He is only rich who owns the day. There is no king rich man fairy or demon who possesses such power as that.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
Life is now ... this day this hour ... and is probably the only experience of the kind one is to have.
~ Charles Macomb Flandrau
Gather ye rose-buds while ye may Old time is still a-flying. And this same flower that smiles today Tomorrow will be dying.
~ Henry David Thoreau
Seize the hour.
~ Sophocles
Time like money is measured by our needs.
~ George Eliot
Nothing is ours except time.
~ Marcus Annaeus Seneca
Nothing in business is so valuable as time.
~ John H. Patterson
Many people take no care of their money till they come nearly to the end of it and others do just the same with their time.
~ Johann Von Goethe
Possessions dwindle: I mourn their loss. But I mourn the loss of time much more for anyone can save his purse but none can win back lost time.
~ Latin Proverb
Riches are chiefly good because they give us time.
~ Charles Lamb
One realizes the full importance of time only when there is little of it left. Every man's greatest capital asset is his unexpired years of productive life.
~ Paul W. Litchfield
Know the true value of time snatch seize and enjoy every moment of it. No idleness no laziness no procrastination: never put off till tomorrow what you can do today.
~ Lord Chesterfield
A sense of the value of time ... is an essential preliminary to efficient work it is the only method of avoiding hurry.
~ Arnold Bennett
All my possessions for a moment of time.
~ Queen Elizabeth I
Let me tell thee time is a very precious gift of God so precious that it's only given to us moment by moment.
~ Amelia Barr
We work not only to produce but to give value to time.
~ Eugène Delacroix
Dollars cannot buy yesterday.
~ Admiral Harold R. Stark
As every thread of gold is valuable so is every moment of time.
~ John Mason
Minutes are worth more than money. Spend them wisely.
~ Thomas P. Murphy
Time is the coin of your life. It is the only coin you have and only you can determine how it will be spent. Be careful lest you let other people spend it for you.
~ Carl Sandburg
Every minute of life carries with it its miraculous value and its face of eter1nal youth.
~ Albert Camus
Lost time is never found again.
~ Benjamin Franklin
If a person gives you his time he can give you no more precious gift.
~ Frank Tyger
You may ask me for anything you like except time.
~ Napoléon Bonaparte
The laboring man and the artificer knows what every hour of his time is worth and parts not with it but for the full value.
~ Lord Clarendon
Time isn't a commodity something you pass around like cake. Time is the substance of life. When anyone asks you to give your time they're really asking for a chunk of your life.
~ Antoinette Bosco
Love and time-those are the only two things in all the world and all of life that cannot be bought but only spent.
~ Gary Jennings
There is nothing good in this world which time does not improve.
~ Alexander Smith
Time is the most valuable thing a man can spend.
~ Laertius Diogenes
The great rule of moral conduct is next to God to respect Time.
~ Johann Kaspar Lavater
It is the time you have wasted for your rose that makes your rose so important.
~ Antoine De Saint-Exupéry
One hour of life crowded to the full with glorious action and filled with noble risks is worth whole years of those mean observances of paltry decorum.
~ Sir Walter Scott
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
Our costliest expenditure is time.
~ Theophrastus
The Importance of Using Time Well How pleasant it is at the end of the day No follies to have to repent But reflect on the past and be able to say That my time has been properly spent.
~ Ann Taylor
I must govern the clock not be governed by it.
~ Golda Meir
Millions long for immortality who do not know what to do with themselves on a rainy Sunday afternoon.
~ Susan Ertz
The organized person ... makes the most of his time and goes to his bed for the night perfectly relaxed for rest and renewal.
~ George Matthew Adams
Have regular hours for work and play make each day both useful and pleasant and prove that you understand the worth of time by employing it well. Then youth will be delightful old age will bring few regrets and life will become a beautiful success.
~ Louisa May Alcott
He who every morning plans the transactions of the day and follows out that plan carries a thread that will guide him through the labyrinth of the most busy life. ... If the disposal of time is surrendered merely to the chance of incident chaos will soon reign.
~ Victor Hugo
