Time Quotes

We all get the same 24 hours. These quotes explore what we do with them and why it matters.

20900 quotes

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"Time cannot alter what conscience has established."
Cato the Younger
C
"Time spent in idle pursuits is time stolen from greatness."
Cato the Elder
C
"Procrastination is the thief that steals our potential."
Cato the Elder
D
"The burden of empire grows heavier with each passing year."
Diocletian
D
"Time is the only emperor that answers to no one."
Diocletian
H
"Time is the greatest teacher if we are patient enough to learn."
Hadrian
H
"Time waits for no man, so use it wisely."
Hadrian
S
"Time is the greatest ally of those patient enough to wield it."
Septimius Severus
A
"Time is the substance from which I am made."
Antoninus Pius
A
"Time is a river of passing events."
Antoninus Pius
A
"Confine yourself to the present."
Antoninus Pius
A
"Each of us lives only now, this brief instant. The rest has been lived already, or is impossible to see."
Antoninus Pius
A
"How small a part of the boundless and unfathomable time is assigned to every man."
Antoninus Pius
C
"Time has taught me that the greatest battles are often fought in the minds of men."
Constantine I
C
"I have learned that time reveals what ambition conceals."
Constantine I
C
"What we do today echoes in the halls of tomorrow."
Cato the Elder
C
"Time reveals the truth that words conceal."
Cato the Younger
C
"Time waits for no emperor, nor does it slow for kings."
Commodus
C
"Time is the only resource more precious than life itself."
Commodus
C
"Every moment of time is a gift from the gods."
Cato the Elder
C
"The seeds of today become the harvest of tomorrow."
Cato the Elder
C
"All things pass, even sorrow."
Cato the Elder
D
"Time moves swiftly for those who fail to use it purposefully."
Diocletian
D
"The past cannot be changed, but the future can be shaped by present choices."
Diocletian
D
"I have seen how the desire for immortality through legacy can corrupt the present."
Diocletian
D
"The past teaches us; the present tests us; the future judges us."
Diocletian
S
"Time erodes all things, yet legacy endures through deeds well done."
Septimius Severus
S
"The cruelty of time spares no one, yet immortalizes the worthy."
Septimius Severus
C
"Time reveals the true value of every decision."
Constantine I
C
"Time is the only judge that cannot be bribed."
Constantine I