Top 100 Time Is Too Precious Quotes
#1. I usually claim that pregnant women should not read books about pregnancy and birth. Their time is too precious. They should, rather, watch the moon and sing to their baby in the womb.
Michel Odent
#2. Time will tell if it was well spent.
Time will tell where all your ideas went.
Time will allow you to achieve your goals.
Time is too precious to put on hold.
Don't waste time on meaningless things.
Take advantage of its benefits and all life brings.
Bianca McCormick-Johnson
#3. Life is too short, time is too precious, and the stakes are too high to dwell on what might have been. We have to work together for what still can be.
Hillary Clinton
#4. Do what you love and own who you are.
Time is precious ad death is real.
So is Art: It defies them both
Galadrielle Allman
#5. A great and frequent error in our judgment of human nature is to suppose that those sentiments and feelings have no existence, which may be only for a time concealed. The precious metals are not found at the surface of the earth, except in sandy places.
Arthur Helps
#6. Anything that needlessly robs you of your time, energy, and other precious resources is destructive to you and your leadership.
John Manning
#7. If I am not going to change, I have to move on. I can't waste precious time hovering in the "I wishes" and the "if onlys."
That is being a dreamer. Dreamers never say yes to anything.
I HAVE TO DO.
Shonda Rhimes
#8. Whenever I gaze up at the moon, I feel like I'm on a time machine. I am back to that precious pinpoint of time, standing on the foreboding - yet beautiful - Sea of Tranquility. I could see our shining blue planet Earth poised in the darkness of space.
Buzz Aldrin
#9. Time is precious, use it wisely with someone that you love & care about you.. cause you will never know what will happen in the future.
Ardianto Sony
#10. Time is a curious thing: For years you take it for granted, then one day something happens and you are reminded of how precious it really is...
Jason R. Hemmings
#11. [Once war is declared, he will not waste precious time in waiting for reinforcements, nor will he return his army back for fresh supplies, but crosses the enemy's frontier without delay.
Sun Tzu
#12. Beauty is sweet to us, because she dances to the same fleeting tune with our lives. Knowledge is precious to us, because we shall never have time to complete it. All is done and finished in the eternal Heaven. But earth's flowers of illusion are kept eternally fresh by death.
Rabindranath Tagore
#13. I do believe in love; it's wonderful - especially love third time around, it's even more precious; it's kind of amazing.
Robin Williams
#14. This world in which we live needs beauty in order not to sink into despair. It is beauty, like truth, which brings joy to the heart of man and is that precious fruit which resists the year and tear of time, which unites generations and makes them share things in admiration.
Pope Paul VI
#15. Two hours. One hundred and twenty minutes. Anything might be
done in that time. Anything. Nothing. Oh, he had had hundreds of
hours, and what had he done with them? Wasted them, spilt the
precious minutes as though his reservoir were inexhaustible.
Aldous Huxley
#17. A great man's manias must be respected, because the time required to combat them is too precious to waste.
Andre Maurois
#18. Remember, Had. Time is precious. Waste it wisely.
K. Bromberg
#19. Being a child is such a shining gift, yet we don't know how precious it is until it's worn out and gone away.
Storm Constantine
#20. Time wounds all wholes. To exist in Time is to suffer through an endless exile, a successive severing from those precious few moments of feeling at home in the world.
Simon Reynolds
#21. For those of us who have been diagnosed with cancer, time is a precious commodity. The time and distance from the scientist's lab bench to the patient's bedside must be shortened.
Larry Lucchino
#22. God knows, I'm no expert on relationships, but I do know when something's good. And this thing we've created between us is precious and rare. I only hope it's not fleeting, because for the first time in my adult life, I've given someone the power to hurt me.
Linda Castillo
#23. Until you find where the goal post is, you shall only exert all your precious energy and ability shooting in the direction of goal kick without scoring any goal
Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
#24. I don't think all life is precious. I know people say that all the time, "Life is precious." I think some life is precious, and some life is just a waste of protoplasm. Start over.
Bill Maher
#25. I'm a lot less precious than I used to be about putting things out, for better or for worse. The result of a public that has a very high consumption rate and turnover rate is people listen to more music but spend less time with individual bits of music.
Trent Reznor
#26. At my age, I realize that my most precious possession is time, and I've got too much unfinished work to do to spend even a minute talking about myself.
Benny Carter
#27. Do you really want to waste your precious time doing things that are neither important nor urgent?
Eddie De Jong
#28. Your time is precious so this book is short and to the point.
Luke Wroblewski
#30. I ain't saying you treated me unkind you could've done better, but I don't mind. You just kinda wasted my precious time. But don't think twice, it's alright.
Bob Dylan
#31. Life is too short to waste your precious time on things that are of no value to your existence".
Abdulazeez Henry Musa
#32. The most precious resource we have is time.
Steve Jobs
#33. Still, the time I spent with her was more precious than anything. She helped me forget the undertone of loneliness in my life. She expanded the outer edges of my world, helped me draw a deep, soothing breath. Only Sumire could do that for me.
Haruki Murakami
#34. There's a myth that time is money. In fact, time is more precious than money. It's a nonrenewable resource. Once you've spent it, and if you've spent it badly, it's gone forever.
Neil A. Fiore
#35. All hobbies suck, but if you keep at it, you might find at the end that you've managed to kill some precious time.
Homer Simpson
#36. It was as if each of them sensed vaguely that the Saturday afternoons of youth are few, and precious, and this feeling which neither of them could have defined or described made every moment of this time together too short, too quickly gone, yet clearer and more sharply edged than any other.
Grace Metalious
#37. The best gift we can give each other is the gift of time
those precious, special, eternal moments.
Shmuley Boteach
#38. [Children] would have messed up my apartment. In the main, they are ungrateful. They would have siphoned too much time away from the writing of my precious books.
Lionel Shriver
#39. As I've said before, time is short, and life is precious.
Nancy Reagan
#40. I realize then, what my mother already knows - has known for a long time. Motherhood is a procession of goodbyes. Some bittersweet and filled with promise and hope, some gradual, a gentle prying away of your fingers from something precious, some more violent, unexpected.
Heather Gudenkauf
#41. That you've got to do anything that you feel is precious. I especially believe that about cultures and languages. You've got to be really conscious because time is running out.
Gwenno
#42. Precious laughing time is wasted, because I have to put up with Satan's stupid minions who smile without attempting to anger somebody else - leave us alone already.
A Gentlemen
#43. Kosykh: What the hell ... is there really no one even to talk to? We might as well be living in Australia: no common interests, no solidarity ... Everyone lives separate lives ... But I must go ... it's time. [Takes his cap.] Time is precious. [Gives Lebedev his hand.] I pass!
Anton Chekhov
#44. I remembered every moment between us, and every moment felt more precious as time passed.
Shannon A. Thompson
#45. I'm old-school English, so I suppose I'm quite protective - especially of time. Now that I'm a father, every moment is precious.
Orlando Bloom
#46. Make the most of the moments with those you love, it's once upon a person to Live and then Die. Give them the most precious gift of all Time!
Otis Teague
#47. There are certain inessential activities-moths of precious time-and it is worse to busy yourself with the trivial than to do nothing.
Baltasar Gracian
#48. Great relationships create great characters. Make them feel real. Alive. Tangible and unforgettable. Bad relationships kill them. Bury them. Make you wish they hadn't wasted your precious time.
Luke Taylor
#49. And for one precious moment out of time, Anna knew what it meant to belong
Lora Leigh
#50. Time is a very precious gift-
so precious that it is only given to
us moment by moment.
Amelia Barr
#51. [On Time] Men trifle with the most precious thing in the world; but they are blind to it because it is an incorporeal thing, because it does not come beneath the sight of the eyes, and for this reason it is counted a very cheap thing - nay, of almost no value at all.
Seneca.
#53. Time is more precious than gold, more precious than diamonds, more precious than oil or any valuable treasures. It is time that we do not have enough of; it is time that causes the war within our hearts, and so we must spend it wisely.
Cecelia Ahern
#54. There is nothing like the time we have with those we love the most. Every moment is precious because we aren't promised tomorrow. Hold on to them tight and cherish them while you're given the chance.
N.E. Henderson
#55. Time was precious. It could seep past you without you even knowing. And then, in the blink of an eye, it could vanish.
Kara Terzis
#56. Our lives are so short. And our time on this planet is so precious. All we have is each other.
Jacqueline Novogratz
#57. It's a pleasure to share one's memories. Everything remembered is dear, endearing, touching, precious. At least the past is safe though we didn't know it at the time. We know it now. Because it's in the past; because we have survived.
Susan Sontag
#58. The fate of all things cherished and expensive, to be lost at hazard, and well before their time
Stephanie Barron
#59. Dawn is a precious time of day. It reminds us that every glory must fade, and that all things, cruel or sweet, come to an end.
Simon Higgins
#60. he was always on time because, as he said, her time was precious to him, so why would he make her wait
Mary Calmes
#61. When you are 25 or even 30, you can just do things. When you get to 35, things are different. Time is more precious to me now. I've got my priorities.
Patricia Kaas
#62. I'm not a potato sack; I've never sat on my couch. If I'm home, I'm cleaning, feeding my dogs, doing stuff. Life is too precious to waste time.
Gisele Bundchen
#63. Our lives are like the talents in the parable of the three stewards. It is something that has been given to us for the time being and we have the opportunity and privilege of doing our best with this precious gift.
George Vaillant
#64. True courage knows fear. It knows how to fear that which should be feared. Honest people value life passionately, they hang on to it like a precious jewel. And they pick the right time and place to surrender it, to die with dignity.
Eiji Yoshikawa
#65. Time is a most precious asset. Would you consider investing more of your time in the things of eternity in order to merit the constant companionship of the Holy Ghost and to benefit more fully from His influence?
Keith K. Hilbig
#66. One must simply take the days of their lives as they happen. If you spend time worrying over what is to come, which may or may not happen, then you will only be wasting precious days you will wish in the future you could have cherished a bit longer.
R.J. Gonzales
#67. Time is precious and should be spent doing things that make you happy, not brushing those very moments aside. That's when you really die, and I plan on living.
Katelin LaMontagne
#68. I never read to kill time. Killing time is like killing someone's wife or a child. There is nothing more precious for me than time.
Stanislaw Lem
#69. Work hard, work passionately, but apply your most precious asset - time - to what is most meaningful to you.
Randy Komisar
#70. An enlightened thinker does not waste his precious time thinking about what others think of what he thinks.
Mokokoma Mokhonoana
#71. You're an expatriate. You've lost touch with the soil. You get precious. Fake European standards have ruined you. You drink yourself to death. You become obsessed with sex. You spend all your time talking, not working. You are an expatriate, see? You hang around cafes.
Ernest Hemingway,
#72. The very beautiful rarely love at all; those precious images are placed above the reach of the passions: Time alone is permitted to efface them.
Walter Savage Landor
#73. I cannot in good conscience ask my colleagues to expend precious time and energy defending or explaining my past. We need all hands on deck, fighting for the future.
Van Jones
#74. When you are doing one thing - talking on your phone, texting, whatever - you are automatically not doing something else. What is the greatest scarcity in the world today? It's not oil. It's time. Time is precious. Don't throw it away.
Martin Cooper
#75. Be deliberate in your choices. We are created to do what we are called to do and what we are born to experience, not what we believe other people expect us to do. Your time is precious.
Julie Connor
#76. There is one kind of robber whom the law does not strike at, and who steals what is most precious to men: time.
Napoleon Bonaparte
#77. Reflect on what you do in your day. You may have never realized how some simple harmless activities rob you of precious time
Vivek Naik
#78. Time is precious, make a count.
Anonymous
#79. We all have the same amount of time allotted to us each week: 10,080 minutes. No more, no less. We have the responsibility to choose how we spend those minutes. In reality, every passing minute is a moment we'll never get back. Without question, time is our most precious and elusive commodity.
Rodney Gage
#80. My favorite things in life don't cost any money. It's really clear that the most precious resource we all have is time.
Steve Jobs
#81. So that makes time more precious, doesn't it? More precious than money, more precious than anything. You can never earn more time. Once an hour goes by, a week, a month, a year, you'll never get them back.
Cecelia Ahern
#82. It appeared to me that there were already too many dreams festering on shelves with a promise return to them someday, and time was too fickle to trust with such a precious progeny as dreams.
Wes Jacobs
#83. Each moment spent on this bright blue planet is precious so use it carefully.
Santosh Kalwar
#84. Amidst the dust of bookshops, wide dispersed
And never purchased there by anyone,
Yet similar to precious wines, my verse can wait
Its time will come.
Marina Tsvetaeva
#85. [from the Acknowledgments page] ...and while comments are very welcome, I would suggest it is a waste of your precious time.
Dzongsar Jamyang Khyentse
#86. God accepts us unconditionally, and in his view we are all precious and priceless. Focus on this and you will not waste any time and effort trying to be someone you're not.
Rick Warren
#87. When I did get home this last time, we had all these plans to go out. And then we hardly stepped outside because the time together seemed too precious.
Emily Watson
#88. Most of the time, perhaps 99 percent of the time, the defendant is guilty; his screams are the final protest of a human being about to lost his most precious possession, his freedom.
Elizabeth F. Loftus
#89. Time is very precious to me. I don't know how much I have left and I have some things that I would like to say. Hopefully, at the end, I will have said something that will be important to other people too.
Jim Valvano
#90. Writing songs is not something I wanted to share with people for a long time. It was precious to me. I didn't want someone to crush it. I waited until I felt strong enough to take the criticism.
Ray Lamontagne
#91. Don't waste time with people who waste time. Time is precious, fragile as a butterfly wing, meaningful as an orgasm.
Chloe Thurlow
#92. Stop making things of less value your food for thought each moment of time! Your mind is precious. Mind your mind!
Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
#93. To the Maker the archetype, the self-sustainer, human interaction is usually a waste of the most precious thing in his vital existance: time.
Anton Szandor LaVey
#94. That was one thing the Divines had taught us: treasure every precious moment. Do the things you've always dreamed of doing. Spend as much time as you can with the ones you love, because tomorrow you might not get the chance.
Violet Cross
#95. Every single day, each time I see her face, see her, it's utterly precious.
Haruki Murakami
#96. Time is made of moments.
The present is today.
New day and new grace.
Today is my precious time on earth.
Lailah Gifty Akita
#97. In my experience, there are plenty of bad middle-class parents: those who put their own lives and careers before those of their children and make precious little time available for their offspring, preferring instead to hire in childcare and shower them with the latest and most expensive gadgets.
Martin Jacques
#98. I find it more enjoyable investing time doing what pleases me, rather than wasting precious time attempting to please everyone else.
Greg Reid
#99. Opportunity's precious, and time is a sword.
Idries Shah
#100. I don't move until an actor is happy, but it was very important to me as a so-called "first time director" to keep the machine moving. It was especially important to me to keep it moving and not be some kind of precious writer-director.
William Monahan
