Time Quotes
We all get the same 24 hours. These quotes explore what we do with them and why it matters.
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"Your time is limited, do not waste it living someone else's life."Demosthenes
"The best time to plant a tree was 20 years ago. The second best time is now."Demosthenes
"The butterfly counts not months but moments, and has time enough."Demosthenes
"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
"Time moves slowly for those who wait, and swiftly for those who act."Philip II
"Time reveals the truth that impatience conceals."Aristarchus
"Time is the canvas upon which we paint our understanding."Aristarchus
"What we fail to record, we lose to time eternal."Eratosthenes
"Time flows like the Nile, but knowledge flows eternal."Eratosthenes
"We ought to regard the present time as sacred."Isocrates
"Time is the most precious currency because we cannot earn more of it."Isocrates
"Time is the wisest of all things; it brings truth to light."Pericles
"Time flows like a river—we cannot stop it, but we can navigate its currents with wisdom."Pericles
"Time is the most precious thing in the world."Xenophon
"Life is short, the art long, opportunity fleeting, experience treacherous, judgment difficult."Hippocrates
"Untimely talk is very dangerous, as is the administration of medicines at the wrong time."Hippocrates
"The life so short, the craft so long to learn."Hippocrates
"Time moves as the stars move—constant, measured, and beyond our control."Eratosthenes
"I would rather face a bitter ending than an endless bitterness."Thucydides
"Time is the judge of all things."Thucydides
"Time is the king of all men, he is their parent and their grave."Thucydides
"In the precession of the equinoxes, time itself becomes astronomical."Hipparchus
"Time reveals the character of nations as it does of individuals."Pericles
"Age brings experience, but not necessarily understanding."Galen
"The sun stands still for no man, yet we may calculate its constancy."Aristarchus
"Time reveals all secrets eventually."Xenophon
"No one can foresee the future with certainty."Thucydides
"Time has a way of vindicating the just."Thucydides