Category Archives: Clock Quotes

I go at what I am about as if there was nothing else in the world for the time being.
– Charles Lingsley

I have never killed a man, but I have read many obituaries with great pleasure.
– Clarence Darrow

Getters generally don’t get happiness; givers get it. You simply give to others a bit of yourself, a thoughtful act, a helpful idea, a word of appreciation, a lift over a rough spot, a sense of understanding, a timely suggestion. You take something out of your mind, garnished in kindness out of your heart, and put it into the other fellow’s mind and heart.
– Charles H. Burr

“He has all the virtues I dislike and none of the vices I admire.”
– Winston Churchill

An inventor fails 999 times, and if he succeeds once, he’s in. He treats his failures simply as practice shots.
– Charles F. Kettering

“He had delusions of adequacy”
– Walter Kerr

No plan can prevent a stupid person from doing the wrong thing in the wrong place at the wrong time – but a good plan should keep a concentration from forming.
– Charles E. Wilson

A member of Parliament to Prime Minister Disraeli: “Sir, you will either die on the gallows or of some unspeakable disease.”
“That depends, Sir”, said Disraeli, “whether I embrace your policies or your mistress.”

By the time we hit fifty, we have learned our hardest lessons. We have found out that only a few things are really important. We have learned to take life seriously, but never ourselves.
– Charles Dickens

The exchange between Churchill & Lady Astor:
She said, “If you were my husband, I’d give you poisoned tea.”
He answered, “If you were my wife, I’d drink it.”

Once upon a time there was an old country, wrapped up in habit and caution. … We have to transform our old France into a new country and marry it to its time.
– Charles de Gaulle

He that is good will infallibly become better, and he that is bad will as certainly become worse; for vice, virtue, and time are three things that never stand still.
– Charles Caleb Colton

You will never find time for anything. If you want time you must make it.
– Charles Buxton

You begin saving the world by saving one person at a time; all else is grandiose romanticism or politics.
– Charles Bukowski

I think that’s why music is very very powerful. It helps people through the difficult times.
– Celine Dion

Love is not measured by how many times you touch each other but by how many times you reach each other.
– Cathy Morancy

You can’t have a better tomorrow if you are thinking about yesterday all the time.
– Charles F. Kettering

The time you enjoy wasting is not wasted time.
– Bertrand Russell

Celebrity was a long time in coming; it will go away. Everything goes away.
– Carol Burnett

Friendship based solely upon gratitude is like a photograph; with time it fades.
– Carmen Sylva

Any path is only a path, and there is no affront, to oneself or to others, in dropping it if that is what your heart tells you. Look at every path closely and deliberately. Try it as many times as you think necessary. Then ask yourself alone, one question.
– Carlos Castaneda

Sometimes even to live is an act of courage.
– Carl Sandburg

We meet ourselves time and again in a thousand disguises on the path of life.
– Carl Gustav Jung

Coolidge’s Law: Anytime you don’t want anything, you get it.
– John Calvin Coolidge

It is odd but agitation or contest of any kind gives a rebound to my spirits and sets me up for a time.
– George Gordon Noel Byron

You are permitted in time of great danger to walk with the devil until you have crossed the bridge.
– Bulgarian proverb

Nature gives to every time and season some beauties of its own; and from morning to night, as from the cradle to the grave, it is but a succession of changes so gentle and easy that we can scarcely mark their progress.
– Charles Dickens

Times of luxury do not last long, but pass away very quickly; nothing in this world can be long enjoyed.
– Siddhartha Gautama

Time is never wasted when you’re wasted all the time.
– Catherine Zandonella

It is a commonplace observation that work expands so as to fill the time available for its completion.
– C. Northcote Parkinson

Mark how fleeting and paltry is the estate of man: yesterday in embryo, tomorrow a mummy or ashes. So for the hair’s breadth of time assigned to thee live rationally, and part with life cheerfully, as drops the ripe olive, extolling the season that bore it and the tree that matured it.
– Marcus Aurelius

Sometimes when I consider what tremendous consequences come from little things – I am tempted to think there are no little things.
– Bruce Barton

If you spend more time asking appropriate questions rather than giving answers or opinions, your listening skills will increase.
– Brian Koslow

Nothing of importance is ever achieved without discipline. I feel myself sometimes not wholly in sympathy with some modern educational theorists, because I think that they underestimate the part that discipline plays.
– Bertrand Russell

Whenever people say we mustn’t be sentimental, you can take it they are about to do something cruel. And if they add, we must be realistic, they mean they are going to make money out of it.
– Brigid Antonia Brophy

Your decision to be, have and do something out of ordinary entails facing difficulties that are out of the ordinary as well. Sometimes your greatest asset is simply your ability to stay with it longer than anyone else.
– Brian Tracy

When you produce results you gain credibility. When you have credibility, you will have an easier time producing results.
– Brian Koslow

Every man, through fear, mugs his aspirations a dozen times a day.
– Brendan Francis

I learned … that inspiration does not come like a bolt, nor is it kinetic, energetic striving, but it comes into us slowly and quietly and all the time, though we must regularly and every day give it a little chance to start flowing, prime it with a little solitude and idleness.
– Brenda Ueland

Sometimes if you’re willing to give people of vision and passion the room to maneuver, you get incredibly lucky.
– Brandon Tartikoff

True friendship multiplies the good in life and divides its evils. Strive to have friends, for life without friends is like life on a desert island … to find one real friend in a lifetime is good fortune; to keep him is a blessing.
– Baltasar Gracian

Time neither subtracts nor divides, but adds at such a pace it seems like multiplication.
– Bob Talbert

I won it, at least five million times. Men who were stronger, bigger and faster than I was could have done it, but they never picked up a pole, and never made the feeble effort to pick their legs off the ground and get over the bar.
– Bob Richards

Relationships are hard. It’s like a full-time job, and we should treat it like one. If your boyfriend or girlfriend wants to leave you, they should give you two weeks notice. There should be severance pay, and before they leave you, they should find you a temp.
– Bob Ettinger

Why waste time learning, when ignorance is instantaneous?
– Calvin – Bill Watterson

To be able to concentrate for a considerable time is essential to difficult achievement.
– Bertrand Russell

If you are planning for a year, sow rice; if you are planning for a decade, plant trees; if you are planning for a lifetime, educate people.
– Chinese proverb

Live for something. Do good, and leave behind you a monument of virtue that the storms of time can never destroy. Write your name in kindness, love, and mercy on the hearts of thousands you come in contact with year by year, and you will never be forgotten. Your name and your good deeds will shine as the stars of heaven.
– Thomas Chalmers

God Himself chasteneth not with a rod but with time.
– Baltasar Gracian

In time of war the first casualty is truth.
– Boake Carter