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Time: Your Most Precious Treasure – 83 Quotes to Embrace Its Value

In the realm of business and productivity, understanding the true value of time is paramount. Each second, each minute holds potential for growth, innovation, and progress. 

This carefully curated collection of 83 quotes delves into the profound significance of time management and its impact on success. As we navigate the complexities of professional life, let these insights serve as a compass, guiding us towards efficient, purposeful use of our most valuable resource. 

Share these quotes with your colleagues and partners, igniting a shared commitment to maximizing our time for optimal results. Together, we forge a path towards greater productivity and achievement.

  1. Time isn’t the main thing. It’s the only thing. Miles Davis
  2. Time is the one loan which even a grateful recipient cannot repay. Seneca
  3. Time is a better measure of success than money. Shane Parrish
  4. Time stays long enough for those who use it. Leonardo da Vinci
  5. Time brings all things to pass. Aeschylus
  6. Time is a drug; too much of it kills you. Terry Pratchett
  7. Time is an illusion. Albert Einstein
  8. Time is the wisest counselor of all. Pericles
  9. Time is a construction of our consciousness. Maria Popova
  10. Time is not a measure, but a quality. Paulo Coelho
  11. Time is the ultimate currency. Elon Musk
  12. Time is the devourer of everything. Ovid
  13. Time is money. Benjamin Franklin
  14. Time is long but life is short. Stevie Wonder
  15. Time is really the only capital that any human being has, and the only thing he can’t afford to lose. Thomas A. Edison
  16. Time is a gift that most of us take for granted. Cheryl Richardson
  17. Time is what we want most, but what we use worst. William Penn
  18. Time you enjoy wasting is not wasted time. Marthe Troly-Curtin
  19. Time flies over us, but leaves its shadow behind. Nathaniel Hawthorne
  20. Time is more important than your money. It’s more important than your friends. It is more important than anything. Your time is all you have. Do not waste your time. Naval Ravikant
  21. Time is the fire in which we burn. Gene Roddenberry
  22. Own time, or time will own you. Brian Norgard
  23. The perfect time to do what you love is now. Neil Strauss
  24. The time for action is now. It’s never too late to do something. Antoine de Saint-Exupery
  25. Things change, and time is how we keep track. James Gleick
  26. Only time can heal what reason cannot. Seneca
  27. Not to waste time on nonsense. Marcus Aurelius
  28. Someone is sitting in the shade today because someone planted a tree a long time ago. Warren Buffett
  29. The key is in not spending time, but in investing it. Stephen R. Covey
  30. 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
  31. Too often too late comes too soon. Dr. SunWolf
  32. Never leave ’till tomorrow which you can do today. Benjamin Franklin
  33. The best use of time is stepping back to identify the best use of time. Aaron Aalto
  34. Don’t wait. The time will never be just right. Napoleon Hill
  35. The bad news is time flies. The good news is you’re the pilot. Michael Altshuler
  36. Lost time is never found again. Benjamin Franklin
  37. If time and reason are functions of each other, if we are creatures of time, then we had better know it, and try to make the best of it. To act responsibly. Ursula K. Le Guin
  38. The wisest are the most annoyed at the loss of time. Dante Alighieri
  39. If you spend too much time thinking about a thing, you’ll never get it done. Bruce Lee
  40. 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! Tony Robbins
  41. In such seconds of decision entire futures are made. Dan Simmons
  42. Determine never to be idle. No person will have occasion to complain of the want of time who never loses any. It is wonderful how much can be done if we are always doing. Thomas Jefferson
  43. You can have it all. Just not all at once. Oprah Winfrey
  44. Lack of time is actually lack of priorities. Tim Ferriss
  45. If one has no time, one has also lost oneself. Marc Wittmann
  46. Who knows where the time goes? Nina Simone
  47. You may delay, but time will not. Benjamin Franklin
  48. The time is always right to do what is right. Martin Luther King Jr
  49. The only reason for time is so that everything doesn’t happen at once. Albert Einstein
  50. 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
  51. Guard your time. It’s all you have. Naval Ravikant

 

  1. We feast on time as time feasts on us. Maria Popova
  2. The years teach much which the days never know. Ralph Waldo Emerson
  3. The butterfly counts not months but moments, and has time enough. Rabindranath Tagore
  4. The best time to plant a tree was 20 years ago. The second best time is now. Chinese proverb
  5. As if you could kill time without injuring eternity. Henry David Thoreau
  6. We must use time as a tool, not as a couch. John F. Kennedy
  7. Better three hours too soon than a minute too late. William Shakespeare
  8. Truth alone will endure, all the rest will be swept away before the tide of time. Mahatma Gandhi
  9. Your time is your life. That is why the greatest gift you can give someone is your time. Rich Warren
  10. Dost thou love life? Then do not squander time, for that is the stuff life is made of. Benjamin Franklin
  11. It is looking at things for a long time that ripens you and gives you a deeper meaning. Vincent Van Gogh
  12. There is no time for cut-and-dried monotony. There is time for work. And time for love. That leaves no other time. Coco Chanel
  13. 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
  14. Every second is of infinite value. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
  15. Ordinary people think merely of spending time, great people think of using it. Arthur Schopenhauer
  16. The two most powerful warriors are patience and time. Leo Tolstoy
  17. We should always allow some time to elapse, for time discloses the truth. Seneca
  18. I recommend you take care of the minutes and the hours will take care of themselves. Earl of Chesterfield
  19. The present time has one advantage over every other – it is our own. Charles Caleb Colton
  20. A man who dares to waste one hour of time has not discovered the value of life. Charles Darwin
  21. Do we need more time? Or do we need to be more disciplined with the time we have? Kerry Johnson
  22. People often complain about lack of time when lack of direction is the real problem. Zig Ziglar
  23. Your time is limited, so don’t waste it living someone else’s life. Steve Jobs
  24. How we spend our days, is, of course, how we spend our lives. Annie Dillard
  25. The future has a way of arriving unannounced. George F. Will
  26. Whether it’s the best of times or the worst of times, it’s the only time we’ve got. Art Buchwald
  27. Life, if well lived, is long enough. Seneca
  28. You will never find time for anything. If you want time you must make it. Charles Buxto
  29. If there must be trouble, let it be in my day, that my child may have peace. Thomas Paine
  30. To live is so startling it leaves little time for anything else. Emily Dickinson
  31. It is not that we have a short time to live, but that we waste a lot of it. Seneca
  32. Enjoy yourself. It’s later than you think. Chinese proverb