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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"Your time is limited, do not waste it living someone else's life."
Demosthenes
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"The best time to plant a tree was 20 years ago. The second best time is now."
Demosthenes
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"The butterfly counts not months but moments, and has time enough."
Demosthenes
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"Yesterday is history, tomorrow is a mystery, but today is a gift."
Demosthenes
"Time passes, empires fall, but deeds of valor endure forever."
Leonidas I
"We must be patient with time, for it is the greatest teacher."
Leonidas I
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"Time moves slowly for those who wait, and swiftly for those who act."
Philip II
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"Time reveals the truth that impatience conceals."
Aristarchus
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"Time is the canvas upon which we paint our understanding."
Aristarchus
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"What we fail to record, we lose to time eternal."
Eratosthenes
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"Time flows like the Nile, but knowledge flows eternal."
Eratosthenes
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"We ought to regard the present time as sacred."
Isocrates
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"Time is the most precious currency because we cannot earn more of it."
Isocrates
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"Time is the wisest of all things; it brings truth to light."
Pericles
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"Time flows like a river—we cannot stop it, but we can navigate its currents with wisdom."
Pericles
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"Time is the most precious thing in the world."
Xenophon
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"Life is short, the art long, opportunity fleeting, experience treacherous, judgment difficult."
Hippocrates
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"Untimely talk is very dangerous, as is the administration of medicines at the wrong time."
Hippocrates
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"The life so short, the craft so long to learn."
Hippocrates
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"Time moves as the stars move—constant, measured, and beyond our control."
Eratosthenes
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"I would rather face a bitter ending than an endless bitterness."
Thucydides
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"Time is the judge of all things."
Thucydides
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"Time is the king of all men, he is their parent and their grave."
Thucydides
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"In the precession of the equinoxes, time itself becomes astronomical."
Hipparchus
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"Time reveals the character of nations as it does of individuals."
Pericles
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"Age brings experience, but not necessarily understanding."
Galen
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"The sun stands still for no man, yet we may calculate its constancy."
Aristarchus
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"Time reveals all secrets eventually."
Xenophon
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"No one can foresee the future with certainty."
Thucydides
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"Time has a way of vindicating the just."
Thucydides