Time Quotes

“Time is the most valuable thing a man can spend.”
Diogenes Laetius

“The great French Marshall Lyautey once asked his gardener to plant a tree. The gardener objected that the tree was slow growing and would not reach maturity for 100 years. The Marshall replied, “In that case, there is no time to lose; plant it this afternoon!”
John F. Kennedy

"When you arise in the morning, think of what a precious privilege it is to be alive -- to breathe, to think, to enjoy, to love."
Marcus Aurelius

"If you want to make good use of your time, you've got to know what's most important and then give it all you've got."
Lee Iacocca

"The man who views the world at 50 the same as he did at 20 has wasted 30 years of his life."
Muhammad Ali

“Don't say you don't have enough time. You have exactly the same number of hours per day that were given to Helen Keller, Pasteur, Michaelangelo, Mother Teresa, Leonardo da Vinci, Thomas Jefferson, and Albert Einstein.”
H. Jackson Brown

"Time is a circus, always packing up and moving away."
Ben Hecht

"Once you have mastered time, you will understand how true it is that most people overestimate what they can accomplish in a year -- and underestimate what they can achieve in a decade!"
Anthony Robbins

“I recommend you to take care of the minutes, for the hours will take care of themselves.”
Lord Chesterfield

“One today is worth two tomorrows.”
Franklin

"Every morning you are handed 24 golden hours. They are one of the few things in this world that you get free of charge. If you had all the money in the world, you couldn't buy an extra hour. What will you do with this priceless treasure?"
Author Unknown

"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

“Tomorrow life is too late; live today.”
Martial

"I wish I could stand on a busy corner, hat in hand, and beg people to throw me all their wasted hours."
Bernard Berenson

"Lost wealth may be replaced by industry, lost knowledge by study, lost health by temperance or medicine, but lost time is gone forever."
Samuel Smiles

"Don't be fooled by the calendar. There are only as many days in the year as you make use of. One man gets only a week's value out of a year while another man gets a full year's value out of a week."
Charles Richards

"Your greatest asset is your earning ability. Your greatest resource is your time."
Brian Tracy

"You may delay, but time will not."
Benjamin Franklin

"You can't turn back the clock. But you can wind it up again."
Bonnie Prudden

"Time is the coin of your life. It is the only coin you have, and you can determine how it will be spent. Be careful lest you let other people spend it for you."
Carl Sandburg

"Time is like money, the less we have of it to spare the further we make it go."
Josh Billings