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Time, Aging & Legacy: Time Quotes

Discover thoughtful quotes that explore the flow of time, its quiet momentum, fleeting moments, and daily rhythms. These selections encourage reflection, balance between urgency and patience, and attention to what truly matters. From mindful routines to life-defining milestones, the words here connect time with growth, aging, and the legacies we shape. Browse to find perspective for planning, perseverance, and gratitude, and to reframe how minutes, days, and years can be invested with meaning.
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"How did it get so late so soon? It's night before it's afternoon. December is here before it's June. My goodness, how the time has flewn. How did it get so late so soon?"
Dr. Seuss, Writer
Dr. Seuss
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"The trouble with the future is that is usually arrives before we're ready for it"
Arnold H. Glasow, Businessman
Arnold H. Glasow
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"The years teach much which the days never know"
Ralph Waldo Emerson, Philosopher
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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"All my possessions for a moment of time"
Elizabeth I, Royalty
Elizabeth I
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"Time is the school in which we learn, time is the fire in which we burn"
Delmore Schwartz, Poet
Delmore Schwartz
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"The distinction between the past, present and future is only a stubbornly persistent illusion"
Albert Einstein, Physicist
Albert Einstein
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"My interest is in the future because I am going to spend the rest of my life there"
Charles F. Kettering, Inventor
Charles F. Kettering
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"The key is not to prioritize what's on your schedule, but to schedule your priorities"
Stephen Covey, Businessman
Stephen Covey
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"Lost, yesterday, somewhere between sunrise and sunset, two golden hours, each set with sixty diamond minutes. No reward is offered, for they are gone forever"
Horace Mann, Educator
Horace Mann
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"Life is divided into three terms - that which was, which is, and which will be. Let us learn from the past to profit by the present, and from the present to live better in the future"
William Wordsworth, Poet
William Wordsworth
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"Yesterday is a cancelled check. Today is cash on the line. Tomorrow is a promissory note"
Hank Stram, Athlete
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"The future influences the present just as much as the past"
Friedrich Nietzsche, Philosopher
Friedrich Nietzsche
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"Time is but the stream I go a-fishing in"
Henry David Thoreau, Author
Henry David Thoreau
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"Summer is a promissory note signed in June, its long days spent and gone before you know it, and due to be repaid next January"
Hal Borland, Author
Hal Borland
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"I wasted time, and now doth time waste me"
William Shakespeare, Dramatist
William Shakespeare
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"You may delay, but time will not"
Benjamin Franklin, Politician
Benjamin Franklin
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"Better three hours too soon than a minute too late"
William Shakespeare, Dramatist
William Shakespeare
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"Alice: How long is forever? White Rabbit: Sometimes, just one second"
Lewis Carroll, Author
Lewis Carroll
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"Time moves in one direction, memory in another"
William Gibson, Writer
William Gibson
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"History is a cyclic poem written by time upon the memories of man"
Percy Bysshe Shelley, Poet
Percy Bysshe Shelley
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"If something's important to you, you make time for it"
Mia Maestro, Actress
Mia Maestro
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"As if you could kill time without injuring eternity"
Henry David Thoreau, Author
Henry David Thoreau
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"We must use time as a tool, not as a couch"
John F. Kennedy, President
John F. Kennedy
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"The past is never dead. It's not even past"
William Faulkner, Novelist
William Faulkner
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"We are tomorrow's past"
Mary Webb, Novelist
Mary Webb
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"Time and the hour run through the roughest day"
William Shakespeare, Dramatist
William Shakespeare
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"Three o'clock is always too late or too early for anything you want to do"
Jean-Paul Sartre, Philosopher
Jean-Paul Sartre
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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"
Saint Augustine, Saint
Saint Augustine
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"Time is a sort of river of passing events, and strong is its current; no sooner is a thing brought to sight than it is swept by and another takes its place, and this too will be swept away"
Marcus Aurelius, Soldier
Marcus Aurelius
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"Time is what we want most, but what we use worst"
William Penn, Leader
William Penn
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"The future is no more uncertain than the present"
Walt Whitman, Poet
Walt Whitman
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"Don't let the fear of the time it will take to accomplish something stand in the way of your doing it. The time will pass anyway; we might just as well put that passing time to the best possible use"
Earl Nightingale, Writer
Earl Nightingale
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"Time = Life, therefore, waste your time and waste of your life, or master your time and master your life"
Alan Lakein, Businessman
Alan Lakein
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"Lose an hour in the morning, and you will spend all day looking for it"
Richard Whately, Writer
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"When one has a great deal to put into it, a day has a hundred pockets"
Friedrich Nietzsche, Philosopher
Friedrich Nietzsche
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"No man is rich enough to buy back his past"
Oscar Wilde, Dramatist
Oscar Wilde
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"What is past is prologue"
William Shakespeare, Dramatist
William Shakespeare
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"The present was an egg laid by the past that had the future inside its shell"
Zora Neale Hurston, Dramatist
Zora Neale Hurston
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"Homer is new this morning, and perhaps nothing is as old as today's newspaper"
Charles Peguy, Philosopher
Charles Peguy
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"You must never find time for anything. If you want time, you must make it"
Charles Buxton, Public Servant
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