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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"Time is the canvas upon which change paints all things, yet some principles remain eternal."
Averroes
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"Time is the greatest teacher of what truly matters."
Epicureanism Epicurus
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"Our life is not given to us, it is loaned to us."
Seneca
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"It is not that we have a short time to live, but that we waste a lot of it."
Seneca
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"Time is the only currency that matters; spend it wisely."
Seneca
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"What then is time? If no one asks me, I know what it is. If I wish to explain it to him who asks, I do not know."
Augustine of Hippo
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"Confine yourself to the present, and you will have less to worry about."
Epictetus
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"Time is the canvas upon which we paint our lives."
Mencius
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"Memory is the treasury of all things."
Cicero
"Confine yourself to the present."
Marcus Aurelius
"Time is a river of passing events."
Marcus Aurelius
"How small a part of the boundless and unfathomable time is assigned to every man."
Marcus Aurelius
"Each of us lives only now, this brief instant. The rest has been lived already or is impossible to see."
Marcus Aurelius
"All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given to us."
Marcus Aurelius
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"The man who fears tomorrow will never truly possess today."
Epicureanism Epicurus
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"Time is the currency we cannot earn back; spend it foolishly and you bankrupt yourself."
Epicureanism Epicurus
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"Regret is the tax paid on decisions made without thought."
Epicureanism Epicurus
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"The only constant in life is change itself."
Zhuangzi
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"Life is long if you know how to use it."
Seneca
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"The greatest loss of time is delay and expectation."
Seneca
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"It is not that we have a short time to live, but that we waste a lot of it."
Seneca
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"Time is the only thing no man can buy."
Seneca
"Time is a teacher that ultimately teaches the final lesson to everyone."
Laozi
"Time is the wisest of all things"
Thales of Miletus
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"Time is the greatest teacher; learn from it and become wise."
Zhuangzi
"Confine yourself to the present moment."
Marcus Aurelius
"All is only for a day, both that which remembers and that which is remembered."
Marcus Aurelius
"Your life is now - if you keep postponing, you never truly live."
Marcus Aurelius
"The days are long, but the years are short. Cherish the time you have."
Marcus Aurelius
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"Time heals all wounds, but only if we allow our minds to heal as well."
Epicureanism Epicurus