Source Unknown Quotes on Time (45 Quotes)

Time goes by a lot slower when you miss the one you love

When I look at you, the wheels of time stand still vs. Your face could stop a clock

Someone has calculated that in fifteen minutes a day we can read the Bible through twice in a year's time.

Reincarnation People coming back to life at quitting time.

To my customer I may not have the answer, but I'll find it. I may not have the time, but I'll make it. I may not be the biggest, but I'll be the most committed to your success.

We can live forever, a minute at a time.

Perpetual worry will get you to one place ahead of time -- the cemetery.

The pursuit of happiness is the chase of a life time.

If someone takes your time, it is the only debt that can't be repaid.

From time to time, life as a leader can look hopeless. To help you, consider a man who lived through this Failed in business at age 31. Defeated for the legislature at 32. Again failed in business at 34. Sweetheart died at 35. Had a nervous breakdown at 36. Defeated in election at 38. Defeated for Congress at 43. Defeated for Congress at 46. Defeated for Congress at 48. Defeated for Senate at 55. Defeated for Vice President at 56. Defeated for Senate at 58. Elected President at age 60. This man was Abraham Lincoln.

Words convey the mental treasures of one period to the generations that follow and laden with this, their precious freight, they sail safely across gulfs of time in which empires have suffered shipwreck and the languages of common life have sunk into oblivion.

As a result of trying to solve the big problems we face in life, many of us end up sacrificing individual relationships by doing things that we may consider as being small or insignificant at the time. This reminds us of the George and Gracie routine where George asks Gracie, How do you cook a pot roast She replied, I put both a big pot roast and a small pot roast in the oven. When the small one is burnt, the big one is done just right

The trouble with parents is that by the time they are experienced, they are unemployed.

If you are going to kill time, why not try working it to death

Many of us have heard opportunity knocking at our door, but by the time we unhooked the chain, pushed back the bolt, turned two locks, and shuts off the burglar alarm -- it was gone.

Given a sufficient number of people and an adequate amount of time you can create insurmountable opposition to the most inconsequential idea.

Use a gyroscope to demonstrate how, over time, we become fixed in our ways, personalities, and, as a mature person, psychologically resistant to change. With EFFORT, however, we can make changes. We are not today exactly what we were yesterday. We are almost imperceptibly different. We do change with time and we can control to an extent the direction of the changes.

Organizations that remain vital show their new employees that they are needed. At the same time, they never forget the value of their long-service employees. And they always give both a second chance.

By the time a girl becomes a teenager, her parents are so old that she cannot do anything with them.

Every day's a perfect gift of time for us to use. Hours waiting to be filled in any way we choose. Each morning brings a quiet hope that rises with the sun. Each evening brings the sweet content that comes with work well done.

Once one is caught up into the material world not one person in ten thousand finds the time to form literary taste, to examine the validity of philosophic concepts for himself, or to form what, for lack of a better phrase, I might call the wise and tragic sense of life.

There is an election going on all the time... the Lord votes for you and Satan votes against you, and you must cast the deciding vote.

War -- what a waist of time. It's all about great achievements for the very few but hideous losses for the very many.

Backbone beats wishbone every time.

To save time is to lengthen life.

If you have a choice between certainty and hope, choose certainty every time.

On Thanksgiving Day, all over America, families sit down to dinner at the same moment -- half- time.

Friendship is a precious gift. To give at Christmas time. A Cherished gift, a treasured gift that lasts through all time.

A man's limitations are not the things he wants to do and can t they are the things he ought to do but doesn't. The difficult we will do eventually, the impossible will just take a little more time.

Yes and No are very short words to say, but we should think for some length of time before saying them.

Spare minutes are the Gold-dust of time the portions of life most fruitful in good and evil the gaps through which temptations enter.

Ordinary people think merely of spending time. Great people think of using it.

Once upon a time only Washington's face was on our money, now Washington's hands are on it too.

A fool and his money are soon parted. The rest of us wait for tax time.

He that lacks the time to mourn, lacks time to mend.

It's a pretty good idea to be of good cheer but not all the time. Just at the most unexpected times.

No two Christians will ever meet for the last time.

Time cuts down all, both great and small.

Mostly, we authors must repeat ourselves -- that's the truth. We have two or three great moving experiences in our lives -- experiences so great and moving that it doesn't seem at the time that anyone else has been so caught up and pounded and dazzled and astonished and beaten and broken and rescued and illuminated and rewarded and humbled in just that way ever before.

Last week is the time you should have either bought or sold, depending on what you didn't do.

When the time comes for friends to part, love will be the bride, from heart to heart.

Practice in time becomes second nature.

One thing about the school of experience is that it will repeat the lesson if you flunk the first time.

Maturity is the time of life when, if you had the time, you'd have the time of your life.

You can't leave footprints in the sands of time if you're sitting on your butt. And who wants to leave buttprints in the sands of time