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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"Now is the accepted time, not tomorrow, not some more convenient season."
W.E.B. Du Bois
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"The individual who has nothing to do with his time but read is worse off than the individual who has to labor."
Booker T. Washington
"Time is on the side of the people."
Malcolm X
"The Western world is going through a very strange time right now."
Malcolm X
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"Every moment lost to idleness is a moment lost to building."
Frederick Douglass
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"Demand is the best teacher of the value of time."
Frederick Douglass
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"Time is precious, and we must use it wisely."
Rosa Parks
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"Now is the accepted time, not tomorrow, not some more convenient season."
W.E.B. Du Bois
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"We live in a period of loose ends."
Indira Gandhi
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"Time waits for no one, so make the most of it."
Indira Gandhi
"Time is a great teacher, but unfortunately it kills all its pupils."
Jawaharlal Nehru
"The present is more important than the past."
Jawaharlal Nehru
"Time is on the side of the oppressed today, it's against the oppressor."
Malcolm X
"Every moment is a fresh beginning in our lives."
Jawaharlal Nehru
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"Time teaches what words cannot."
Indira Gandhi
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"Time heals wounds that words cannot touch."
Indira Gandhi
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"We are not all born simultaneously, and when some men finish the journey before others, the fact makes neither them nor the journey extraordinary."
W.E.B. Du Bois
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"Each generation must discover its mission, fulfill it or betray it, in relative obscurity."
W.E.B. Du Bois
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"To be alive in this age is to feel the weight of history upon your shoulders."
W.E.B. Du Bois
"The times demand that women take their rightful place in society."
Emmeline Pankhurst
"Time and tide wait for no man, yet every person shapes their own destiny."
Jawaharlal Nehru
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"Time is precious and should never be wasted"
Jomo Kenyatta
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"Time reveals the truth of all things"
Jomo Kenyatta
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"Time is the most precious resource we have."
Julius Nyerere
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"Time waits for no one, use it wisely."
Julius Nyerere
"The time for half-measures and compromise has passed."
Emmeline Pankhurst
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"Times may change, but the human spirit remains constant in its search for meaning."
Indira Gandhi
"Time is on the side of the skillful; it runs against the ignorant."
Malcolm X
"There is no tomorrow. There is only one time, and that is now."
Malcolm X
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"Time is not on our side - we must act decisively"
Kwame Nkrumah