Quotes
Quotes about Time
Adversity is sometimes hard upon a man; but for one man who can stand prosperity, there are a hundred that will stand adversity.
Sometimes adversity impels a person to greater heights, and sometimes it provides the opportunity for that person to be a blessing in the lives of others.
You can fool all the people all the time if the advertising is right and the budget is big enough.
The worst men often give the best advice. Our deeds are sometimes better than our thoughts.
A fop sometimes gives important advice. [Fr., Un fat quelquefois ouvre un avis important.]
Let no man value at a little price A virtuous woman's counsel; her wing'd spirit Is feather'd oftentimes with heavenly words.
Know when to speake; for many times it brings Danger to give the best advice to kings.
He who can take advice is sometimes superior to him who can give it.
I don't give advice. I can't tell anybody what to do. Instead I say, this is what we know about this problem at this time. And here are the consequences of these actions.
Get over the idea that only children should spend their time in study. Be a student so long as you still have something to learn, and this will mean all your life.
The elevator to success is out of order. You'll have to use the stairs... one step at a time.
The mark of a good leader is to know when it's time to follow.
You don't develop courage by being happy in your relationships everyday. You develop it by surviving difficult times and challenging adversity.
Humans have the ability to shift perspective. We can experience the world through our senses. Or we can remove ourselves from our senses and experience the world even less directly. We can think about our life, rather than thinking in our life. We can think about what we think about our life, and we can think about what we think about that. We can shift perceptual positions many times over.
If you once forfeit the confidence of your fellow citizens, you can never regain their respect and esteem. You may fool all of the people some of the time; you can even fool some of the people all the time; but you can't fool all of the people all of the time.
Wisdom is ofttimes nearer when we stoop than when we soar.
A moment's insight is sometimes worth a life's experience.
A good time to keep your mouth shut is when you're in deep water.
We live in deeds, not years: In thoughts not breaths; In feelings, not in figures on a dial. We should count time by heart throbs. He most lives Who thinks most, feels the noblest, acts the best.
Forget the times of your distress, but never forget what they taught you.
Sometimes your medicine bottle has on it, "Shake well before using." That is what God has to do with some of His people. He has to shake them well before they are ever usable.
If we had no winter, the spring would not be so pleasant: if we did not sometimes taste of adversity, prosperity would not be so welcome.
Success is not something I've wrapped my brain around. If people go to those movies, then yes, that's true, big-time success. If not, it's much ado about nothing. [On the prospects for his 1997 movies The Rainmaker and Good Will Hunting].
Nine-tenths of wisdom consists in being wise in time.
Do not assume that she who seeks to comfort you now, lives untroubled among the simple and quiet words that sometimes do you good. Her life may also have much sadness and difficulty, that remains far beyond yours. Were it otherwise, she would never have been able to find these words.
