968 private quotes tagged time

“The time has come for all evangelists to practice full financial disclosure. The world is watching how we walk and how we talk. We must have the highest standards of morality, ethics and integrity if we are to continue to have influence.” — Billy Graham

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“In every adversity there lies the seed of an equivalent advantage. In every defeat is a lesson showing you how to win the victory next time.” — Robert Collier

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“You've got to stand up and do your own battles. My daddy taught me that a long time ago, that you fight your own battles. The only way to shut everybody up is to win.” — Terry Bradshaw

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“No greater thing is created suddenly, any more than a bunch of grapes or a fig. If you tell me that you desire a fig, I answer you that there must be time. Let it first blossom, then bear fruit, then ripen.” — Epictetus

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“No distance of place or lapse of time can lessen the friendship of those who are thoroughly persuaded of each other's worth.” — Robert Southey

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“What makes photography a strange invention is that its primary raw materials are light and time.” — John Berger

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“Winners take time to relish their work, knowing that scaling the mountain is what makes the view from the top so exhilarating.” — Denis Waitley

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“Heckling is an act of cowardice. If you want to speak, get up in front of the microphone and speak, don't sit in the dark hiding. It's easy to hide and shout and waste people's time.” — Billy Connolly

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“My own time is passing fast enough without some national game to help it along.” — Andy Rooney

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“Nobody sees a flower really it is so small. We haven't time, and to see takes time - like to have a friend takes time.” — Georgia O'Keeffe

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“To be always intending to make a new and better life but never to find time to set about it is as to put off eating and drinking and sleeping from one day to the next until you're dead.” — Og Mandino

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“I've spent too much time giving speeches, traveling the world.” — Billy Graham

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“The more time you spend contemplating what you should have done... you lose valuable time planning what you can and will do.” — Lil Wayne

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“We die only once, and for such a long time.” — Moliere

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“Whether you like it or not, you're forced to come to the realisation that death is out there. But I don't fear death, I'm a fatalist. I believe when it's your time, that's it. It's the hand you're dealt.” — Clint Eastwood

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“Riches and the things that are necessary in life are not evil in themselves. And all of us face cares and troubles in this life. The sin comes in the time and energy we spend in pursuing these things, at the expense of neglecting Christ.” — David Wilkerson

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“Time is the substance from which I am made. Time is a river which carries me along, but I am the river it is a tiger that devours me, but I am the tiger it is a fire that consumes me, but I am the fire.” — Jorge Luis Borges

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“It is one of the ironies of the ministry that the very man who works in God's name is often hardest put to find time for God. The parents of Jesus lost Him at church, and they were not the last ones to lose Him there.” — Vance Havner

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“Never bear more than one kind of trouble at a time. Some people bear three kinds of trouble - the ones they've had, the ones they have, and the ones they expect to have.” — Edward Everett Hale

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“Any time I got in emotional turmoil, I felt sick all the time, like at any minute I would die.” — Skeet Ulrich

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“If a little dreaming is dangerous, the cure for it is not to dream less but to dream more, to dream all the time.” — Marcel Proust

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“People who have time on their hands will inevitably waste the time of people who have work to do.” — Thomas Sowell

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“We shall never have more time. We have, and always had, all the time there is. No object is served in waiting until next week or even until tomorrow. Keep going... Concentrate on something useful.” — Arnold Bennett

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“A schedule defends from chaos and whim. It is a net for catching days. It is a scaffolding on which a worker can stand and labor with both hands at sections of time.” — Annie Dillard

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“People say that if you find water rising up to your ankle, that's the time to do something about it, not when it's around your neck.” — Chinua Achebe

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