Quotes about time

Heroism works in contradiction to the voice of mankind and in contradiction, for a time, to the voice of the great and good. Heroism is an obedience to a secret impulse of an individual.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

I’m very awkward when I have time off. I don’t know what to do with myself. It’s weird not to work.

Ashton Kutcher

It is not noble to return evil for evil, at no time ought we to do an injury to our neighbors.

Plato

You are mistaken, my friend, if you think that a man who is worth anything ought to spend his time weighing up the prospects of life and death. He has only one thing to consider in performing any action – that is, whether he is acting rightly or wrongly, like a good man or a bad one.

Plato

When a great man has some one object in view to be achieved in a given time, it may be absolutely necessary for him to walk out of all the common roads.

Edmund Burke

I think it’s impossible to judge whether another person should come out. You just hope they will on their own time and their own terms.

Billie Jean King

Let us reconcile ourselves to the mysterious rhythm of our destinies, such as they must be in this world of space and time.

Winston Churchill

One thing I have learned in my painful career as a gambler is that bragging when you get lucky and win a few games will plunge you into gloom and unacceptable beatings very soon. It happens every time.

Hunter S. Thompson

Hatred, in the course of time, kills the unhappy wretch who delights in nursing it in his bosom.

Giacomo Casanova

The teenage years are years of great chaos and confusion in your lives, but also a time of seeking a deeper meaning.

Deepak Chopra