Allow these 50 value of time quotes to remind you how precious each moment is, and how valuing your time is crucial for living a fulfilled life. When we begin to see our time as valuable, we will begin to spend it wisely, with the people we want to be with, and doing the thing we want to do, as these quotations and sayings highlight!
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1. “If you don’t value your time, neither will others.” – Kim Garst
2. “By failing to value your time, you are devaluing your life.” – Debasish Mridha
3. “It’s really clear that the most precious resource we all have is time.” – Steve Jobs
4. “All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given to us.” – J. R. R. Tolkien
5. “You always know how much money you have, but you don’t know how much time you have. Always value your time.” – Unknown
6. “Your time is limited, so don’t waste it living someone else’s life.” – Unknown
7. “Valuing other people’s time starts with valuing your own.” – Robert Braathe
8. “We need a sense of the value of time – that is, of the best way to divide one’s time into one’s various activities.” – Arnold Bennett
9. “Time is the most valuable thing that a man can spend.” – Diogenes Laërtius
10. “Know the true value of time; snatch, seize, and enjoy every moment of it.” – Lord Chesterfield
11. “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
12. “There’s never enough time to do all the nothing you want.” – Bill Watterson
13. “A man who dares to waste one hour of time has not discovered the value of life.” – Charles Darwin
14. “Time is free, but it’s priceless. You can’t own it, but you can use it. You can’t keep it, but you can spend it. Once you’ve lost it, you can never get it back.” – Harvey Mackay
15. “Your time, energy, and love is very valuable. Pursue relationships with people who know your worth.” – Unknown
16. “Time is what we want most but what we use worst.” – William Penn
17. “Time is a created thing. To say “I don’t have time” is to say “I don’t want to”.” – Lao Tzu
18. “Time is the most valuable asset you don’t own.” – Mark Cuban
19. “It’s not that we have little time, but more that we waste a good deal of it.” – Seneca
20. “Time is the most valuable thing that we have because it is the most irrevocable.” – Dietrich Bonhoeffer
21. “Be picky with who you invest your time in, wasted time is worse than wasted money.” – Unknown
22. “Time is like the wind, it lifts the light and leaves the heavy.” – Domenico Cieri Estrada
23. “Time isn’t the main thing. It’s the only thing.” – Miles Davis
24. “Time is the wisest of all things that are, for it brings everything to light.” – Thales
25. “Time expands, then contracts, and in tune with the stirrings of the heart.” – Haruki Murakami
26. “I wouldn’t waste my time with someone I couldn’t see me spending my life with. Time is valuable.” – Unknown
27. “In such seconds of decision entire futures are made.” – Dan Simmons
28. “Guard your time fiercely. Be generous with it, but be intentional about it.” – David Duchemin
29. “I treat time as a valuable resource. You waste my time, you steal from me.” – Unknown
30. “Time is precious, don’t waste mine.” – Unknown
31. “Don’t spend time beating on a wall, hoping to transform it into a door.” – Coco Chanel
32. “The only reason for time is so that everything doesn’t happen at once.” – Albert Einstein
33. “For the present is the point at which time touches eternity.”- C.S. Lewis
34. “Ordinary people think merely of spending time. Great people think of using it.” – Unknown
35. “The difference between those who are high achievers and those who aren’t is the ways they utilize their time to get things done.” – Eric Lofholm
36. “Cherish time. Your most valuable resource. You can never make up the time you lose. The most important choices you’ll ever make are how you use your time.” – David Kekich
37. “The passing moment is all we can be sure of; it is only common sense to extract its utmost value from it.” – W. Somerset Maugham
38. “Enjoy yourself. It’s later than you think.” – Chinese Proverb
39. “I am long on ideas, but short on time. I expect to live to be only about a hundred.” – Thomas Edison
40. “It is the time you have wasted for your rose that makes your rose so important.” – Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
41. “We need to determine what activities best utilize our time in order to achieve the results we desire in all areas of our life!” – Catherine Pulsifer
42. “The timeless in you is aware of life’s timelessness. And knows that yesterday is but today’s memory and tomorrow is today’s dream.” – Kahlil Gibran
43. “Lost time is never found again.” – Proverb
44. “Your time is your life. That is why the greatest gift you can give someone is your time.” – Rich Warren
45. “Time is a gift that most of us take for granted. We get so caught up in the busyness of our daily lives that we rarely stop and take a serious look at how we’re spending this gift.” – Cheryl Richardson
46. “We must use time wisely and forever realize that the time is always ripe to do right.” – Nelson Mandela
47. “The bad news is time flies. The good news is you’re the pilot.” – Unknown
48. “Whether it’s the best of times or the worst of times, it’s the only time we’ve got.” – Art Buchwald
49. “The way we spend our time defines who we are.” – Jonathan Estrin
50. “Life isn’t a matter of milestones, but of moments.” – Ross Kennedy
Holly Jaskolka is a certified Emotional Freedom Technique (EFT) practitioner, yoga instructor, and an impassioned advocate for holistic well-being. Fueled by her love for animals and wanderlust, Holly leads a plant-based lifestyle that she complements with immersive travel experiences. When she’s not jet-setting to uncover the world’s hidden gems, she’s empowering individuals to heal emotionally, particularly those grappling with the aftermath of breakups. Connect with Holly on LinkedIn.
