968 private quotes tagged time

“We do not yet possess ourselves, and we know at the same time that we are much more.” — Ralph Waldo Emerson

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“Manners require time, and nothing is more vulgar than haste.” — Ralph Waldo Emerson

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“I never cut class. I loved getting A's, I liked being smart. I liked being on time. I thought being smart is cooler than anything in the world.” — Michelle Obama

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“The person who grieves suffers his passion to grow upon him he indulges it, he loves it but this never happens in the case of actual pain, which no man ever willingly endured for any considerable time.” — Edmund Burke

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“In a time of universal deceit - telling the truth is a revolutionary act.” — George Orwell

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“Little minds have little worries, big minds have no time for worries.” — Ralph Waldo Emerson

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“Richard Nixon is a no good, lying b-----d. He can lie out of both sides of his mouth at the same time, and if he ever caught himself telling the truth, he'd lie just to keep his hand in.” — Harry S. Truman

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“Glance into the world just as though time were gone: and everything crooked will become straight to you.” — Friedrich Nietzsche

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“We shall not cease from exploration, and the end of all our exploring will be to arrive where we started and know the place for the first time.” — T. S. Eliot

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“If time be of all things the most precious, wasting time must be the greatest prodigality.” — Benjamin Franklin

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“I have made it a rule never to smoke more that one cigar at a time.” — Mark Twain

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“If you have an important point to make, don't try to be subtle or clever. Use a pile driver. Hit the point once. Then come back and hit it again. Then hit it a third time - a tremendous whack.” — Winston Churchill

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“That old law about 'an eye for an eye' leaves everybody blind. The time is always right to do the right thing.” — Martin Luther King, Jr.

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“Half our life is spent trying to find something to do with the time we have rushed through life trying to save.” — Will Rogers

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“Time brings all things to pass.” — Aeschylus

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“Who hears me, who understands me, becomes mine, a possession for all time.” — Ralph Waldo Emerson

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“Employ thy time well, if thou meanest to gain leisure.” — Benjamin Franklin

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“The man who writes about himself and his own time is the only man who writes about all people and about all time.” — George Bernard Shaw

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“Americans are in a cycle of fear which leads to people not wanting to spend and not wanting to make investments, and that leads to more fear. We'll break out of it. It takes time.” — Warren Buffett

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“No man ever achieved worth-while success who did not, at one time or other, find himself with at least one foot hanging well over the brink of failure.” — Napoleon Hill

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“I believe that all government is evil, and that trying to improve it is largely a waste of time.” — H. L. Mencken

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“Leisure is the time for doing something useful. This leisure the diligent person will obtain the lazy one never.” — Benjamin Franklin

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“We praise a man who feels angry on the right grounds and against the right persons and also in the right manner at the right moment and for the right length of time.” — Aristotle

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“I existed from all eternity and, behold, I am here and I shall exist till the end of time, for my being has no end.” — Khalil Gibran

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“You can't just ask customers what they want and then try to give that to them. By the time you get it built, they'll want something new.” — Steve Jobs

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