: Always be on time. Do as little talking as humanly possible. Lean back in the parade car so everybody can see the president.” — Eleanor Roosevelt

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“Don't limit a child to your own learning, for he was born in another time.” — Rabindranath Tagore

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“We must reject the idea that every time a law's broken, society is guilty rather than the lawbreaker. It is time to restore the American precept that each individual is accountable for his actions.” — Ronald Reagan

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“We can be tired, weary and emotionally distraught, but after spending time alone with God, we find that He injects into our bodies energy, power and strength.” — Charles Stanley

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“In books lies the soul of the whole past time.” — Thomas Carlyle

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“To have no time for philosophy is to be a true philosopher.” — Blaise Pascal

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“Well-timed silence is the most commanding expression.” — Mark Helprin

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“A play should give you something to think about. When I see a play and understand it the first time, then I know it can't be much good.” — T. S. Eliot

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“If one is master of one thing and understands one thing well, one has at the same time, insight into and understanding of many things.” — Vincent Van Gogh

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“All the world's a stage, and all the men and women merely players: they have their exits and their entrances and one man in his time plays many parts, his acts being seven ages.” — William Shakespeare

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“Waste no more time arguing about what a good man should be. Be one.” — Marcus Aurelius

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“Every time I see an adult on a bicycle, I no longer despair for the future of the human race.” — H. G. Wells

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“Let your life lightly dance on the edges of Time like dew on the tip of a leaf.” — Rabindranath Tagore

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“Change will not come if we wait for some other person or some other time. We are the ones we've been waiting for. We are the change that we seek.” — Barack Obama

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“It seems like every time you come up something happens to bring you back down.” — Tupac Shakur

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“I have long known that it is part of God's plan for me to spend a little time with each of the most stupid people on earth.” — Bill Bryson

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“Learn from the past, set vivid, detailed goals for the future, and live in the only moment of time over which you have any control: now.” — Denis Waitley

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