The One Quotes

We cannot do everything at once but we can do something at once.

I look back on my life like a good day's work it is done and I am satisfied with it.

The moment we pass out of our habits we lose all sense of permanency and routine.

Manners are a sensitive awareness of the feelings of others. If you have that awareness you have good manners no matter what fork you use.

And hearts have been broken from harsh words spoken That sorrow can ne'er set right.

Most of life is routine-dull and grubby but routine is the mountain that keeps a man going. If you wait for inspiration you'll be standing on the corner after the parade is a mile down the street.

Good habits which bring our lower passions and appetites under automatic control leave our natures free to explore the larger experiences of life.

Without the aid of prejudice and custom I should not be able to find my way across the room.

Habits are safer than rules you don't have to watch them. And you don't have to keep them either they keep you.

Habit is not mere subjugation it is a tender tie when one remembers habit it seems to have been happiness.

To learn new habits is everything for it is to reach the substance of life. Life is but a tissue of habits.

Character is simply habit long enough continued.

Nothing is more powerful than habit.

If you do the same thing every day at the same time for the same length of time you'll save yourself from many a sink. Routine is a condition of survival.

At any rate you can bear it for a quarter of an hour!

The longest day is soon ended.

The time which we have at our disposal every day is elastic the passions that we feel expand it those that we inspire contract it and habit fills up what remains.

A day is a span of time no one is wealthy enough to waste.

Too slow for those who wait Too swift for those who fear Too long for those who grieve Too short for those who rejoice. But for those who love time is not.

Time is nothing absolute its duration depends on the rate of thought and feeling.

Time is a fluid condition which has no existence except in the momentary avatars of individual people.

Time is the product of changing realities beings existences.

Time is the arbitrary division of eternity.

Time is a part of eternity and of the same piece with it.

Time is not a line but a series of now-points.

You can't measure time in days the way you can money in dollars because each day is different.

An hour of pain is as long as a day of pleasure.

Reality is a staircase going neither up nor down we don't move today is today always is today.

What runs through a person like water through a sieve.

Scrolls: write on them what you want to be remembered for.

Every day is a messenger of God.

A little space of time before time expires a little way of breath.

Time is an avid gambler who has no need to cheat to win every time.

Time is the wisest counsellor of all.

Time is the tyrant of the body.

Time is a file that wears and makes no noise.

Time is what we want most but... what we use worst.

Time ... is the life of the soul.

Time is the dressing room for eternity.

Time is an available instrument for reaching the eternal.

Time is the stuff life's made of.

Time is change transformation evolution.

Time is a circus always packing up and moving away.

Time is the silent never-resting thing ... rolling rushing on swift silent like an all-embracing oceantide on which we and all the universe swim.

Time is a very shadow that passeth away.

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.

Time is the sea in which men grow are born or die.

What matters is the one thing I do know for certain: God is with me.

If we're honest with ourselves, most of us know the one thing we lack.

I'm sure that I know that, it's behind one of all doors.