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 is the master merchant; he trades all earthly possessions for mortality."
Giovanni Medici
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"Time passes alike for the productive and the idle; only memory differs."
Giovanni Medici
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"Time is the most precious commodity a manufacturer possesses."
Josiah Wedgwood
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"The value of time increases as one recognizes its finite nature."
Josiah Wedgwood
"Fashion takes its cue from what we want at a particular moment."
Christian Dior
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"Nature gives you the face you have at twenty; it is up to you to merit the face you have at fifty."
Coco Chanel
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"The past can hurt, but as you run from it, you bury the future."
Coco Chanel
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"Youth is something very new: twenty years ago no one mentioned it."
Coco Chanel
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"Nature gives you the face you're born with. Life shapes the face you have at thirty. But at fifty you get the face you deserve."
Coco Chanel
"Time flies over us, but leaves its shadow behind."
Lorenzo de Medici
"The best time to plant a tree was 20 years ago. The second best time is now."
Lorenzo de Medici
"Do not dwell in the past, do not dream of the future, concentrate the mind on the present moment."
Lorenzo de Medici
"The butterfly counts not months but moments, and has time enough."
Lorenzo de Medici
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"Time teaches what haste destroys."
Antonio Stradivari
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"In the workshop, there is no yesterday, no tomorrow—only the eternal now."
Antonio Stradivari
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"The wood that comes to me has waited longer than I have lived."
Antonio Stradivari
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"In film, as in life, timing is everything."
Ismail Merchant
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"Time is the most precious resource, more valuable than money or fame."
Ismail Merchant
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"Time wasted in hesitation is time surrendered to your competitors."
Josiah Wedgwood
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"Time is the one currency that cannot be accumulated; it can only be invested wisely."
Josiah Wedgwood
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"To be everywhere at once is to be nowhere."
Cosimo Medici
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"Time is the friend of the wonderful, the enemy of the mediocre."
Cosimo Medici
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"Time is the most precious commodity"
Jacob Fugger
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"Time wasted is wealth lost"
Jacob Fugger
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"The man who counts his hours has already lost his life."
Giovanni Medici
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"To understand your past is to gain freedom for your future."
Giovanni Medici
"Time flies like an arrow; fruit flies like a banana."
Lorenzo de Medici
"The best time to plant a tree was 20 years ago. The second best time is now."
Lorenzo de Medici
"Every moment matters because you will never get it back."
Lorenzo de Medici
"We do not remember days, we remember moments."
Lorenzo de Medici