Quotes about time

I have to be pretty inclusive. I have to be pretty much inside of me rather than going out and finding out what people are doing. I don’t have the time to. I just listen to my mind, in a way.

Yoko Ono

The sum of wisdom is that time is never lost that is devoted to work.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

We have not seen great things done in our time except by those who have been considered mean; the rest have failed.

Niccolo Machiavelli

I have made this letter longer than usual because I lack the time to make it shorter.

Blaise Pascal

I cannot imagine anything nobler or more national than that for, say, one hour in the day we should all do the labor the poor must do, and thus identify ourselves with them and through them, with all mankind.

Mahatma Gandhi

An intelligent man is sometimes forced to be drunk to spend time with his fools.

Ernest Hemingway

Prayer is an investment. The time you dedicate to prayer isn’t lost; it will return dividends far greater than what a few moments spent on a task ever could. If we fail to cultivate this discipline, prayer winds up being our last resort rather than our first response.

Chuck Swindoll

All books grow homilies by time; they are Temples, at once, and Landmarks.

William E. Vaughan

My books have contradictions all the time – and people are fine with that.

Malcolm Gladwell

I didn’t want to become a reserve player, or a bench player, and it was time to move on and take on another challenge.

Julius Erving