Time is precious because time is gone forever and cannot be bought by money. Below I have compiled quotes that express the preciousness of time for you. You are welcome to read them.

Excerpts of famous sayings expressing the preciousness of time

1. Time is the greatest and fair judge.

2. Time is gold and its value is priceless.

3. A minute of time is as valuable as a thousand pieces of gold.

4. Don’t blame the evil east wind for spring’s failure to keep itself. ?Shakespeare

5. Using time is an extremely advanced rule. ?Engels

6. Time is my property, and my acres are time. ?Goethe

7. The deceased is like a man who never gives up day and night. ?Confucius

8. Wasting time is a great sin. ?Rousseau

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

10. The plan for a day is morning, the plan for a year is spring, and the plan for life is diligence.

11. The last thing you can’t afford to waste is time. ?Ding Zhaozhong

12. A man with lofty ideals cherishes his years, a wise man cherishes his days, and a sage cherishes his time. ?Wei Yuan

13. Time is better than precious stones.

14. Time can buy gold, but gold cannot buy time.

15. Don’t be lazy when the time comes, and the time will never come again.

16. Time is like a river, it can only flow away but cannot come back.

17. Jiu Niu can’t take back a minute or a second.

18. The waves that have gone will not return, and the time that has gone will never come back.

19. No one can bring back the time that has passed.

20. Wasted time equals wasted life. ?Kawabata Yasunari’s recommended quotations expressing the preciousness of time

1. A diligent person is the master of time, and a lazy person is a slave of time.

2. Treat every day of your life as your last day. ?Helen Keller

3. The way to get the job done is to cherish every minute. ?Darwin

4. The coming day will be longer than the past year. ?Forster

5. The brightest thing is sunlight, and the most precious thing is time.

6. Among all natural gifts that are born in nature, time is the most precious.

7. As long as we make good use of time, we will never worry about running out of time. ? Goethe

8. 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

9. Procrastination is wasted, there is not much to come, twenty beauties, please come and kiss me, the grass is withered and the poplars are withered, youth is easy to pass. ?Shakespeare

　10. Ordinary people only think about how to spend their time, while talented people try to use their time. ? Schopenhauer

11. Those who abandon today will not have a tomorrow; and yesterday is nothing but water. ?John Locke

12. The sky can be mended, the sea can be filled, and the southern mountains can be moved. The sun and the moon have passed and cannot be traced back. ?Zeng Guofan

13. All savings ultimately boil down to saving time. ?Marx

14. Gather armpits to form fur, gather sand to form a tower. Although a few seconds are not long, they constitute a great era in the eternity. ?Fletcher

15. Don’t wait for tomorrow to do what you do today, and don’t wait for others to do what you do. ?Goethe

16. Do you love life? Then don’t waste time, because time is the material that makes up life. ?Franklin

　17. The golden age is in front of us and not behind us.

?A selection of famous quotes by American writer Mark Twain expressing the preciousness of time

1. Life is short, and if you waste your time, your short life will be too long. ?British playwright Shakespeare

2. The coming day will be longer than the past year. ?Forster

3. Gather armpits to form fur, gather sand to form a tower. Although a few seconds are not long, they constitute a great era in the eternity. ?Fletcher

4. We must remember that our learning time is limited. Time is limited, not only because life is short, but also because people are complicated. ?Spencer

5. Do you love life? Then don’t waste time, because time constitutes the material of life. ?Franklin

6. Saving time means making a person’s limited life more effective, which means extending a person’s life. ?Lu Xun

7. In life, if a white horse passes through the gap between heaven and earth, it will happen suddenly. ?Zhuangzi

8. Life is based on time. Wasting other people’s time is equal to seeking wealth and killing; wasting one’s own time is equal to chronic suicide. ?Lu Xun

9. Time is accumulated by minutes and seconds. Only those who are good at using sporadic time will achieve better results. ?Hua Luogeng

10. No matter how the gluttonous time devours everything, we must work hard to gain our reputation while this breath is still alive, so that the sickle of time cannot hurt us. ?Shakespeare