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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"The past cannot be changed, but the future is yet unwritten."
Thucydides
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"Very few things happen at the right time and the rest do not happen at all."
Herodotus
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"Time is the substance I am made of."
Herodotus
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"The moon has set, and the Pleiades; it is midnight, and time passes, and I sleep alone."
Sappho
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"Time is the thief that robs us of youth but grants us wisdom."
Sappho
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"Old age is life drawn to its close."
Hippocrates
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"Life is short, the art is long, opportunity is fleeting."
Hippocrates
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"Truth is the offspring of time."
Xenophanes
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"Time is the father of truth."
Xenophanes
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"Time heals all wounds, but wisdom prevents them."
Xenophanes
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"Time moves swiftly for those who pursue purpose with passion."
Pindar
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"In each heartbeat, we are reminded of time's sacred passage through our lives."
Pindar
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"Time is the measure of change."
Anaxagoras
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"He who plants dates may not live to eat their fruit."
Aesop
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"A single swallow does not make a summer, nor one day a year."
Aesop
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"The seeds you plant today become the harvest of tomorrow."
Aesop
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"The universe is eternal, without beginning or end."
Leucippus
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"The atoms that compose us have existed since the beginning of time."
Leucippus
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"A single day can change the course of your entire destiny."
Pindar
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"We are but travelers through time, leaving traces in the sand"
Sappho
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"The moment is all we truly possess"
Sappho
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"Time is the only true democracy—each receives an equal measure"
Sappho
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"Time is the medium through which transformation occurs."
Anaximenes
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"Time reveals all secrets; patience is the ally of those who seek truth."
Herodotus
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"Time is the teacher of all things; patience is the student's virtue."
Xenophanes
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"Time reveals all truths, though we wish some to remain hidden."
Xenophanes
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"Time is the sculptor that carves meaning from the marble of events."
Pindar
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"In each moment lies the eternal."
Anaxagoras
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"The cycle of seasons teaches that nothing remains constant but change itself."
Aesop
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"All things that arise must also pass, for atoms are eternal but arrangements are not."
Leucippus