“The time is always right to do what is right.”
Time is the one resource you cannot earn more of. These quotes explore how we spend it, waste it, treasure it, and try to slow it down — and the universal human experience of realizing too late that a particular moment mattered more than you thought.
“My father wasn't around when I was a kid, and I used to always say, 'Why me? Why don't I have a father? Why isn't he around? Why did he leave my mother?' But as I got older I looked deeper and thought, 'I don't know what my father was going through, but if he was around all the time, would I be who I am today?'”
“The time is always right to do what is right.”
“Concepts, like individuals, have their histories and are just as incapable of withstanding the ravages of time as are individuals. But in and through all this they retain a kind of homesickness for the scenes of their childhood.”
“Nothing else in the world... not all the armies... is so powerful as an idea whose time has come.”
“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.”
“A round man cannot be expected to fit in a square hole right away. He must have time to modify his shape.”
“Service is the rent we pay for being. It is the very purpose of life, and not something you do in your spare time.”
“For time is the longest distance between two places.”
“People of Berlin - people of the world - this is our moment. This is our time.”
“The greatest part of a writer's time is spent in reading in order to write. A man will turn over half a library to make a book.”
“I saw a bank that said '24 Hour Banking,' but I don't have that much time.”
“You must have been warned against letting the golden hours slip by but some of them are golden only because we let them slip by.”
“Let your life lightly dance on the edges of Time like dew on the tip of a leaf.”
“Eternity is in love with the productions of time.”
“I found golf was too time consuming, but I did enjoy it.”
“By the time a man gets to be presidential material, he's been bought ten times over.”