Take your pick. Some have metaphors.

Famous aphorisms about cherishing time

1. Tomorrow comes tomorrow, so many tomorrows!

2. If a young man does not work hard, an old man will be sad

3. We only live once in this world, so we should cherish our time. ——Pavlov

4. An inch of time is worth an inch of gold, but an inch of gold cannot buy an inch of time. ——Proverb

5. Ten thousand years is too long, just seize the day. ——Mao Zedong

6. People who sleep more learn less. ——Spanish proverb

7. Anyone who dares to waste even an hour of time shows that he does not know how to cherish the full value of life. ——Darwin

8. Those who give up time, time also gives up on him. ——Shakespeare

9. Any saving is ultimately a saving of time. ——Marx

10. Life is measured in time. Wasting other people’s time is equal to seeking wealth and killing, and wasting one’s own time is equal to chronic suicide. ——Lu Xun

11. Life is too short and there are too many things to do. I have to race against time. ——Edison

12. Time is a great mentor. ——Burke

13. Don’t wait and see. The white head of a young man is empty and sad. ——Yue Fei

14. Time is the most impartial. It is given to anyone for twenty-four hours; time is also partial, and it is not given to anyone for twenty-four hours. —— Huxley

15. Those who forget today will be forgotten tomorrow. ——Goethe

16. Lost cattle and sheep can be found; but lost time cannot be found. ——Chaucer

17. People who never waste time have no time to complain about lack of time.

——Jefferson

18. Being generous with time is tantamount to chronic suicide. —— Ostrovsky

19. Arranging time reasonably is equivalent to saving time. ——Bacon

20. If you don’t do what you should do today, tomorrow will be delayed no matter how early it is.

——Pestalozzi

21. Wasting time is a great sin. ——Rousseau

22. Do you love life? Then don't waste time, because time is the stuff of life. ——Franklin

23. Treat every day of your life as your last day.

——Helen Keller

24. Seizing today is better than two tomorrows. ——Latin American proverb

25. As long as we make good use of time, we will never worry about not having enough time.

——German poet Goethe

26. The way to complete the work is to cherish every minute. ——Darwin