Quotes
Quotes about Time
Small habits, well pursued betimes, May reach the dignity of crimes.
Habit is habit and not to be flung out of the window by any man, but coaxed downstairs a step at a time.
Each year, one vicious habit rooted out, in time ought to make the worst man good.
His head, Not yet by time completely silver'd o'er, Bespoke him past the bounds of freakish youth, But strong for service still, and unimpair'd.
Happiness is a choice that requires effort at times.
He who finds thought that lets us penetrate even a little deeper into the eternal mystery of nature has been granted great grace. He who, in addition, experiences the recognition, sympathy, and help of the best minds of his times, had been given almost more happiness than one man can bear.
Happiness is possible only when one is busy. The body must toil, the mind must be occupied, and the heart must be satisfied. Those who do good as opportunity offers are sowing seed all the time, and they need not doubt the harvest.
When one is happy there is no time to be fatigued; being happy engrosses the whole attention.
I certainly wasn't happy. Happiness has to do with reason, and only reason earns it. What I was given was the thing you can't earn, and can't keep, and often don't even recognize at the time; I mean joy. Mary Baker Eddy -Ursula K. LeGuin.
Methinks I am a prophet new inspired And thus, expiring, do foretell of him: His rash fierce blaze of riot cannot last, For violent fires soon burn out themselves; Small show'rs last long, but sudden storms are short; He tires betimes that spurs too fast betimes; With eager feeding doth choke the feeder; Light vanity, insatiate cormorant, Consuming means, soon preys upon itself.
Half our life is spent trying to find something to do with the time we have rushed through life trying to save.
Sometimes the fool who rushes in gets the job done.
It's a sign of your own worth sometimes if you are hated by the right people.
In time we hate that which we often fear.
Nor love, not honour, wealth nor pow'r, Can give the heart a cheerful hour When health is lost. Be timely wise; With health all taste of pleasure flies.
A man's health can be judged by which he takes two at a timeâpills or stairs.
To cease smoking is the easiest thing I ever did. I ought to know because I've done it a thousand times.
People have to learn sometimes not only how much the heart, but how much the head, can bear. -Maria Mitchell.
Life is short and we have never too much time for gladdening the hearts of those who are travelling the dark journey with us. Oh be swift to love, make haste to be kind. -Henri-Frederic Amiel.
Every time a football player goes to ply his trade he's got to play from the ground up - from the soles of his feet right up to his head. Every inch of him has to play. Some guys play with their heads. That's O.K. You've got to be smart to be number one in any business. But more importantly, you've got to play with your heart, with every fiber of your body. If you're lucky enough to find a guy with a lot of head and a lot of heart, he's never going to come off the field second. -Vince Lombardi.
Eye hath not seen it, my gentle boy! Ear hath not heard its deep songs of joy; Dreams cannot picture a world so fair-- Sorrow and death may not enter there; Time doth not breathe on its fadeless bloom, For beyond the clouds, and beyond the tomb, It is there, it is there, my child!
The heart of man is the place the devil dwells in; I feel sometimes a hell dwells within myself.
The foolish ofttimes teach the wise: I strain too much this string of life, belike, Meaning to make such music as shall save. Mine eyes are dim now that they see the truth, My strength is waned now that my need is most; Would that I had such help as man must have, For I shall die, whose life was all men's hope.
What with making their way and enjoying what they have won, heroes have no time to think. But the sons of heroesâah, they have all the necessary leisure.
Heroes are created by popular demand, sometimes out of the scantiest materials.
