Time Quotes - Page 3

The way a chihuahua goes about eating a dead elephant is to take a bite and be very present with that bite. In spiritual growth the definitive act is to take one step and let tomorrow's step take care of itself!

William H. Houff

Victory is won not in miles but in inches. Win a little now hold your ground and later win a little more.

It is astonishing how short a time it takes for very wonderful things to happen.

Frances Hodgson Burnett

Inches make a champion.

Yard by yard it's very hard. But inch by inch it's a cinch.

Anonymous

If we take care of the inches we will not have to worry about the miles.

Hartley Coleridge

When Ty Cobb got on first base he had an apparently nervous habit of kicking the bag. ... By kicking the bag hard enough Cobb could move it a full two inches closer to second base. He figured that this improved his chances for a steal or for reaching second base safely on a hit.

Norman Vincent Peale

Most people would succeed in small things if they were not troubled with great ambitions.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

A harbor even if it is a little harbor is a good thing.... It takes something from the world and has something to give in return.

Sarah Orne Jewett

One can get just as much exultation in losing oneself in a little thing as in a big thing. It is nice to think how one can be recklessly lost in a daisy.

Anne Morrow Lindbergh

Life is made up of little things. It is very rarely that an occasion is offered for doing a great deal at once. True greatness consists in being great in little things.

Charles Simmons

Life is a great bundle of little things.

Oliver Wendell Holmes

One thing at a time all things in succession. That which grows slowly endures.

Not to go back is somewhat to advance. And men must walk at least before they dance.

Great things are not done by impulse but by a series of small things brought together.

Vincent van Gogh

Well-being is attained little by little and is no little thing itself.

Zeno

Bigness comes from doing many small things well. ... Individually they are not very dramatic transactions. Together though they add up.

Edward S. Finkelstein

If you only keep adding little by little it will soon become a big heap.

Hesiod

He who would learn to fly one day must first learn to stand and walk and run and climb and dance one cannot fly into flying.

Friedrich Nietzsche

All that I have accomplished ... has been by that plodding patient persevering process of accretion which builds the ant heap particle by particle thought by thought fact by fact.

If we take care of the moments the years will take care of themselves.

Maria Edgeworth

Many things which cannot be overcome when they are together yield themselves up when taken little by little.

Plutarch

True worth is doing each day some little good not dreaming of great things to do by and by.

Anonymous

Little by little does the trick.

Aesop

It is by attempting to reach the top at a single leap that so much misery is caused in the world.

William Cobbett

Yesterday I dared to struggle. Today I dare to win.

Bernadette Devlin

I think and think for months for years. Ninety-nine times the conclusion is false. The hundredth time I am right.

Albert Einstein

Many strokes overthrow the tallest oaks.

John Lyly

Much rain wears the marble.

William Shakespeare

A successful individual typically sets his next goal somewhat but not too much above his last achievement.

One sits down first one thinks afterwards.

We can do no great things-only small things with great love.

Time is a sort of river of passing events and strong is its current no sooner is a thing brought to sight than it is swept by and another takes its place and this too will be swept away.

Marcus Aurelius

What a day may bring a day may take away.

Time is a kindly god.

Sophocles

Time goes by: reputation increases ability declines.

Dag Hammarskjöld

Time cools time clarifies no mood can be maintained quite unaltered through the course of hours.

Every minute starts an hour.

Time wounds all heels.

Jane Ace

The apparent serenity of the past is an oil spread by time.

Lloyd Frankenberg

It takes time to save time.

The mind of man works with strangeness upon the body of time. An hour once it lodges in the queer element of the human spirit may be stretched to fifty or a hundred times its clock length on the other hand an hour may be accurately represented by the timepiece of the mind by one second.

When you have a great and difficult task something perhaps almost impossible if you only work a little at a time every day a little suddenly the work will finish itself.

Champions know there are no shortcuts to the top. They climb the mountain one step at a time. They have no use for helicopters!

The world doesn't come to the clever folks it comes to the stubborn obstinate one-idea-at-a-time people.

Mary Roberts Rinehart

One of the greatest evils of the day among those outside of prison is their sense of futility. Young people say What is the sense of our small effort? They cannot see that we must lay one brick at a time take one step at a time we can be responsible only for the one action of the present moment.

One only gets to the top rung of the ladder by steadily climbing up one at a time and suddenly all sorts of powers all sorts of abilities which you thought never belonged to you- suddenly become within your own possibility and you think "Well I'll have a go too."

Margaret Thatcher

Nothing is particularly hard if you divide it into small jobs.

Let no one be deluded that a knowledge of the path can substitute for putting one foot in front of the other.

Mary Caroline Richards

Look at a stone cutter hammering away at his rock perhaps a hundred times without as much as a crack showing in it. Yet at the hundred-and-first blow it will split in two and I know it was not the last blow that did it but all that had gone before.

Home wasn't built in a day.

Jane Ace

Happiness is a tide: it carries you only a little way at a time but you have covered a vast space before you know that you are moving at all.

Time is a great legalizer even in the fields of morals.

Time goes you say? Ah no! Alas Time stays we go.

Henry Austin Dobson

Let time that makes you homely make you sage.

I don't ask for your pity but just your understanding - no not even that -no. Just for your recognition of me in you and the enemy time in us all.

Tennessee Williams

All things flow nothing abides.

When you sit with a nice girl for two hours you think it's only a minute. But when you sit on a hot stove for a minute you think it's two hours. That's relativity.

Albert Einstein

There was a young lady named Bright Who could travel much faster than light She started one day In the relative way And came back on the previous night.

Anonymous

Longevity conquers scandal every time.

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