Does’t thou love life?  Then do not squander time, for that is the stuff life is made of.
— Benjamin Franklin

Guard well your spare moments.  They are like uncut diamonds.  Discard them and their value will never be known.  Improve them and they will become the brightest gems in a useful life.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Modern man thinks he loses something—time—when he does not do things quickly. Yet he does not know what to do with the time he gains—except kill it.
— Erich Fromm

As if you could kill time without injuring eternity.
— Henry David  Thoreau

True wisdom lies in gathering the precious things out of each day as it goes by.
— E.S. Bouton

We create our fate every day we live.
— Henry Miller

Write it on your heart that every day is the best day in the year.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Much may be done in those little shreds and patches of time which every day produces, and which most men throw away.
— Charles Caleb Colton

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

An earnest purpose finds time, or makes it.  It seizes on spare moments, and turns fragments to golden account.
— William Ellery Channing

Nothing is worth more than this day.
— Goethe

Who loses a day loses life.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson

May you live all the days of your life.
— Jonathan Swift

Time wasted is a theft from God.
— Henri Frederic Amiel

I must govern the clock, not be governed by it.
— Golda Meir

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

Have a time and place for everything, and do everything in its time and place, and you will not only accomplish more, but have far more leisure than those who are always hurrying.
— Tyron Edwards

During a very busy life I have often been asked, “How did you manage to it all?”  The answer is very simple: it is because I did everything promptly.
— Sir Richard Tangye

The ability to concentrate and to use time well is everything.
— Lee Iacocca

Time is lost when we have not lived a full human life, time unenriched by experience, creative endeavor, enjoyment, and suffering.
— Dietrich Bonhoeffer

A man who dares waste one hour of life has not discovered the value of life.
— Charles Darwin

Those who make the worst use of their time most complain of its brevity.
— Jean de La Bruyere

Quotes on the Importance of Time