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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"There is a part of all of us that longs to know ourselves in time."
John Steinbeck
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"Life is a series of days, and the moment is the only thing that matters."
John Steinbeck
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"The greatest gift you can give someone is your time."
John Steinbeck
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"You cannot make anything of value happen overnight."
Pearl S. Buck
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"Any preoccupation with ideas of what is to come only adds to the waste of energy."
Pearl S. Buck
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"One faces the future with one's past."
Pearl S. Buck
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"The simple truth is that in this world, time matters more than anything."
Pearl S. Buck
"Time is not simply a measure of duration but a dimension of existence we inhabit."
Ralph Ellison
"Time is not a line; it is a circle, and everything returns."
Toni Morrison
"The future is always uncertain, which is precisely why we must be vigilant about the present."
Toni Morrison
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"Time moves quickly when you're living a full life, so don't waste a single moment."
Langston Hughes
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"Time is a tool of oppression when used to enforce patience on the impatient."
Richard Wright
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"There are years that ask questions and years that answer."
Zora Neale Hurston
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"The future is something which everyone reaches at the rate of sixty minutes an hour, whatever he does."
Zora Neale Hurston
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"There is never time in the future in which we will work out our salvation. The challenge is in the moment, the now."
James Baldwin
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"One moment can change a lifetime; a lifetime is composed of moments."
James Baldwin
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"The future is like heaven—everyone exalts it but no one wants to go there now."
James Baldwin
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"One faces the future with one's past."
Pearl S. Buck
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"Legacy is what we leave behind."
Pearl S. Buck
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"Time is the most precious gift we have."
Pearl S. Buck
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"Time is the only true currency we possess."
John Steinbeck
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"The past is never dead. It's not even past."
William Faulkner
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"The greatest gift is the gift of time."
William Faulkner
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"Daddy, I want to turn the clock back to yesterday."
Langston Hughes
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"Youth is wasted on the young."
Ernest Hemingway
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"There are some things which cannot be learned quickly, and time, which is all we have, must be paid for their acquiring."
Ernest Hemingway
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"Nobody that ever lived has ever had a worse time than today if he is alive now."
Ernest Hemingway
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"So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past."
F. Scott Fitzgerald
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"The only way to win against the clock is not to race against it."
F. Scott Fitzgerald
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"The past cannot be changed."
F. Scott Fitzgerald